Contributed by Colin Mc Mahon The rise of Netflix original content over the last few years has been both spectacular and relentless. Having been drip fed new programming in the early days of Lilyhammer and House of Cards, we're now being treated to...
Welcome to another week of TV highlights and an instalment which offers up one of the most mixed bags that we've ever had. We kick off with what I personally consider to be one of the biggest TV highlights of the year, I'm talking of course about The Eurovision Song...
The BBC have confirmed R&B star Rita Ora will replace Kylie Minouge when The Voice returns to BBC One in the New Year. Rita will be joining the team and taking on The Voice. Speaking about her new role as a coach on The Voice, Rita Ora said: "So excited to be part...
In this special podcast I chat to TV & Film composer Mathieu Karsenti about making music for TV. Matt got his break into the industry with Sky's Got To Dance and really put together the Daft Punk Medley that the cast of EastEnders danced to for Children in...
Kylie Minouge has been confirmed as a Coach on BBC1's The Voice next year. Kylie said: "I'm very excited to become a coach on The Voice UK. I love the concept of the show and have been an avid viewer of both series. The search for new talent is such an important...
Jessie J has confirmed today that she won’t be appearing as a coach on the next series of The Voice due to overseas touring and promotional commitments. Jessie says: “I've absolutely loved my time on The Voice and I hope everyone saw and knows how passionately I felt...
The BBC have released the first images of The Voice Coaches ahead of the second series. This is first image of Will.i.am, Jessie J, Danny O'Donoghue, and Sir Tom Jones back for Round 2. The image comes ahead of the first official TV trailer to promote the new...
Yes after nearly two months away Gary and Luke return for next series (if I may be so pompous) of thecustardtv Podcast. In this edition we discuss the genius of Jimmy McGovern's Accused, the brilliance of A Touch of Cloth and disastrous returns of Red or...
So it’s time to face the music for a ninth time with the return of The X-Factor a show which I feel, like a lot of the reality competition shows, has had its day though we are promised a sexier, fresher series with a lot more incident than last year. Judging from this...
Week after the week the BBC reality show has proved too strong for the ITV talent show to compete with but what is it that has made The Voice such a success with viewers? On the face of it The Voice is just another singing competition. Another reality sereis where...
BBC One's The Voice averaged 8.43m peaking with 9.6m (42.3%) at 7.45pm Britain's Got Talent kicked off its sixth series with 9.43m (39.2%) from 8pm, adding 567k (2.5%) on ITV1 +1 After weeks of hype and sniping back and forth from both casts The...
After nights of teasing and speculation the BBC's highly anticipated new reality The Voice starts on Saturday. It won't be news to you that the series will clash with the return of Simon Cowell's Britain's Got Talent but I think for sheer curiosity sake The Voice...
It was announced today that BBC1’s much hyped singing competition The Voice will debut on Saturday 24th March. The series which features judges Jessie J, Sir Tom Jones, will.i.am and Danny O'Donoghue in swivel chairs is spawned from a Dutch reality series that...
Image credit: ITV Frankie has been axed from the X Factor, reports Digital Spy, just two days after he was saved by viewer's votes, leaving Johnny and Kitty to sing for survival. As the subject of two Ofcom investigations for "allegedly" swearing on a live results...
It's not easy being a Gleek... mocking aside, fans now need to ensure they've got a Sky subscription as Murdoch's empire has got its claws into yet another hit show pinched from E4. We started the senior year with a focus on what could be a natural end to the show:...
It’s hard to believe that Mr. Schuster and his band of Gleeks have only been in our lives since January. Cynicism aside of all singing and dancing American phenomenons; it can’t be denied that Glee is a show that gets better and better each episode. Stylistically it’s...
As Lily Allen burst onto the stage in a flurry of pink and parachutes, her mockney tones seductively hopping along to her hit ‘The Fear’, it looked a promising start to the Brit Awards 2010 and the ceremony’s 30th birthday. But expectations came crashing down as soon...
George Lamb, so much to answer for. While the Jonah of the airwaves was blessedly absent from Buzzcocks, his baleful legacy was not. Excused as the progenitor, Lamb is definitely the pernicious propagator of the odious audience coercion trend mindlessly employed by...
This is the way: step inside; immerse yourself in the world of Jacques Peretti, where the moon is made of cheese because it looks a bit that way, the horizon is the precipitous edge of the world plummeting down into Hell, and the facts behind Michael Jackson’s...
Did we like it? Edith Bowman’s opening line immediately revealed the title of the programme to be a misnomer. Greatest Album Ever (since the birth of Music Television in 1981) isn’t quite as catchy, though. And surely a record needs to be have been around for a while,...
Did we like it? With the current charts crammed full of solo female chanteuses, this timely documentary showed how there is nothing new in the music world, and how its all been done before. We had a glimpse of the lives of the beehived blonde and the girl with the...
Did we like it? A deceptively caustic drama that savages the lobotomising influence of feral competition, and any subsequent fame, revealing its absurdity through a quaint choir contest in Derbyshire. However, we cannot fathom why one of the worst songs of the 21st...
Did we like it? This is Bands Reunited juxtaposed with Ten Years Younger, as 80s pop duo Dollar try and roll back the years for a reunion gig. Enlisting the help of a stylist, a personal trainer, and a plastic surgeon, they’re hoping to get somewhere near their peak....
Did we like it? With the revelation that most kids don’t pay for music, the record industry has adjusted its sights, and now devotes itself to satisfying the sterile imaginations of the human equivalent of whales washed up on beaches, casually scavenged by seagulls –...