Steve Pemberton
- 57 years old
- English
- Actor, writer and executive producer
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Inside No. 9: How Do You Plead? review
With strong performances (again), jet-black humour (again) and disquieting tone of foreboding (again), How Do You Plead? continues Inside No. 9's enviable track record of suspenseful, out-of-the-ordinary television. No wonder they won the Bafta last night...
Chortle, 7th June 2021Inside No. 9 6.5 review: How Do You Plead?
I generally try to avoid spoilers when talking about Inside No. 9. I never want to take away that incredible feeling of having the rug pulled out from under you. That being said, it's difficult to talk about the latest episode without revealing some pretty important details so I'm just going to say right off the bat...
Nick Bartlett, Critical Popcorn, 7th June 2021Inside No. 9 review: How Do You Plead?
Guilty or not guilty? Sir Derek Jacobi is a wonderful guest star in a terrific episode about a damned tricky legal case...
Louisa Mellor, Den Of Geek, 7th June 2021Review: How Do You Plead? one of No. 9's creepiest eps
Given this is Inside No. 9, nothing in How Do You Plead? is as clear-cut as it seems and everyone has something to hide.
Sophie Davies, The Custard TV, 7th June 2021Inside No. 9 wins BAFTA award
Inside No. 9 has won the BAFTA award for Scripted Comedy. Aimee Lou Wood and Charlie Cooper won acting awards, with Romesh Ranganathan picking up the Entertainment Performance prize. Meanwhile The Big Narstie Show triumphed in the Comedy Entertainment Programme category.
British Comedy Guide, 6th June 2021What a laugh Adrian Dunbar has in Inside No 9. He plays himself, playing a cop. Not that cop - not Ted Hastings - but a detective in a true crime drama shooting in a dreary caravan park.
The crime in question is a baby-snatch from 20 years before, hardly ready-made gag material, but you know these No 9 boys - they love a macabre challenge. This week's episode, Hurry Up and Wait, is creepy enough to remind me of those old Alfred Hitchcock Presents until Dunbar bursts into the green room in a truly hideous jacket. The man has just been in Line of Duty, the biggest show around, and yet is as insecure as the next actor. Reece Shearsmith is a bit-parter playing alongside him. Dunbar nicks all of his dialogue, leaving him with just a head-nod, face unseen, and proceeds to ham it up something terrible: "I really think we've got the bastard!"
Aidan Smith, The Scotsman, 5th June 2021Review: Inside No. 9 - Hurry Up And Wait
A claustrophobic and unsettling watch.
Luke, The Custard TV, 1st June 2021Inside No. 9 review: Hurry Up And Wait
Line Of Duty's Adrian Dunbar plays himself in a deliberately uncomfortable blend of comedy and true crime drama that plays with Inside No. 9's twist tradition. Spoilers.
Louisa Mellor, Den Of Geek, 31st May 2021Inside No. 9 review: Adrian Dunbar was an absolute hoot
The Line Of Duty star sent himself up marvellously in an episode that had strong echoes of The League Of Gentlemen.
Anita Singh, The Telegraph, 31st May 2021A League Of Gentlemen encounter inspired Episode 4
The true story of how an encounter on the set of The League Of Gentlemen inspired this week's episode of Inside No. 9.
Lauren O'Neill, BBC, 31st May 2021