The Best of 2021: From It’s a Sin to Mare of Easttown 2021 really delivered.
This without question my favourite post of the year. It's another chance to celebrate the best television had to offer. 2021 was another strong...
REVIEW: Can American Network television still compete in the ‘streaming era’?
A new term has emerged in the US. The term 'cord cutter' refers to someone who has let their cable provider go and only watches streaming services....
REVIEW: Succession’s penultimate episode delivers on every level.
There's a lot to unpack in the penultimate episode of the season as Jackson Maher breaks down what might be the best episode of this season. When a...
REVIEW: Succession’s ‘Too Much Birthday’ sees the Roy clan at their most beaten down.
Jackson is away this week so, I've stepped in to cover the seventh episode of Succession's third season, Too Much Birthday. I've had a nagging...
Succession Recap: ‘What It Takes’ has Logan going full fascist.
“My hunch is that you’re going to get f***ed because I’ve seen you get f***ed a lot. And I’ve never seen Logan get f***ed once.” Contributed by...
REVIEW: Tender, sweet and deeply human In My Skin is the Best BBC drama of the year.
The second series of Kayleigh Llewellyn's coming of age comedy-drama In My Skin IS the best BBC drama of the year. Available now in its...
REVIEW: Succession Recap: “The Retired Farmers of idaho”
“I just do what my dad tells me” Contributed by Jackson Maher. Well, that was the most stressful episode of Succession I’ve ever sat through....
Succession Recap: “Lion in the Meadow” is Logan losing his grip?
Contributed by Jackson Maher. Is he losing his grip? But like, with a question mark at the end. Since his stroke in the first episode, Logan Roy’s...
REVIEW: Channel 5’s Dalgliesh adaptation gets everything right
"Dalgliesh is a serious attempt by Channel 5 to assert itself as one of the big players in the realm of drama and it succeeds on every...
Succession Recap: The Disruption” is a masterclass in humiliation.
Contributed by Jackson Maher. Humiliation is the key to much of Succession’s commentary. It avoids supporting the billionaire class by humiliating...
REVIEW: Succession: Mass in Time of War
Episode 2: Mass in Time of War’ Recapped by Jackson Maher.Succession is a show about many things, but one of its central ideas, with its endless...
REVIEW: The Roy’s go to war as Succession returns.
The truly agonising wait for the third season of Succession is over. The Roys are going to war and we couldn't be happier. Contributed by...
OPINION: Why the BBC’s crime-musical drama ‘Blackpool’ still Rocks!
A Look back at one of the bravest, boldest and different crime dramas of the noughties"VIVA LAS VEGAS" - Peter Bowker's Blackpool.First...
Opinion: Why are the soaps struggling to be part of the conversation?
A look at how Soaps are struggling to create propper conversation in a wider and varied TV landscape from Alex Osborne from Walford Weekly...
OPINION: Cracker: A look at what made ITV’s crime drama so groundbreaking
A Look back at possibly the most important and influential British crime drama of the 90s'"I rehearsed the death of my father for years. I even got...
OPINION: Remembering the brilliance of the Twelfth Doctor
Remembering the brilliance of The Twelfth DoctorContributed by MiloDoctor Who has been experiencing a lot of change recently,...
OPINION: What Can we Expect from Russell T. Davies’ Who Return?
Russell T. Davies’ return to Doctor Who was something that came as a complete shock, I wasn’t expecting it at all and it turns out,...
OPINION: Why ER is one of the best TV dramas ever made.
Around the same time as Boris was telling the nation, you must stay at home, I for reason, decided to finally binge US medical drama ER. It's not...
Opinion: Why ‘British-ness’ is a difficult to define and hard to find sometimes.
I started to write this as a response to John Whittingdale's White paper but whilst I was writing it, Whittingdale was removed from his post. It's...
My vision for the future of thecustardtv.com
Those of you who have visited the site recently will know I've not been updating it. Yes, TV's been a little on the light side thanks to the...
OPINION: Why the US remake of ‘This Country’ might fall foul of other US remakes.
I, of course, was one of those people who turned his nose up at the idea of a US network re-working The Office for an American audience. The...
OPINION: How will Line of Duty series 6 end?
Those who have been following my weekly Line of Duty reviews know that I've found this series to be a rollercoaster and not always in a positive....
OPINION: The Streamers are moving away from ‘boxsetting’ and it makes for a more rewarding experience.
'Mother of God!' Such is the exclamation made by many a Line of Duty fan when they realise that they will have to wait an entire week to see how the...
REVIEW: Why Parks and Recreation is the perfect show for this lockdown.
Over the last year, many of us have returned to TV shows that we’ve loved in the past; the familiarity of revisiting our favourite fictional...
Dave announces ‘Sneakerhead’
Dave has announced a new three-part comedy written by Gillian Roger Park and starring People Just Do Nothing star Hugo Chegwin alongside TV chef and...
‘Shining Vale’ arrives in March on StarzPlay
Courtney Cox stars in this new horror-comedy created by Jeff Astrof and Sharon Horgan StarzPlay have set a UK airdate for Sharon Horgan's new...
‘Bel-Air’ gets UK airdate.
"In West Philadelphia born & raised......" More than thirty years after the Fresh Prince’s life first got flipped-turned upside down, Sky today...
Sharon Stone boards ‘The Flight Attendant’
Deadline has confirmed Sharon Stone is to star Cassie's mother in this year's second series of the black comedy starring Kaley Cuoco. The first...
Aubrey Plaza joins ‘The White Lotus’ for Season 2
Parks and Recreation star Aubrey Plaza is the next to be cast in the second season of Mike White's HBO dark comedy-drama The White Lotus as it...
Apple release trailer for ‘Suspicion’
Apple TV+ released the first trailer of Suspicion. The mystery thriller stars Uma Thurman as a successful businesswoman whose son gets kidnapped...