The Custard TV Podcast

Matt is joined by Dawn Glen and Sophie Davies to review 3 shows of the week. The team review Apple TV+ comedy The Completely Made Up Adventures of Dick Turpin which Noel Fielding fans are sure to love. Anarchic historical drama Mary and George from Sky Atlantic and comedy from internet sensation Lucia Keskin Things You Should Have Done which is available in full on BBC iPlayer. There's also discus...

Matt and Luke jump aboard the TV Time Machine to travel to February 1999. Luke has moved to California and has joined his school newspaper, spotting celebs at the Virgin Megastore. Matt is rehearsing for the school show. Meanwhile, on television, Russell T Davies breaks new ground with Channel 4 drama Queer as Folk. Caroline Aherne and Craig Cash resurrect Mrs Merton for her own sitcom. Then, ITV...

Matt is joined by  Suky Khakh and Dawn Glen to review four new shows that aired this week. ITV's three-parter that promises to tell the COVID story we haven't heard called Breathtaking. There's also anarchic Welsh drama The Way on BBC One and strange goings on aboard a space shuttle in Apple TV's mind-bending Constellation. Plus, a new comedy drama Boarders from BBC Three which wasn't what the tea...

Writer and fellow podcaster Elaine Gregson joins Matt and Luke to review 4 brand new shows. Three with a loved-up theme for Valentines' 2024 and one with 'fashion Nazis'  They review the surprising Mr. & Mrs. Smith from Donald Glover and starring Glover and Maya Erskine. The Netflix adaptation of One Day, Channel 4's 'romantic' drama Alice & Jack as well as the eye-opening war piece The Ne...

Luke and Matt jump aboard the TV Time Machine to January of 1999 to look at the TV landscape at the time. On BBC Two they review Kathy Burke and James Dreyfus comedy Gimme, Gimme, Gimmie. A somewhat unknown comedy troop launch on TV with the debut of The League of Gentlemen. Sun-soaked curio Sunburn starring Michelle Collins over on BBC One and Bill Bryson brings Notes From a Small Island to TV on...

Matt is joined by  Gary Redrup and Mo Walker to review four more brand-new shows. Apple's visually impressive third chapter of Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg's WW2 drama Masters of The Air. Sofia Vergara transforms for Netflix biopic Griselda plus, Nicole Kidman's new drama Expats on Prime Video and supernatural series Domino Day from BBC Three. 

Matt and Dawn are joined by Sarah Kennedy to review HBO's True Detective: Night Country which feels like a return to form for HBO's anthology crime drama. Australian Netflix Original Boy Swallows Universe which cleverly mixes magical themes and gritty realism. Plus, one of the warmest comedies in recent memory, Big Boys returns for a second series on Channel 4. Finally, we didn't think we needed a...

Luke is back with Matt and Dawn to review ITV's new 'thriller' After the Flood as well as Peter Capaldi and Cush Jumbo facing off in new crime drama Criminal Record on Apple TV+. Plus, the return of Sarah Lancashire in HBO's criminally underseen drama Julia and Claudia Winkelman dons her cloak for series 2 of the UK version of reality mega-hit The Traitors. There's also discussion on the second se...

Matt and Dawn return to review the first new shows of 2024. The Tourist on BBC One was conceived as a one-off thriller but did so well on the BBCiPlayer that the BBC were desperate for more, which explains why we're back to review the first episode of the second series which arrived on New Year's Day with the entire series available to binge.  Over on ITV, they have dramatised the Post Office scan...

Matt, Luke and Dawn join forces to count down their top 10 shows of the year as well as looking what made the wider list from contributors from www.thecustardtv.com Expect, The Bear, Succession, The Last of Us and Poker Face but which is the best show of the year? 

Matt and Luke board the TV Time Machine one final time this year to travel back to Christmas 1998. They watch the first of what would be Men Behaving Badly's final trilogy of Simon Nye's comedy starring Martin Clunes, Neil Morrissey, Caroline Quentin and Leslie Ash. It's actually a double helping of Caroline Quentin, as she pops up again, alongside Alan Davies in Black Canary - that year's Jonatha...

