The Custard TV Podcast

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. Over on Prime Video, there are two new comedies. Firstly, an Indian family move to America for a new life in The Pardeeps of Pittsbu...

The original Custardtv Podcaster Gary joins Matt and Dawn to review four new shows available this week. Beginning with Apple's new 'thriller' starring Kate Blanchett and Kevin Cline. Then there's dark comedy Sweetpea from Sky Atlantic with a 'killer' performance from Fallout's Ella Purnell. Over on Paramount+ there's British thriller Curfew which imagines a world where men are tagged and kept unde...

First time podcaster Tyler Murray joins Matt and Dawn to review the returns of Heartstopper on Netflix and Showtrial and Alma's Not Normal on BBC iPlayer. Plus Sophie Turner in the story of a real-life jewel thief 'Joan' on ITVX.

Luke & Matt head back to September '99 to look at the TV landscape of the time. Fellow podcaster Michael and Spaced superfan join them to revisit the first episode of the Channel 4 cult favourite from Simon Pegg and Jessica Hynes and discuss its legacy. Then, we leap forward 100 years with Fry in Matt Greoning's Simpsons' follow-up Futurama. Then, two mostly forgotten curiosities from the time...

Matt is joined by pod regulars Mo Walker and Dawn Glen to review 4 brand new shows available this week. Firstly, the BBC's new thriller Nightsleeper followed by Apples Never Fall, another crime drama starring Anette Benning and Sam Neil. The BBC has bought the US drama after airing on streaming service Peacock.  Next up, David Mitchell leads quirky crime comedy Ludwig and finally, Ryan Murphy retu...

Matt and Luke travel back to September 1999 to review Michelle Collins and Lesley Sharp in Daylight Robbery. French and Saunders reunite for BBC comedy Let Them Eat Cake. We revisit the largely forgotten but brilliant BBC comedy People Like Us and test music knowledge in a new look quiz.

Sarah joins Luke and Matt to review the returns of Sherwood on the BBC, Only Murders in the Building on Hulu and Disney+, Slow Horses on Apple TV+ and a re-telling of greek myth led by Jeff Goldblum with KAOS on Netflix.

Matt and Dawn travel back to August 1999 to look at the TV landscape. They review Jimmy Mcgovern's single drama Dockers which starred Ken Stott and Ricky Tomlinson unwittingly caught up in a strike. That's a little obscure but it gets more unknown from there. Channel 4 docusoap Love in Leeds and drama series Love in the 21st Century as well as ITV's bizarre choice to show Walking on the Moon, a br...

Luke, Matt and Dawn review the return of Race Across the World with a new batch of celebs, over on Apple they look at Vince Vaughn's new comedic thriller Bad Monkey from Ted Lasso and Shrinking exec Bill Laurence as well as the platform's first Spanish language drama, Women in Blue. Finally, they look at the BBC's new comedy Daddy Issues.

On Thursday 15th July 1999, The Sopranos aired on UK TV screens for the first time as it got its first airing that night on Channel 4.  As a belated celebration of that in our TV Time Machine timeline. We're uploading a special review of the entire first season of The Sopranos that we originally recorded for our Patreon back in 2017.  Listen to Luke and Matt's reactions as they give their thoughts...

Mo Walker joins Matt and Dawn to review three new shows. From Apple TV+ they review a charming adaptation of Time Bandits and Natalie Porrtman's first TV role in thriller Lady in the Lake. Over on ITV they review new comedy Piglets. There's also discussion on the recent Emmy Nominations.

Jenna Coleman super fan Michael Lee joins Matt and Dawn to review her new BBC drama The Jetty along with Apple TV's sci-fi comedy-drama hybrid with sweet robot Sunny.  BBC comedy Spent and Sky's new Danny Dyer comedy Mr. Bigstuff. There's also discussion on Beverly Hills 90210.

Matt is joined by Dawn Glen and Sophie Davies to review the third season of The Bear, ITV1's new comedy drama Douglas is Cancelled, Apple TV+'s crime thriller Presumed Innocent and Disney Plus's true crime saga Under the Bridge.  Plus we catch up on the best of June's TV including the series finale of Doctor Who and the final episode of Inside No. 9 

The original podcast trio reunite as Gary joins Luke and Matt to review three ITV shows from June 1999 - prison saga Bad Girls, medical drama Always and Everyone and traditional sitcom Barbara.  Plus there's anecdotes about buying pirated CDs, our first memories of the internet and Gary's time sharing a house with Mike the Cameraman from The Last Leg.  Luke also faces a challenge from Gary on the...

