Best Isaac David And Jessica Podcasts (2025)

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Andor, Étoile, and Carême. With guest Charlotte Ritchie 1:45:53

5d ago1:45:53

1:45:53

On program! Yes, Andor has returned and while we had to wait a week for James to get back from holiday before we were all allowed to discuss it, we review Season 2 in full this episode (58:12). Plus, following on from our review of the final season of You in last week’s Pilot+, Charlotte Ritchie joins us on this week’s podcast to talk about the ser…

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I Jack Wright, Fake, and Doctor Who ‘Lux’ spoiler discussion. With guest David Oyelowo 1:22:59

12d ago1:22:59

1:22:59

With James away this week, it’s down to Boyd and Kay to take the helm and bang on about the week’s big TV but in a shock move, they admit James rewatching shows he’s seen thousands of times before is actually, dare we say it, a GOOD thing. More importantly, David Oyelowo is our guest, chatting all things Government Cheese (that’s the title of his n…

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The Last Of Us, The Stolen Girl, and Government Cheese. With guests Charlie Brooker and Jessica Rhodes 1:49:45

19d ago1:49:45

1:49:45

Yes, it’s time for James to bang on about The Last Of Us again (sorry) but that’s okay, because we have Charlie Brooker and Jessica Rhodes on the show to balance things out by talking Black Mirror Season 7 (37:05). Aside from forcing Kay to watch more ‘zomzies’ in The Last Of Us (on Sky Atlantic), we also head over to Disney+ to watch Denise Gough …

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Your Friends & Neighbours, Reunion, and Hacks. With guest Jon Hamm 1:41:03

26d ago1:41:03

1:41:03

Our friend and neighbour Jon Hamm is this week’s guest (36:36)as we chat burglary and anti-heroes for Apple’s new comedy drama (1:06:10). Plus we take a look at the BBC’s Deaf-centric revenge drama Reunion (1:27:15), and have the novel experience of being able to watch a series of Hacks (1:17:12)when it actually comes out instead of months down the…

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Dying For Sex, Austin, and The Bondsman. With guests Tom Hardy and Kaitlin Olson 1:39:45

1M ago1:39:45

1:39:45

Tom Hardy is with us this week (18:08), going full gangster for MobLand, and Kaitlin Olson also stops by to chat High Potential and Hacks (59:37). Elsewhere, we accompany Michelle Williams on a voyage of sexual discovery in Dying For Sex on Disney+ (1:26:37), head Down Under with Sally Philips and Ben Miller in Austin on BBC1 (1:10:30), and embark …

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The Studio, Side Quest, and This City Is Ours. With guests Seth Rogen and Catherine O’Hara 1:31:08

1M ago1:31:08

1:31:08

We are blessed by Canadian comedy royalty this week as Seth Rogen and Catherine O’Hara join us on the podcast to talk all about The Studio on Apple TV+ (30:06), which we also review on this week’s show (54:27). Plus, we discuss the finer points of tree surgery (don’t watch and chop, kids) as well as take a look at Mythic Quest anthology spin-off Si…

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Happy Face, Gangs Of London, and Protection. With guest Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù 1:43:24

2M ago1:43:24

1:43:24

Gangs Of London star Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù is our guest on this week’s show (32:20) as we suit up for another instalment of bloody murder on the streets of the capital in Season 3 (1:20:55). Plus, we’re testing the boundaries of paternal relations in Happy Face on Paramount+ (1:12:59), in which Annaleigh Ashford stars as the daughter of Dennis Quaid’s seria…

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Dope Thief, Adolescence, and The Au Pair. With Guests Brian Tyree Henry and Faye Marsay 2:01:33

2M ago2:01:33

2:01:33

We’re giving out gnomes this week, specifically to Brian Tyree Henry, who joins us to chat all things rip and run with crime thriller Dope Thief (19:58) on Apple TV+. And while she didn’t get a gnome, the excellent Faye Marsay stopped by as well (1:02:54), to talk mind-blowing one-shot drama Adolescence on Netflix. And if reviewing both of those sh…

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Toxic Town, Fear, and Get Millie Black 1:22:27

2M ago1:22:27

1:22:27

This week’s show sees us dealing with industrial pollution alongside Jodie Whittaker and Aimee Lou Wood in Toxic town on Netflix (46:06), being terrorised by Martin Compston and Anjli Mohindra’s neighbour from hell in Fear on Prime Video (1:06:24), and heading to Kingston with Tamara Lawrance in Get Millie Black on Channel 4 (58:37). Plus Boydy lay…

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Small Town Big Story, Dope Girls, and 1923. With guests Christina Hendricks, Chris O’Dowd and Jason Isaacs 1:51:39

2M ago1:51:39

1:51:39

Chris O’Dowd and Christina Hendricks join us this week (25:10) to talk Small Town, Big Country on Sky and NOW (which we also review - 1:17:30), Plus Jason Isaacs drops by to chat The White Lotus (1:02:38). Elsewhere, Boydy undertakes a scintillating digression about the vagaries of TV magazine publication dates and how they relate to embargoes (bea…

