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Peep Show. Image shows from L to R: Mark Corrigan (David Mitchell), Jeremy Usbourne (Robert Webb). Copyright: Objective Productions
Peep Show

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.

  • JustWatch Streaming rank this week: 221

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Mitchell, Webb filming new 'Peep Show'

David Mitchell and Robert Webb have revealed that they have started filming new episodes of Peep Show.

Catriona Wightman, Digital Spy, 23rd August 2010

UKTV acquires 'Peep Show' for Dave

UKTV has agreed a deal with Channel 4 for 30 hours of entertainment and factual programming, including hit comedy Peep Show for Dave.

Andrew Laughlin, Digital Spy, 19th August 2010

Your next box set: Peep Show

Watching 900 minutes of Peep Show in the space of three weeks really reveals the gruesome, brilliant ebb and flow at its heart.

Andrew Pulver, The Guardian, 6th November 2009

In Peep Show, Jeremy and Mark venture outdoors - to the park for a picnic to celebrate Elena and Gail's forthcoming nuptials, and later, to the country. I'm not sure Mark and Jeremy really belong outside; certainly not in the countryside.

It's a beautiful finale, though, with all the disappointment, inappropriate-ness and sorry truths you would have wished for. And wonderful, wonderful lines. This series has been an absolute treat, the best yet. Can it really be over so soon? I guess there's something appropriate about the end of Peep Show coming too soon. But where are the chuckles going to come from now? Ah, The Thick of It starts tonight, that's where.

Sam Wollaston, The Guardian, 24th October 2009

Peep Show: season six, episode six

Well what a series it has been - and it climaxes with another cracking episode, featuring a cliffhanger and, of all things, a stunt.

Julia Raeside, The Guardian, 24th October 2009

Peep Show Episode 6.6 Review

The finale to this excellent sixth series wasn't the perfect ending I was primed for, but the last five minutes were as close to comedy bliss as one could hope - if slightly undermined by a lack of resolution.

Dan Owen, Dan's Media Digest, 24th October 2009

Last in the simply superb sixth series. The nuptials of Elena and Gail draw close, but Jeremy still holds out hope. Meanwhile Mark, fearing Jeff will usurp him, takes driving lessons so he can ferry his gestating former wife to hospital at the crucial hour. With series seven currently under construction, it's comforting to know it isn't the last we'll see of these most excruciating antiheroes. Performances, writing, drum-tight plotting: it's all gone up a notch this year. In the words of Partridge, "Come back Peep Show and play another song."

The Guardian, 23rd October 2009

It's sadly the last in the series of the sharp-witted sitcom and Mark (David Mitchell) is worried that Jeff (Neil Fitzmaurice) is becoming a potential rival father to his unborn child. So he decides to learn to drive in order that he can take Sophie (Olivia Colman) to the hospital when the baby arrives.

The Telegraph, 23rd October 2009

The finale of this latest series ends on a cliffhanger but not before boiling point is reached when Mark's lies about passing his driving test bite him on the backside. With an unwanted baby and an unresolvable love triangle testing the patience of our anti-heroes, this has probably been the bleakest series yet (tonight Mark seriously considers a one-way ticket to Argentina and a face transplant for the sake of his sanity). Nonetheless, it's also been an absolute hoot.

Sharon Lougher, Metro, 23rd October 2009

When you're a Peep Show lover, it can be baffling that more people don't fall down and worship one of the current 24-carat gems of British sitcom. More than a million viewers return to it each week, but in telly terms that makes it a cult rather than a roaring hit. You wouldn't be surprised if half those regulars spent their days proselytising, trying to win converts to the cult, one viewer at a time, but I've a feeling it's no use: Peep Show is destined to remain an underappreciated, filthy, sharp-witted, semi-hidden gem. Tonight's final episode (of what's been a belting series) starts in low gear, but ends up as fabulously farcical as ever. Mark is alarmed enough about becoming a father, without the dreaded Jeff trying to edge him out and mum Sophie threatening to call the child Tarquin Oliver Nimrod, a name that sounds, as Mark moans, like "the member of a decaying European dynasty". To earn naming rights, he agrees to learn to drive so he can take Sophie to the hospital on the big day. It's a process that goes almost as badly as Jez's attempt to put the kibosh on Elena's wedding. In other words, not well.

David Butcher, Radio Times, 23rd October 2009

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