The Lowdown, The Hunting Wives, and A Ghost Story For Christmas. With guests Paul Bettany and Will Sharpe
Pilot TV
Empire Magazine
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2025
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Paul Bettany and Will Sharpe don their frock coats for Amadeus on Sky and we speak to both of them on this week’s show as they chat all things Mozart with Boyd. Plus we wrap up a festive haul of shows for under your Christmas tree, taking a look at Mart Gatiss’ latest Ghost Story For Christmas, The Room in The Tower on BBC2, getting drawn into the sweedy underbelly of Texan high society in The Hunting Wives on ITV, and finally getting to take a ride with Ethan Hawke’s ‘truthstorian’ as The Lowdown finally splashes down here in the UK on Disney+. All that and Kay loses the power of speech, Boyd recounts a harrowing experience at The Ivy where the doorman didn’t know who he was, and James reveals the embarrassing truth of how he spent 469 hours this year.
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| 0:43.7 | On Pilot TV this week, we're getting the willies from Mark Gaitis in the latest ghost story for Christmas on BBC 2, hunting down the facts |
| 0:55.2 | with Truth Storyan, Ethan Hawke in The Lowdown on Disney Plus, and swaning about with Texan High Society |
| 1:01.3 | in The Hunting Wives on ITVX. Plus, Paul Bettney and Will Sharp join us on this week's show to chat all |
| 1:07.3 | things, Amadeus. I'm James Dyer, and welcome to Pilot TV, your essential guide to every show that matters. And the last, we should say, regular pilot TV of 2025, which means this is our Christmas episode. Deck the halls, ding-dong merrily on high, all of that stuff. You know, festooned as we are with tinsel and festive thing. This is Boiddy's festive Arsenal jumper that he's wearing, isn't right, Boiddy? Yeah. It doesn't get more festive than an Arsenal canon. Yeah, in black. Yeah. Indeed, K, on the other hand, has actually pushed the boat out and he's wearing a Christmas jumper. I thought we had agreed to wear our Christmas jumpers. So I dug mine out and I come in and YouTube really made an effort. |
| 1:46.4 | If it helps, I bought this jumper at Christmas about 10 years ago. |
| 1:50.3 | Is that enough? |
| 1:51.5 | No. I mean, like it's blue. It's, yeah. |
| 1:54.3 | See, I'm thinking even for people on YouTube cannot see. |
| 1:57.0 | Like, this whole studio is festooned with Christmas stuff. |
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