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Disney+ original series A Thousand Blows: An Empire and Pilot TV Podcast Special 54:30

2M ago54:30

54:30

Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight heads to the mean streets of Victorian London for A Thousand Blows on Disney+ and what better way to celebrate than with a special Pilot TV/Empire crossover podcast? Chris Hewitt, James Dyer and Kay Ribeiro get under the skin of Knight’s latest period piece, which combines bare-knuckle boxing with organised crim…

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The White Lotus and A Thousand Blows. With guests Jesse Plemons, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Oliver Jackson-Cohen and Millie Brady 1:43:43

2M ago1:43:43

1:43:43

We have a gaggle of guests for you this week as Jesse Plemons joins us to talk Netflix’s Zero Day (51:21) and the three stars of Apple’s Surface — Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Oliver Jackson-Cohen and Millie Brady — also drop by (17:43). Elsewhere, we strip down and buff up for a bit of bare-knuckle boxing in Victorian London with A Thousand Blows on Disney+ (…

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Apple Cider Vinegar, Funboys, and Virdee 1:13:20

3M ago1:13:20

1:13:20

Dodgy influencers are the order of the day on this week’s show as we take a look at Netflix’s wellness drama Apple Cider Vinegar (39:12). Plus, we join three hapless boys (and one plastic swan) in BBC comedy Funboys (51:04), and head up to the mean streets of Bradford for the Beeb’s adaptation of the DCI Virdee novels (59:48). Plus, the team chew o…

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Unforgotten, Big Boys, and Amandaland 1:21:57

3M ago1:21:57

1:21:57

We have a trio of brilliant British shows for you this week as Chris Lang’s Unforgotten reunites Sunny with his famous backpack for its sixth series on ITV (52:22), Jack Rooke’s Big Boys gets a last hurrah as its third and final series hits Channel 4 (59:40), and Lucy Punch starring Motherland spinoff Amandaland makes its debut on BBC1 (1:07:26). P…

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Paradise, Brian And Maggie, and Mythic Quest 1:34:35

3M ago1:34:35

1:34:35

This week, we’re on the hunt for the president’s killer with Sterling K. Brown in Paradise on Disney+ (1:04:01), heading back to the ‘80s to re-live one of the final interviews with Margaret Thatcher in Brian And Maggie on Channel 4 (44:49), and catching up with Rob McElhenney’s gamemasters in season 4 of Mythic Quest on Apple TV+ (1:18:55). All th…

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High Potential and Whiskey On The Rocks. With guests Leo Woodall and Quintessa Swindell 1:16:35

3M ago1:16:35

1:16:35

We’re chatting Prime Target with Leo Woodall and Quintessa Swindell this week (34:16), before hand-picking a single pair of shows to review this week — which has a lot more to do an array of embargoes than an indicator of special quality. Still, we’re back in procedural land for High Potential (54:53) and back in the ‘80s for a bit of geopolitical …

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Severance, Out There, and American Primeval. With guests James Norton and Niamh Algar 1:29:34

4M ago1:29:34

1:29:34

We’re back! it’s 2025 and to kick things off, James Norton and Niamh Algar join us to chat all things Playing Nice on ITV (26:05). But that’s not all, because ITV also brings us this week’s Wales-set drama Out There (1:00:48) with Martin Clunes. We hop back both to the birth of the Wild West and to last week, when American Primeval debuted on Netfl…

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Review Of The Year 2024 1:56:12

4M ago1:56:12

1:56:12

Merry Christmas! and welcome to Pilot TV’s festive round-up of the year that was. Over the course of two glorious hours, we break down the last 12 months in television, sifting through the good, the bad, and the ugly of 2024. From our official best shows list, to honourable mentions, listener questions, some of our favourite moments and an extended…

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#318 A Ghost Story For Christmas, Doctor Who, and SAS: Rogue Heroes. With guests Nicola Walker, Harlan Coben & Nicola Shindler 2:13:19

4M ago2:13:19

2:13:19

In our final regular podcast of the year, we speak to the legendary Nicola Walker (26:53) about The Split: Barcelona, as well as Harlan Coben and Nicola Shindler (1:28:19) for Netflix’s Missing You. Plus, we go all festive and sift through some of the great telly coming your way over the Christmas period, including A Ghost Story For Christmas (1:44…

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#317 Strike and Based On A True Story. With guests Tim Cook, Rebecca Ferguson, and Holliday Grainger 1:42:58

5M ago1:42:58

1:42:58

In an unexpected turn of events, Pilot TV’s set visit to the new third (and fourth) season of Apple TV+’s Silo resulted in a sit down interview with both Rebecca Ferguson and the big Apple himself, Tim Cook (27:24). Never one to miss a chance to wax lyrical about Foundation, James cornered the Apple CEO to discuss the streamer’s penchant for brilli…

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#316 Secret Level and 100 Years Of Solitude. With special guest host Joe Barton 1:34:43

5M ago1:34:43

1:34:43

We were delighted to be joined in the studio this week by friend of the pod and Black Doves creator Joe Barton, who heroically braved Euston traffic and his post-premiere hangover to make a triumphant return to the podcast, sitting in with us this week as we chatted everything from animation to comedy and the creative powers of the ‘Merrineum’. Els…

