Best David T. Ritchie Podcasts (2025)

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We Were Liars, Pushers, and Outrageous 1:13:36

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We bounce from balls to benefits this week as we hang out with a lot of very rich people in YA adaptation We Were Liars on Prime (1:00:45), and Mitford sisters miniseries Outrageous on U&Drama (48:19), then explore the life of a woman taking a creative approach to government welfare cutbacks in Rosie Jones’ comedy Pushers on Channel 4 (38:41). Plus…

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Beth, The Consultant, and St Denis Medical. With guest Cynthia Nixon 1:47:03

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Kay is still on holiday this week, but that’s okay because standing in for her is true crime maven Steph Seelan, plus Cynthia Nixon — although she’s less a Kay stand-in and more a guest, here to talk about the new season of And Just Like That (1:02:13-1:16:13). On this week’s show we have a trio of half hour wonders, specifically Channel 4’s Beth (…

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The Better Sister, Stick, and The Gold. With guest Matthew Goode 1:33:01

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Matthew Goode is on this week, chatting all things Dept Q on Netflix (41:02-57:30). Plus, we take up our 9 irons for a spot of golf with Owen Wilson in Stick on Apple TV+ (1:09:52), explore the boundaries of sibling rivalry with Jessica Biel and Elizabeth Banks in The Better Sister on Prime (1:01:15), and hut for missing bullion with Hugh Bonnevill…

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Sirens, The Last Anniversary, and Death Valley 1:19:18

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We’re all off to Scribbly Gum Island this week for BBC1’s adaptation of Liane Moriarty’s The Last Anniversary (58:20), solving crimes with Timothy Spall in Death Valley, also on the Beeb (1:07:31), and pushing the boundaries of sisterly love alongside Meghann Fahy and Millie Alcock in Sirens on Netflix (1:00:04). (Episode 338) Note: time stamps are…

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Nine Perfect Strangers, Rematch, and The Bombing Of Pan Am 103. With Guest Rian Johnson 1:38:42

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We’re back on the wellness beat with Nicole Kidman in Nine Perfect Strangers season 2 on Prime (1:16:15), Facing off against a machine with chess wizard Gary Kasparov in Rematch on Disney+ (1:26:03), and re-examining the Lockerbie disaster with The Bombing Of Pan Am 103 on BBC1 (1:06:32). Plus Rian Johnson drops by to discuss Poker Face (36:44-53:0…

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Murderbot, The Game, and Hysteria! With guest Russell T. Davies 1:31:45

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If you’ve been looking for an update on the marvel that is new Who then we have just the man for you because Russell T Davies is our guest on this week’s show, delivering the first part of a very in-depth chat with Boydy about all things TARDIS-related (32:08). Plus, we hop over to apple to spend time with Alexander Skarsgard’s homicidal cyborg in …

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The Four Seasons, Poker Face, and Malpractice 1:13:36

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Alan Alda’s The Four Seasons gets a modern glow-up with Steve Carell, Tina Fey and Colman Domingo on Netflix this week (40:53), plus Rian Johnson’s Poker Face comes crashing back with its second season on Sky (51:04), and Malpractice returns with more embattled medics on ITV (1:00:05). Meanwhile, Kay manages to completely hijack the listener questi…

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

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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

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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

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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

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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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Episode 26: Robert L. Tsai (BU Law) talks about teaching election law and politics 48:01

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Robert L. Tsai (Professor of Law, Boston University) joins us to talk about his teaching, election law, and the current trajectory of things in the United States.

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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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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

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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

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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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Episode 25: Michael Allen (US Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims) talks about teaching, judging, and being a "law nerd" 41:53

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Chief judge of the US Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims Michael Allen joins us to talk about teaching, becoming a judge, and being a "law nerd".

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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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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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Episode 24: Erin Daly (Widener) discusses dignity under the law 42:16

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Erin Daly (Professor Emerita of Law & the Director of the Dignity Rights Institute, Widener University) talks with us about her campaign for basic human dignity under the law, and running a clinic for the same. Free ebook: Dignity in the Criminal Legal System: A Policy Guide for Advocacy and Reform

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

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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

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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

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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

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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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We Were Liars, Pushers, and Outrageous 1:13:36

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Beth, The Consultant, and St Denis Medical. With guest Cynthia Nixon 1:47:03

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The Better Sister, Stick, and The Gold. With guest Matthew Goode 1:33:01

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Sirens, The Last Anniversary, and Death Valley 1:19:18

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Nine Perfect Strangers, Rematch, and The Bombing Of Pan Am 103. With Guest Rian Johnson 1:38:42

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Murderbot, The Game, and Hysteria! With guest Russell T. Davies 1:31:45

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The Four Seasons, Poker Face, and Malpractice 1:13:36

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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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Episode 26: Robert L. Tsai (BU Law) talks about teaching election law and politics 48:01

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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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Episode 25: Michael Allen (US Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims) talks about teaching, judging, and being a "law nerd" 41:53

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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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Episode 24: Erin Daly (Widener) discusses dignity under the law 42:16

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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