Following the news that the licence fee will be frozen for two years, Robin Parker looks at where the BBC goes from here. It’s rapidly becoming less a tactic than a matter of policy: whenever they’re in for a kicking, this government initiates Operation Bash the Beeb....
The BBC have confirmed the second series of the fantastic romantic comedy Starstruck is coming very soon. The series, which is co-written by Rose Matafeo, Alice Snedden, and Nic Sampson, and produced by Avalon for BBC Three in the UK and HBO Max in the U.S will air on...
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 year. Standouts It's a Sin, Mare of Easttown, Only Murders in the Building and the long-awaited third season of Succession....
It's another BIG News Roundup*Amazon Prime Video has set the return date for their award-winning comedy-drama The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. The long-awaited fourth season will begin on Feb. 18, with two episodes debuting each week for four weeks. The fourth...
*To mark 100 years of the BBC in 2022, the Corporation has announced a bumper year of sports, events and landmark commissions for TV, Radio, and Online to inform, educate and entertain the nation, under the banner BBC 100. In 2022 special content will range from the...
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 entirety on the BBC iPlayer, the second series is one of the most tender, moving and deeply human dramas to air on the BBC in...
* BBC One and Netflix have released first look images of miniseries Inside Man, a new thriller from Steven Moffatt. The four-part drama follows a prisoner on death row in the US, a Vicar in a quiet English town, and a maths teacher trapped in a cellar, as...
In early 2019, BBC Three dropped the first series of Daisy Haggard and Laura Solon's comedy drama Back to Life. The series saw Haggard portray thirty-six-year-old Miri Matheson who returned to her hometown of Hythe after spending eighteen years in prison for the...
Welcome to a new feature that we're trialling out here on the site. As we move into a new era for The Custard TV we're looking at ways we can deliver the same content in new ways. Our idea for the news is to give readers a rundown of the stories from the last...
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 show felt so British that any attempt to transfer for an American audience would unquestionably lose what made the...
The best comedies, the greats, often feature people you wouldn't want to spend any time with if you were unfortunate to bump into them at a dinner party or a bus stop. The best recent examples are This Country and BBC Two's Mum. We loved those shows, but we'd cross...
The BBC have confirmed that romantic comedy Starstruck from Rose Matefo will return for a second series. In February, she told comedian James Nokise on his Eating Fried Chicken In The Shower podcast that when filming was postponed from March 2020 because...
Following rave reviews and award wins, the BBC has confirmed that comedy In My Skin will return for a second series. The five-part unflinching, raw, hilarious and heart-breaking gut punch of a series continues to follow the story of Bethan (Gabrielle Creevy),...
The BBC today confirmed the return of BBC Three to TV screens. The move is part of our drive to deliver more value to audiences. The BBC’s Annual Plan 2020/21 published last year, outlined research that confirmed there remains an available audience on...
It's fair to say that 2020 didn't turn out the way anybody had hoped. I don't think I've ever come been in a time where literally everyone everywhere was affected by one issue. In all honesty, I don't think the true full-scale nature of the pandemic hit me properly...
I read Sally Rooney’s 2018 novel Normal People last year and it quickly became one of my favourites. It tracks the complexities of the relationship between Irish teenagers Marianne and Connell, as they come of age and drift in and out of each other’s lives. I loved...
BBC Three's sublime rural mockumentary This Country is back for what creators Daisy May Cooper and Charlie Cooper have said is its final series. When we last saw the Mucklowe cousins (played by the Cooper siblings) just over a year ago in 'The Aftermath', Kerry was...
It's time for our Top 20 of the Decade. If you've missed the countdown so far you can find out what made 50-20 here Let's crack on. 20) Game of Thrones (2011, HBO) No television series defined the decade as much as HBO’s adaptation of George R R...
As we prepare to enter a new decade I wanted to compile a top 50 of the best of the last ten years. It's fair to say that this decade has seen television reign supreme with film taking a back seat. It's been a decade that has seen the rise of streaming giants like...
You could argue it wasn't until the second series of Line Of Duty that people started to talk of the genius of writer Jed Mercurio. By the third series, which ended with Vicky Mclure's Kate Flemming firing a gun from a moving lorry, people were truly under Mercurio's...
We still don't know quite when the BBC will treat us to the second season of the mega-hit Killing Eve, but we do know that a third series is coming! According to The Hollywood Reporter, the third season was announced just hours after the second season started in the...
Following a year of good behaviour and minimal contact with her family, a tense dinner in series 2’s opening episode culminated in Fleabag faking a miscarriage, to cover for her sister, and punching her awful brother-in-law in the face. Since then, we’ve...
The first episode of Fleabag’s long-awaited second series serves up an extremely awkward family dinner, an eccentric priest and some deliciously dark comedy. Almost three years have gone by since Fleabag was last on our screens, in which time its...
BBCAMERICA have released the first full trailer for the highly anticipated second series of Killing Eve. The award-winning series will return to BBCAMERICA and parent channel AMC in April but we still don't know when we'll see it on the BBC. According to an...