Peep Show

Peep Show season 9 episode 1 review

The takedowns of modern culture and consumerism are as hilarious and perfectly-sculpted as ever.

TV review: Peep Showback on top, awkward form

The joy of Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain's Peep Show is the way the characters vocalise internally what everyone thinks but no one would say.

Radio Times review

Some of the best Peep Show moments are when the gang go on the road and this trip to East Anglia for Super Hans's wedding is no exception. Dobby (Isy Suttie) has finally come back from New York - but with a smug American boyfriend in tow, to the intense irritation of Mark (David Mitchell).

Jez (Robert Webb) has to reflect on a rather surprising personal discovery that isn't a secret for very long, thanks to the hidden cameras Mark has secreted inside the flat (well, it is called Peep Show after all). Who will be Hans's best man? Will he manage to get through his big day without hitting anyone? And what is his real name? All is revealed in another painfully funny riot of a ride.

Jesse Armstrong 'still terrified' by writing challenge

It was "a mixture of luck and fear" that aided the success of Channel 4 sitcom Peep Show, co-creator and co-writer of the series Jesse Armstrong told the programme.

"Fear basically governs my life," Mr Armstrong said, on the subject of ending the programme, and is "still terrified" that the last lines "won't be funny enough".

The sitcom, which begins its ninth and final series on November 11, was first shown in 2003 and has since won Baftas and been lauded as the best sitcom of the decade by GQ Magazine.

Peep Show: Mark's greatest humiliations

Whether it's attempting to get his book (Business Secrets of the Pharoahs) published or trying his hardest to get married, it never quite works out the eternally-experated Mark Corrigan.

David Mitchell and Robert Webb on their last hurrah

Nine series in and it's the closing curtain for Channel 4's beloved sitcom, Peep Show. As the usual mayhem ensues, Gemma Dunn talks to the stars about their less than sentimental end, objecting to Twitter and their plans for the future.

One final excruciating hurrah for Peep Show

The sitcom that defined a generation and its protagonists - the self-styled 'Croydon Bullingdon' - begin their last run.

Here's what to expect from Peep Show

A lot's changed since their last outing of Peep Show, and fans are doubtless wondering about what to expect from Series 9 - so we've prepared a handy guide to prepare you for what is a brilliant first episode.

Thank you, Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong. Thank you for providing a necessary psychological safety valve in the form of Jeremy and Mark, for allowing us to realise that our inner monologues demand we be as manipulative and shallow as those of Croydon's best worst people.

You are hard pressed to find better exemplars of modern Blighty, ones ahead of their time, than Jeremy and Mark. Jeremy the entitled egotist, whose life was singularly social long before social networks stuffed humility into a sack with bricks and dropped it into a canal. Mark, for whom the status quo is the band but what really should be preserved, the dull nag of logic to prevent a third pint on Monday night. Mark, the plug switch to Jeremy's amp.

One part of this show's genius is, like The Simpsons, its array of secondary characters, from Big Suze to Johnson to Toni to Nancy and finally to Super Hans, south London's Loki. It's the reformed caner's stag do which reunites Jeremy and Mark for the first time in six months, their combined selfishness leading to a binge and beer waterboarding. Cherish these awful, inspired moments.

TV preview, Peep Show, C4

And so this is it. After 12 years can it really be the end for Jeremy and Mark? Are these two dysfunctional man-children actually going to sail off into the sunset after letting us hear their unedited internal monologues for one last series?