The Custard TV Podcast
Reviews and opinions from a trio of TV obsessives on a variety of the week's biggest shows. Expect hot takes, bad jokes and people who have spent far too much time in front of the TV. Read more from the team on thecustardtv.com
Episodes
December 8, 2023 • 56 mins
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 ...
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November 29, 2023 • 55 mins
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.
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November 21, 2023 • 66 mins
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.
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November 17, 2023 • 56 mins
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.
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November 8, 2023 • 57 mins
Matt is joined by podcast regulars 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+
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October 25, 2023 • 63 mins
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.
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October 18, 2023 • 54 mins
Matt is joined by Dawn to review 4 new shows available on streaming platforms this week. Fraiser 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 Haloween, 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.
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October 11, 2023 • 43 mins
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.
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October 3, 2023 • 52 mins
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.
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September 27, 2023 • 57 mins
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+
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September 22, 2023 • 74 mins
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 Sept...
For the first episode, Matt and Luke travel to Sept...
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September 13, 2023 • 67 mins
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.
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# 405: The Woman in the Wall, The Following is Based on a Pack of Lies, Starstruck and Henpocalypse!
August 30, 2023 • 59 mins
Matt and Dawn return with news from this year's Edinburgh TV Festival. They're joined by podcast contributor 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!
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August 9, 2023 • 52 mins
Matt is joined by podcast contributors 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.
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August 1, 2023 • 61 mins
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.
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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.
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July 11, 2023 • 58 mins
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.
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July 5, 2023 • 70 mins
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.
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June 21, 2023 • 63 mins
Matt and Dawn are joined by site contributor 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.
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June 14, 2023 • 59 mins
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.
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