Matt and Luke board the TV machine to examine the TV landscape of November 1998. However, they are joined by a stowaway in the form of Dawn Glen who joins them to review ITV's beloved relationship drama Cold Feet, Victoria Wood's first foray into sitcom with dinnerladies. Plus, BBC sketch show Big Train starring a very talented group who went on to big things and the mostly forgotten Channel 4 tee...

Matt is joined by Dawn and old friend Gary to review the first of the three Doctor Who specials to mark 60 years of the BBC's sci-fi juggernaut. They also review Channel 4's drama The Couple Next Door, Cary Grant biopic Archie from ITVX and new comedy Such Brave Girls on BBC Three and iPlayer.

Matt is joined by Sarah Kennedy and Mo Walker to review the return of The Crown on Netflix. Plus three new shows including A Murder at the End of the World from FX, Hulu and available in the UK on Disney+ as well as quirky BBC drama Boat Story and gruff Irish acquisition Kin.

Matt and Luke board their TV Machine to review 4 shows that aired in October of 1998. Gritty BBC police drama The Cops. Robson Green and Stephen Tompkinson ITV drama Grafters. They witness the birth of Ali G by revisiting the first two episodes of Channel 4's 'edgy' new current affairs comedy programme The 11 o'clock show as well as the strange Channel 5 game show Fort Boyard.

Matt is joined by Dawn Glen and Sarah Kennedy to review the second series of Jimmy McGovern's Time plus three new streaming offerings in All The Light We Cannot See from Netflix, The Buccaneers on AppleTV+ and Culprits on Disney+

Matt is joined by Dawn Glen and Sophie Davies to review ITV's new period drama Three Little Birds penned by Lenny Henry and based loosely on the stories he heard from his mother. Also, new streaming dramas Bodies on Netflix and Burning Girls from Paramount+. Finally, just in time for Halloween, What We Do in the Shadows returns on Disney+ as well as discussion on Race Across the World and Sophie's...

Matt is joined by Dawn to review 4 new shows available on streaming platforms this week. Fraser is rebooted and back in Boston on Paramount Plus while Brie Larson heads back to the 1950's for Apple's adaptation of Lessons in Chemistry. Plus, in time for Halloween, the pair review Mike Flanagan's new Netflix series, The Fall of the House of Usher and a new take on Interview with a Vampire now avail...

Matt is joined by podcaster Will Barber-Taylor to discuss The BBC's slightly controversial drama about Jimmy Saville with Steve Coogan playing the disgraced BBC presenter. As well as two Netflix dramas - the return of Lupin and new teen drama Everything Now.

Matt is joined by Dawn Glen and Milo Milton Jeffries to review kitchen drama Boiling Point on BBC One, ITV's latest 'thriller' Payback as well as Mrs Sidhu Investigates on the Drama Channel and new Walter Presents drama For Life.

Matt is joined by Sarah Kennedy and Dawn Glen to review ITV's true-crime drama The Long Shadow. The return of comedy Minx on Paramount+ Australian crime drama Black Snow and comedy Still Up on Apple TV+

In the first episode of a brand new podcast, the team from The Custard TV Podcast, jump into a 'Time Machine' to travel back in time to a different year of TV to look at the BIG popular shows with a more critical eye and discover shows they've never seen which, in some cases, shows that have been completely lost to time. It's also a chance to revisit different times in their lives. For the first e...

Matt is joined by Dawn Glen and Elaine Gregson of The Honeymoon Podcast to review true-crime drama Love & Death from Max which is now available exclusively on ITVX. Romantic drama The Lovers from Sky Atlantic. Fairy Tale epic The Changeling from Apple TV+ and Celebrity Race Across the World.

Matt and Dawn return with news from this year's Edinburgh TV Festival. They're joined by Sarah Kennedy to review 4 brand new BBC series. Dramas The Woman in the Wall and The Following is Based on a Pack of Lies alongside comedy Henpocalypse! and the return of Starstruck. There's also discussion of Jesse Armstrong, Only Murders in the Building, Hearstopper, The AfterParty and Lovejoy!

Matt is joined by Dawn Glenn and Sophie Davies to review the returns of Only Murders in the Building on Disney+ and Heartstopper on Netflix. Plus two new shows in Alone on Channel 4 and Strange Planet on AppleTV+ There's also discussion on The Bear and the Hijack finale.