CustardTV favourites Broadchurch and Educating Yorkshire were both big winners at last night's RTS Awards. The ITV series won two awards for Best Drama Serial and Best Female Actor for Olivia Coleman while the Channel 4 factual programme won Best Documentary. Other...
Felicitations to all of you and welcome to this special edition of Matt on the Box where I'll be looking back at all of the Christmas Specials that have aired so far this year. We start with a festive treat courtesy of one of our programmes of the year, Educating...
So unbelievably we've reached that point again when we look back fondly on the last twelve months of television and celebrate the best. Ripper Street (January 2013, BBC1) This series wasn't what a lot of viewers were expecting when they settled down on a dark Sunday...
Channel 4's Educating Yorkshire is a bona fide hit for the Channel. The series uses 64 fixed cameras to capture life at Thornhill Community Academy. In this special podcast we chat to one of the series directors David Brindley from production company TwoFour about the...
Sorry sir but the dog ate my homework, at least that's my excuse for not writing this second weekly review piece till today. However all of the programmes, bar one, have a school-theme to them so you can have a good read while in detention. Kicking off with a...
There were a lot of opportunities during ‘Educating Yorkshire’ for one to feel they’d seen it all before. I don’t mean literally – though I’m not sure secondary state schools will ever be wholly “different” places for each passing generation. I mean in regards...
In this latest podcast the return of The X Factor, Educating Yorkshire and ITV crime drama The Guilty.
This brand new eight-part documentary series explores life at a Yorkshire school. Located at the heart of a diverse northern community, and with a student population that is almost exactly half white-British and half British-Asian, Thornhill Academy near Dewsbury...