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#315 Black Doves, The Sticky, and Dalgliesh. With guests Michael Fassbender & Jeffrey Wright 1:34:37

5M ago1:34:37

1:34:37

We’re back in side the Agency this week as the stars of that show, Michale Fassbender and Jeffrey Wright, stop by to chat covert action (26:07). Plus, we continue the espionage theme with Keira Knightley and Ben Whishaw in Netflix’s Black Doves (57:24), steal a monstrous amount of maple syrup with Margo Martindale in The Sticky on Prime (1:10:40), …

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#314 The Agency, Smoggie Queens, and Mrs Davis. With guests Billy Bob Thornton & Ali Larter, plus Olivia Williams & Emily Watson 1:40:15

5M ago1:40:15

1:40:15

We have a quartet of brilliant guests for you this week as Billy Bob Thornton and Ali Larter join us to talk Taylor Sheridan’s new show, Landman, on Paramount+ (18:01), and Bene Gesserit sisters Olivia Williams and Emily Watson also drop by to chat Dune Prophecy (45:43). Elsewhere, we head deep undercover with Michael Fassbender for star-studded es…

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#313 Dune: Prophecy, The Listeners, and A Man On The Inside. With guests Rebecca Hall, Aldis Hodge & Ben Watkins 1:43:06

6M ago1:43:06

1:43:06

It’s absolute anarchy this week as we manage to begin the podcast first with a debate about proper podcast nomenclature and then with Kay and Boyd fighting over what does and does not constitute and illegal review. But bear with us and we promise the podcast proper does start eventually. And a good thing too, because Aldis Hodge and Ben Watkins joi…

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#312 Arcane, Silo, and Say Nothing. Withe guests Jeff Bridges and Steve Zahn 1:58:37

6M ago1:58:37

1:58:37

The Dude himself, Mr Jeff Bridges is one of our guests on this week’s show (27:27), talking about the return of The Old Man on Disney+. He’s joined by Steve Zahn, who drops by to talk about Silo (1:39:49) as its second season drops on Apple TV+. And speaking of which, we dig beneath the surface of that show (1:20:49) to find out whether its encore …

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Isaac David And Jessica Podcasts

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Andor, Étoile, and Carême. With guest Charlotte Ritchie 1:45:53

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I Jack Wright, Fake, and Doctor Who ‘Lux’ spoiler discussion. With guest David Oyelowo 1:22:59

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The Last Of Us, The Stolen Girl, and Government Cheese. With guests Charlie Brooker and Jessica Rhodes 1:49:45

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Your Friends & Neighbours, Reunion, and Hacks. With guest Jon Hamm 1:41:03

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Dying For Sex, Austin, and The Bondsman. With guests Tom Hardy and Kaitlin Olson 1:39:45

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The Studio, Side Quest, and This City Is Ours. With guests Seth Rogen and Catherine O’Hara 1:31:08

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Happy Face, Gangs Of London, and Protection. With guest Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù 1:43:24

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Dope Thief, Adolescence, and The Au Pair. With Guests Brian Tyree Henry and Faye Marsay 2:01:33

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Toxic Town, Fear, and Get Millie Black 1:22:27

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Small Town Big Story, Dope Girls, and 1923. With guests Christina Hendricks, Chris O’Dowd and Jason Isaacs 1:51:39

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Disney+ original series A Thousand Blows: An Empire and Pilot TV Podcast Special 54:30

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The White Lotus and A Thousand Blows. With guests Jesse Plemons, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Oliver Jackson-Cohen and Millie Brady 1:43:43

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Apple Cider Vinegar, Funboys, and Virdee 1:13:20

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Unforgotten, Big Boys, and Amandaland 1:21:57

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Paradise, Brian And Maggie, and Mythic Quest 1:34:35

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High Potential and Whiskey On The Rocks. With guests Leo Woodall and Quintessa Swindell 1:16:35

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Severance, Out There, and American Primeval. With guests James Norton and Niamh Algar 1:29:34

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Review Of The Year 2024 1:56:12

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#318 A Ghost Story For Christmas, Doctor Who, and SAS: Rogue Heroes. With guests Nicola Walker, Harlan Coben & Nicola Shindler 2:13:19

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#317 Strike and Based On A True Story. With guests Tim Cook, Rebecca Ferguson, and Holliday Grainger 1:42:58

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#316 Secret Level and 100 Years Of Solitude. With special guest host Joe Barton 1:34:43

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#315 Black Doves, The Sticky, and Dalgliesh. With guests Michael Fassbender & Jeffrey Wright 1:34:37

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#314 The Agency, Smoggie Queens, and Mrs Davis. With guests Billy Bob Thornton & Ali Larter, plus Olivia Williams & Emily Watson 1:40:15

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#313 Dune: Prophecy, The Listeners, and A Man On The Inside. With guests Rebecca Hall, Aldis Hodge & Ben Watkins 1:43:06

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#312 Arcane, Silo, and Say Nothing. Withe guests Jeff Bridges and Steve Zahn 1:58:37

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