TV producers scout the bestseller lists to find promising content for their next smash hit, and it must be quite a compliment to an author if their book is chosen. Even more flattering, however, is to have your book optioned before it is even published. That is what...
Podcast – # 475: The Best Shows of 2024
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...
The Best TV of 2024
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,...
Michelle Pfeiffer Joins ‘Margo’s Got Money Troubles’ at Apple TV+
The series will mark the first time the Oscar nominee and her husband, David E. Kelley, have worked together. Michelle Pfeiffer will star opposite Elle Fanning and Nicole Kidman in the series, which is based on the best-selling novel of the same title by...
Apple’s Presumed Innocent manages to introduce a myriad of fresh questions into an old story
In the early 1990s cinemas were hit with wave of sex-based thrillers, most of which involved seemingly sensible, successful men falling into a toxic relationship with an overtly sexual woman, which results in one or more murders. Movies like Basic Instinct, Sliver,...
Boston Legal, LivingTV
What to say if you liked it Glossy US legal drama – David E Kelley's spin-off from The Practice – full of beautiful people (and William Shatner) with a casebook that mixed mirth and morality What to say if you disliked it Too predictable. The men are all...




