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 ITV. There's also discussion where we both were at this point in our lives and Matt continues to te...
Feb 07, 2024•59 min•Ep. 7
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.
Jan 31, 2024•51 min•Ep. 6
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 Gladiators reboot in 2024, but did the first episode live up to the massive overnight ratings the s...
Jan 17, 2024•58 min•Ep. 5
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 series of The Tourist, Mr Bates Vs The Post Office and new Netflix series The Brothers Sun....
Jan 09, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 4
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 scandal for a four-part series, Mr. Bates Vs The Post Office whilst on Channel 4 they have very different...
Jan 04, 2024•51 min•Ep. 3
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?
Jan 02, 2024•1 hr 39 min•Ep. 2
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 Jonathan Creek Christmas Special. They also watch the Christmas special of Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends w...
Dec 19, 2023•1 hr 17 min
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 teen comedy, A Youngperson's guide to Becoming a Rock Star.
Dec 08, 2023•57 min•Season 1Ep. 1
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.
Nov 29, 2023•56 min•Season 1Ep. 1
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.
Nov 21, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 1
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.
Nov 17, 2023•57 min•Season 1Ep. 1
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+
Nov 08, 2023•58 min•Season 1Ep. 1
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 views on the Fraiser reboot.
Oct 25, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 1
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 available in full on BBC iPlayer.
Oct 18, 2023•54 min•Season 1Ep. 1
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.
Oct 11, 2023•44 min•Season 1Ep. 1
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.
Oct 03, 2023•53 min•Season 1Ep. 1
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+
Sep 27, 2023•57 min•Season 1Ep. 1
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 episode, Matt and Luke travel to September 1998. ITV launches a brand new and innovative game show wh...
Sep 22, 2023•1 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 1
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.
Sep 13, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 1
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!
Aug 30, 2023•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 1
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.
Aug 09, 2023•52 min•Season 1Ep. 1
Matt is joined by Sarah Kennedy and Dawn Glenn to review the return of Good Omens on Prime Video. New horror drama Wolf on BBC iPlayer and new BBC comedies The Power of Parker and Dreaming Whilst Black. There's also discussion on Hijack, The Bear and The Sixth Commandment.
Aug 01, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 1
Luke returns to the podcast with Matt and Sophie to review the new BBC One true-crime drama The Sixth Commandment as well as the incredible second season of The Bear on Disney+, the third Season of The Great available in the UK through LionsGate+ Plus there are discussions on Hijack and reaction to The Emmy Nominations.
Jul 19, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 1
Matt is joined by Dawn Glenn and Mo Walker to review the second season of The After Party on Apple TV+ as well new comedy drama Then You Run available on Sky Max and NOW. The Effects of Lying on ITVX and Horror drama The Horror of Dolores Roach from Prime Video. Plus, there's discussions on the first season of The AfterParty, Hijack and a trip to the cinema.
Jul 11, 2023•58 min•Season 1Ep. 1
Matt is joined by Dawn Glen and Sarah Kennedy to review new BBC One drama Champion. Idris Elba takes control in Apple TV's Hijack, comedy set in a call centre in Jade Adams' Ruby Speaking and I'm a Virgo on Prime Video from Boots Riley.
Jul 05, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 1
Matt and Dawn are joined by Michael Lee to review The Full Monty revival from Disney+ Menapuase comedy The Change from Channel 4. Catherine Tate's return to the BBC with comedy Queen of Oz and Dawn picks the Scottish episode of the new run of Black Mirror in Loch Henry.
Jun 21, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 1
Luke, Matt and Dawn are back to review the BBC's new drama Best Interests, The Crowded Room from Apple TV+, comedy Significant Other from ITVX, and brooding comedy Deadloch from Prime Video.
Jun 14, 2023•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 1
Luke Matt and Dawn are back to review HBO's new pop star drama The Idol. The return of the brilliantly warm Somebody Somewhere on HBO and Sky Comedy. Alan Carr's autobiographical comedy Changing Ends which is all available on ITVX and French drama What Pauline is Not Telling You from Walter Presents. Plus, talk on Succession's finale and Inside No.9.
Jun 07, 2023•1 hr 21 min•Season 1Ep. 1
Gary returns to The Custard TV Podcast to join Matt and Dawn in reviewing Shane Meadows' The Gallows Pole, the long-anticipated UK debut of Poker Face, political satire White House Plumbers and Arnold Schwarzenegger in Fubar. Plus Gary reveals what's on the hard drive, Dawn debates with what to do with some old videos & Matt talks PJ and Duncan.
May 31, 2023•1 hr 19 min•Season 1Ep. 1
Matt is joined by Dawn Glen and Mo Walker to review dramas Maryland on ITV and Afterglow - BBC Four's latest foreign import. As well as comedies Platonic from Apple TV+ and Primo from Amazon Freevee.
May 23, 2023•56 min•Season 1Ep. 1
