Matt and Dawn are back to mop up the shows they've missed in a lackluster August. Beginning with the return of Ted Lasso on Apple TV. This fourth season, three years after the third, wasn't planned, and it sees Ted return to coach an all-female team, but does the new...
Podcast – The TV Time Machine # 34: Mental, Bedtime, The Armando Iannucci Shows, Grosse Point
Matt and Luke are still aboard their TV Time Machine, looking back at the TV landscape of August 2001. Like in 2026, the TV isn't at its best in the summer, but we have found 4 shows to discuss, and each one is worthy of discussion. On UKTV Play, which became Dave,...
Podcast – The TV Time Machine # 33: The Office, The Fugitive, Revolver, Brass Eye
Luke and Matt are back aboard their TV Time Machine to observe the TV landscape of August 2001. Luke is still struggling to remember what he was doing, but Matt was working at the company his dad worked for alone in an empty warehouse! On television, satirical Channel...
Podcast – # 523: Heartstopper Forever, The Rapture, Ride or Die, Ann Droid
Matt and Dawn are joined by site contributor Tyler to review four new shows available on different platforms this week. Firstly, Heartstopper, a show the trio have loved, concludes with a feature-length film, Heartstopper Forever. The condensed nature of Heartstopper...
Podcast TV Time Machine #32: Waking the Dead, Nice Guy Eddie, World of Pub, Secret Life of Us
Luke and Matt help Gary board the TV Time Machine to travel back to review the TV landscape of June 2001. Sue Johnson leaves the Royle sofa behind and plays a very different character in the BBC's cold case procedural Waking the Dead, which ushers in what will become...
Podcast – # 522: The Bear, Lucky, Elle, Trying
Matt and Dawn are joined by Luke to review four shows available on streaming services this week. Firstly, a once firm podcast favourite, The Bear, bows out with its fifth and final season. This season has a different shape, with the first 7 of 8 episodes taking place...
Podcast – # 521: Cape Fear, The Witness, Alice & Steve
Matt and Dawn are back to review 3 new shows available to watch this week. Site contributor, Ruthie Nugent, joins them to review Apple TV's pulpy thriller Cape Fear, which is the third adaptation of the story. Netflix has a new drama based on a horrific British crime....
Podcast – TV Time Machine #31: Big Brother 2 – How reality TV evolved.
25 years ago, Channel 4 went all in with the second series of their social experiment reality series Big Brother. Following on from the Nasty Nick scandal and Vanessa Feltz having a slight breakdown during the first celebrity edition of the show, the channel devoted a...
Podcast – # 520: The Four Seasons Season 2, Tip Toe, Hacks, Make That Movie
Luke returns to join Matt and Dawn to review four new shows available on various platforms this week. Firstly, Russell T Davies is back with an original drama about modern society called Tip Toe. The series features career-best performances from Alan Cumming and David...
Podcast – # 519: The Burroughs, Ponies, Widow’s Bay, Two Weeks in August
Mo Walker joins Matt and Dawn to review four new shows available to watch this week. First, The Burroughs from Netflix, which functions almost as an elderly version of Stranger Things set inside a retirement community, led by performances from Alfred Molina and Geena...
Podcast # 518: Falling, Rivals, Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed, Smoggie Queens S2
Matt and Dawn reunite with Dawn's Maid for TV co-host Sarah to review four shows available to watch this week. Firstly, the brilliantly camp Jilly Cooper-inspired show Rivals is back for its second series. Next, Jack Thorne of Adolescence fame is back on Channel 4...
Podcast – # 517: Believe Me, Legends, Unconditional, This Not a Murder Mystery.
Matt and Dawn are joined by Doctor Who and Star Trek podcaster Suky to review four new shows available this week. Jeff Pope, king of adapting true stories into compelling drama series, is back with Believe Me. This four-parter, available now on ITVX, focuses on the...
Podcast – TV Time Machine # 30 – Messiah, Murder in Mind, Survivor and Ant & Dec’s Slap Bang!
