Black Mirror returns for another season, delivering six new stories we haven’t had since the fourth season in 2017. Much like last season, this one gets its own experimental episode with something Black Mirror has never seen before, giving us our first-ever direct...
*The following review contains spoilers for Mazey Day, Demon 79 and Loch Henry.* Black Mirror has returned for a sixth season and five brand new stories after having been on break for four years. The new episodes on offer are some of the freshest we’ve gotten from the...
As this is going to be the final Matt on the Box before Christmas as I'd like to start by wishing my readers a happy Christmas and reward them with my first review of a festive special. However, I'm not sure how much of a reward the Christmas special of Black Mirror...
‘There’s nothing in this that’s as bleak as whatever the f**k EastEnders is going to do’ claims Charlie Brooker in the casually scornful manner in which only he can. Speaking at the preview screening of White Christmas, last night’s ‘festive special’ of his dystopian...
Channel 4 have confirmed the cast for the festive episode of Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror which is expected in December. Jon Hamm (Mad Men), Rafe Spall (One Day, I Give It A Year) and Oona Chaplin (The Crimson Field) have all signed on for the 90-minute...
Sky have confirmed the return of John Hannah as DI Jack Cloth in Charlie Brooker's spoof of the crime genre, A Touch of Cloth. The third in the series sees former Doctor Who star Karen Gillan join Cloth's team as Kerry Newblood. She stars alongside series originals...
For the first podcast to feature the complete TV loving trio for ages we discuss The Edinburgh TV Festival, our love for the Mel & Sue and new BBC1 drama What Remains.
Welcome back to this much more punctual look at the week's TV, in what can only be described as a crime special. First up we have What Remains, a programme centring around the look for the killer of a young woman found murdered in the attic of the share house in which...
One second in and I know that series two of A Touch of Cloth is going to be gold. I know this because Todd Carty is the first thing in the sequel to Charlie Brooker’s 2012 Bank Holiday weekend gag reel. A robbery at ‘Bankleys’ by the not-so-masked crusaders throwing...
On the latest Podcast Matt and Gary discuss the return of Saturday Night Takeaway, a slow year for The BRITS and a thought provoking episode of Black Mirror
So here we are again the end of another week of TV and as there wasn't a lot of new programmes I'll be looking at some of the shows I've really been enjoying. First though the return of one of the most original dramas in years as Channel 4 gave Charlie Brooker...
The guys return to chat about the return of Black Mirror, new US import Nashville, BBC Three fly-on-the-wall documentary People Like Us and what cancelled show they'd like to bring back. Listen to "The Custardtv Podcast February 12th" on Spreaker.
Yes after nearly two months away Gary and Luke return for next series (if I may be so pompous) of thecustardtv Podcast. In this edition, we discuss the genius of Jimmy McGovern's Accused, the brilliance of A Touch of Cloth and disastrous returns of Red or Black, The X...
It’s the second week of July and I’m strolling across London to BAFTA headquarters for the screening of Sky’s latest comedy A Touch of Cloth. I say strolling, but in reality I’m being pelted by vicious and persistent raindrops whilst consulting a soggy map every two...
Did we like it? This is an amazingly good piece of television, melding Big Brother with zombie horror in a stunning, fast, furious way. What was good about it? • The script by Charlie Brooker (The Guardian's misanthropic columnist) is remarkably versatile: there's...
Highlights • Charlie's claim that 2006 was "the year when we finally all gave up pretending to be independent adults and instead allowed people on telly to advise us on every aspect of our pathetic, pea-sized lives." He cited Trinny and Susannah Undressed as the main...
Debut Friday 11 February 2005, Channel 4 Chris Morris's return to TV, a sitcom featuring the obnoxious character from satirical website TVGoHome. It is co-written by The Guardian Guide's Charlie Brooker. Barley is a former public schoolboy who lives in fictional...