Psychoville

by Peter Jolly

Two members of The League of Gentlemen will be returning to the small screen this month when Psychoville begins on BBC Two on 18th June.

Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton have finished their four year writing hiatus and are about to return with what looks like business as usual for the sick weirdos. The BBC have described the show as “a dark character comedy mystery featuring the weird and the wonderful”. Which is pretty much how you could have described the brilliant League of Gentlemen, but Shearsmith and Pemberton will no doubt have a few shocking new surprises for us.

The show includes an array of different characters from all over the UK, a sociopathic clown with a hook for a hand for example, or a serial killer who’s having an incestuous relationship with his mother. Shearsmith has promised to deliver a gripping and shocking comedy which includes material covering everything from murder to necrophilia. The wait is definitely over for all the League of Gentlemen fans who have been suffering from withdrawal symptoms for the past few years.

Personally I was disappointed to hear the other two League of Gentlemen members wouldn’t be involved. Mark Gatiss and Jeremy Dyson both worked on the superb Funland together back in 2005, since then Gatiss has worked on Doctor Who in both a writing and acting capacity. Currently he is rumoured to be working on a brand new modern day version of the Sherlock Holmes story with Doctor Who writer and producer Steven Moffat. Dyson is concentrating on writing fiction.

Shearsmith and Pemberton will obviously star in the show themselves and they are joined on screen by Dawn French, Dame Eileen Atkins, Nicholas Le Prevost, Janet McTeer, David Bamber, Christopher Biggins, Daisy Haggard, Debbie Chazen and Adrian Scarborough.

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