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.

#416: The Tourist, Mr Bates Vs The Post Office, TrueLove, Based on a True Story,

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 regular guest and token American Mo Walker to review 4 new shows debuting this week. Martin Freeman returns in the brilliantly tense crime drama The Responder. Steve Pemberton & Reece Shearsmith prepare to say goodbye to Inside No.9 as the ninth and final series begins on BBC Two. Over on Netflix the trio review two very different dramas in David E Kelley's adaptation of Tom Wolfe's A Man in Full and a take on Neil Gaiman's Dead Boy Detectives.
 
There's also discussion on Mo's recent trip to the UK, the good and bad surrounding the huge conversation around Baby Reindeer as Race Across the World.

# 427: The Responder, A Man in Full, Dead Boy Detectives, Inside No.9

Matt and Luke hop aboard the Time Machine to April 1999. Going back to see Clooney's last appearance in ER. The time the BBC gave Vic & Bob their own Saturday night show. The time everyone was frozen and chased by hungry dogs in ITV's The Last Train and the time Adam & Joe sent Adam's dad to meet Coolio in The Adam & Joe Show. There's also a look at the headlines and a test on the biggest Chart hits.

TV Time Machine # 8: April 1999: ER,The Last Train, The Adam & Joe Show, Families at War.

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.

# 426: Feud: Capote Vs The Swans, Franklin, Baby Reindeer and Mammoth

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.

# 425: The Regime, Ripley, Sugar,Race Across The World

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.

#416: The Tourist, Mr Bates Vs The Post Office, TrueLove, Based on a True Story,

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