Steve Pemberton

Our Friend Victoria, Episode five, BBC1 review

We keep hearing that there is going to be a League of Gentlemen reunion at some point and there is one - of sorts - in the penultimate instalment of this six-art tribute to Victoria Wood.

The ending that was cut from 'Diddle Diddle Dumpling'

In the DVD/blu-ray audio commentary for Inside No. 9 series three episode 'Diddle Diddle Dumpling', Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton reveal that the episode originally had a longer ending.

A repeat for Steve Pemberton's glorious 2014 adaptation of EF Benson's comic novels about a pair of upper-class ladies engaged in elegantly acidic one-upmanship in a 1930s seaside town. Miranda Richardson is sublime as Miss Elizabeth Mapp (sporting, as Spike Milligan would say, great "English teeth, shining in the sun" - along with a sly lunacy lurking just behind the eyes), while Anna Chancellor as the snobbish Mrs Emmeline "Lucia" Lucas makes the perfect foil.

Inside No. 9 Season 3 Episode 6 review

In such a small cast, it's a challenge to keep the mystery going, but there are enough misleads and meaningful glances to confuse everyone, and once the villain is revealed (slightly earlier than you might expect), it matters not.

Inside No. 9 Review: Series Three: 'Private View'

More than any other Inside No. 9 of series three, Private View features Pemberton & Shearsmith wearing an apparel of horror and thriller influences on their collaborative sleeve.

DVD review: Inside No. 9 - Series Three

To say the penultimate episode of the series Diddle Diddle Dumpling dealing with a husband obsession with a stray number nine shoe which he has found, is the weakest of these six episodes is no insult. The standard is very high.

Review: Inside No. 9, Series 3

The anthology show with a mad cocktail of genres. Radical, bizarre, and a show you've definitely been missing out on.