Paradise, Vanished, and Dirty Business. With guest Jennifer Garner

Paradise, Vanished, and Dirty Business. With guest Jennifer Garner

Author: Empire Magazine February 23, 2026 Duration: 1:22:46

We may not have been able to review The Last Thing He Told Me last week but to address that injustice, Jennifer Garner popped into the Pilot TV studio this week to talk all about that show’s second season with Boydy (30:07-40:17). Elsewhere, we catch up with the latest events in Paradise on Disney+ (51:22), find out why Sam Claflin has gone missing, along with Kaley Cuoco in Vanished on Prime Video (1:05:15), and take a look at the state of British waterways in Dirty Business on Channel 4 (1:15:19).

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