Steve Pemberton

A special edition of the macabre comedy thriller from The League of Gentlemen's Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton. It centres on a television location manager, Shearsmith, who has taken his camera with him to the abandoned ruins of the fictional Ravenhill Psychiatric Hospital. He is investigating stories about the ghost of its evil former governess, Edwina Kenchington (Eileen Atkins), for a Most Haunted style programme. In true Psychoville style, the episode is both hilarious and unsettling. Four eccentric tales of terror unfold, each featuring one of the regular characters from the series - the bitter, one-handed children's entertainer Mr Jelly (Shearsmith), the deranged midwife Joy (Dawn French) and her baby, the blind millionaire Mr Lomax (Pemberton), and the serial-killer enthusiast David Sowerbutts (Pemberton again) and his mother. The Mr Jelly one - which sees him opening the door to two mysterious trick-or-treaters - is the strangest, and the funniest. Artfully written and well acted, like the previous award-winning series, this may at times be too odd and too disturbing for some viewers to stomach.

Trick or treat?

Steve Bennett meets Psychoville's Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith.

Psychoville Halloween special: in pictures

What could be more terrifying than spending Halloween in the company of Psychoville - Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton's BBC2 comedy horror show? And what fresh frights are in store?

Psychoville Halloween: Pemberton & Shearsmith interview

In the run-up to the Psychoville Halloween special, we caught up with writers Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton to talk horror, comedy and Most Haunted...

Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith interview

The chameleon creators of Psychoville talk about the weird and woeful things get their creative juices flowing.

Steve Pemberton & Reece Shearsmith interview

Psychoville is back on BBC2 with a terrifying Halloween special starring Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith...

The Top 5 Sitcoms of the 1990s

The 1990s produced some very important comedy, seeing some of today's comedy veterans - like Steve Coogan, Steve Pemberton, Rik Mayall, Ardal O'Hanlon - experiencing their juiciest tastes of success. Here's the five best '90s sitcoms, in reverse order.

Sky may not have the resources to churn out top home-grown drama on a routine basis, but when it does decide to throw its weight behind a production, as it's done for this latest Terry Pratchett Discworld adventure, then it certainly does it in style.

Shot in HD, and with a fabulous British cast that includes David Suchet, Richard Coyle, Charles Dance, Claire Foy, Andrew Sachs, Steve Pemberton and Tamsin Greig, this Bank Holiday two-parter (concluding at the same time tomorrow) is a typically outlandish Pratchett tale about a lifelong con man who's given one last chance to avert the death sentence. The deal? He must take on the seemingly cursed task of trying to rescue Discworld's Post Office, under threat from their equivalent of the internet.

Psychoville: sitcom review

Psychoville is yet another wonderful, dark comedy from deep inside the minds of Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton.

Going Postal: Steve Pemberton On Drumknott

Steve Pemberton tells us about his character Drumknott, loyal servant to Lord Vetinari.