Dark Winds, Percy Jackson & The Olympians, and Irish Blood

Pilot TV

Empire Magazine

Tv & Film, Tv Reviews

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s podcast you’ll be devastated to hear that we are unable to review Taylor Swift: The End Of An Era, however don’t switch off, because we do manage to rustle up some alternatives. Dark Winds makes its return to U&Alibi (43:45)and includes what is arguably the best meta joke of the year, Percy Jackson is back, causing trouble for the gods once again in Percy Jackson And The Olympians season 2 (59:00), and Alicia Silverstone takes a jaunt to the Emerald Isle in Irish Blood on Sky Witness (50:47).

(Episode 366)

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0:00.0	You can't do much in under five minutes.
0:02.3	Boil an egg?
0:03.4	Sure.
0:04.0	Cook a roast dinner?
0:05.2	No chance.
0:06.3	But comparing car insurance prices with mustard.co.uk?
0:09.9	Easy.
0:10.9	See what you could save in just a few minutes.
0:13.6	Click mustard.com.
0:15.9	Authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.
0:18.6	See website for details.
0:27.7	Thank you. by the Financial Conduct Authority. See website for details. On Pilot TV this week, we're heading back to Navajo Country for the latest season of
0:32.5	Dark Winds on You and Alibi, tracing our ancestry with Alicia Silverstone in Irish Blood
0:37.3	on Sky Witness,
0:38.4	and catching up with the Greek gods in the return of Percy Jackson and the Olympians on Disney Plus.
0:45.8	I'm James Dyer, and welcome to Pilot TV, your essential guide to every show that matters,
0:49.7	and a podcast that must apologise for a grave omission.
0:53.8	We are unfortunately not able to cover the
0:55.6	biggest show of the week. We have failed you, really, all of you, and it is our deep regret to
1:00.8	have to have done so. But unfortunately, Taylor Swift, the end of an era, was embargoed, and they
1:06.2	didn't give us screeners. So Boyd is here, Kay is here. They are obviously upset and, you know, they apologize as well, don't you? She's milking this thing within an inch of its life, but yet we can't actually see it. There are a lot of ads for him. A lot of ads. Of course there are. Yeah. I mean, but no screeners. I, for one, I'm not disappointed about that. I think you are. I think you are.
1:28.0	Just think how many hours over Christmas you can be re-watching that? Do you know what? I think you could be turned. And the reason why I say this, because we, when we reviewed the ERIS tour when it first came out, like the cinema event, we sent Ian Freer, one of our venerable film critics down to watch it, not Swifty at all,
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