#261 Culprits, The Newsreader, and The Buccaneers. With guest BenDavid Grabinski
Pilot TV
Empire Magazine
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2023
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Summary
Scott Pilgrim Takes Off co-showrunner BenDavid Grabinsi joins us this week to chat resurrecting Canada’s favourite son for an all new anime series. Plus we tear it up in 19th Century London with The Buccaneers on Apple, join the network wars in eighties Australia for The Newsreader on BBC2, and go on the lamb in an attempt to leave a life of crime behind with Culprits on Disney+. Plus, we say our proper goodbyes to Matthew Perry, do our best to mine some news despite a ridiculously early recording, and take a look at TV stars before they were famous.
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| 0:00.0 | On the pilot TV podcast this week we're bringing some Yankee Charm to 19th century London in the Buccaneers on Apple TV plus, taking on the news |
| 0:15.1 | back in 80s Australia with the news reader, and discovering that you can never leave a life |
| 0:20.0 | of crime behind in culprit over on Disney Plus. |
| 0:26.5 | I'm James Dyer and welcome to the Pilot TV podcast, |
| 0:28.7 | your essential guide to every show that matters. |
| 0:31.5 | And I am joined, as is my want by two towering |
| 0:34.8 | beacons of modern TV journalism TV's Boyd Hilton who has braved a screening a |
| 0:39.6 | junket and another screening navigating all of these things to be here today at this very specific time on a Tuesday afternoon. How you doing Boyd? |
| 0:47.0 | Good, yeah, that is true and I've got another screening this evening coming up. |
| 0:50.0 | So I'm squeezing this in between events and screenings and |
| 0:54.2 | branches and stuff. We are very honored. Truly first world problems. Yes and with us of |
| 0:59.6 | course is the mistress of blessed silence, Wellness Guru and horrific part-time |
| 1:05.0 | a Kaye Rivero whose insistence on taking a holiday is the reason we are |
| 1:08.5 | recording this episode a full week before it goes out. No we usually do it on a Thursday we're doing on a |
| 1:15.8 | Tuesday it's fine. Yeah a Tuesday to go out next Monday a week from now I've had a |
| 1:21.8 | busy schedule to James I've just come I've just finished doing live radio and I've still made it on time. |
| 1:26.3 | So is it schedule or schedule? That's the question. |
| 1:30.7 | Ooh. O. O. |
| 1:33.0 | Oh, I don't know. |
| 1:34.0 | Boyd, what do you say? |
| 1:35.0 | I say schedule. |
| 1:37.0 | Oh, do you say schedule probably. |
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