It's that time of year again, here's our look at the best shows of 2015! Last Tango in Halifax (December 2014 - February 2015, BBC1) A fixture on our best of the year list since it began in 2012, Last Tango in Halifax proved once again to be one of the best dramas on...
Matt on the Box: London Spy, Unforgotten, Josh and Peep Show
Hey folks, welcome back to another review of some recent TV highlights as I cast my withering gaze over what the small screen as offered us recently. We start with a drama that has been the subject of several news reports due to the single complaint one of its scenes...
CUSTARD TV PODCAST #150: Peep Show, I’m a Celeb Line-Up and Double Quiz
In this podcast we look at the return of Peep Show, discover Gary hasn't seen all of Father Ted, and discover the joy of private browsing. There's also two rounds of Matt Vs Luke.
Filming Begins on Fresh Meat Series 4
Channel 4 have released details of the final series of Fresh Meat as filming on the university comedy drama's final run began. When we left the residents of 28 Hartnell Avenue things weren’t going so well for the gang; JP had put the house on the market, but had a...
Fresh Meat to return for fourth series
In what is possibly the best piece of TV news we've reported in a while, The British Comedy Guide and Broadcast are reporting that we will be getting a fourth series of Fresh Meat by the end of the year! It'll be the last series, but that seems fair enough as they'd...
Matt on the Box: Babylon, The Fall, Liberty of London and Puppy Love
On this week's Matt on the Box we have two very different types of policing drama plus department store dilemmas and doggy disasters. Earlier in the year, I was excited by the prospect of a satirical drama written by Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong and directed by Danny...
CUSTARD TV PODCAST #104: Doctor Who, The Fall and Babylon
Matt and Gary hold the fort as Luke heads to the jungle?? They discuss the end of Doctor Who, the start of the Fall and the usual reality TV section.
Matt on the Box: This Week’s TV Highlights: Babylon, Suspects, Fleming and The Life of Rock
After mentioning the multitude of crime dramas that were populating our screens in the last instalment, this week we welcomed even more. As well as the superb Line of Duty, which you can read about elsewhere on the site, two other crime dramas debuted this week....
CUSTARD TV PODCAST #83: Babylon, Outnumbered and DCI Banks
In a special podcast for Valentines, we discuss the returns of Outnumbered, George Gently, DCI Banks and Channel 4's new police comedy Babylon.
TheCustardTV looks at the Best of 2013
So unbelievably we've reached that point again when we look back fondly on the last twelve months of television and celebrate the best. Ripper Street (January 2013, BBC1) This series wasn't what a lot of viewers were expecting when they settled down on a dark Sunday...
CUSTARD TV PODCAST #72: I’m A Celeb, Him and Her, Fresh Meat and Yonderland
In our latest podcast we moan about The X Factor, slightly tire of I'm a Celebrity and praise the return of Him & Her!
Matt on the Box: This Fortnight’s TV Highlights: The Escape Artist, Ripper Street, The Choir Sing – While You Work, Drifters and Fresh Meat
The more observant of you may have noticed that I've been absent for a week, but that's primarily because I felt there wasn't that much TV to discuss. So instead I have decided to look at five of the biggest shows from the last fortnight in which we've been offered a...
CUSTARD TV PODCAST #30: I’m a Celeb Final and Festive Chat
This week on the podcast Gary and Matt discuss their favourite Christmas Specials, preview this year's Christmas TV and talk X-Factor, I'm a Celebrity and Fresh Meat
CUSTARD TV PODCAST #25: Getting On, Fresh Meat and Young Apprentice
This week Matt and I discuss the brilliance of BBC4's Getting On, our love of Channel 4 student comedy Fresh Meat and confusion over new BBC daytime drama.
Fresh Meat: Still as Fresh in Series 2
Contributed by Siobhan Parker Fresh Meat returned to Channel 4 last night, and the freshers are now in their...
Luke ON TV – Grand Designs Live, Too Fat Too Toddle, Midnight Man, Peep Show
This column was delayed because I was out living life! Yes I do have one. I attended my sister’s college graduation. We started off with great emotion and enthusiasm but after her name was called and she walked across the stage, there were still more than 200 names to...
Peep Show, Channel 4
Did we like it? It was very good, but only very good rather than the celestial hilarity of the last series; and the root of its problems perversely lie in its main strength – the incorrigibility of its lead characters. What was good about it? • Jeremy trying to...
Luke ON TV – Embarrassing Bodies, The Invisibles, The Inbetweeners, Peep Show, Property Ladder
The Invisibles Ewww! I wouldn’t say I shock easy. TV has helped to desensitise me over the years. I can’t bare watching people being sick on or off screen. But I spent the majority of Monday’s Channel 4’s Embarrassing Bodies cringing. We got to meet a woman with what...
Peep Show, Channel 4
Did we like it? Like the rest of this series, this final episode lacked the integrity and inventiveness of the first three runs and was more like a run-of-the-mill sitcom. What was good about it? • David Mitchell brilliantly conveyed the horror of heading headlong...
Peep Show, Channel 4
Did we like it? The marvellous misanthropists continue to provide an x-ray of the misery of modern Britain either through the eyes of unwilling conformist Mark or debauched wastrel Jez. What was good about it? • Despite this being the fourth series, the palpable truth...
















