‘The show happened by accident’: cult comedy Inside No 9 shuts its doors
As Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith call time on their grimly hilarious TV anthology, they and their collaborators from a decade of darkness discuss how it was all done
May 2024
TV review
Inside No 9 review – nothing short of miraculous
Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith announce stage version of Inside No 9
January 2023
The week in theatre: Othello; The Unfriend; On the Ropes – review
Brute force speaks volumes in Frantic Assembly’s breathtaking Othello; Steven Moffat and co flirt with farce; and the story of Windrush boxer Vernon Vanriel hits home in song
September 2022
See How They Run review – Agatha Christie spoof scampers through 50s theatreland
This likable whodunnit comedy sees Sam Rockwell and Saoirse Ronan on the trail of high-camp crime in the original production of The Mousetrap
May 2022
The Unfriend review – manners can be the death of you in Steven Moffat’s comedy
‘None of it has felt insurmountable’: Amanda Abbington on Sherlock, separation and her fiancé’s nightmare fall
April 2022
TV tonight
TV tonight: Diane Morgan crashes The League of Gentlemen cast reunion
Deadpan one-liners cut the tension in the new series of Inside No 9. Plus: tone-deaf singers take to the stage. Here’s what to watch this evening
December 2021
Inside No 9: An Evening with Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith review – small talk, big laughs
The comedy writers behind one of the BBC’s most successful series perform an entertaining, behind-the-scenes double act
October 2021
Mark Gatiss: ‘I’m currently very, very ashamed of being English’
The former League of Gentlemen star on his love of low-budget British spinechillers, his loathing of Brexit and a slew of projects opening this winter
June 2021
Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
In the Earth review – Ben Wheatley’s trippy occult horror is a fine return to form
This low-budget folk-horror is back in Wheatley’s weird, sly world as Joel Fry and Ellora Torchia get lost in the forest
April 2021
From Ken Loach to Big Brother: the twisted minds behind Inside No 9 on their influences
As a new series of the dark comedy begins, creators Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith reveal what inspired eight classic instalments
January 2021
First look review
In the Earth review – Ben Wheatley's patchy pandemic folk horror
An ambitiously shot mid-lockdown B-movie boasts some eerie visuals and genuine suspense but stumbles with an overly convoluted mythology
December 2020
2020 in TV
The 50 best TV shows of 2020: 50-1
Michaela Coel’s smart, subversive and taboo-breaking drama gave us absolutely unbeatable television – plus more of the year’s best
September 2020
Sir Ronald Harwood – a life in pictures
Sir Ronald Harwood, the playwright and screenwriter best known for The Dresser and his Oscar-winning script for The Pianist, has died aged 85
March 2020
TV tonight
TV tonight: Miriam Margolyes goes on the road on her Big Fat Adventure
The typically frank actor confronts attitudes to her body and the growing body positivity movement. Plus: investigating disability discrimination. Here’s what to watch this evening
February 2020
Steven Moffat writes play inspired by perils of holiday friendship
Shock horrors! How Inside No 9 makes the mundane unmissable
September 2019
A Very Expensive Poison review – Lucy Prebble's Litvinenko drama fascinates
The twisted tale of the Russian dissident’s death by radioactive poisoning employs songs, puppets and even Putin as an unreliable narrator
July 2019
After Bodyguard, Inside No 9 and Killing Eve, why are our TV writers still underrated?
Melvyn Bragg
Melvyn Bragg explains how a desire to debunk cultural snobbery led him to devote his new series of The South Bank Show to creators of small-screen drama