Episodes

  • # 497: Down Cemetery Road, Lazarus, The Ridge, The Chair Company
    Oct 27 2025

    Fellow podcaster Mo Walker joins Matt and Dawn to review four new shows available this week. Slow Horses is a massive hit for Apple TV, so now the streamer is banking on another series of novels from author Mick Herron in the hopes of lightning strikes twice. Dame Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson lead an impressive British cast of familiar faces in thriller Down Cemetery Road. Next, and perhaps less successful, after a major run on Netflix, author Harlan Coben comes to Prime Video with ghostly new drama Lazarus. On the BBC, there's the thriller The Ridge, which stars Karen Pire's Lauren Lyle. Lastly, comedian of the moment, Tim Robbins, best known for his fast-paced Netflix sketch series, I Think You Should Leave, leads his first sitcom in HBO's The Chair Company, which is available in the UK on Sky Boxsets or NOW.

    Lastly, in our three strikes quiz, Matt and Mo compete to name as many dead EastEnders characters as they can. How well would you do?

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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • # 496: Riot Women, The Iris Affair, Leonard & Hungry Paul, Celebrity Traitors.
    Oct 22 2025

    Matt is joined by both Maids from Maid for TV in Sarah and Dawn. The trio reviews Sally Wainwright's new drama Riot Women, which sees women of a certain age form a rock band, initially to enter a school talent show, but eventually as a way to channel their frustrations with life and to be seen by those who have taken them for granted.

    Next, the creator of Luther has a confusing and mysterious for mysterious sake 'thriller' called The Iris Affair. Next, a gentle and sweet romantic comedy from BBC Two, which is likely to fly under the radar, but that is well worth a watch in Leonard and Hungry Paul. Lastly, the trio look at every episode of Celebrity Traitors to air so far and picks apart what has made it such a hit. Finally, in our quiz, Matt challenges the Maids to name actors who have appeared in Sally Wainwright shows.

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    1 hr and 18 mins
  • TV Time Machine # 24 – October 2000 – Blackadder Back and Forth, Fat Friends, Without Motive, North Square
    Oct 15 2025

    Luke and Matt are back aboard their TV Time Machine. This time, they are looking at four shows which aired in October 2000. Made for the Millennium Dome, Sky airs Blackadder: Back and Forth, which sees the iconic cast reunite for what is a strange beast. Ross Kemp is back in ITV's crime drama Without Motive. Rupert Penry-Jones and Phil Davies lead Channel 4's legal drama North Square. Lastly, they watch the first episode of Kay Mellor's comedy drama Fat Friends, which is relevant because it's the show where Ruth Jones met James Corden and also because it made the top 10 of Netflix's weekly charts for several weeks when it turned up on the streaming giant late last year.

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    1 hr and 17 mins
  • # 495: How You? It's Alan Partridge, Wayward, Film Club & Frauds
    Oct 8 2025

    Matt and Dawn are joined by Sophie Davies to review four new shows available this week. First, Mae Martin's mysterious new Netflix series Wayward. Next, Suranne Jones and Jodie Whitaker play a pair of conwomen in ITV's six-part drama Frauds. Then, continuing her domination of 2025 ater Toxic Town on Netflix and HBO's The White Lotus, Aimee Lou Wood is back with her own comedy Film Club. Lastly, (and the reason Sophie is joining) Alan Partridge is back on the BBC with, How Are You? It's Alan Partridge where the iconic broadcaster looks into mental health. Lastly, how many BBC Three originals can the team name in our quiz?.

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    1 hr and 6 mins
  • # 494: Slow Horses, The Hack, Black Rabbit, Trying
    Sep 23 2025

    Matt, Luke and Dawn are back to celebrate the return of the best British drama series, Slow Horses as well as Jack Thorne's take on the hacking scandal in the form of ITV's The Hack. Netflix has Jude Law and Jason Bateman as a pair of unconvincing brothers. And from Apple, but now on BBC One and iPlayer comes adoption comedy, Trying.

    There's also a quiz naming as many BAFTA drama series nominees. How would you do?

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    1 hr and 7 mins
  • TV Time Machine # 23 – September 2000 – Malcolm in the Middle, Marion and Geoff, Meet Ricky Gervais, Faking It, Black Books
    Sep 21 2025

    Luke and Matt are back aboard their TV Time Machine, heading to September 2000. FOX has a new anarchic family sitcom in Malcolm in the Middle, which is hugely significant as it gives us Bryan Cranston. Rob Brydon makes his debut as a taxi driver recalling the breakup of his marriage in the truly superb short-form comedy Marion & Geoff.

    On Channel 4, a fresh-faced comic, Ricky Gervais, gets his own chat show, Meet Ricky Gervais which feels like an awkward hybrid between So Graham Norton and The Larry Sanders Show which sadly doesn't work.

    Also on Channel 4, Dylan Moran's cult comedy Black Books, which brought together Bill Bailey and Tamsin Grieg as a strange found family. Lastly, Channel 4 also has Faking it, which takes a Yorkshire women and attempts to turn into a posh girl.

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    1 hr and 15 mins
  • #493 - Task, Only Murders in the Building, The Paper, Mitchell and Webb aren't helping
    Sep 9 2025

    Matt and Dawn are joined by CustardTV Editor Luke to review four shows available this week. Firstly, Mare of Easttown creator Brad Ingelsby has a new show in the brilliantly tense and human Task available weekly on NOW, Sky and HBO. Next, there's another murder in the building so Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez are back recording their podcast for the fifth season of Only Murders in the Building on Dinsey+ and Hulu. Next, the creative team behind the US Office is back with an official spin-off in The Paper. But does it stand up?

    Finally, the trio watch what might be the first sketch shows we've covered in 5 years. Channel 4 are putting a lot behind, Mitchell and Webb aren't Helping but can it revive a long lost type of television?

    Lastly, Dawn quizzes the boys on British sketch shows. How many could you name?

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    1 hr and 20 mins
  • # 492 - I Fought the Law, The Guest, Hostage, Educating Yorkshire
    Sep 3 2025

    TV is finally back in a normal rhythm, and that means the podcast is back! Matt and Dawn are joined by Dawn's podcast co-host Lucy from The Shipyard to review four shows available this week.

    It's September, and it's ITV, so by law, Sheridan Smith must portray a real person in a true crime drama. Sticking to tradition, she stars as Anne Ming, in, I Fought the Law, the story of a mother's fight for justice when her daughter's body is found in her own home.

    Next, the BBC has a crazy thriller inspired by The Hand That Rock The Cradle and others of that ilk. Eve Myles and the brilliant Gabrielle Creevy star in in The Guest.

    Already on Netflix, Surrane Jones stars in a crazy pollicital thriller that sees her husband kidnapped and become a 'Hostage'

    Lastly, and perhaps the most important show of the week, Channel 4's fixed-rig cameras return to Thornhill Academy for a second series of the probably brilliant Educating Yorkshire, over 10 years since the first.

    Then, Dawn and Lucy test their knowledge of TV's biggest slow burn relationships for our quiz.

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    1 hr and 9 mins