The original Custardtv Podcaster Gary joins Matt and Dawn to review four new shows available this week. Beginning with Apple's new 'thriller' Disclaimer starring Kate Blanchett and Kevin Cline. Then there's dark comedy Sweetpea from Sky Atlantic with a 'killer'...
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 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.
On this week's Podcast we're auditioning for a hosting job on Strictly. Talking Geordie comedy Hebburn and discussing whether Elementary is worth a watch.
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On this week's Podcast we discuss the triumphant return of ITV's Monroe, Gary's trip to a Sky event and dismay at some bad BBC choices.
ITV’s Monroe was one of my favourite drama series of 2011. The cast were all superb, the storylines emotional and engaging and let’s just face it, James Nesbitt can do no wrong. The series, which revolved round the life and work of Neurosurgeon Monroe was bound...
Mistresses So, the first week of 2008. I was intrigued by how Moving Wallpaper/Echo Beach would work and looking forward to series such as Mistresses and Honest but, along the way, I was bombarded with sweaty men with long foam poles, Robson Green in Texas and Donald...
Did we like it? It didn’t have a single original thought, action or plotline; the characters annoy like a needle being slipped into the scrotum; and it’s directed at women with more fervour than a Grazia advert – so please can you tell us why we really quite enjoyed...
Did we like it? It was rather like watching ITV1 reinvent the wheel in the shape of a square simply for the sake of proving they could do something new as the utterly corrupt local police force left the whole thriller morally rudderless. Nevertheless, a superb cast...
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's it all about? Blackpool impresario Ripley Holden opens up a new casino on the seafront, but his joy is tempered by the discovery of a body on the premises. What to say if you liked it An unusual drama populated by bizarre characters with a conventional setting,...
When Cutting It first appeared last year, the idea – a drama about ambitious hairdressers in Manchester – didn’t seem too promising. But it turned out to be great stuff, with Debbie Horsfield’s scripts cleverly stirring a heady mixture of glitz, money, sex and earthy...
Unconvincing. The love may have been unconditional, but the casting was unoriginal, the detail was unbelievable, and the end result was unsatisfying. The basic idea was fine. A couple suffered the horror of having their four-year-old son abducted and eventually...
Think of Robson Green, and words like “versatile”, “powerful” and “audible” don’t necessarily come to mind, although “Unchained”, “Melody” and “travesty” might. Best in roles such as a reticent hospital porter in Casualty and taciturn squaddie in Soldier Soldier, he...