Peep Show
- TV sitcom
- Channel 4
- 2003 - 2015
- 54 episodes (9 series)
Sitcom starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb as a pair of socially dysfunctional flatmates with little else in common. Also features Olivia Colman, Matt King, Paterson Joseph, Neil Fitzmaurice, Elizabeth Marmur and more.
Streaming rank this week: 221
Press clippings Page 31
Despite never attracting the wider audience it deserves, Peep Show - starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb as Mark and Jez, a latter-day flat-sharing odd couple - has from the outset maintained its reputation as one of the very best British sitcoms. Now entering its seventh season, it is also Channel 4's longest running comedy and, happily, shows no signs of falling off in quality. Quite the opposite; tonight's episode opens up a whole new vista of comic possibilities as Mark (Mitchell) marches none-too-enthusiastically across the Rubicon that is parenthood and, initially at least, doesn't respond well to the prospect of responsibility.
Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain's scalpel-sharp script brilliantly exposes the average male's helplessness, incomprehension and terror when confronted with the maternal agonies of childbirth - and the overwhelming urge to run away. Meanwhile, in a different wing of the hospital, Jez (Webb) seeks a cure for his recently broken heart in the shape of the attractively bookish partner of a comatose patient - with predictably cringe-making results.
Gerard O'Donovan, The Telegraph, 25th November 2010Why is Peep Show streaming online already?
Lovers of excruciatingly awkward dialogue rejoice - Peep Show returns to our screens this Friday, for its seventh series.
Luke Lewis, The Telegraph, 25th November 2010Peep Show series 7 episode 1 review
The UK's most consistently funny comedy, Peep Show, returns and hits the ground running with a great first episode.
Mark Oakley, Den Of Geek, 25th November 2010Video: Is Peep Show popular in the States?
Robert Webb and David Mitchell talk to BBC Breakfast about their latest series of Peep Show. The sitcom was nominated at this year's Emmy awards but do Americans find it funny?
BBC News, 23rd November 2010David Mitchell annoyed Peep Show is online first
Peep Show star David Mitchell is upset that Channel 4 bosses premiered the seventh series online.
The Sun, 20th November 2010Jez and Mark ... by the people who know them best
As they return for a seventh series, will fatherhood make men of the El Dude brothers? Who better to ask than writers Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong and stars David Mitchell and Robert Webb?
Will Dean, The Guardian, 20th November 2010Peep Show: Series 7 Episode 1 review
Still funnier than at least 90 percent of TV comedy.
Thomas Eagles, Geeks.co.uk, 19th November 2010David Mitchell & Robert Webb interview
David Mitchell and Robert Webb are back with a seventh series of Peep Show. They sat down with TV Choice to tell us a bit about what to expect...
Martina Fowler, TV Choice, 16th November 2010'Peep Show' writers tease seventh series
The writers of Peep Show have revealed details of the forthcoming seventh series.
Morgan Jeffery, Digital Spy, 3rd September 2010Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong Interview
It is said that the secret of good writing is to write about what you know. As such, you might expect the writers of Channel 4's Peep Show (which is definitely good writing) to be two miserable, socially inept losers holed up in a rather depressing flat, bickering relentlessly. It's something of a surprise, then, to find that they are a cheerful, seemingly well-adjusted duo, who work from of a Thameside office with glorious views to the Palace of Westminster.
Benjie Goodhart, Channel 4, 26th August 2010