"Peep Show" (2003) TV series 2003-????

User Rating:

9.5/10   

Creators:

Jesse Armstrong
Sam Bain
Andrew O'Connor

Seasons:

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6

Release Date:

19 September 2003 (UK)

Genre:

Comedy

Tagline:

Welcome to the private world of Jeremy and Mark - two very ordinary weirdos.

Plot:

Mark and Jez are a couple of twenty-something roommates who have nothing in common - except for the fact that their lives are anything but normal. Mayhem ensues as the pair strive to cope with day-to-day life.

Plot Keywords:

Marriage Proposal | Point Of View | Inner Voice | British Comedy | Cynicism

Awards:

4 wins & 10 nominations

Cast

David Mitchell	...	Mark Corrigan (36 episodes, 2003-2009)
Robert Webb	...	Jeremy Osborne (36 episodes, 2003-2009)
Olivia Colman	...	Sophie Chapman (29 episodes, 2003-2009)
Matt King	...	Super Hans (21 episodes, 2003-2009)
Neil Fitzmaurice	...	Jeff Heaney (17 episodes, 2003-2009)

Runtime:

30 min (including commercials) (30 episodes)

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Australia:MA

Filming Locations:

Canterbury House, Sydenham Road, Croydon, Surrey, England, UK

Company:

Objective Productions

Trivia:

The theme song from Peep Show is "Flagpole Sitta" by Harvey Danger. This song only appears from the second series and following series.

Quotes:

Valerie: Just like, be honest about it. I mean let's line up, two naked rows, best-looking people can pick the best-looking, the dregs get the dregs and we can all go home and get it over with.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Friday Night with Jonathan Ross: (#11.5)" (2006)

Soundtrack:

Flagpole Sitta

20-something comedy with a difference

This unusual UK comedy show followed in the steps of 'Friday Night Armistice', 'Spaced', 'Jam' and 'Smack the Pony' in taking its place in the late-night schedules of Channel 4. Focusing on the deadbeat characters of Mark and Jeremy ('Jez'), flatmates without a hope of succeeding in the world, we see their world through their own eyes and through their own minds. It is a refreshing approach which makes the show funnier, sharper, and more interesting to watch.

Mark (a character not a million miles away from Arthur Dent in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) is hopelessly in love with his office colleague Sophie (Olivia Colman), but naturally he can't make her see that, and in fact he is so rubbish at everything she's unlikely to want him anyway! Jez thinks he's the greatest person in the universe when in fact he is probably as unlikely to be a social success as Mark. His girlfriend Nancy (Rachel Blanchard) is a model-looking girl with strange ideas.

'Peep Show' isn't as off-the-wall as earlier shows which have aired in the same slot but in the two series showed so far, is coming along nicely. It has the usual preoccupations of twenty-somethings at its heart – sex, booze, girls, money, more sex – and David Mitchell and Robert Webb are excellent as Mark and Jeremy.