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

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

Author: Empire Magazine April 27, 2026 Duration: 1:41:17
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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!

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