Welcome once again to another look back at a week in TV. The summer months of TV usually signal an endless dearth of repeats, tennis and Big Brother. For those of you not interested in these options, there's rarely anything to watch but this year the BBC are...
Matt on the Box: This Week’s TV Highlights: Dates, Happy Families, Big Brother and Britain’s Got Talent
Here we are once again with another look back at the last seven days in TV Unless you've been living under a rock for the past month then you will have noticed the adverts hyping up Channel 4's Mating Season. One of the highlights of the season is Dates, a series of...
Channel 4’s ‘Dates’ continues to impress
We’ve had the fun one, the dark one and now tonight’s episode of Dates was the raunchy one. Once I’ve cleared up that tonight’s actors, Ben Chaplin and Oona Chaplin, are no relation, I move on to musing how much Ben looks like Robert Lindsay. Turns out Ben’s no...
Dates gets darker for Episode 2
Presumably, not every episode of this series will feature a chalk and cheese pairing, but as with last night, so Jenny and Nick were less than well suited. Although just how unsuited was a surprise. After the rather jolly psychological drama of David and Mia (not to...
CUSTARD TV PODCAST #56: The Returned, Dates, The Fall and Britain’s Got Talent
In our latest Podcast we discuss French drama The Returned, Channel 4's Dates and the Final episode of The Fall
Channel 4’s Mating Season begins with Dates
Hi, I’m Vicky. Single, 26, in search of a TV programme that will make me feel better about the fact that at 10pm on Monday night (or indeed any night) I am more than available to sit and watch telly. Rather than go on a date. Which I hate doing, so Channel 4’s new...






