This year the BBC turns 100. Fundamental to Britain and funded by licence fee payers, the BBC has garnered a worldwide reputation for quality. For this special post highlighting the highlights of the corporation's massive contribution to television, I've decided to...
BBC One doesn’t muck about with Sunday nights anymore. Following hot on the heels of the sumptuous and lavish semi-naked threshing drama Poldark comes the sumptuous and lavish Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, adapted from Susanna Clarke’s bestselling novel of the...
Filming on the BBC One Sunday night hit drama, The Musketeers, has got underway in Prague this week for a second series, with Marc Warren (Hustle, Mad Dogs) joining the cast to play the Comte De Rochefort, a dashing and persuasive aristocrat with a talent for sword...
When Sky1 launched Mad Dogs in 2011 I sat aghast. Some clever clever casting person managed (by some miracle) to get my four favourite British actors in one place and in the one drama! It must have been a strategic nightmare but they managed it. John Simm, Philip...
In this special late night instalment of TheCustardTV the gang discuss Case Histories, Frankie and The Eurovision Song Contest, plus Luke talks about attending the screening of Mad Dogs Series 3.
The Children, ITV1 Are you one of those people who thinks there isn’t enough blood gurgling screams and mutilation scenes on TV nowadays? Well all your prayers for gruesome brutal scenes have been answered. ITV’s Wire in the Blood is back with Robson Green as Tony...
Did we like it? We liked parts of it in the same way someone with the last wisps of life passing their lips savours their chronically sore knee as it is the only conduit through which any feeling now exists. What was good about it? . The central relationship between...
Messiah V: The Rapture Do you remember when you were a child and you wanted something really badly? It was all you could think about and you'd imagine what it would be like when you had it. Then the day came when your parents bought it and although all your dreams...
Did we like it? An enjoyable romp in the imaginative Discworld of Terry Pratchett slightly marred by being overlong. What was good about it? • Going against the grain of the tortuous nature of much of the opening episode, the characters were all quickly established...
Did we like it? It was the same delicious cocktail of rampant risk, devious duplicity and fractious friendship that we know and love. But, with the plots becoming more absurd, it’s now compulsory to hang your sense of disbelief by a thread of dragon’s saliva over a...
No-one does political thrillers like the BBC, and in an age when focus-group wisdom prescribes an attention span of two episodes (hence endless ITV two-shot dramas), no-one holds out for a good, old-fashioned six-parter like the BBC, either. Thus we have State Of...