Big Boys is hilarious, filthy and heartbreaking. But you’re reading about series 3 so you know this already. However, did you know that writer Jack Rooke can twist the knife even further and make you cry snotty sobs and howl with laughter, all in the space of a...
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...
Television in 2024 felt different. Things slowed down. You could feel broadcasters and streaming platforms straining to deliver the volume of shows we've been accustomed to and the heavy reliance on making shows out 'existing IP' made a lot of the output feel lazy,...
When it came time to compile our Best of the Year piece two things struck me. The first was that wasn't one BIG show that resonated with people in the same way Normal People and I May Destroy You did in 2020 or It's a Sin and Mare of Easttown last year. The second was...
The odd couple is a much-mined sitcom premise, with a myriad of shows built upon the fastidious, introvert forced by circumstance to spend time with a casually confident, careless extrovert. Looking at the trailers for Channel 4’s latest sitcom Big Boys, you might...
Did we like it? The first half-an-hour was perhaps the most thrilling introductory sequence since Dr Who’s resuscitation. The subsequent 20 minutes seemed to have fallen limply from crackers pulled at the Space Cadets Christmas party. Blessedly, the last 10 minutes...
Series one Doctor Who, BBC1, Saturday What to say of you liked it The long overdue return of the most versatile and enduring character in television history, but this time faithfully accompanied by stunning special effects. What to say of you didn’t like it After...