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.
- Series 5, Episode 1 repeated Monday at 12:35am on U&Gold
Streaming rank this week: 161
Press clippings Page 41
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 2018Shearsmith & 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 2018Inside 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 2018TV 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 2018A 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 2018Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton interview
"I think it's the relentless invention," said Reece. "Every week you get a new story and a new world and the beauty is you don't have to commit to it. You'll get a good little tale in half an hour. It's like Tales of the Unexpected... or a bag of Revels."
TV Times, 2nd January 2018Inside No. 9 - Series 4 preview
There's nothing else on television quite like Inside No. 9, and in its fourth series there is absolutely no sign of the quality slipping at all.
The Velvet Onion, 29th December 2017Inside No. 9 - Series 4, Episode 1, Zanzibar, preview
The brilliant Inside No. 9 has tended to be one of the hardest TV shows to write about for fear of giving away spoilers. But actually the first episode of the new series is pretty straightforward to describe so hopefully reading this will not spoil your enjoyment.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 29th December 2017Preview: Inside No. 9 series 4
Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton's Inside No. 9 returns to BBC Two for its fourth series on Tuesday 2nd January. Here's a spoiler-free review from Sophie who has seen episodes 1-4 of the new series...
The Velvet Onion, 28th December 2017Compared to the thoroughgoing nastiness of The Riddle Of The Sphinx, this one's as refreshing as a sea breeze. The baddies are punished, the goodies are rewarded, and the viewer can skip happily to bed untroubled by thoughts of cannibalism and suicide (though granted, with Saturday Night by Whigfield stuck in their head, so it's swings and roundabouts really).
It might be less deranged than its predecessors, but Empty Orchestra is still very much an Inside No. 9 story. Its use of song is as mischievous and slippery as the wordplay in last week's cryptic crossword-themed episode. Half a musical, the lyrics to most of the karaoke choices are neatly applicable to the story's characters. In barely any time at all, we'd been told a complete story that was satisfying, romantic and unexpectedly uplifting.
Louisa Mellor, Den Of Geek, 22nd December 2017