In his surprise mega-hit Baby Reindeer, comedian, writer and star of the show Richard Gadd mined his own trauma to write a show that became an instant hit on Netflix and started a conversation about mental health, sexual abuse and what it means to be a man. Before...
In 2006, the BBC took quite a big gamble. In a TV landscape where safe procedurals like New Tricks and a revamped Silent Witness were big hitters, Life on Mars, which saw a modern-day policeman transported back to 1973 didn't exactly fit. It helped, though, that that...
Shy & Lola is a new six-part drama for BBC iPlayer and BBC One, written by award-winning screenwriter and novelist Amanda Coe (Apple Tree Yard, The Trial of Christine Keeler) and produced by multi-BAFTA and Emmy award-winning Clerkenwell Films (Baby Reindeer, The...
Blue Lights creators Adam Patterson and Declan Lawn have been commissioned to write a brand new drama for the BBC. D-Notice is a British political thriller set in the world of investigative journalism. Not many people know what a D-notice is. But Declan...
Michaela Coel joined by Thandiwe Newton, Maxine Peake, Danny Sapani and Ncuti Gatwa for new BBC drama First Day on Earth as filming begins Coel will write, star and serve as an executive producer on the series coming to BBC iPlayer and BBC One. ilming is...
Lorraine Ashbourne, Lindsay Duncan, Robert Glenister, Robert Lindsay, Lesley Manville, David Morrissey and Claire Rushbrook return to James Graham’s BBC drama Filming has started on series three of the award-winning Sherwood – the critically acclaimed Nottinghamshire...
In Waiting For the Out a prisoner asks philosophy teacher Dan what job you can get with a degree in philosophy. Dan’s reluctant answer of “this” reflects the way philosophy is often depicted as an educational pyramid scheme - you learn it only for the purpose of...
TV in 2025 has been a mixed bag. Mostly that's because a lot of our favourite shows or shows we'd been anticipating didn't live up to our expectations. Notably, the second season of The Last Of Us, I'm still not sure what happened there. The third season of The White...
When menopausal, lonely, bereft school teacher Beth (Joanna Scanlan) decides to take her own life, she’s interrupted by a call from her brother. It’s a call that many women of a similar age will recognise. A brother who didn’t bear the brunt of care responsibilities,...
It’s getting colder, darker, and I am dreading winter. Thank goodness for the return of Blue Lights. Whilst the squalid corridors of Blackthorn police station lack the sunshine I am craving, the BAFTA-winning series is fast securing a status alongside the likes of...
Writer and creator Steven Knight is bringing a new generation of Shelbys to the screen. Much-loved series Peaky Blinders will return with a bang to the BBC and Netflix, telling the story of a new generation of Shelbys, from writer and creator Steven Knight. The two...
The series will launch on BBC iPlayer and BBC One later this year. Narges Rashidi (Gangs of London, Under The Shadow, The Allegation) and Joseph Fiennes (Dear England, The Handmaid’s Tale, Shakespeare in Love) star in the lead roles of Prisoner 951, a new factual...
TV is finally back in a normal rhythm, and that means the podcast is back! Matt and Dawn are joined by Dawn's podcast co-host Lucy from The Shipyard to review four shows available this week. It's September, and it's ITV, so by law, Sheridan Smith must portray a real...
The BBC has revealed first look pictures for Half Man, the original six-episode drama from the multi award-winning Richard Gadd (Baby Reindeer, Against The Law). Filming recently wrapped and took place in and around Glasgow. Gadd and BAFTA award-winning actor Jamie...
In addition to the new trailer, the BBC confirms that Riot Women will air on BBC iPlayer and BBC One this October. The BBC and BritBox have released a trailer for Riot Women, which provides the first glimpse at the brand-new drama series from the multi-BAFTA...
The BBC has released first-look pictures and announced further casting for new drama The Cage, written and created by BAFTA nominated Tony Schumacher (The Responder) and produced by Element Pictures, a Fremantle company (Poor Things, Normal People), for BBC iPlayer...
The BBC has announced Waiting For The Out (w/t), an original six-part series based on Andy West’s acclaimed memoir The Life Inside, from the multi-award-winning writer Dennis Kelly (Together, Utopia, Matilda The Musical) for BBC iPlayer and BBC One. The series is...
Dawn and Tyler join Matt to review the week's notable TV. First, BBC One's gangster drama, This City City is Ours starring Sean Bean. Next, Netflix's lavish comedy murder mystery from Shondaland, The Residence. Then, Apple lampoons Hollywood in Seth Rogen's comedic...
Matt, Dawn and Gary board the TV Time Machine and enter a new Millennium. They review four new shows that began in January. Dom Jolly takes to the streets to terrorise and irritate the British public in Channel 4's hidden camera hit Trigger Happy TV. The BBC attempt...
The BBC and BritBox have released first look pictures of Riot Women, the brand-new drama from the multi-BAFTA award-winning writer Sally Wainwright (Happy Valley, Last Tango in Halifax, Gentleman Jack). Set and filmed in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, the six-part...
Dawn and Sarah join Matt to talk about the best Christmas TV and review the first 4 new shows of the new year. Firstly, Sky and Peacock bring us Colin Firth in a harrowing retelling of one man's search for answers following the Lockerbie disaster. Then, James Norton...
It’s hard to believe that, in the realm of greatest love stories told by the BBC - alongside Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy, and Fleabag and the Hot Priest - we have a Welsh truck driver/sometime bouncer and a dodgy Essex plumber who never kiss, yet that’s what Gavin...
It's the final pod of 2024, looking back on the very best the TV had to offer. Luke and Dawn join Matt to count their personal Top 10's of the year whilst also counting down the favourites of the wider Custard TV team. Expect discussions on Slow Horses, Mr & Mrs...
Matt and Luke board the TV Time Machine for one final time in 1999 to review 4 not so festive treats from December. Firstly, Martin Clunes stars in an off-kilter comedy-drama about the inner workings of a shock TV show entitled 'Sex And Death' Then, there's the only...