Inside No. 9: The Scripts Series 4-6

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Inside No. 9 Series 5 commissioned". British Comedy Guide. 6 February 2018. Archived from the original on 18 March 2018 . Retrieved 17 March 2018. A full on gothic horror". BBC. 12 March 2014. Archived from the original on 23 March 2014 . Retrieved 18 April 2014. Pemberton, Steve; Shearsmith, Reece (4 May 2015). Behind the Scenes: "Nana's Party". Inside No. 9 Series 2 DVD. BBC. Carrie ( Morgana Robinson), Patricia ( Felicity Kendal), Maurice (Shearsmith), Kenneth (Pemberton) and Jean ( Fiona Shaw) attend a private retrospective art exhibition. They are met by the waitress Bea ( Montserrat Lombard), but none knows why they have been invited.

a b Bennion, Chris (23 April 2015). "Inside No. 9, Nana's Party, TV review: League of Gentleman's Reece Shearsmith steals the show in this very clever drama". The Independent. Archived from the original on 12 July 2015 . Retrieved 18 July 2015. At the 2021 British Academy Television Awards, the series won Best Scripted Comedy. [10] Awards and nominations table [ edit ] Year Actor James (Shearsmith) waits in a static caravan. He is playing a policeman in a crime drama based on the real-life disappearance of a baby boy, Ryan, from the area. Adrian Dunbar plays himself. Bhavna Limbachia, Pauline McLynn and Donna Preston costar. Inside No. 9 is an anthology series, with each episode featuring a new story, with a new setting and new characters. [11] Episodes run roughly thirty minutes each, with the self-contained story reaching a conclusion. [12] [13] The stories are linked primarily by the fact that each has an element of the story linked to the number 9, be that a mansion, a dressing room or even a shoe, size 9. Almost every episode stars Reece Shearsmith or Steve Pemberton, and regularly both. [14] Each episode is effectively a short play. Some episodes take place in real-time, following half an hour in the lives of the characters. [15] Every episode of Inside No. 9 features an ornamental hare somewhere on-screen. [16] [17] [18] According to Pemberton, "Because each episode is so wildly different there was nothing really linking them other than the fact they were all inside a Number Nine, I just thought it would be nice to have an object that you could hide and just have there on every set." [16] There is, however, no particular significance to the hare itself. [17] [18] Told through the style of iambic pentameter, various guests arrive at Hotel Zanzibar where they find themselves interacting with one another in a variety of ways, from murder to a proposal.

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When wedding photographer Adrian (Pemberton) seems bored by his marriage to Harriet ( Nicola Walker), instead focusing on jigsaws and Pot Noodles, his wife desires to renew their wedding vows. Instead, she discovers a dark secret. a b "BBC launches digital episode of Inside No. 9". BBC. 18 March 2014. Archived from the original on 26 January 2015 . Retrieved 24 April 2014. a b Kendall, Paul (5 February 2014). "Inside No9, BBC Two, review". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 6 February 2014 . Retrieved 6 February 2014. (subscription required)a b Thrower, Emma (24 May 2016). "Exclusive: Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton talk Inside No. 9 Series 3". Empire. Archived from the original on 29 August 2016 . Retrieved 13 September 2016. a b c d Harrison, Phil (30 October 2018). "How did Inside No 9 spring the biggest live TV surprise of the year?". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 30 October 2018 . Retrieved 31 October 2018. a b Mellor, Louisa (14 February 2017). "Inside No. 9: did you spot this hidden detail in every episode?". