Radio Times Podcast
No more asking: what’s on TV tonight? What to watch? Instead, listen to the Radio Times podcast for your weekly round-up of TV programmes and film reviews. We'll watch it all, so you don’t have to.
Radio Times · Ben Youatt
Show overview
Radio Times Podcast has been publishing since 2021, and across the 5 years since has built a catalogue of 334 episodes, alongside 10 trailers or bonus episodes. That works out to roughly 160 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence.
Episodes typically run twenty to thirty-five minutes — most land between 18 min and 41 min — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. It is catalogued as a EN-language TV & Film show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 6 days ago, with 19 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2023, with 86 episodes published. Published by Ben Youatt.
From the publisher
We’ve all been there – sat in front of the television, flicking through channels, getting increasingly frustrated – there’s so much on, but nothing to watch. TV critics Caroline Frost and Shem Law have you covered. Each Friday, they serve up short, sharp television recommendations to mark your cards for the week ahead. They’ll tell you what to watch – and what to avoid. They watch it all, so you don’t have to. No more asking: what’s on TV tonight? What to watch? Or, what should I watch? Instead, listen to Smart TV for your weekly round-up of TV programmes and film reviews. You’ll find out about the latest series dropping that week, what to binge and what television show will become the next watercooler moment. Radio Times’ journalists Caroline Frost and Shem Law will cover all things terrestrial as well as what’s on the streaming sites – they’ll cover what’s broadcast on the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 and Sky to NOW, Amazon Prime, Disney+, Netflix and Apple TV. Whether you like Entertainment, Current Affairs, Documentaries, Dramas, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Thrillers, Sports or Radio – they’ll have you covered. If you enjoy our weekly round-up of television reviews, do search for the View From My Sofa podcast which sees Kelly-Anne Taylor sit down with a celebrity guests to talk about their lives through the prism of TV.
Latest Episodes
View all 334 episodesSmart TV: Rivals Returns and News Readers in Dramas
Smart TV: Amandaland and Attenborough at 100
Smart TV: Half Man and The Cage
Smart TV: The Queen at 100 and Hacks
Smart TV: World Cup Comedy and Birding
Caroline Frost chats to Shem Law about the best things coming up on the box this week TV: Twenty Twenty Six, BBC2 Sam & Ade Go Birding, C5 The Peace Particle, BBC4 FROST BITE: Miriam Margolyes - the wisdom of the eternal child . . . Happy Viewing! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Smart TV: Easter Essentials and Michael Jackson Doc
Caroline Frost chats to Shem Law about the best things coming up on the box this week TV: The Miniature Wife, Sky Atlantic Secret Garden, BBC1 Pilgrimage, BBC1 FROST BITE: Michael Jackson - too talented to be cancelled? . . . Happy Viewing! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Smart TV: Race Across the World and Babies
Caroline Frost chats to Shem Law about the best things coming up on the box this week TV: Babies, BBC1 Race Across the World, BBC1 Harry Clark Goes To Rome, BBC1 FROST BITE: “Oh it’s him!” All the actors we know so well, we just don’t know their names. . . Happy Viewing! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Smart TV: The Pitt and SNL UK
Caroline Frost chats to Shem Law about the best things coming up on the box this week TV: The Pitt, HBO Max Saturday Night Live (UK), Sky One Beyond Paradise, BBC1 FROST BITE: In 2026, what does the word “celebrity” even mean? . . . Happy Viewing! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Smart TV: Peaky Blinders and LOL Season 2
Caroline Frost chats to Shem Law about the best things coming up on the box this week TV: The Other Bennet Sister, BBC1 Last One Laughing, Amazon Prime Peaky Blinders, Netflix FROST BITE: You know you’re getting on when… the heroes (and heroines) of your youth return . . . Happy Viewing! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Smart TV: The Capture Returns and A Woman of Substance Remake
Caroline Frost chats to Shem Law about the best things coming up on the box this week TV: A Woman of Substance, C4 The Capture, BBC1 Scarpetta, Amazon Prime FROST BITE: 30 years after Our Friends in the North - where’s this kind of TV now? . . . Happy Viewing! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Smart TV: Young Sherlock and the new Post Office?
Caroline Frost chats to Gareth McLean about the best things coming up on the box this week TV: Young Sherlock, Amazon Prime Dirty Business, C4 Man on the Run, Amazon Prime . . . Happy Viewing! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Smart TV: Bridgerton Part 2 and Small Prophets
TV: Bridgerton, Netflix Small Prophets, BBC2 Vanished, Amazon FROST BITE: For a drama about Sarah Ferguson’s former dresser, it’s all in the timing . . . Happy Viewing! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Smart TV: Documentary Deep Dive
TV: The Walsh Sisters, BBC1 Fukushima: Days That Shocked the World, C4 Being Gordon Ramsay, Netflix FROST BITE: Why self-serving puff-pieces don’t deserve to be called documentaries (Melania and The Tony Blair Story) . . . Happy Viewing! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Smart TV: Betrayal and Lord of the Flies
Caroline Frost chats to Shem Law about the best things coming up on the box this week TV: Betrayal, ITV1 Lord of the Flies, BBC1 How to get to Heaven from Belfast, Netflix FROST BITE: The dilemma at the heart of royals making documentaries . . . Happy Viewing! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Smart TV: Bridgerton and Silent Witness
Caroline Frost chats to Shem Law about the best things coming up on the box this week TV: Bridgerton, Netflix Bangers and Cash, U&Yesterday Silent Witness, BBC1 FROST BITE: Does it work when real-life friends become screen co-stars? . . . Happy Viewing! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Smart TV: Take That Doc and Death In Paradise
Caroline Frost chats to Shem Law about the best things coming up on the box this week TV: Take That, Netflix Death In Paradise, BBC1 Mission to Space with Francis Bourgeois, C4 FROST BITE: Here come the Geeks... . . . Happy Viewing! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Smart TV: Gladiators and What Next for Strictly
Caroline Frost chats to Shem Law about the best things coming up on the box this week TV: Gladiators, BBC1 Winterwatch, BBC2 Blackshore, BBC4 FROST BITE: What next for Strictly Come Dancing? . . . Happy Viewing! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Smart TV: Industry and Agatha Christie
Caroline Frost chats to Shem Law about the best things coming up on the box this week TV: Industry, BBC1 Call The Midwife, BBC1 Seven Dials Murder, Netflix FROST BITE: 10 years on from Entertainment’s own Annus Horribilis . . . Happy Viewing! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Smart TV: 2025 Hidden Gems
Caroline Frost chats to Shem Law about the best hidden gems from 2025 Live Aid at 40, BBC iPlayer Richard Burton: Wild Genius, BBC iPlayer The Assembly, ITVX Chris McCausland: Seeing into the Future, BBC iPlayer Ride or Die, BBC iPlayer Noel Edmonds' Kiwi Adventure, ITVX . . . Happy Viewing Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Smart TV: New Years Special
Caroline Frost chats to Shem Law about the best things coming up on the box in the post Christmas period TV: The Night Manager, BBC1 The Traitors, BBC1 Run Away, Netflix Operation Mincemeat, BBC2 Judi Dench, Shakespeare, My Family and Me, C4 The Celebrity Apprentice, BBC1 . . . Happy New Years! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices