Peep Show

Peep Show series 8 episode 1 review: Jeremy therapised

It's been said that Peep Show's coup is bringing us to care about despicable characters, which is half true. Its real genius though, is in bringing us to see that we're all sort of despicable; that in a way, we're all Mark and Jez.

Peep Show: Best bits...

To celebrate its return, we've picked out our top seven moments from the last seven series as a little gift to you.

Mitchell and Webb interview

Men, maturity and morals with David Mitchell and Robert Webb.

The award-winning sitcom returns for an eighth series after a gap of two years. Starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb as a flat-sharing odd couple (as the original tagline put it, "two very ordinary weirdos") the show, written by Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain, has never attracted a mainstream audience but retains a dedicated cult following and deserves its reputation as one of the best sitcoms around. It is also the longest-running sitcom in Channel 4 history.

Despite the long interval, we pick up exactly where season seven left off - with Mark (Mitchell) trying to eject Jeremy (Webb) from the flat in order to install his love interest Dobby (Isy Suttie). But neither seems eager to comply with Mark's plans. In fact, Dobby is more concerned for the welfare of Mark's chief love rival Gerrard (Jim Howick) who's milking a flu attack for all its worth; while Mark's efforts to move Jeremy on by funding some psychotherapy sessions prove predictably futile. Meanwhile Super Hans (Matt King) has traded in his musical ambitions for a job in a bathroom fittings firm and suggests Mark try out for a position there too - something he's determined to go for even when tragedy intervenes.

Peep Show's funniest moments: by the man who wrote them

The El Dude brothers are back. But what are the most memorable scenes from the last seven series? Writer Sam Bain picks his favourite lines and reveals some of the secrets behind the show.

A quick chat with David Mitchell and Robert Webb

TV & Satellite Week magazine caught up with Mitchell & Webb to find out where it all went wrong...

Sound your horns, the El Dude brothers are back. David Mitchell and Robert Webb crack out their tried-and-tested repressed posh boy meets liberal loser routine for a mind-blowing eighth series of Peep Show this week.

When we last left the inner-monologuing duo, Jez had agreed to move out of the flat so that Mark could live with girlfriend Dobby, but unsurprisingly he's still hanging around, despairing at his failure as a musician and confiding in a therapist. Anyway, Mark has bigger problems than Jeremy - like Dobby's constant vigil at sickly Gerard's bedside.

Isy Suttie: A geeky girlfriend who rewrites the rules

Isy Suttie talks about the joy of playing Peep Show's Dobby.

Mitchell and Webb: fear and loathing in Croydon

As Peep Show returns, David Mitchell and Robert Webb talk to Tara Conlan about the cast's new agonies, their own doubts over Sky's commitment to the arts - and why comedy outranks drama.

David Mitchell and Robert Webb interview

'We couldn't write a sitcom while Peep Show was still on'.