LIVE: Alien: Earth, In Flight, and Butterfly. With special guest co-host Russell T. Davies

Pilot TV

Empire Magazine

Tv & Film, Tv Reviews

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2025

⏱️ 147 minutes

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Summary

Our Live 350th episode turned out to be a live 349th episode (because maths) but that didn’t stop it from being a storming night at Kings Place in London. Why? Because on this episode our trio became a quartet and we were joined by the magnificent Russell T Davies, who was anointed as an official Co-Pilot. Much hilarity ensued (just wait till you get to Boyd’s review of Butterfly) as we tackled everything from AI to Masterchef and everything in between. Audience questions were answered, cake was eaten and a good time was had by all.

(Episode 349)

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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.
0:15.0	com.
0:15.9	Authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.
0:18.6	See website for details.
0:40.3	Thank you. by the Financial Conduct Authority. See website for details. Hello, hello, hello. I'm James Dyer and welcome to Pilot 350.
0:49.3	350, the big 350. It's very, very exciting. It's quite quite one milestone, eh? What milestone.
1:00.9	When Boide and I and Terry kind of first did this in 2018, I don't think we had any idea they would let us do this for 350 fucking episodes.
1:11.0	And yet, here we are.
1:13.0	Except, except, except we're not, are we?
1:16.8	We're not.
1:17.4	We're not here at all because mistakes were made.
1:21.6	Now, okay, look, so here's the thing.
1:23.8	You remember I used to put the number, the number in the episode title, right?
1:26.8	And then I stopped doing that because it felt a little bit administrative. You know, you didn't really need it. Don't, don't. But for some of you, for some of you, I used to leave it in the notes. Remember this? And it would just say like episode, you know, 249 or something. I put it in there. Now, I stopped doing that a few weeks ago. Did anyone wonder why at any point?
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