Spider-Noir, Dear England, and The Boroughs. With Guests Joseph Fiennes and Jodie Whittaker
Pilot TV
Empire Magazine
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2026
⏱️ 114 minutes
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Summary
This week’s show has a decidedly football-oriented theme (sorry) and not just because Boydy was still on a high after Arsenal’s win but because James Graham’s award-winning theatre production Dear England lands on our screens (1:31:40), given the full BBC1 treatment. And along those lines, both Jodie Whittaker and Joseph Fiennes join us on the show to talk all about it (44:07-58:24). Elsewhere, we slide back into the 1930s in a hardboiled gumshoe detective story with a superhero twist in Spider-Noir on Prime (1:13:37), and see if Netflix’s OAP Stranger Things, The Boroughs, lives up to its pedigree (1:36:09).
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| 0:51.6 | On Pilot TV this week, we are seeing things in black and white with Nicholas Cage in Spider-Noir on Prime, |
| 0:58.0 | checking in into the retirement community from hell with Alfred Molina in the boroughs on Netflix, |
| 1:02.3 | and reliving a footballing triumph with Joseph Fines and Jodie Whittaker in Dear England on BBC One. |
| 1:09.7 | And wouldn't you know it, but both of them are with us on the show to chat footy firsthand. |
| 1:16.2 | I'm James Dyer and welcome to Pilot TV. |
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| 1:20.1 | And it is quite a week for pundits on this podcast because not only are Joseph Fines and Jodie |
| 1:25.5 | Whitaker on the podcast to discuss England's rise to glory, |
| 1:28.5 | but we are also joined today by another storied commentator. |
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