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...
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...
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,...
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...
Matt and Dawn are joined by Ruthie Nugent to review four brand new shows available this week. Beginning with the BBC's impressive adaptation of Lord of the Flies. Written by Adolescence writer Jack Thorne, his four-part take on the classic story almost plays like a...
Matt, Dawn and Sarah are back to review four new shows available this week. First, Apple's sweet comedy Shrinking is back for its long-awaited third season and proves yet again what an incredible performer Harrison Ford is and how special that cast is. Next, Kelly...
Matt, Luke and Dawn hop aboard their TV Time Machine to visit January 2001 and watch the whole first series of Popstars from ITV. The show that introduced us to Nasty Nigel, Darius and Kym Marsh, as well as being the precursor to music reality shows like Pop Idol and...
Matt and Dawn are back to review three big TV shows available this week. Luke joins them to give his take of Netflix's big Agatha Christie adaptation from Doctor Who and Broadchurch writer Chris Chibnall The Seven Dials. Then, Dawn and Matt gush over the sheer...
Matt and Dawn are joined by Sarah Kennedy to review four more shows available this week. Apple's Hijack sees Idris Elba's Sam in a perilous situation as he travels, this time aboard a train rather than the plane from the first series. Next, the trio try to get their...
Matt and Dawn return for their first podcast of 2026, reviewing four shows available this week. Joined by site contributor Ruthie Nugent to review, the return of The Traitors on BBC One, as well as the strange return of The Night Manager after nearly ten years away....
It's that time of year again as Luke joins Matt and Dawn to count down the top 10 shows of 2025. Expect discussion on Hacks, Big Boys, Pluribus, Task, Dying for Sex and more.
Our final TV Time Machine of 2000 is also our first of 2001. Christmas of 2000 saw sketch show The Fast Show bow out with a trio of farewell episodes. Victoria Wood had the prime-time slot on Christmas Day with her 'All The Trimmings' special. Whilst in early...
With the festive season upon us, Luke, Matt and Dawn, and various other members of the wider Custard TV team reflect on the year in television, get merry, and in the case of Dawn, recite poetry to top off the year on the podcast.
Matt and Dawn are joined by Mo Walker for their last proper podcast of 2025. They review the return of Stranger Things on Netflix, the latest Doctor Who project, The War Between The Land and The Sea on the BBC and Sky's upcoming take on Amadeus starring former White...
To mark 500 episodes of the podcast, we reunite the old band. Matt, Luke and Gary reunite with the newest member, Dawn to count down their favourite shows that have debuted over the course of the 14 years of the Custard TV Podcast. Thank you all for your tremendous...
Matt and Dawn are joined by TV fan Tyler to review four brand new shows available this week. Matt Smith stars in Sky's new drama The Death of Bunny Munro which really surprises the team. Claire Danes and Matthew Rhys join forces in Netflix's pulpy drama The Beast in...
Luke, Dawn and Matt are back to review four shows available this week. Beginning with Vince Gilligan's sci-fi genre-bending new series Pluribus, which is now available on Apple TV. After a long time in his own Breaking Bad Universe, the acclaimed showrunner is back...
Matt and Luke fire up their TV Time Machine to travel to November 2000 to revisit the final episode of iconic BBC comedy One Foot in the Grave. As well as Rob Brydon and Julia Davies' mostly forgotten but still a little gem relationship comedy Human Remains. Also,...
Fellow podcaster Mo Walker joins Matt and Dawn to review four new shows available this week. Slow Horses is a massive hit for Apple TV, so now the streamer is banking on another series of novels from author Mick Herron in the hopes of lightning striking twice. Dame...
Matt is joined by both Maids from Maid for TV in Sarah and Dawn. The trio reviews Sally Wainwright's new drama Riot Women, which sees women of a certain age form a rock band, initially to enter a school talent show, but eventually as a way to channel their...
Luke and Matt are back aboard their TV Time Machine. This time, they are looking at four shows which aired in October 2000. Made for the Millennium Dome, Sky airs Blackadder: Back and Forth, which sees the iconic cast reunite for what is a strange beast. Ross Kemp is...
Sophie Davies joins Matt and Dawn to review four new shows available this week—first, Mae Martin's mysterious new Netflix series Wayward. Next, Suranne Jones and Jodie Whitaker play a pair of conwomen in ITV's six-part drama Frauds. Then, continuing her domination of...
Matt, Luke and Dawn are back to celebrate the return of the best British drama series, Slow Horses, as well as Jack Thorne's take on the hacking scandal in the form of ITV's The Hack. Netflix has Black Rabbit, which stars Jude Law and Jason Bateman as a pair of...
Luke and Matt are back aboard their TV Time Machine, heading to September 2000. FOX has a new anarchic family sitcom in Malcolm in the Middle, which is hugely significant as it gives us Bryan Cranston. Rob Brydon makes his debut as a taxi driver, recalling the breakup...