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
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 52 minutes
- Episodes
- 583
- Years Active
- 2011 - 2025
TV Time Machine #15: February 2000: My Hero, Nature Boy, That Peter Kay Thing, EastEnders Anniversary
Matt and Luke hop aboard their TV Time Machine to view the TV landscape of February 2000. EastEnders turns 15 with a double episode which sees the residents of Albert Square locked in the Vic when an…
BONUS: Eastenders 40th Anniversary
In this bonus episode - Matt, Dawn and Mo discuss Eastenders' 40th anniversary week including the live episode. Topics include Mo's Eastenders origin story and Dawn's love of people acting whilst tra…
# 480: The White Lotus, A Thousand Blows, Dope Girls, Zero Day
TV Insider Paul Symonds joins Matt and Dawn to review 4 of the biggest shows available this week. Firstly, it's the return of Mike White's HBO anthology series The White Lotus, set at another luxurio…
# 479: Unforgotten, Big Boys, Apple Cider Vinegar, Hacks
Matt, Dawn and Sarah are back to review three shows we've always championed. Firstly, Sanjeev Bhaskar packs his backpack for series 6 of the jewel in ITV's crown Unforgotten. He returns along with ne…
# 478: Brian & Maggie, Miss Austen, Go Back Where You Came From, Amandaland
Matt is joined by Dawn and Mo to review another 4 new shows. On Channel 4, Steve Coogan interviews Harriet Walter's Margeret Thatcher in true life drama Brian & Maggie. The BBC's latest Sunday night …
Time Machine 17 – Jan 2000: Trigger Happy TV, Castaway, At Home with The Braithwaites, Clocking Off
Matt, Dawn and Gary board the TV Time Machine and enter a new Millennium. They review four new shows that began in January. Dom Jolly takes to the streets to terrorise and irritate the British public…
# 477: Severance Season 2, Prime Target, Out There and American Primeval
Dawn and Sarah join Matt to review four new shows and break down their thoughts on the latest episodes of The Traitors.
First, after a 3-year absence, Severance is finally back on Apple TV+ Easily on…
# 476: Lockerbie: A Search for Truth. Playing Nice, Patience, The Traitors
Dawn and Sarah join Matt to talk about the best Christmas TV and review the first 4 new shows of the new year. Firstly, Sky and Peacock bring us Colin Firth in a harrowing retelling of one man's sear…
# 475: The Best Shows of 2024
It's the final pod of 2024, looking back on the very best the TV had to offer. Luke and Dawn join Matt to count their personal Top 10's of the year whilst also counting down the favourites of the wid…
The Custard TV Christmas Party: Un-edited, Unprepared and un-festive
In what is slowly becoming a festive tradition, members of the custardtv podcast get together to chat. Not to review a show, but to chat as friends and look back, look forward and try to make sense a…
Time Machine 16: Dec '99: Sex And Death, Last Christmas, Snow Graham Norton, Rock Profile
Matt and Luke board the TV Time Machine for one final time in 1999 to review 4 not so festive treats from December. Firstly, Martin Clunes stars in an off-kilter comedy drama about the inner workings…
474: No Good Deed, What We Do in the Shadows, Bad Tidings, You Bet
Matt is joined by podcast regulars Dawn Glen and Sophie Davies to review dark comedy No Good Deed on Netflix. Christmassy fare Bad Tidings on Sky as well as the final season of What We Do in the Shad…
# 473: Black Doves, The Agency, Mrs. Davis & The Sticky
Matt's back with Dawn Glen and Mo Walker to review the high-octane British spy thriller Black Doves on Netflix. Slightly less high-octane but still a spy thriller, The Agency over on Paramount+ as we…
# 472: A Man on the Inside, The Madness, Interior Chinatown, Smoggie Queens
Matt and Dawn are joined by fellow Maid for TV podcaster, Sarah Kennedy to review four new shows. Firstly, Ted Danson infiltrates a nursing home in new Netflix comedy A Man on the Inside. Colman Domi…
Time Machine # 15 - Friends Like These, Warriors, Kid in the Corner, Dr. Willoughby
Matt and Luke fire up the TV Time Machine to November of 1999. They're joined by site contributor Nick Bartlett to look back at the TV landscape of the time. Ant & Dec are given their first BBC game …
# 471: The Listeners, Say Nothing, Alex Cross, Silo Season 2
Matt reunites with Custard TV Podcast royalty Gary as well as Maid for TV's Elaine Gregson to review four shows available this week.
First up, Rebecca Hall is a teacher plagued by a 'hum' that only s…
# 470: Bad Sisters Series 2, The Day of the Jackal, You Would Do It Too, Before.
Matt and Dawn are back to review four brand new shows available this week. It's a very Apple TV+ heavy week with the return of The Garvey sisters in Sharon Horgan's brilliantly dark comedy Bad Sister…
# 469: Rivals, The Franchise, The Pardeeps of Pittsburgh, The Office Australia
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…
# 468: Disclaimer, Curfew, Mr Loverman, Sweetpea
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 dar…
467: Heartstopper Showtrial, Joan, Alama's Not Normal
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-li…