Peep Show

As we return for the fifth series of this engagingly filthy comedy, Mark (David Mitchell) is getting drunk and maudlin on wedding champagne as his flatmate Jeremy (Robert Webb) urges him to go out on a double-date: Beggars can't be choosers, she's an actual woman.

Mark - remember, this is a man who once based his romantic strategy on the Siege of Stalingrad - arms himself with a copy of the Friends of the British Museum magazine and goes forth again to search for love...

I adore Peep Show and I adore Mark and Jeremy, an amiable pair of misfits trapped in a squalid, mutually destructive friendship. Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain's script is packed with the kind of quotable funny lines that should be on T-shirts, and Mitchell and Webb are both just marvellous.

Alison Graham, Radio Times, 2nd May 2008

The Guardian visits the Peep Show set

[q]Standing in a muddy field on the set of the new fifth series of Peep Show, watching the three main actors chat with one another, something occurs to me.

People in general think men are Jez, Peep Show's shallow self-styled libertine; men themselves wish they were Super Hans - tall, confident, elegantly wasted, utterly amoral; but men are really Mark, a highly moral, but sexually repressed conservative whose idea of a good date movie is the four-hour German submarine epic, Das Boot.

Ben Marshall, The Guardian, 26th April 2008

Peep Show is the best comedy of the decade

A blog entry on The Guardian website claiming Peep Show is the best comedy of the 2000s.

David Pollock, The Guardian, 16th April 2007