The odd couple is a much-mined sitcom premise, with a myriad of shows built upon the fastidious, introvert forced by circumstance to spend time with a casually confident, careless extrovert. Looking at the trailers for Channel 4’s latest sitcom Big Boys, you might...
As fans of the hit series know by now Derry Girls is the creation of acclaimed writer Lisa McGee who mined her own experiences to create a candid, one-of-a-kind, family-centred comedy. While series one observed the gang navigating their teens in 1990’s Derry against a...
Principal filming has just completed on the new twisted six-part comedy thriller, Am I Being Unreasonable? written by and starring multi-BAFTA award-winning Daisy May Cooper (This Country) and Selin Hizli (Mum). The series is executive produced by Jack Thorne (His...
Dave has announced a new three-part comedy written by Gillian Roger Park and starring People Just Do Nothing star Hugo Chegwin alongside TV chef and grime artist Big Zuu, in his first television acting role, with Fran Mills (Harlots), Alexa Davies (Dead Pixels), Lucia...
The BBC have confirmed the second series of the fantastic romantic comedy Starstruck is coming very soon. The series, which is co-written by Rose Matafeo, Alice Snedden, and Nic Sampson, and produced by Avalon for BBC Three in the UK and HBO Max in the U.S will air on...
The BBC has announced brand new comedy 'Stuck', written by Dylan Moran and starring Dylan Moran and Morgana Robinson, is coming to BBC Two and BBC iPlayer in 2022. Made by Hat Trick Productions and filmed in Belfast, the five-part series is a sometimes dark, sometimes...
You're only 53 seconds into Episode 1 of Toast of Tinseltown when you realise that Stephen Toast (Matt Berry) and his bizarre theatrical world has not merely been ported from its original home on Channel 4 to BBC Two, but has been given the star treatment. Because...
This without question my favourite post of the year. It's another chance to celebrate the best television had to offer. 2021 was another strong year. Standouts It's a Sin, Mare of Easttown, Only Murders in the Building and the long-awaited third season of Succession....
A new term has emerged in the US. The term 'cord cutter' refers to someone who has let their cable provider go and only watches streaming services. There are so many streaming options in the US it's understandable that consumers may feel that traditional broadcast...
*Filming has started on three-part drama Crossfire for BBC One. The series stars Keeley Hawes (Finding Alice, It’s A Sin) Created and written by Louise Doughty (author of Apple Tree Yard), her first original series for television, Crossfire is set in a luxurious...
*To mark 100 years of the BBC in 2022, the Corporation has announced a bumper year of sports, events and landmark commissions for TV, Radio, and Online to inform, educate and entertain the nation, under the banner BBC 100. In 2022 special content will range from the...
It's time for another roundup of the news from the last few days in the world of TV. *Sunday night saw the 2021 Emmy Awards with Netflix's The Crown and Apple TV+'s Ted Lasso being the night's big winners. The Crown was named Best Drama whilst Olivia...
Sophie Willan’s larger-than-life comedy creation is Alma, a spirited, optimistic woman with a chaotic childhood, and an excellent line in fabulous furry pink coats. She’s doing her best despite life cruelly not living up to her glitzy expectations. In autobiographical...
Welcome to a new feature that we're trialling out here on the site. As we move into a new era for The Custard TV we're looking at ways we can deliver the same content in new ways. Our idea for the news is to give readers a rundown of the stories from the last few days...
Netflix has released the first look at the return of Mae Martin's acclaimed semi-autobiographical comedy Feel Good. The first series, which aired in 2020 followed the love story of Mae and George (Charlotte Richie) as Mae struggled to hide her addiction and grappled...
I, of course, was one of those people who turned his nose up at the idea of a US network re-working The Office for an American audience. The show felt so British that any attempt to transfer for an American audience would unquestionably lose what made the...
The BBC and Amazon Studios released a first look image today from the upcoming series, The Offenders (w/t), from multi-award-winning writer and director Stephen Merchant.The image features Academy Award-winning actor Christopher Walken in his first lead British...
The best comedies, the greats, often feature people you wouldn't want to spend any time with if you were unfortunate to bump into them at a dinner party or a bus stop. The best recent examples are This Country and BBC Two's Mum. We loved those shows, but we'd cross...
The BBC have confirmed that romantic comedy Starstruck from Rose Matefo will return for a second series. In February, she told comedian James Nokise on his Eating Fried Chicken In The Shower podcast that when filming was postponed from March 2020 because...
Following rave reviews and award wins, the BBC has confirmed that comedy In My Skin will return for a second series. The five-part unflinching, raw, hilarious and heart-breaking gut punch of a series continues to follow the story of Bethan (Gabrielle Creevy),...
Matt Berry will reprise his role of Steven Toast as he moves to Hollywood and attempts to become a movie star in a new six-part series coming to BBC One and BBC iPlayer.Written and created by Arthur Mathews and Matt Berry and produced by Objective Fiction in...
It’s an irrefutable, scientific fact that a show is good if Charlotte Ritchie is in it. Fresh from her success in.. well, bloody everything, the second series of Dead Pixels arrived to dispel January and Lockdown gloom. Charlotte plays Alison, long-suffering housemate...
At 10pm on Friday the 25th February 2011, the great British nation found themselves face to face with a hairy topless man chomping his way through a ‘lovely bit of squirrel’; an overly-exciteable woman desperate for her ‘Bobble’ to meet a nice ‘female’; two...
In June of last year, as the number of pre-COVID TV shows began to dwindle, David Tennant and Michael Sheen came to our rescue with a comedy that satirised the life we had all been living for the last three months. Staged starred Tennant and Sheen as...