Insiders: The TV Podcast
Hosted by Jimmy Mulville and Peter Fincham · Expectation / Hat Trick
4.8from 40 ratings
- 84
- Episodes
- 58
- Transcribed
- 40
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2025
- First episode
- 13K
- YouTube views
About Insiders: The TV Podcast
Every Friday, TV Insiders Peter Fincham and Jimmy Mulville take you behind the scenes of the world of television. Jimmy is the co-founder and Chief Executive of Hat Trick Productions. His hit shows include Have I Got News For You (series 69 now airing), Father Ted, Derry Girls, Outnumbered, and Episodes. In the US Hat Trick launched Whose Line Is It Anyway in 1997 which ran on ABC for seven years and was the first British series to be recreated for American network television by a British producer Peter ran TalkBack where he executive produced many of their biggest shows including I’m Alan Partridge, Never Mind The Buzzcocks, and Da Ali G Show. He went on to be Controller of BBC1, then he was Director of Television at ITV, before returning to the independent sector as the co-CEO of Expectation, the company behind Clarkson's Farm and Alma's Not Normal. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
- Publisher
- Expectation / Hat Trick
- Category
- tv & film
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- Yes
- First episode
- 10 Apr 2025
- Latest episode
- 6 Nov 2026
Latest episodes
58 of 84 episodes have a transcript.
6 Nov 2026TRANSCRIPT
We Ranked Britain's Greatest Sitcom Characters
30 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
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23 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
We Ranked Britain’s Best Sketch Shows
Inside a recent episode
We Ranked Britain's Greatest Sitcom Characters
Published 6 Nov 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Leaves me cold, Mr. Bean. I think a man being obsessed with, you know, a bee buzzing around his head doesn't do it for me. But why is it that people like us or is it generational or is it whatever? Ultimately, given the choice between Rowan Atkinson as Blackadder and Mr. Bean, we'll all go Blackadder. […]
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- Syeda Irtizaali
- Steph McGovern
- Ash Atalla
- Ben Powell-Jones
- Thom Gulseven
Reach and audience
Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.
- YouTube views
- 12,791
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 5.0 / 5
- 2 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
- 38 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 28 / 100
A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.
- Quality
- 26
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 76
- Engagement
- 0
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Jimmy Mulville and Peter Fincham host the show. Published by Expectation / Hat Trick.
How often do new episodes come out?
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