Colin From Accounts began the most awkward meet-cute and turned into one of television's best love stories. When this decade is over, this warm-hearted and brilliantly funny Australian comedy deserves to be remembered as one of the best comedies of its...
It's the final pod of 2024, looking back on the very best the TV had to offer. Luke and Dawn join Matt to count their personal Top 10's of the year whilst also counting down the favourites of the wider Custard TV team. Expect discussions on Slow Horses, Mr & Mrs...
Television in 2024 felt different. Things slowed down. You could feel broadcasters and streaming platforms straining to deliver the volume of shows we've been accustomed to and the heavy reliance on making shows out 'existing IP' made a lot of the output feel lazy,...
Dawn Glenn and Mo Walker join Matt to review four new shows. First, they travel back to 1986 to a life of excess in Disney's take on Jilly Cooper's hit novel Rivals. Then, imagine life on the set of a Marvel-esque superhero movie in Sky and HBO comedy The Franchise....
In the fifth episode of the second series of the truly brilliant Aussie Comedy Colin From Accounts, Ashley (writer and co-lead actor Harriet Dyer) goes missing. Gordon (writer and co-lead actor Patrick Brammall) is initially annoyed. He has spent the evening grilling...
Our cousins in the southern hemisphere have been having a stellar time of it lately - Neighbours is making a triumphant return after cancellation, Kylie Minogue has her biggest hit in 12 years, and Colin From Accounts was the biggest word-of-mouth TV hit of the year....
With TV slowing over the summer, it's time to look back at the best shows of the year to this point and perhaps give you the chance to catch up with some of the gems you may have missed. Happy Valley January 2023, BBC One - I'll admit to being equal parts excited and...
Contributed by Mo Walker After watching episodes one and two of The Muppets, I am pleased to state your childhood (or even adult) memories are safe. I would be more concerned about Miss Piggy if the Piggate allegations are correct. I seriously...
I've written a few pieces over the years about America's seemingly insatiable need to remake some of our biggest hits. Nine out of ten of those attempts fail to match the quality of the originals and end in utter disaster. Too often remakes either get lost in...
When it was first announced James Corden would take over from Craig Ferguson as host of The Late Late Show on CBS I remember feeling perplexed. It seem to come completely out of left field. Despite success on Broadway and his beloved Gavin & Stacey being remade...
ITV is to become the free-to-air home of all new series of the hugely popular Seth MacFarlane comedy Family Guy, ITV and Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution announced today. Beginning this autumn, all new series of Family Guy will have their UK premiere...
The Golden Globe nominations were announced this afternoon in Hollywood. The nominations reflected a strong year for US television with British names in the mix to collect the award. Drama Series The Affair Downton Abbey Game of Thrones The Good Wife House of Cards...
This article contains spoilers for a Family Guy which is expected on BBC Three later in the year. By now, if you wanted to know what people made of the Family Guy/The Simpsons crossover you will have typed 'Family Guy Simpsons crossover' into a search engine of your...
The BBC have announced that all six episodes of Chris Lilley's new Summer Heights High spin-off Jonah from Tonga will be available on the iPlayer ahead of their BBC Three transmission. As part of an international simulcast with ABC Australia's iview, the entire series...
Australia's ABC network have released the first clip of Chris Lilley's new comedy Ja’mie: Private School Girl. The new series follows his teenage girl creation in her final year of school, seeing her far removed from the hallowed grounds of Summer Heights...
Australian writer and performer Chris Lilley’s hilariously monstrous teen creation – bitchy school girl Ja’mie King - is returning to BBC Three for another term in a brand-new six-part comedy series. Manipulative and shallow exchange student Ja’mie was last seen...
Last night's Desperate Housewives finale left us cold; clichéd, contrived and rushed, it was more of a nostalgia-fest-cum-crowd-pleas er instead of a satisfying end of a story arc. With old characters returning for contrived endings, it left an...
William Melvin Hicks: we miss you. Now here's Tom with the weather. There are very few reasons why anyone would want to be older than they are but I'd gladly have a few extra wrinkles to have experienced Hicks at his best. I was 9 years old when Bill Hicks died. I...
For those of you who are unaware, Chris Lilley, star of Angry Boys, is apparently one of Australia's living national treasures, along with Rolf Harris and the kangaroo. That's knowledge that came after I watched episode one of Angry Boys. Having never heard of Chris...
Apparently the traditional sitcom is dead but hopefully it won’t be long before the irritable, shaky one handed filming technique (just use a sodding tripod!) pioneered by shows such as ‘The Office’ and ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ follows suit and it’s hideous amounts of...
Did we like it? It’s not a case of building something up to knock it down, or hating it when our friends become successful, Little Britain USA is an exemplar of something that was once sporadically twisted and frequently funny metamorphosing into utter rubbish. What...
Did we like it? Loved it. This US import – an animation featuring Lego-like gay characters and lots of near-the-knuckle gags – is hilarious. What was good about it? • Rick and Steve make a lovely couple, despite their little plastic bodies and little round heads....
Did we like it? Despite too much time spent with the necessary introductions of the grotesques competing for Australian of the Year, we saw the same glimpses of wit and imagination as in Summer Heights High that make star Chris Lilley an outstanding new comedy talent....
Did we like it? There were a couple of promising moments in this comedy about a class reunion 20 years after their first meeting, but we can’t see that there is enough material to sustain a series, let alone make it the next Friends (which it clearly aspires to be)...