A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms, Drops Of God, and After The Flood. With guests Idris Elba and Jim Field Smith

Pilot TV

Empire Magazine

Tv & Film, Tv Reviews

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2026

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

Hijack star and showrunner Idris Elba and Jim Field Smith are our guests this week, but they’re only the second most exciting additions to our line-up as this marks Steph’s debut as an official co-Pilot (if you don’t count last week’s Pilot+!). We try to ease her in gently with the latest Game of Thrones spinoff, A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms on Sky Atlantic (1:10:55), the latest season of Apple’s wine-related drama Drops Of God (1:34:12) and the continuation of After The Flood on ITV (1:24:57), which really is after the flood this time as it’s more concerned with brushfires. Find out why Boydy still made it his show of the week by listening to that particular strain of madness now!

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0:00.0	Because you bought your robot vacuum on your Barclay card, you got 0% interest for up to 24 months, which makes watching it, hypnotically sweeping up your crumbs, even more satisfying.
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0:30.2	When you cozied up on the sofa, when the drama's got you totally hooked,
0:35.1	when you're completely engrossed in what's about to happen.
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2:03.1	bottle of vino for season two of drops of God on Apple TV.
2:06.8	And speaking of Apple TV, Idriselba and Jimfield-Smith, join us this week to chat all things
2:12.0	hijack season two.
2:16.0	I'm James Dyer and welcome to Pilot TV, your essential guide to every show that matters. Not only am I joined by my long-suffering and somewhat grumpy co-pilot, Boyd Hilton. Hello, Boyd, how you doing? Somewhat grumpy, no, that's unfair. It is unfair, you're not that grumpy. Tired. Tired. Tired. Long suffering. Yeah, long suffering.
2:36.0	We're doing this podcast since 2018, so it's to be expected. Wow. Yeah. But also, crucially, crucially,
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