As this year's series of Strictly Come Dancing reaches its final stages, Matt Donnelly looks at what makes the show special and how it has stayed relevant where other shows have long since fallen out of favour with the British public. September means many things to...
*The BBC have released the first trailer for their upcoming drama The Tourist which stars Jamie Dornan. Written by brothers Harry and Jack Williams, The Tourist sees Dornan stars as a British man who finds himself in the glowing red heart of the Australian...
It's another BIG News Roundup*Amazon Prime Video has set the return date for their award-winning comedy-drama The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. The long-awaited fourth season will begin on Feb. 18, with two episodes debuting each week for four weeks. The fourth...
Welcome to a special news update as the BBC have now announced what shows will be airing over the festive period. Headlining the season will be the debut of four gripping new dramas including Sarah Phelps’ A Very British Scandal, starring Claire Foy and...
*To mark 100 years of the BBC in 2022, the Corporation has announced a bumper year of sports, events and landmark commissions for TV, Radio, and Online to inform, educate and entertain the nation, under the banner BBC 100. In 2022 special content will range from the...
* BBC One and Netflix have released first look images of miniseries Inside Man, a new thriller from Steven Moffatt. The four-part drama follows a prisoner on death row in the US, a Vicar in a quiet English town, and a maths teacher trapped in a cellar, as...
It's time for another BIG News Update. *HBO has released the first trailer for Game Of Thrones prequel, House of the Dragon which is expected in 2022. The highly-anticipated series bsed on George R.R. Martin’s “Fire & Blood,”is set 300 years before the events...
ITV is lining up a whole world of new adventures for Gordon Ramsay, Gino D’Acampo and Fred Sirieix as it announces two newly commissioned series and two Christmas specials that will see the trio take their RV, their culinary skills and their determination to wind each...
It was announced today that Channel 4 will be the new home of BAFTA and Emmy Award nominated Taskmaster, with a six series deal across three years agreed with Avalon. New episodes will arrive on Channel 4 from late 2020. The hugely entertaining irreverent...
Coming this Christmas, the Watership Down mini-series will premiere on BBC One in the UK; and worldwide, outside of the UK, on Netflix. The all-star cast includes: James McAvoy, John Boyega, Nicholas Hoult, Olivia Colman, Gemma Arterton, Sir Ben Kingsley, Daniel...
Congratulations to all, you've made it through the first month of the year and now we're in February, with a raft of new dramas arriving in the coming weeks. However, as January departs this week's column looks at one outgoing show as well as handful of new arrivals....
Welcome, to another weekly column this week covering the first full week of TV highlights for 2018 which appears to be mainly focused on the opening weekend of the year. Indeed, five of the six shows that I'm covering in this article aired on either Saturday or Sunday...
The BBC have confirmed that Mary Berry, Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins are to be reunited on BBC One for a very special programme from BBC Studios to air this Christmas. For one exceptional group of people in South Wales, Christmas has come early. In an area that’s...
David Walliams is set to bring his best-selling children’s book, Grandpa’s Great Escape, to BBC One this Christmas. Based on an original book by David Walliams, Grandpa’s Great Escape tells the tale of Grandpa, a World War II flying ace, who now sadly suffers from...
After weeks of daily announcements; BBC One have confirmed the entire celebrity line-up for this autumn's series of Strictly Come Dancing. The first celebrity announced for the show was Mollie King; who is best known for being one fifth of chart-topping girl group The...
The BBC have announced that The Generation Game is returning to our screens for a four-episode run and is to be hosted by Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins. The classic Saturday night entertainment show combines elements everyone knows from the original series whilst being...
Brace yourself folks the BBC have given Mrs Brown her own show for Saturday night entertainment show. I know it's hard not groan but Brendan O'Carroll's creation is hugely popular. Not that we understand it. I don't suppose given the ratings the sitcom gets you...
UKTV's award winning entertainment channel Dave welcomes Alan Davies back for a fifth series of critically-acclaimed show Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled . The relaxed chat show format will see stars including Melanie C, Sanjeev Baskhar, Dave Johns, Gemma Cairney...
It’s the talent show that no one really expected (or perhaps even asked for), but here BBC One’s Let It Shine is anyway. The format is much like talent shows of yore: there’s going to be a new theatre show and a team of judges are looking for the cast members. But...
I think secretly this was the week that we were looking forward to the most as the nation's secret favourite judge Louis Walsh took centre stage as the acts were in theory tasked with singing some of his favourite hits. However, instead of this being full of disco...
It's an X-Factor institution, every year we get a movie week and every year the contestants try to move the goalposts in order to suit themselves. The biggest example of this was back in 2009 when Jamie Archer tried to convince us all that Gummo was a thing whilst...
So another week has passed and with it a bundle of TV highlights for me to cover but to be honest the past seven days have really been dominated by one programme. That show is of course the returning I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here with the jungle antics playing...
It's time for disco week usually an occasion that gets the toes tapping and all the crowd on their feet dancing. Apart from that is if you're one of the performers on this year's X-Factor then it's all about singing out of key or performing an off kilter version of an...
So it's that time of year again as we head to the Australian jungle as a gaggle of brave celebrities look to survive for three weeks in the new series of I'm a Celebrity Get Me out of Here. Here at The Custard TV we realise that not all of the new campmates are...