This year the BBC turns 100. Fundamental to Britain and funded by licence fee payers, the BBC has garnered a worldwide reputation for quality. For this special post highlighting the highlights of the corporation's massive contribution to television, I've decided to...
Matt on the Box: The Casual Vacancy, Indian Summers, Bear Grylls: Mission Survive and House of Fools
Welcome back friends to another instalment of my look back at some recent TV highlights. We start with a battle for Sunday night supremacy from two new dramas that felt incredibly similar in tone. Inevitably winning the ratings battle was Sarah Phelps' three-part...
The Custard TV’s Top Fifty Shows of BBC2’s 50 Years
As well as being Easter Sunday, today marks the fiftieth anniversary of BBC Two which broadcast its opening night on the 20th April 1964. Although said opening night was plagued with problems BBC Two has since gone on to produce some of the nation's most loved...
Vic and Bob’s House of Fools to Return
Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer's anarchic sitcom House of Fools will return for a second series it has been announced today. The comedy duo said of the news, We are overjoyed and thankful to our great corporation for their diligence in this matter." Shane Allen,...
Matt on the Box: This Week’s TV Highlights: Babylon, Suspects, Fleming and The Life of Rock
After mentioning the multitude of crime dramas that were populating our screens in the last instalment, this week we welcomed even more. As well as the superb Line of Duty, which you can read about elsewhere on the site, two other crime dramas debuted this week....
CUSTARD TV PODCAST #80: The Voice, The Taste, The Bridge and House of Fools
With Matt desperate not to miss his dinner, we look at Channel 4's lacklustre cookery series The Taste. Look into whether The Voice and get ready to meet in person at The National Television Awards
Shooting Stars, BBC3
After a year in which Ulrika Jonsson claimed she had been raped, was it really wise of her to appear as a belly-showing schoolgirl in a spoof of Britney's Baby One More Time video? Or laugh off the rhyme "She's football crazy, she's football mad, I can't think of a...






