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,...
Disney+ today announced the stellar casting line-up for the much anticipated eight-part series, “Rivals”, based on the celebrated novel by Jilly Cooper. The drama is being produced by Happy Prince, which is part of ITV Studios. Rivals is part of Cooper’s bestselling...
When it came time to compile our Best of the Year piece two things struck me. The first was that wasn't one BIG show that resonated with people in the same way Normal People and I May Destroy You did in 2020 or It's a Sin and Mare of Easttown last year. The second was...
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...
The BBC have announced the cast for a new three-part comedy Stag coming later this year to BBC Two. The cast announced, joining stars Jim Howick (Peep Show, Horrible Histories) and Stephen Campbell Moore (The Wrong Mans, Our Zoo), includes JJ Feild (The Musketeers),...
Welcome back friends to another instalment of my look back at some recent TV highlights. We start with a battle for Sunday night supremacy from two new dramas that felt incredibly similar in tone. Inevitably winning the ratings battle was Sarah Phelps' three-part...
In the twee, cloistered town of Pagford – a beautiful English idyll – there is a war going on. The scenery of The Casual Vacancy (adapted by The Crimson Field’s Sarah Phelps from JK Rowling’s first foray into adult literature back in 2012) might be...
The BBC today announces that Ian Fletcher, Head of Values, will be allowing cameras into New Broadcasting House again early next year for another series of W1A, following his day-to-day problem creating and solving abilities. Until the cameras roll it won't be known...
Late as usual, this week's Matt on the Box is focusing on a programme that is at the moment a frontrunner for Best British TV show of 2014. It doesn't take too much guesswork to deduce that that programme is the brilliant Line of Duty which came to an end last week....
With one of the podcast team struck down with illness Matt & Gary look at the final of Line of Duty and get frustrated by Will I AM, disagree on W1A and are left cold by The Widower.
Welcome back to a week of TV that felt very nostalgic and old-fashioned apart from one show that made me realise how out-of-touch I actually am. We start with a show that is set during my early teenage years, 1996, as we witness the welcome return of My Mad Fat Diary....
In our latest podcast we rejoice at the return of Moone Boy and wonder why Edge of Heaven and Doll & Em even happened.
What to say if you liked it A sumptuous, delightful contemporary adaptation of one of the Bard’s best plays. What to say if you didn’t like it A parasitic 90 minutes which brought to mind the image of a grotesquely obese TV producer, growing ever more bulbous as he...
What to say of you liked it An original and gripping thriller that leaves much of the plot just beneath the surface, compelling the viewer to strain for the truth. It also boasts some of the most creative deaths seen in a detective drama. What to say of you disliked...