The Custard TV Podcast

Comedy expert Sophie Davies joins Matt and Dawn to review a very comedy heavy week. The American institution Saturday Night Live comes to the UK with the launch of SNL UK on Sky One. Two comedy hits return for their second seasons on Prime Video. Jimmy Carr hosts another impressive cast of British comics and comedy stars who try not to laugh in Last One Laughing. And the team behind Jury Duty return of a second season. This time, instead of a Jury, their focus is on a company retreat. The premise remains the same, all of but one of the cast are comedy actors and we see how the non-actor who isn't in on the joke responds. Lastly, Imperfect Women, a new airport novel type mystery drama elevated by performances from Elisabeth Moss and Kerry Washington. Lastly, how many SNL actors can Matt and Sophie name in our quiz?

Matt and Luke are back aboard their TV Time Machine to March of 2026. BBC Two launches the innovative and brilliantly funny The Dave Gorman Collection, which sees a then unknown new comic Dave Gorman, set out to meet as many people with his name as he can. Presented as a slide show presentation, Gorman's journey is a lot of fun and fresh.  Next, off the back of the first Big Brother, Channel 4 and the BBC join forces for a Celebrity edition of the reality show which only ran for 8 days and was structured strangely. Half-hour episodes and quick nominations and evictions. The main thing the show is remembered for is Vanessa Feltz, who had a bit of a breakdown when she was nominated for eviction. But, actually, the more surprising takeaway from the show is how being in the house affected comedian and eventual winner Jack Dee. Next, having finished The Fast Show, Paul Whitehouse brings us BBC comedy Happiness. The dark comedy, is an odd pitch: A man who voices a popular children's character is lost when his wife is run over by an ice cream truck. It's dark and absurd topic, but there's pathos in there and some really familiar faces giving their first performances. Lastly, Channel 4, launches raunchy and risque comedy drama Teachers with a star turn from Andrew Lincoln. It's a show where the teachers are just as badly behaved and desperately to be liked as the teenagers they are teaching. It's vibrant, fast-paced and immediately aware of it is.  Finally, Matt challenges Luke to name as many chart hits from March 2001 as he can. 

Luke is back on the podcast joining Matt and Dawn to review four more shows available this week. Beginning with A Woman of Substance, Channel 4's new take on one of their first dramas which aired in the 80s. This new adpatation seems out of place on Channel 4 but also in 2026 where it feels like it has nothing new to say. Next, ITV have a new six-part thriller starring David Morrisery as the Headmaster of a private school who finds himself under the spotlight when his wife disappears. Gone, written by Hijack's George Kay, is an odd beast. Next, its another week for another comedy from Ted Lasso and Shrinking creator Bill Lawrence. Following on from last week's Scrubs reboot, Lawrence brings us Rooster, a Sky One comedy that sees Steve Carel's unfurfilled novelist end up on his daughters' college campus when she falls on hard times.  Lastly, the strange romance thriller Vladimir from Netflix.   Finally, Matt challenges Luke and Dawn to name as many of Channel 4's Celebrity Big Brother contestants they can to win their quiz.

Original podcast member Gary returns to the pod to join Matt and Dawn to review four new shows available this week. Stirling K Brown is back in the second season of Paradise on Disney+. The post-apocalyptic series first episode takes the action away from the underground bunker and focuses on the life of a new character before the world changed forever. Next, also on Disney+, riding high from Ted Lasso and Shrinking, Bill Lawrence returns to the show that made him in the reboot of hospital comedy Scrubs, with the majority of the main cast from the original series returning. Next, a very different comedic thriller from HBO. Jason Bateman and David Harbour star as two unfulfilled men who join an dating app before their lives fall apart in DTF: St Louis. Lastly, the foursome watch Channel 4's latest attempt to find a format that takes hold with Handcuffed, a reality series that sees pairs of opposites handcuffed together. It's a confused show, and the team drill down into why it doesn't work. For the quiz, Dawn challenges Sci-fi nerd Gary and not-so sci-fi nerd Matt to name as many of the best sci-fi series in a Rolling Stone poll.

Matt and Dawn are joined by TV fan Mo Walker, to review four new shows available to watch this week. Firstly, Lisa McGee, the creator of Derry Girls is back with a brand new twisty comedic thriller in Netflix's surprising series, How to Get to Heaven of Belfast. Next, also set in Ireland, the foursome watch the gentle drama, The Walsh series. The series is the sort of family kitchen sink drama that the team are always hoping TV would return to, but does the RTE series deliver for them? Next, ITV has a new true story four-parter for Sunday nights. The Lady, about the mystery surrounding The Dutchess of York's dresser. The series is elevated by strong lead performance from Mia Mckenna Bruce who was last seen elevating Netflix's Agatha Christie adaptation, The Seven Dials. Lastly, Dawn struggles to get through Channel 4's docudrama, Dirty Buisness which takes a dramatic look at water companies polluting Britain's waterways.