Half Man, Prisoner, and Widow’s Bay. With guest Richard Gadd

About this episode

The episode features an interview with Richard Gadd discussing his new work and includes reviews of various TV shows.

Is it us or is it getting hot in here? No, it really is but only because Steph has been messing with the air conditioning in the studio (true). Luckily, this didn’t both Richard Gadd, who joins us on this week’s show to talk becoming a beefcake and scaring the shit out of Jamie Bell in his Baby Reindeer follow-up Half Man on BBC1 (58:36-1:10:02). But that’s not all, because the team also investigate Sky’s new thriller Prisoner (1:28:10), which bears a striking resemblance to Jonathan Ross’ new Handcuffed show, only with more machine guns, and Apple’s quirky supernatural comedy Widow’s Bay (1:35:40). Plus, if you’ve ever wanted to know what each of the team’s most embarrassing celebrity anecdotes were then this is the episode for you! Note: time stamps are approximate as the ads throw them out, so are only meant as a guide. If you want to avoid this and would like the podcast entirely ad-free (as well as 17 hours early, with a second weekly show and spoiler specials) then sign up to Pilot+!

People in this episode

Guest: Richard Gadd

Topics covered

• interview
• TV reviews
• film discussions
• celebrity anecdotes
• thriller
• comedy

Keywords

• Richard Gadd
• Half Man
• Prisoner
• Widow’s Bay
• celebrity anecdotes
• BBC1
• Sky
• Apple

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: BBC1, Sky, Apple

Books & works: Half Man, Prisoner, Widow’s Bay, Handcuffed

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