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Psychoville, from the makers of The League of Gentleman, will be returning to our TV screens next year! What a great piece of news! We’ll have to wait until winter, but whatever, if it’s as good as the first series, then it’ll be worth waiting for. The first series really was one of the best things shown on TV in a very long time.
Related: Our Psychoville section
I really am a bear of very little brain. Just because I wasn’t terribly keen on The League of Gentlemen, I assumed I wouldn’t like Psychoville either. How silly. Well, it’s lucky I’m the good little telly reviewer I am, then, and watched the first episode because I was pretty much hooked from within the first minute. It is, in my opinion, the best thing on TV at the moment by a country mile.
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Last night, during Psychoville (BBC Two, Thursday, 9 July, 10pm) I got another thing to add to the list of things I’ll never un-see. That was, of course, the Black Lace ‘Superman’ dance routine undertaken by not-right David and his hideous mother after strangling a bloke and dumping him in a chest. Weirdly, that’s probably Psychoville in microcosm. A heinous crime almost soundtracked by a “cheering up tape” of a novelty act. Everything you need to know about Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton can be found in that one, seemingly throwaway skit. It was grim, wonderful, funny, peculiar and immediate.
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I’m really enjoying Psychoville – there’s nothing quite like it on television at the moment (actually, apart from League Of Gentlemen, there has never been anything like it ever. Funny that) – but if there’s one criticism that has been bandied around it’s that each episode so far has seemed almost like a sketch show, with little, tantaslising bits of pieces of the characters. It takes a very skilled group of writers to fuse together myriad characters and storylines each week, and in my eyes messrs Sheersmith and Pemberton have managed it. Now, with the third episode, the story started to unravel, and we even found out how this disparate group of nut bonces being terrorised by the masked man first met.
For our Psychoville section, go here.
Seems ages away, doesn’t it, 2 July? But it’s not! That’s this Thursday! Where’s the year gone, eh? Though it’s probably our fault – we keep wishing the time away until next Thursday to see Psychoville… what I particularly love about the show is that the (possible) murder mystery storyline is just as strong as the comedy; I don’t just tune for a laugh (and to be quite disturbed) but because I genuinely want to know what will happen next. And in that spirit, there’s a clip of the next episode over the cut – David’s in drag and don’t worry, no spoilers…
Related: Episode 1 Review | Episode 2 Review
There’s not much comedy that Mof and I agree on… see the Boosh break-up post for a prime example. But Psychoville, here’s something we can agree on. Sure, I don’t howl with laughter for a full half hour, but this show is aiming for something else…
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I can’t for the life of me recall how stunned I was when I first rested my eyeballs in the direction of the television when The League of Gentlemen first aired. I’m willing to bet it was similar to watching the opening moments of last night’s Psychoville (BBC Two, Thursday, 18 June, 10pm). Within seconds of the opening, I was impressed with how classy the whole thing looked and got an almost immediate laugh, mixed with that feeling of a goose walking over my grave. Brrrhahahaeeek. Psychoville has clearly been festering in Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton’s collective wrongs for a while. Treading the line between curious, fun and something slap bang between the toytown horror of Tim Burton and the seedy sinisterdom of Stephen King. Strapping in for this ride is going to be very odd indeed.
Related: Our comedy section
If you’re in on Thursday night (18 June, 10pm) and you like you comedy dark and weird, then you’ll probably want to tune into Psychoville, the new sitcom from the League Of Gentlemen team (or at least Steve Permberton and Reece Shearsmith). What I’ve seen of it (two episodes) I’ve really liked, so I’d be interested to hear from League Of Gentleman fans and their opinions. Following up Mof’s more detailed preview, there are three clips over the jump (two from episode two), which introduces some of the characters, including Dawn French’s Joy, who’s one of those women who has a doll for a baby.
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The League of Gentlemen’s Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton have teamed up again to write… and star in… a new comedy show. Like The League of Gentlemen, their minds have been drawn to the weird, black comedy that’s so unsettling that you wondered why you laughed in the first place. The new show, ladies and gentlemen, is the appropriately titled Psychoville (BBC Two, Thursday, 18 June, 10pm). Now, the last series of League of Gentlemen was ambitious, disparate and tied together slowly at the close, revealing a weird link between each strand of story. It certainly seems that Psychoville will be going down the same route, which means that viewers are advised to strap in for the ride and stick it out for the long haul, even if they initially don’t have a clue what’s going on.
The BBC, it seems, are rather proud of upcoming comedy Pyschoville, and from what I’ve heard they’ve every right to be. You can tell they’re proud not only because they keep blogging about it on their own site, but also because they’ve come up with a nifty little ‘viral’ (have we not come up with a better word for this yet?) to get a bit of buzz going about the show online. Take the short trip over the cut to find out more…
We’ve been talking about Psychoville – the new dark comedy from the incredibly fertile minds of Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith – on here for over a year. Occasionally. When those fertile minds happened to shed the odd photon of light onto what they were thinking. Well now there’s a full-blown press pack available from the Beeb, the show is coming soon – no, really! – and judging from that photo above, we’re in for something special.
The fall-out from yesterday’s announcement of BBC Two’s new spring/summer line-up continues. I posted up an image of Girls Aloud’s Sarah Harding making her acting debut in a new recession-based drama, and now I’ve found an image of The League Of Gentlemen’s new, dark sitcom, Psychoville. It’s written by and starring Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton and features five seemingly unconnected characters with one thing in common – they’ve all received a black postcard with the words, “I know what you did…” written on it. If you go here you can also see a clip, but in the meantime if you want to see the image bigger all you have to do is click on it.
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A while ago, we told you about Psychoville, which was supposed to be jolly, but ended up going all weird. With a name like that, it’s hardly surprising is it? Well, Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton, of the League of Gentlemen fame, who are writing the new BBC Two, show, will be joined by an all-star cast, which includes… and this is when it gets really weird… Dawn French, Christopher Biggins, Dame Eileen Atkins and Nicholas Le Prevost.
The League of Gentleman lot are a bloody clever bunch. They’ve written books, they can act… they came up with The League of Gentleman ferchrissakes. That’s super smart all by itself. So, as each new project appears from these warped minds, we should take note because, chances are, it’s going to be interesting. So, with that in mind, star of LoG and Benidorm, Steve Pemberton, has spoken about his new comedy series which is (excellently) titled Psychoville.
From:Set The Video: NASA: Triumph and Tragedy, BBC Two, Wednesday, 24 June, 9pm