Press clippings Page 63
League of Gentlemen to reunite for 20th anniversary?
Reece Shearsmith says that a collaboration with League of Gentlemen stars Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton and Jeremy Dyson may be on the cards.
Radio Times, 26th August 2014Inside No 9: a gutsy dark comedy of misery and mayhem
Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton, makers of The League of Gentlemen, return with a collection of unrelated tales of morality and mortality, and a legion of ghoulish mishaps.
Phelim O'Neill, The Guardian, 31st July 2014Steve Pemberton's favourite TV
Steve Pemberton likes Only Connect and Whodunnit?
Gwilym Mumford, The Guardian, 14th June 2014Inside No 9 wins at prestigious Rockie Awards
The silent episode of Inside No. 9 written by and starring Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith picked up its second award in two days at the prestigious BANFF World Media (Rockie) Awards earlier this week.
BBC Press Office, 13th June 2014Steve Pemberton interview
"I do love those shifts of gear you get as an actor, weaving a haunting dark drama with a bit of daft sunbed acting"
Graham Wray, Radio Times, 13th May 2014Miranda Richardson and Anna Chancellor star as Mapp And Lucia
Miranda Richardson and Anna Chancellor are to star in Mapp And Lucia, Steve Pemberton's BBC adaptation of the EF Benson stories.
British Comedy Guide, 1st May 2014Steve Pemberton interview
Steve Pemberton talks about Inside No. 9, the lack of ambition on TV and how The League of Gentleman have permeated pop culture.
Steven MacKenzie, The Big Issue, 10th April 2014Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton's Inside No. 9 (BBC Two) has been a deliciously twisted treat, each tale balancing neatly on a tightrope so you were never quite sure if we were about to make the leap into comedy or tragedy. But the final numerically themed short story was unashamedly macabre.
True, the odd defiantly bad joke ('Do you know Poe?' 'From the Teletubbies?') pierced the darkness as babysitter Katy turned up for work at a house which made the Addams Family homestead look light and airy. Yet this was a briefing for a descent into hell from which there could be no escape.
The twist being - in a series which has specialised in ingenious surprises - that there was no twist. You could call that daring but it actually felt like a bit of a cop-out, as though the dark-hearted Shearsmith and Pemberton were laughing at us: 'Ha! So you thought we'd left you off the hook.' I didn't quite buy the macabre self-indulgence. But the Devil's closing howl of 'mischief!' did give me the willies deep into the night. In that respect, job done.
Nick Rutherford and Keith Watson, Metro, 13th March 2014Radio Times review
The last and nastiest visit to the ninth house on the left, which this episode is a looming, draughty pile out of place on a suburban street. Aimeé-Ffion Edwards, as excellent here as she was in Skin and Walking and Talking, is a schoolgirl babysitter who's been promised a bumper payday but immediately finds that the job, set by icy householder Helen McCrory, is too creepy to be worth the cash.
To say more would spoil, but as the creaking terror takes hold you'll marvel at how Steve Pemberton (absent) and Reece Shearsmith (in full Hammer horror mode) can pepper the elegant script with gags without breaking the spell.
Jack Seale, Radio Times, 12th March 2014Will there be a better comedy series in 2014? Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton's twisted, and indeed twisty, tales are too dark for some viewers' blood, but they're the work of storytellers at the top of their game. Each self-contained episode slyly mixes silly jokes and proper horror. Start with the beautifully choreographed A Quiet Night In.
Jack Seale, Radio Times, 12th March 2014