Rivals, Believe Me, Gary, and Off Campus. With guest Steve Coogan
Pilot TV
Empire Magazine
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2026
⏱️ 108 minutes
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Summary
Yes, we’re back in Rutshire this week as the team (well, one of us) gets to dive back into the world of Jilly Cooper’s bucolic shagathon for Rivals series 2 (1:32:54), speaking of which, we also explore the other sexy ice hockey drama with Off Campus on Prime (1:43:52), get surprised by an unexpected new episode of The Bear (1:39:58), and look into the police mishandling of a notorious serial sex offender in Believe Me on ITV (1:17:59). Plus Steve Coogan sits down in the Pilot TV studio to chat Netflix’s Legends (47:39-1:06:22), the team mull over a selection of particularly ill-conceived character arcs, and there’s even more bee chat than last week as our apian allies drop by to make their feelings about the podcast known first-hand.
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| 0:00.0 | On Pilot TV this week, we're heading back to Rutshire for more bonk-busting drama with season two of rivals on Disney Plus, |
| 0:14.6 | looking at the police mistreatment of victims during the Black Cab rapist investigation in Believe Me on ITV, |
| 0:22.4 | and enjoying a surprise episode of The Bear, which landed on Disney Plus, not to mention going bad to college with |
| 0:27.5 | off-campus on Prime Video. |
| 0:29.9 | Plus, Steve Coogan joins us in this very studio to chat Netflix's Legends. |
| 0:35.7 | I'm James Dyer, and welcome to Pilot TV. |
| 0:38.4 | You're a central guide to every show that matters, |
| 0:40.1 | and a podcast that are going slightly off script this week, |
| 0:43.2 | though not because we are complete mavericks who don't do things by the book, |
| 0:46.8 | but more because, in part, thanks to the bank holiday. |
| 0:50.1 | Screeners have been, shall we say, a little bit irregular this week, |
| 0:54.1 | a little bit inconsistent in appearing, |
| 0:56.3 | meaning me and my two co-pilot, Steph Sealand and Boyd Hilton, who are both here, are winging it somewhat, I would say, |
| 1:02.5 | and we're going to pick from a smorgas board of shows and see which ones of us manage to watch which shows. |
| 1:08.9 | But look, we're going to get on to more of that as we tee up the review section, |
| 1:12.3 | so that's something to look forward to a little bit. |
| 1:14.6 | But before we do that, I want to talk about bees. |
| 1:17.9 | Yes, bees. |
| 1:19.4 | You will recall that Steph derailed this podcast last week. |
| 1:24.1 | We talked about bees, having just seen a B-related documentary, right? |
| 1:27.8 | Secrets of Bees. |
| 1:28.6 | Secrets of Bees, yes. Steph mentioned it on this podcast, and presumably in response to that, |
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