Pilot TV Podcast: Apple Cider Vinegar, Funboys, And Virdee

In every generation there is a chosen one. She alone will stand against the vampires, the demons, and the forces of darkness. She is the Slayer. And we here on the Pilot TV Podcast are, as you may be able to tell, very excited about the news that a Buffy reboot is in the works! So excited in fact that this week's episode sees James Dyer, aided and abetted by Boyd Hilton, throw the established structure of the pod out of the window to dive right into Sarah Michelle Gellar's return — much to co-Pilot Kay Ribeiro's chagrin. But hey, the Hellmouth is reopening and this is the home of all things Peak TV, so we've gotta do what we've gotta do.

Elsewhere, our regularly scheduled programming of banter, chat, and needling televisual criticism resumes as this week's listener question has the team mulling over TV's most fiendish cliffhangers. Over on the news front, aside from the big Buffy announcement, the team also cast their eye over trailers for Jack Thorne's Netflix drama Toxic Town and Surface Season 2 on Apple TV+, touch on The Sandman's cancellation, and dig into some exciting casting announcements as well as the bizarre way Steve Coogan announced a new series of The Trip. All that, and there's still time for a trifecta of hot takes in the reviews section, where the team take a look at Netflix’s wellness drama Apple Cider Vinegar, join three hapless boys (and one plastic swan) in BBC comedy Funboys, and head up to the mean streets of Bradford for the Beeb’s adaptation of the DCI Virdee novels, aptly named — you guessed it! — Virdee. You lucky lot!

All that, and plenty more TV chat, await on this week's episode — which you can watch below;

You can also, as ever, listen to this week's episode on your podcast app of choice. And, if you want to subscribe to Pilot TV+, where you'll find an extra episode of the pod every week, gain early access to our latest episodes, and cut out all those pesky ads, then you can find all the details here — it takes the place for Peak TV talk to a whole other level. (And, for those who still want to keep track of episode numbers, this week's pod is Episode 323.)