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Pilot TV

#246 Ghosts Of Beirut, Dreaming Whilst Black, and The Power Of Parker. With guest Zoe Saldaña

Pilot TV

Empire Magazine

Tv & Film, Tv Reviews

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2023

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

Zoe Saldaña joins us on this week's show (fear not, the interview was recorded prior to the strike) to discuss Taylor Sheridan, assigning animals to all her characters, and Special Ops: Lioness on Paramount+. Meanwhile, you all have to sit through an extended dramatisation of James' Odyssey to secure Taylor Swift tickets (we're so sorry, please don't unsubscribe - if it all gets too much you can skip the whole of this shaggy dog story by jumping to 14:14), as well as a potted history of door sound effects in cinema (again, we can only apologise). Elsewhere, we watch Dreaming Whilst Black on BBC1, Ghosts Of Beirut on Paramount+ and The Power Of Parker, also on the Beeb.

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0:00.0

On the Pulitzer TV podcast this week, we're heading back to the early 90s and reliving

0:11.9

the VHS revolution with Conleth Hill in the power of Harkot on BBC One, experiencing

0:17.7

the ups and downs of a British Jamaican filmmaker, trying his best to crack into the industry

0:21.8

while size-depping casual racism in BBC comedy Dreaming Whilst Black and taking a trip to

0:27.8

the Lebanon for a spot of CIA action with Dermat Mulroney in Ghosts of They Root on Paramount

0:33.4

Plus, speaking of CIA action Zoe Saldaniya joins us on this week's show to chat all things

0:39.0

special ops lioness which we reviewed on last week's Pilot Plus.

0:43.5

I'm James Dyer and welcome to the Pilot TV podcast, your essential guide to every show

0:48.0

that matters and a podcast that has decided that while I continue to valiantly pitch the

0:53.1

Pilot TV TV show to ITVX, although they have singularly failed to call me and make a

0:58.2

seven-figure offer for the privilege as specified, I now have a second project in development.

1:04.8

So Channel 5, this one's for you, me listening, because I'm thinking a five-part strip to cross

1:11.5

the week drama, simply entitled Cuing for Taylor, which recounts the rollercoaster drama

1:17.1

of my attempts to secure Taylor Swift tickets last week.

1:19.8

Now call me Channel 5, this one is a winner, it's absolutely winner, but every winner unfortunately

1:23.8

there must be a loser and in this particular case it's you two guys, a boy in K for you

1:28.3

are with me, how are you, are you good?

1:29.8

I'm good, I'm well.

1:30.8

I'm well.

1:31.8

You're well.

1:32.8

Yeah, good.

1:33.8

Well, okay, so you're losing already, you're the losers because I'm going to pitch the

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