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The Custard TV Podcast

The Custard TV Podcast

By: Luke Knowles
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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.comCopyright Custard TV Podcast Art
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  • # 490: The Bear, Department Q, Smoke, Transaction
    Jul 8 2025

    TV has been pretty quiet of late. That is, of course, unless you're a Wimbledon or Football fan. However, Luke, Matt and Dawn are back to review 4 new shows available on streaming Platforms and ITV2.

    Firstly, one of the best shows of the decade, The Bear, returns for its fourth season. It's fair to say that season 3 received a lukewarm response from critics and fans alike. Without spoiling it, season 4 is a huge improvement and gives fans who love what The Bear does well exactly what they want and perhaps more.

    Secondly, fresh from the huge success of The Queen's Gambit, writer Scott Frank is back with Netflix adapting the Danish novel Department Q and relocating the characters to Scotland for what becomes a gripping Slow Horses and Nordic Noir hybrid.

    Next, Apple TV+ has a 9-part crime thriller Smoke, which sees two fire investigators looking into two arsonists.

    Finally, it's a rare trip for us to ITV2, for comedy Transaction about a trans woman who is called upon to work in a supermarket who suffer a PR nightmare.

    Then, what is quickly becoming the best part of the pod, our 3 strikes you are out quiz, where Dawn and Luke go head-to-head in naming Netflix Original Series.

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    1 hr and 16 mins
  • TV Time Machine #20 June 2000: Chambers, Up Rising, McCreedy & Daughter
    Jun 25 2025

    Matt and Luke are back aboard their TV Time Machine to journey back to June of 2000. June isn't a great time for television, and the four shows that debuted back in 2000 are proof of that. There's McCready and Daughter which is the first post EastEnders role for Patsy Palmer. Then there's BBC comedy Chambers which was a studio based sitcom about a law chambers which stars a post Corrie Sarah Lancashire, strange ITV comedy Up Rising about a neighbourhood and its residents. Finally, Alan Davies stars in BBC comedy A Many Spilntered Thing about a man who moans about having two women in his life. It's a strange, and quite frankly instantly forgettable set of shows but it's always interesting to look back at what works and what doesn't about these shows that have disappeared.

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    1 hr and 18 mins
  • # 489: What It Feels Like for a Girl, Death Valley, Stick, Adults
    Jun 3 2025

    Original host of the podcast, Luke, joins Matt and Dawn to review four new shows available this week. Firstly, there's queer coming of age drama What It Feels Like a Girl from BBC Three. Followed by cosy crime drama Death Valley starring Timothy Spall as a beloved TV detective who is coaxed out of his hermit lifestyle when a murder happens on his doorstep. Next, Apple TV+ continues their raft of 'nice guy comedy' with Owen Wilson golf comedy Stick. Lastly, the team feel too old for Disney+ FX comedy Adults about a group of Gen Z friends.

    There's also discussion of Hacks, Doctor Who, The Handmaid's Tale and Dawn quizzes us boys on cast members from Line of Duty.

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    1 hr and 19 mins
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