Matt and Sarah are joined by guest and the other half of the Shipyard Podcast, Lucy Macey to review Netflix drama ERIC which stars Benedict Cumberbatch as a man struggling with the disappearance of his young son and who sees a 7 foot blue puppet.  Then, Lost Boys and Fairies, a gentle drama from the BBC about a gay couple wanting to adopt and the issues that can bring. Brand new comedy Queenie fro...

Matt and Dawn are joined by  Nick Bartlett to review 4 new shows this week. They look at a dodgy English accent from Elisabeth Moss in the FX now on Disney+ drama The Veil. Then, big budget HBO drama The Sympathiser from Park Chan-wook which has interesting cameos from Robert Downey Jr. Then, the story of the rise of the Black Panther Party in The Big Cigar from Apple. Lastly, and mostly for Nick,...

Matt and Luke head back to 1999, more specifically May 1999 to review 4 shows debuting that month. They look at the first couple of episodes of Season two of South Park which began on Channel 4 in May as well as examining the phenomenon around the animated hit at that time. They also watch Channel 4 drama Physcos which looked at life in a psychiatric unit. Then, also on Channel 4, they watch Geri...

Matt and Dawn are joined by Doctor Who superfan Suky to review the return/reboot of the iconic BBC series. The trio also review Channel 4's new teen thriller The Gathering alongside sci-fi drama Dark Matter on Apple TV+ and Bodkin on Netflix.

Matt and Dawn are joined by regular guest and token American Mo Walker to review 4 new shows debuting this week. Martin Freeman returns in the brilliantly tense crime drama The Responder. Steve Pemberton & Reece Shearsmith prepare to say goodbye to Inside No.9 as the ninth and final series begins on BBC Two. Over on Netflix the trio review two very different dramas in David E Kelley's adaptati...

Matt and Luke hop aboard the Time Machine to April 1999. Going back to see Clooney's last appearance in ER. The time the BBC gave Vic & Bob their own Saturday night show. The time everyone was frozen and chased by hungry dogs in ITV's The Last Train and the time Adam & Joe sent Adam's dad to meet Coolio in The Adam & Joe Show. There's also a look at the headlines and a test on the bigg...

Matt and Dawn are joined by Mo Walker to review 4 new shows.  This week's line-up looks like this. The second instalment of Ryan Murphy's anthology series Feud arrives on Disney+ starring Tom Hollander as Truman Capote. Michael Douglas stars as Benjamin Franklin in Apple TV's surprisingly upbeat min series Franklin. Elsewhere, Netflix has tense stalking 'comedy' Baby Reindeer and Mike Bubbins star...

Luke joins Matt and Dawn to review 4 brand new shows debuting this week. This week's show appears to be sponsored by the letter R with The Regime from HBO and Sky Atlantic, Ripley on Netflix and the return of Race Across The World on BBC One. There is one outlier in Sugar the new genre-bending crime thriller from Apple TV+. Elsewhere there are discussions on Big Mood and a lively debate/argument/d...

Matt and Dawn are joined by Sarah Kennedy to review Brummie drama This Town on BBC One. The return of Happy Valley's Sally Wainwright with her new swashbuckling series Renegade Nell as well as Channel 4 sitcom Big Mood and Fargo which returned quietly towards the end of last year on Prime Video.  There's also discussion on Extraordinary, Things You Should Have Done, Girls5eva and terrible subtitle...

Luke's not well enough for a full trip to March of 1999 aboard the Time Machine. So Dawn Glen bravely joins Matt to examine the TV landscape 25 years ago this month. First, Channel 4 launches HBO's Sex and The City. On ITV, gentle Brummie comedy The Grimleys starred written by Line of Duty's Jed Mercurio. Channel 4 launches female led sketch show Smack the Pony whilst the BBC waves goodbye to one...

Luke, Matt and Dawn return to review 4 brand new shows debuting this week. First, one of the funniest shows on television as Netflix becomes the new home for Peacock's Girls5eva. Then we travel to the swinging '60s for Apple's confused new comedy drama Palm Royale. Staying with Apple, we look at historical drama Manhunt, which charts the hunt for Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth. Finally, the...