Foundation, Ballard, and Shifting Gears. With guest Jared Harris

Pilot TV

Empire Magazine

Tv & Film, Tv Reviews

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2025

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

It’s the episode you’ve all been waiting for… James talking about Foundation for a truly heroic amount of time as not only does the team review (1:00:25) the show’s third season (for which James provides Kay with a ‘helpful’ primer on the series) but he also gets to sit down with Jared Harris and chat psychohistory and four-dimensional objects to his heart’s content (31:46-46:22). Elsewhere, we get back into the Boschiverse with Ballard on Prime (1:19:16), and see if throwback ‘90s sitcoms still hold up with Shifting Gears on Disney+ (1:28:22).

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0:00.0	Has the side hustle gone all laid back?
0:03.2	Your plan's gone way off track.
0:07.0	Or are the orders flowing, but it's hard to keep going?
0:10.9	It's time to bring the fire back, instead of getting sidetracked.
0:15.5	It's time to crack a Costa.
0:18.8	Side hustle without the struggle.
0:21.8	Try a can or bottle of silky smooth Costa coffee latte today.
0:26.5	Crack a Costa.
0:37.4	On Pilot TV this week, we are taking Kay back to her own personal hell in season three of Foundation on Apple TV Plus,
0:44.5	returning to the Boschiverse for the very first season of Ballard on Prime Video,
0:49.0	and finding out if you really can fit quicker than a quick fit fitter in shifting gears on Disney Plus.
0:55.5	Plus, Jared Harris, foundations Harry Seldon himself drops by the studio to talk to me
1:00.9	about four-dimensional space.
1:03.7	I'm James Dyer and welcome to Pilot TV, your essential guide to every show that matters
1:07.2	and a podcast that is now exactly one month, one month away from our
1:11.3	triumphant return to King's Place in London for our 350th episode live show, which we
1:19.7	are all over, which we have planned, which we have locked in, which we have scheduled
1:23.3	to the minute.
1:24.3	It's military precision.
1:26.1	We are all over this shit. Let's, let's get real. We haven't
1:28.7	had one meeting about this. Boyd hasn't opened his roller decks. We are in four-four.
1:32.7	Kay, there's no need to lie. They just need to understand how on it we are. It's fine.
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