Peep Show
- TV sitcom
- Channel 4
- 2003 - 2015
- 54 episodes (9 series)
Sitcom starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb as a pair of socially dysfunctional flatmates with little else in common. Also features Olivia Colman, Matt King, Paterson Joseph, Neil Fitzmaurice, Elizabeth Marmur and more.
Streaming rank this week: 280
Press clippings
There was a Peep Show round on University Challenge and finally we can get all 15 bonus points
The music questions this week involved having to figure out songs played over the credits during the first series of the Channel 4 sitcom.
John Plunkett, The Poke, 26th November 2024Netflix re-edits Peep Show over very controversial scene
Netflix has re-edited a controversial Peep Show scene - although Channel 4 bosses have decided to keep it. The scene in question - featuring Robert Webb's character Jez - first aired in 2004. Series 2 episode Dance Class sees Jez in blackface while he and girlfriend Nancy (Rachel Blanchard) experiment in the bedroom.
Jill Robinson, The Sun, 31st October 2024A powerful sense of dread: The inevitable darkness of Peep Show and the voices in our heads
Its jokes have lived in my brain since I was a teenager (imagine a nerdy little schoolboy running around yelling "It was a lampoon! A simple lampoon!" while his friends run away and you've got my childhood), and I've watched the early series so many times that some lines feel like my own thoughts (although unlike Mark, I'm usually thinking about Lyndon B Johnson instead of Stalingrad). But do I *love* Peep Show? When it comes to something so profoundly dark, so beautifully bleak, is love even possible?
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Michael Hogan, The Telegraph, 20th June 2024Lib Dems trolling the Tories with a Peep Show/Rishi Sunak mash-up was simply not on our election campaign bingo card
You could be forgiven for assuming that Rishi Sunak's electoral campaign was being run by a group of satirists or the Labour Party, and one of the most obvious gifts to comedy from it so far was his attempt at a bit of light dribbling. Over on TikTok, the Lib Dems found a longer version and drew all our attentions to their account with this devastating overdub.
The Poke, 30th May 2024The 30 best British sitcoms to watch now
Our critics sift through the TV streaming platforms and choose which shows will keep you chuckling.
Daily Mail, 24th April 2024The rejected BBC sitcom that spawned Peep Show
Before Mark and Jez, there was Paul and Otto.
Louisa Mellor, Den Of Geek, 14th February 202420 years of Peep Show - the comedy that broke all the rules
Hugo Rifkind talks to Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain, the creators of Channel 4's longest-running sitcom, about Mitchell, Webb and the dark genius of Super Hans.
Hugo Rifkind, The Times, 8th February 2024The 10 best Peep Show episodes, from dead dogs to dire weddings
As the sitcom celebrates its 20th anniversary, we pick the funniest moments in its nine seasons.
Tim Glanfield, The Times, 7th February 2024Peep Show could have been a stage show co-creator Sam Bain reveals
Peep Show could have been turned into a stage show, co-creator Sam Bain has revealed, but the POV perspective of the sitcom thwarted plans to adapt it.
British Comedy Guide, 23rd September 2023