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...
Daniel Mays (Mrs Biggs, Public Enemies, Made In Dagenham) is confirmed to join the cast of Line Of Duty. Series three is written by Jed Mercurio, made by World Productions for BBC Two and pits AC-12 against their most dangerous adversary yet. Mays will play Sergeant...
Welcome back to another look back at the week in TV and as always we have quite an eclectic bunch of shows so let's get started. We're kicking off with a new drama from Sky One which, just like their other productions, doesn't scrimp on the budget. I was quite excited...
In the latest podcast we discuss Sky's glossy new medical drama Critical, find out why Gary is enjoying The Casual Vacancy and Matt hates painting!
Warning: Sky1’s brand new medical drama Critical, from the pen of Jed ‘Line of Duty ’Mercurio, is not for the faint of heart. However, if you can get over the open heart surgery, the lashings of blood and the scalpel’s eye view of a man having his chest...
So we've done it! We've reached the end of the year. 2014 wasn't as packed as last year, but when it was good, it was very good indeed. Sherlock - Series 3 (January 2014, BBC1) 2014 began with one of the most anticipated returns in a long time when we all sat round to...
As well as being Easter Sunday, today marks the fiftieth anniversary of BBC Two which broadcast its opening night on the 20th April 1964. Although said opening night was plagued with problems BBC Two has since gone on to produce some of the nation's most loved...
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.
In our latest podcast we debate the updated iPlayer and the praise for Silk and Line of Duty continues.
World Productions Sometimes a drama series provides a powerful opening episode only to provide further instalments that really don't deliver. This isn't true of Line of Duty, which we were gushing about even before it started airing. After that first episode we were...
As the end credits rolled following the first episode of Line of Duty's second series I sat in front of the screen open-mouthed. Because my job is to watch a lot of television, I'm rarely surprised by any of the twists that TV dramas offer. That wasn't the case with...
Back in 2012 Line of Duty became one of the most critically-acclaimed drama series of the year. The programme focused on DCI Tony Gates (Lennie James), a well-respected officer with a loyal team and the best crime figures on the force. The story that followed saw...
The BBC have released a sneak peak trailer of the highly anticipated second series of police corruption drama Line of Duty. Line Of Duty, which was BBC Two’s biggest new drama series for 10 years (averaging 4.2 million viewers), returns for a second run in 2014....
In an extended podcast - Gary and Matt chat the final of The Apprentice, the second and third episodes of Luther and new drama in Top of the Lake and Run
Welcome back to another look back to this week in TV where we've had plenty of new drama plus the final episode of a much-loved reality show. What with both The White Queen and Family Tree it seems that BBC co-productions are everywhere at the moment. Top of the Lake...
Whoop, another week, another gritty drama starring National Treasure Olivia Colman. Tragically, I have never seen Colman's comedy work, but by gum she is an excellent dramatic actress. Run runs (geddit) over 4 nights following four separate stories that interlink. I'm...
This time year I sat in a very different office, and oddly in a very different country pondering on what I'd enjoyed most in 2011. 365 days later (roughly) it's time to sit and ponder again on my personal highlights of a packed TV year. I knew before I compiled 2012...
In the last live podcast before the summer we discuss BBC2's Line of Duty, BBC1's Blackout. Our favourite cop shows of all time and why Elementary may not work
A look at the exciting new police corruption drama that oozes potential It’s too easy and maybe even clichéd to say that new BBC2 drama Line of Duty starts with a bang. But as it’s late and it does literally start with a bang that’s so loud I nearly leapt out of my...
We discuss Line of Duty, Sky Atlantic's unstoppable hit rate and the TV moments that made you cry!
Tuesday (26th June) sees the start of a brand new and edge of the seat police corruption drama starring Lennie James. James plays DCI Tony Gates whose 100% clear up rate sees him investigated by Anti-corruption. The series also stars Vicky McClure (recently...
Did we like it? It was like building a bouncy castle of modern drama on the foundations of the Acropolis. What was good about it? • The potent theme which cascaded throughout the narrative, of acting and taking decisions because of the obligations of duty,...