In the pilot episode, host Andy Wilson described it as "the quiz show where we satirically examine news stories, websites, events and personalities who will tweak the spider sense of our sceptical listeners and delicous looking panelists".
Dr. Mohamed Awad, the pilot's host at Sudan University who is following closely the team's development was most impressed by the harmony and task coordination among team members.
Mature as ever, this is how the original hosts responded: Next week, I'm doing a pilot Radio 2 breakfast show with an independent production company.
The Pilot also hosts its own mini beer festivals each May and August.
Glasgow – hot on the heels of its Housing First pilot successes – hosted the International Network of Street Papers (INSP) 20th anniversary conference in August, with nearly 100 delegates from as far afield as Osaka and Buenos Aires; the organisation supports 123 street papers in 41 countries.
While Westworld's pilot focused on host Dolores Abernathy (Evan Rachel Wood), this week's episode centers around fellow host and madame Maeve (Thandie Newton), who starts to suffer from similar memory glitches as Dolores after the latter whispers in her ear: "These violent delights have violent ends".
The biometric enrolment trial about to be run by the UK Passport Service forms just one pilot in a host of other projects designed to pave the way towards the introduction of electronic identity cards in the UK by 2008, it has been revealed.
Once the show starts, someone definitively not Marr Jeremymy Vine, Eddie Mair, or Sophie Raworth – will stand in for the convalescent host, piloting each episode through shoals of Sunday morning speculation, showbiz gossip, the forthcoming weather and some agenda-setting interview with a big beast from Westminster.
The pilot was not hosted by Fry and was recorded in November 2009, but a series has yet to materialise.
