Psychoville co-creators Reece Shearsmith and Whitechapel star and writer Steve Pemberton have abandoned plans for a follow-up series, opting instead to write and star in the macabre anthology show Inside […]
Psychoville co-creators Reece Shearsmith and Whitechapel star and writer Steve Pemberton have abandoned plans for a follow-up series, opting instead to write and star in the macabre anthology show Inside No. 9 to be aired by the BBC this autumn. “Being in the middle of filming a series of Psychoville would be utterly depressing,” Shearsmith told Broadcast magazine. “This is exciting.”
Itself a follow-up to the successful The League of Gentlemen, Psychoville was far less successful than the creators hoped, not helped by poor treatment by the BBC. The final episode was aired in a late night slot and on a different day to the rest. “Mock The Week was deemed more important that week,” noted Shearsmith.
Unlike the heavily serialised Psychoville, Inside No. 9 is a series of six 30-minute anthology shows set within the title location. “We’d been so involved with labyrinthine over-arcing, we thought it would be nice to do six different stories with a completely new house of people each week,” said Shearsmith.
Among the guest actors appearing in episodes of the new show are Anna Chancellor, Katherine Parkinson, Anne Reid, Tim Key, Marc Wooton, Gemma Arterton, Tamsin Grieg, Timothy West, and Julian Rhind-Tutt, as well as Shearsmith and Pemberton (but only playing smaller, incidental parts). “We didn’t want to dominate it,” said Shearsmith, “so we sometimes play fairly minor characters.”
Inside No. 9 airs late-2013, early-2014.
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