‘Inside No. 9’ Season 2 Episode 4 review: ‘Cold Comfort’

Consider, if you will, the carnival of monsters that Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith have presented throughout their career. A cavalcade of grotesques with strange voices, horrible wigs, and a variety of prosthetics. All very impressive, to be sure, but what they don’t get enough credit for is the so-called ‘normal’ characters: a collection of … >

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‘Inside No. 9’ Season 2 Episode 1 review: ‘La Couchette’

‘La Couchette’ opens up the second season of Inside No. 9, and here you should stop reading if you haven’t seen the episode. A group of disparate characters have been shoved into a confined space, and they are not exactly ideal bedfellows. There’s a lot packed into what’s deceptively a gossamer-light plot involving a dead … >

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‘Inside No. 9’ Season 2 start date confirmed

The second season of Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith’s Inside No. 9 will begin on BBC Two later this month. Six new stories will be set in various different locations, from a sleeping-car on a French train to a Séance in a grand Victorian villa, and from a 17th century village witch trial to a … >

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‘Inside No. 9’ guest stars announced for Season 2

Filming has started on the second season of BBC Two’s Inside No. 9. Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith’s anthology of darkly comic tales launched last February and six new episodes will air later this year. Guest stars in Season 2 will include Alice Lowe (Sightseers); Alison Steadman (Gavin & Stacey); Claire Skinner (Outnumbered); David Warner … >

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Top 5 surreal TV comedies

Sky Atlantic’s surreal new comedy This is Jinsy arrives on our screens tonight, so it’s a perfect time to look at some of the greatest weird and witty shows that have come before it.

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