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Inside No. 9. Image shows from L to R: Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith
Inside No. 9

Inside No. 9

  • TV comedy drama
  • BBC Two
  • 2014 - 2024
  • 55 episodes (9 series)

Dark comedy anthology series from Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton. Each episode focuses on the goings-on around something to do with the number 9.

  • JustWatch Streaming rank this week: 132

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Inside No. 9: Series 4, Episode 1 review

This first episode is smart, funny and fast moving, and does more work in thirty minutes than many comedies do in six episodes.

Andrew Allen, Cult Box, 3rd January 2018

Inside No 9: Zanzibar review

Everything about "Zanzibar" was expertly put together, very much like a televised stage play -- which is how many of Inside No. 9's episodes feel -- but this more than most because of the farce and rhyming couplets.

Dan Owen, Dan's Media Digest, 3rd January 2018

The scarily versatile Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith are back, turning their hands to chaotic door-slamming farce with a Shakespearean flavour. The toying with The Comedy of Errors - Rory Kinnear plays twins who unknowingly both book rooms on a hotel's busy ninth floor - and the iambic pentameter dialogue create a delightfully breathless parlour game of an episode, with the show's trademark wickedness only peeping through via a torrent of smutty wordplay. Top-hole.

Jack Seale, The Guardian, 2nd January 2018

Inside No 9: Zanzibar preview

Zanzibar is an old-fashioned comedy of confusion, wittily executed and hugely satisfying in the way all the strands intertwine for the tidy resolution required.

Steve Bennett, Chortle, 2nd January 2018

Inside No. 9 series 4 spoiler-free review

Macabre, inventive and... emotional.

Ian Sandwell, Digital Spy, 2nd January 2018

Review - Inside No. 9: Series 4, Episode 1 - Zanzibar

Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith's comedy anthology returns with a Shakespearean twist.

Ian Wolf, On The Box, 2nd January 2018

Shearsmith & Pemberton's ode to Shakespeare is sublime

It's a sublime and intentionally shambolic ode to William Shakespeare; delivered in Bard-like verse.

Mark Butler, i Newspaper, 2nd January 2018

Inside No. 9 series 4 episode 1 review: Zanzibar

This comedy farce written in verse shows that custom cannot stale Inside No. 9's infinite variety.

Louisa Mellor, Den Of Geek, 2nd January 2018

TV Review: Inside No. 9 - Zanzibar

Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton's comedy anthology series is back and better than ever, with a new tale that is well worth your time - it's funny and clever, it even rhymes!

Anneka Honeyball, The National Student, 2nd January 2018

A triumphant return for Pemberton and Shearsmith

Is there anything to which Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith can't turn their hands?

The Telegraph, 2nd January 2018

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