‘Better to escape than delete’ – Guardian crossword setter Sphinx returns
‘The show happened by accident’: cult comedy Inside No 9 shuts its doors
May 2024
TV review
Inside No 9 review – nothing short of miraculous
The watcher
Inside No 9: dark, funny and totally riveting – this is the best comedy the UK has ever created
Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith announce stage version of Inside No 9
TV tonight
TV tonight: the adaptation of bestselling book The Tattooist of Auschwitz
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
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
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
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
Shock horrors! How Inside No 9 makes the mundane unmissable
Now on its fifth series, the magic of Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton’s comedy anthology remains its ability to turn even the most banal of scenarios into disturbingly thrilling TV
November 2019
TV review
Britannia season two review – the Roman romp so radical it must be revered
Jez Butterworth’s trippy retelling of the Romans deserves a laurel wreath for having the cheek to even exist. Make mine a mouthful of hallucinogenic bark!
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
November 2018
TV review
The Interrogation of Tony Martin review: a chilling portrait of self-righteousness
Martin, who shot dead an intruder in his home in 1999, was a less-than-ideal champion for armed householders everywhere, as this drama showed
October 2018
Inside No 9: the 10 best episodes so far
Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton’s horrifying anthology series returns on Sunday with a live Halloween special. Here are the finest moments from the first four seasons
August 2018
The League of Gentlemen review – a brilliantly twisted return to the stage
Exhilarating new material joins favourite vintage sketches as Mark Gatiss, Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton bring their chilling creations to life again on tour
January 2018
TV review
Inside No 9 review – a gleeful dismemberment of Shakespearean farce
Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith toy entertainingly with the Bard’s verse and narrative tropes. Also, Prince: Last Year of a Legend fails to move us
December 2017
TV review
The League of Gentlemen review – Royston Vasey: just as terrifying as ever
Edward and Tubbs are squatting, and the jobcentre has been relocated. Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith and Jeremy Dyson have had fun deciding what the years have done to their monsters
