Tip Toe, Two Weeks in August, and La Brea. With guest Russell T. Davies

Pilot TV

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Tv & Film, Tv Reviews

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🗓️ 1 June 2026

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Summary

The notorious RTD joins us on the podcast once more this week (31:27-58:11) as we take a look at his new show Tip Toe on Channel 4, which pits Alan Cumming against David Morrissey’s homophobic next door neighbour. Plus, we head off for a fornight in the sun with BBC1’s Two Weeks In August, and head back in time for epoch-hopping Sky One sci-fi La Brea. Plus James, Boyd and Steph undertake some home improvements, telly style, and you’ll also discover why everyone’s suddenly watching Yellowstone.

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0:27.1	your favorite look delivered straight to your door.
0:44.0	On Pilot TV this week, we're going head to head with David Morrissey in Russell T. Davis new show Tiptoe on Channel 4,
0:54.5	jetting off for a fortnight in Greece with two weeks in August on BBC 1 and falling into a big black hole in epoch-hopping sci-fi Librea on Sky.
0:59.7	Plus, the notorious RTD himself makes his triumph and return to this podcast,
1:01.8	chatting all things tiptoe with Boyd.
1:07.0	I'm James Dyer, and welcome to Pilot TV, your essential guide to every show that matters.
1:11.8	And joining me as ever are my two long-suffering co-pilots, Boyd Hilton, Steph Seenon.
1:15.5	Now, long-time listeners and indeed viewers, if you're watching this on the YouTube,
1:21.9	will be aware that Steph often has, shall we say, temperature issues with the pilot TV studio.
1:30.7	In that, now this is true, Steph, you generally find it far too cold in this room as a row. Yes. Yeah. Now, as we sit here in what can only be described as liquefying temperatures. Boyd, is it hot? I'm fine. I think it's fine. Boyd is fine.
1:37.5	How are you? I am of the temperature that I need to be to sustain life. All this atmospheric
1:43.1	chat is not why people have come to this podcast.
1:45.2	No.
1:45.4	We should make that very clear from the get-go. We're not going to be chatting about the temperature in or out of the studio. We are in fact going to be talking about TV. Specifically what we've been watching on it. Boydie, we're going to start with you this week. What have you been watching on the television? on. Every week of recent
2:01.5	times I've been giving an update on
2:03.2	euphoria. my hate watch.
2:04.6	You have, yes.
2:05.6	Of Euphoria.
2:06.6	It's not a hate watch, I'm exaggerating. It's a watch watch. It's a watch watch watch. I have explained regular listeners will know.
2:12.8	I really loved Caesars 1 and 2 of Eufro when they're at school and they're all growing up and they were
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