It's the final pod of 2024, looking back on the very best the TV had to offer. Luke and Dawn join Matt to count their personal Top 10's of the year whilst also counting down the favourites of the wider Custard TV team. Expect discussions on Slow Horses, Mr & Mrs...
Television in 2024 felt different. Things slowed down. You could feel broadcasters and streaming platforms straining to deliver the volume of shows we've been accustomed to and the heavy reliance on making shows out 'existing IP' made a lot of the output feel lazy,...
Borgen is the best political series on television. It's not an area television drama dabbles in that often. There's the original House of Cards and the Netflix version which now feels sullied, The West Wing (don't ask me my opinion of Sorkin) and Sky's OTT drama...
This week we discuss My Fat Diary, Utopia, Derek and the lack of interesting output on ITV
Did we like it? A well-acted Whitehall farce that was either The Thick of It with sex, This Life with politics or Spooks without the lethal espionage. What was good about it? • An excellent cast. We expect thespian opulence from Colin Salmon and Raquel Cassidy (after...
Did we like it? With Shirley Henderson turning in a Bafta-worthy performance, of course we did. She absolutely stole the show, which was just as well as most of the other performances were unconvincing. What was good about it? • Shirley Henderson playing a female Tory...
What to say if you liked it An incandescent lighthouse beam of truth shone brightly into the very beings of the numerous nefarious smugglers trying to beach their cargos of deceitful contraband on to the pliant shores of public perception over Iraq, from odious BBC...
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...