In our latest podcast we look at the political debates, Sheridan Smith in Inside No.9 and wonder why BBC1's The Ark had to happen.
CUSTARD TV PODCAST #123: Coalition, Political Debates and The Ark
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Matt on the Box: Inside No.9, The Battle For Number Ten, Louis Theroux: By Reason of Insanity, Dara & Ed’s Big Adventure and Teens
In a week in which we lost an X-Factor host, a Top Gear host and gained a new Homes Under the Hammer host in Dion Dublin; the actual TV output has been quite quiet. Indeed it comes to something when one of the biggest shows of the week is a macabre comedy drama that...
CUSTARD TV PODCAST #122: Louis Theroux, Inside No. 9 and The Late Late Show
In our latest podcast we discuss James Corden's late night debut in the US. Louis Theroux's latest doc on BBC Two, the return of Inside No.9 and wonder where Gary really is!
Inside No.9: Was the first episode worth the wait?
If Hitchcock was the Master of Suspense, and Poe the Master of the Macabre, then (ex) The League of Gentleman’s Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton are surely the Masters of Claustrophobia. Following 2014’s triumphant first series, Inside No. 9 returns to our screens...
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...
Matt on the Box: The Voice UK, Stars in Their Eyes, Suspects, Cyberbully and Cockroaches
Welcome back to another chair-spinning, semi-improvised and real time look back at the last seven days in TV. We start with the aforementioned chair spinning as The Voice UK returns for its fourth series. The biggest change to this series has to be the inclusion of 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...
Star studded cast for Inside No.9
One of the comedies of last year was BBC2's Inside No.9 Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton's anthology series which told six different stories only linked by the number 9. Though Initially sceptical that viewers would come back to a show each week when there weren't...
Matt on the Box: Glue, Jon Richardson Grows Up, Bad Education and Sunday Night at the Palladium
Welcome back to another look at some of the biggest programmes that have come our way over the last seven days. As I'm now into my third decade I do wonder if some TV dramas aren't aimed at me any more especially those on youth-orientated channels such as BBC3 and E4....
Jack Whitehall’s Backchat to return to BBC3
BBC3 has announced that Jack Whitehall's comedy chat show Backchat will return for two specials later in the year. Along with his father Michael, Whitehall will be hosting two 45 minute specials to coincide with the start of 2014 World Cup and Father's Day. The...
Matt on the Box – Christmas Special: Educating Yorkshire, The Call Centre, Backchat, Bad Education, Hebburn and Citizen Khan
Felicitations to all of you and welcome to this special edition of Matt on the Box where I'll be looking back at all of the Christmas Specials that have aired so far this year. We start with a festive treat courtesy of one of our programmes of the year, Educating...
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!
Father and son bond and embarrass on ‘Backchat’
We've seen a lot of Jack Whitehall of late. His fantastic comedy Bad Education was a must see in August, he's back in the still fairly edgy Fresh Meat on Channel 4, and he recently hosted a particularly strong episode of Nevermind the Buzzcocks. But if all that wasn't...
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...
Bad Education returns for Christmas.
The second series of BBC3's hit comedy Bad Education has come to an end. The series drew a huge audience for BBC iplayer and continued to grow in the ratings of the course of the six week run. As a huge fan of series 1 I was a tiny bit concerned whether series 2 would...
Matt on The Box’s Back to School Special: Educating Yorkshire, Waterloo Road and Bad Education
Sorry sir but the dog ate my homework, at least that's my excuse for not writing this second weekly review piece till today. However all of the programmes, bar one, have a school-theme to them so you can have a good read while in detention. Kicking off with a...
Thecustard chats to the pupils of Bad Education
Earlier this year I was sent back to school. Well OK, not quite but I was sat in a room with considerably younger and cooler people than myself which was basically my school experience really. I had a chance to speak to the pupils of Bad Education. A lot of praise was...
Thecustard goes back to school with Bad Education
In May I was lucky enough to find myself in a room with the cast and crew of BBC3's brilliant comedy Bad Education as they shot scenes for the upcoming second series. For those of you unlucky enough to miss out of the first series, it centres on Alfie Wickers (played...
TheCustard chats to Jack Whitehall of Bad Education
The second series of Bad Education hits IPlayer today a full week before it returns to BBCThree. Here is my on-set interview with star and co-writer Jack Whitehall. What was it like coming back for series 2? There was a bit of pressure but it's been great. I found the...
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...
Bad Education: A return to form for BBC3
BBC3 have got a bit of a dodgy track record when it comes to their sitcoms though they’re the channel that produced both the brilliant Him and Her and the cancelled before its time Pulling but there are also some very questionable shows which in some cases sully the...