Steve Pemberton

Pauline Campbell-Jones has never been more relevant

In an age when Britain's convoluted, punishing benefits system is forcing people into food poverty, Universal Credit has come under fire and even Job Centres themselves are being closed in the name of austerity, Pauline's attitude to the unemployed has never been more ripe for a return to our screens.

Inside No. 9 - a special anthology screening

I was lucky enough to attend this unique event at Sheffield's annual Celluloid Screams festival. Unique in that this was the first time Inside No.9 had been given the honour of a curated anthology screening. The three episodes - handpicked by the creators themselves - were all from the three series already broadcast, making it distinct from the BFI's two episode previews for each new series.

The League of Gentlemen have just finished filming

The League of Gentlemen returns to BBC2 this Christmas.

Scream with laughter: can comedy ever be scary?

Standup Nick Coyle's new show Queen of Wolves takes a Victorian governess on a terrifying journey - and proves how humour and horror work in similar ways.

Welcome back League of Gentlemen, you work of genius

It was brutal, terrifying - and hilarious. After a 15-year break, we are more than ready to return to Royston Vasey with Edward and Tubbs and the local people.

League Of Gentlemen to reunite (to present award)

1997 Best Comedy Show winners The League of Gentlemen are to present the 2017 lastminute.com Edinburgh Comedy Awards.

Witch trials, office karaoke, snuff films, party games, incestuous cannibalism: no subject matter is too terrible, or trivial, for Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith's hair-raisingly inventive anthology series. With help from a rotating cast of acting aristocracy, The League of Gentlemen[/c duo have spent three series battering down the divisions between comedy, horror and drama. However, one episode towers above the rest: the Sheridan Smith-starring 12 Days of Christine is one of the most profoundly evocative half-hours of TV ever made.

Forget the cry-laugh: Inside No 9's creators perfected the vomit-laugh with an emetic twist in the season three episode The Riddle of the Sphinx. Pemberton's Cambridge don, after some already-nasty japes where a colleague (Shearsmith) forces him to eat flesh cut from the buttock of a just-murdered student (Alexandra Roach), is told that he is, in fact, her father. He's chewing his dead daughter's arse! Steve, Reece, get help. No, wait: finish season four. Then get help.

Inside No. 9, season 3 review

Where the writing really succeeds in Inside No. 9 is the slow unveiling of the characters' secrets.