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 …

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.By Luke Knowles

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.By Luke Knowles

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 Le…

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 is…

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 B…

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 psychiatr…

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.By Luke Knowles

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…

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 a…

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 stal…

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 disc…

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 …

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 S…

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 L…

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 ava…

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 r…

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 …

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…

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 Bil…

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 …

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 …

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 …

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?By Luke Knowles

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…

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…

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.By Luke Knowles

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.By Luke Knowles

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 Cha…

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+By Luke Knowles

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 a…

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 an…

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.By Luke Knowles

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.By Luke Knowles

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+By Luke Knowles

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 revis…

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.By Luke Knowles

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, Hear…

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.By Luke Knowles

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.By Luke Knowles

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.…

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 t…

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.By Luke Knowles

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.By Luke Knowles

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.By Luke Knowles

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.…

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.…

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.By Luke Knowles