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

Pilot TV

Empire Magazine

Tv & Film, Tv Reviews

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2025

⏱️ 114 minutes

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Summary

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 (bear with us) and we not only take a look at the BBC’s Dope Girls (1:27:27, but head back to the Yellowstoniverse with Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren for 1923 (1:37:11).

(Episode 325)

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0:00.0	Join me, Gemma Atkinson for series two of my podcast, The Overshare.
0:04.7	You know, you only get one life to live and who wants to waste it all just being at home, sad, miserable and lonely when there's so many other people out there that you can enjoy it with.
0:12.5	Join me and my guest as we overshare about the jaw-dropping, shocking, hilariously funny and tear-jurking times.
0:19.2	But then I went a little bit, FBI. FBI started doing a bit of internet stalking,
0:23.5	and I found out that he was married the whole time.
0:26.1	Real-life stories from real people.
0:28.1	Listen now on the Rio app.
0:44.2	On Pilot TV this week, we're bringing the bright lights of Hollywood to Northern Ireland in small town, big story on Sky and now.
0:50.2	Plus, heading back to post-war Soho for the birth of the club scene in Dope Girls on the BBC.
0:55.2	Elsewhere this week, we are joined by Christina Hendrix and Chris O'Dowd, as well as Jason Isaacs,
0:57.8	who's finally unleashed to talk The White Lotus.
1:01.1	I'm James Dyer, and welcome to Pilot TV.
1:05.8	Your essential guide to every show that matters with me, as ever, are of course my two co-pilots.
1:10.0	Fresh from what I can only assume has been some very tense recordings of his Arsenal podcast.
1:12.1	It is TV's Boyd Hilton.
1:21.5	You're very football focused this morning because I'll let the listeners into the preliminary pre-podcast record conversation we had.
1:24.2	You're like asking me about football and Arsenal, Liverpool?
1:24.8	It's weird. Oh God, James, are you pretending to be a lad again?
1:26.7	A little bit.
1:27.4	Is that why? A little bit. Is that why?
1:28.0	A little bit.
1:28.4	Is it one of your manual labourers?
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