Matt and Luke fire up their TV Time Machine and set course for April 2001. Fresh off the huge success of SMTV Live, Ant & Dec get their first shot at a primetime Saturday night show on ITV. The result isn't Takeaway, but Slap Bang, a mix of comedy sketches, game...
Podcast # 516 – Half Man, The Cage, Secret Service, Prisoner
*The episode suffers from some audio issues*. Gary returns to the podcast alongside Matt and Dawn to review four brand new British dramas available this week. Fresh off the massive success of his Netflix series Baby Reindeer, Richard Gadd is back with his first...
Podcast # 515: Euphoria, Beef, Hacks, Mint
Luke is back with Matt and Dawn to review four new shows available on different platforms this week. First, HBO's teen drama Euphoria returns for its long-awaited third season. The series, which was once one of the most talked-about and provocative shows on...
Podcast # 514: Margo’s Got Money Troubles, Malcom in the Middle, Big Mistakes, Your Song
It's just Dawn and Matt this week who review four shows available this week. On Apple TV, there's Margo's Got Money Troubles, with another strong lead performance from the always brilliant Elle Fanning. The series tells the story of a college student who finds herself...
Podcast – # 513: Race Across The World, Twenty Twenty Six, The Minatare Wife, The Burbs
Matt and Dawn are joined by Mo Walker to review four new shows available to watch this week. Race Across The World returns and still manages to delight us. Hugh Bonneville returns as Ian Fletcher, who is in charge of running the World Cup after leaving the BBC. Twenty...
Podcast #512: The Pitt, Babies, Something Very Bad is Going to Happen, Bait
Luke joins Matt and Dawn for another look at four shows available this week. HBO Max has finally launched in the UK, which means our long wait for the award-winning medical drama The Pitt has come to an end. The 15-episode series functions differently from any other...
Podcast – # 511: SNL UK, Last One Laughing UK, Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat, Imperfect Women
Comedy expert Sophie Davies joins Matt and Dawn to review a very comedy-heavy week. The American institution, Saturday Night Live, comes to the UK with the launch of SNL UK on Sky One. Two comedy hits return for their second seasons on Prime Video. Jimmy Carr hosts...
Podcast # Time Machine # 29: The Dave Gorman Collection, Teachers, Celebrity Big Brother for Comic Relief.
Matt and Luke are back aboard their TV Time Machine to March of 2026. BBC Two launches the innovative and brilliantly funny The Dave Gorman Collection, which sees a then unknown new comic Dave Gorman, set out to meet as many people with his name as he can. Presented...
Podcast # 510: Gone, A Woman of Substance, Rooster, Vladimir
Luke is back on the podcast, joining Matt and Dawn to review four more shows available this week. Beginning with A Woman of Substance, Channel 4's new take on one of their first dramas, which aired in the 80s. This new adaptation seems out of place on Channel 4, but...
Podcast # 509: Paradise Season 2, Scrubs reboot, DTF: St Louis, Handcuffed
Original podcast member Gary returns to the pod to join Matt and Dawn to review four new shows available this week. Stirling K Brown is back in the second season of Paradise on Disney+. The post-apocalyptic series first episode takes the action away from the...
Podcast #508: How to Get to Heaven from Belfast, The Walsh Sisters Dirty Business, The Lady
Matt and Dawn are joined by TV fan Mo Walker to review four new shows available to watch this week. Firstly, Lisa McGee, the creator of Derry Girls, is back with a brand new twisty comedic thriller in Netflix's surprising series, How to Get to Heaven of Belfast. Next,...
Podcast – TV Time Machine #18: Phoenix Nights, The Vice, Banzai, 2 Pints of Larger and a Packet of Crisps
We're back aboard the TV Time Machine, and the date is January 2001. Channel 4's comedy offerings are Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights as well as the strange take on a Japanese gameshow, Banzai. On BBC Two, yes BBC Two, an 18-year-old writer is handed her own sitcom which...
























