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 a Marvel-esque superhero movie in Sky and HBO comedy The Franchise. Over on Prime Video, there are two new comedies. Firstly, an Indian family move to America for a new life in The Pardeeps of Pittsburgh. Finally, and for reasons that aren't entirely, the Australians have remade The Office for 2024. This throws up a lot of questions. Why remake something that has been so widely seen and also, have they done anything new with the format to make it feel more of its time?

Elsewhere, Matt has finished Heartstopper on Netflix and Dawn has some thoughts on Sky's 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 dark comedy Sweetpea from Sky Atlantic with a 'killer' performance from Fallout's Ella Purnell. Over on Paramount+ there's British thriller Curfew which imagines a world where men are tagged and kept under a curfew from 7pm to 7am every day. Finally, they watch Lennie James in the BBC's adaptation of Mr. Loverman which sees the former Lead of Duty lead don makeup to play a man in seventies who despite his marriage has been living a secret life with his male partner for the best part of 50 years.

There's also discussion on Alama's Not Normal and Lost.

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-life jewel thief 'Joan' on ITVX.

Luke & Matt head back to September '99 to look at the TV landscape of the time. Fellow podcaster Michael and Spaced superfan join them to revisit the first episode of the Channel 4 cult favourite from Simon Pegg and Jessica Hynes and discuss its legacy. Then, we leap forward 100 years with Fry in Matt Greoning's Simpsons' follow-up Futurama. Then, two mostly forgotten curiosities from the time in Sky's relationship show The Villa and Channel 4's social experiment The 1900 House.

Then, as always, Luke is tested on his music knowledge with another chart from September 1999.

Matt is joined by pod regulars Mo Walker and Dawn Glen to review 4 brand new shows available this week. Firstly, the BBC's new thriller Nightsleeper followed by Apples Never Fall, another crime drama starring Anette Benning and Sam Neil. The BBC has bought the US drama after airing on streaming service Peacock.  Next up, David Mitchell leads quirky crime comedy Ludwig and finally, Ryan Murphy returns to Monster with Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story.

There's also discussion on Sherwood, Race Across the World and oddly, Hollyoaks.

Matt and Luke travel back to September 1999 to review Michelle Collins and Lesley Sharp in Daylight Robbery. French and Saunders reunite for BBC comedy Let Them Eat Cake. We revisit the largely forgotten but brilliant BBC comedy People Like Us and test music knowledge in a new look quiz.

Sarah joins Luke and Matt to review the returns of Sherwood on the BBC, Only Murders in the Building on Hulu and Disney+, Slow Horses on Apple TV+ and a re-telling of greek myth led by Jeff Goldblum with KAOS on Netflix.

Matt and Dawn travel back to August 1999 to look at the TV landscape. They review Jimmy Mcgovern's single drama Dockers which starred Ken Stott and Ricky Tomlinson unwittingly caught up in a strike. That's a little obscure but it gets more unknown from there. Channel 4 docusoap Love in Leeds and drama series Love in the 21st Century as well as ITV's bizarre choice to show Walking on the Moon, a brutal bullying drama on Bank Holiday Monday.

Dawn's truly impressive cheesy pop knowledge is in full display as Matt tests her on two Summer charts and the pair reminisce about their first festival and clubbing. 

Luke, Matt and Dawn review the return of Race Across the World with a new batch of celebs, over on Apple they look at Vince Vaughn's new comedic thriller Bad Monkey from Ted Lasso and Shrinking exec Bill Laurence as well as the platform's first Spanish language drama, Women in Blue. Finally, they look at the BBC's new comedy Daddy Issues.

On Thursday 15th July 1999, The Sopranos aired on UK TV screens for the first time as it got its first airing that night on Channel 4. 

As a belated celebration of that in our TV Time Machine timeline. We're uploading a special review of the entire first season of The Sopranos that we originally recorded for our Patreon back in 2017. 

Listen to Luke and Matt's reactions as they give their thoughts after watching the drama for the first time ever.