It’s January 1995, you’re lying on your living room floor in baggy jeans and checked shirt, fiddling with a plectrum on a leather choker around your neck, Sound Garden’s Superunknown in your Walkman. You’re whining gently because the final episode of My So-Called Life...
Is Netflix’s Get Down a let down?
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...
Matt on the Box: The Eurovision Song Contest, Love Nina, Going Forward, Louis Theroux: A Different Brain and Undercover
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...
Rita Ora replaces Kylie on The Voice
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...
CUSTARD TV PODCAST INTERVIEW: Mathieu Karsenti (Composer)
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 confirmed for The Voice
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 leaves The Voice
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 release first image of the coaches ahead of The Voice Series 2
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...
CUSTARD TV PODCAST #16: Accused, A Touch of Cloth, Red or Black, X-Factor and More
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...
The X Factor: The Good, The Bad and The Down-Right Bizzare
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...
The Voice: Still going Strong
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...
The Biggest Saturday Night in years: The Voice and Britain’s Got Talent
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...
Does The Voice have the Edge?
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...
The Battle of the Reality series: The Swivel chair vs Simon Cowell
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...
Frankie Cocozza axed from X Factor
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...
Looking up into a Gleeful Sky
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:...
The strange and wonderful world of Glee
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...
The Brit Awards 2010, ITV
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...
Never Mind The Buzzcocks, BBC2
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...
Michael Jackson’s Last Days: What Really Happened, Channel 4
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...
Greatest Album Ever: The Results, MTV
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,...
Queens of British Pop, BBC1
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...
All The Small Things, BBC1
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...
Pop Goes The Band, LivingTV
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....