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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
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Matt and Dawn are joined by Mo Walker to review 4 new shows.  This week's lineup looks like this. The second installment of Ryan Murphy's anthology series Feud arrives on Disney+ starring Tom Hollander as Truman Captoe. Michael Douglas stars as Benjamin Franklin in Apple TV's surprisingly upbeat min series Franklin. Elsewhere, Netflix has tense stalking 'comedy' Baby Reindeer and Mike Bubbins stars in BBC Two's new comedy Mammoth. There's also discussion on Fallout on Prime Video, Doctor Who and Big Mood.  
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 discussions on Big Mood and a lively debate/argument/discussion on whether reviewers should be allowed to base their opinions on a twist a show does. 
Matt and Dawn are joined by podcast regular 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 Should Have Done, Girls5eva and terrible subtitles.
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 Smack the Pony whilst the BBC waves goodbye to one of their biggest hits of the decade, as Noel hosts one final (slightly bitter) House Party.
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 Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth. Finally, the trio review BBC Four's new acquisition a strange hybrid crime drama which dips its toes in both Ireland and New Zealand in the oddly titled, The Gone. There's also discussion on series 2 of Extraordinary over on Disney+, Things You Should Have Done on iPlayer, Ted on Sky Max and Fargo Season 5 available on Prime Video.
Matt is joined by podcast regulars 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 discussion on the 'celebrities' braving the Big Brother House this time in Primetime for ITV1.  Also, Dawn finishes One Day on Netflix and Matt champions BBC Three Boarders.
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 adapt hit US comedy, That 70's Show, which was adapted by two then unknown writers named Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong for Days like These. Finally, Matt tests Luke on what was big in the UK charts in February.
Matt is joined by podcaster 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 team was expecting. There's also discussion on One Day from Netflix, the penultimate episode of True Detective:Night Country and strangely, '90s sitcom The Upper Hand! Find us on your podcast app of choice and rate, review and subscribe so you never miss an episode.
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 New Look from Apple TV+ There's also discussion on True Detective: Night Country as the trio talk about their hopes for the final episode.
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 test Luke's music knowledge with a look at the charts of January 1999.
Matt is joined by podcast veterans 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 podcast regular 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 show received?    As well as the four shows, there is discussion on The second series of The Tourist and The Traitors (of course!)
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.
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 drama in TrueLove. Also, debuting on Sky in the strange gap between Christmas and New Year was Based on a True Story, another show about a murder podcast!. There's also discussion on the Christmas TV the pair enjoyed.
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 Jonathan Creek Christmas Special. They also watch the Christmas special of Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends which brings together four very different contributors who Louis met in the first series of his series looking at little-known American subcultures. Finally, and possibly the most '90s of all the shows - they revisit the mostly forgotten 'docusoap' Paddington Green which debuted on BBC One over Christmas.
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.
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.
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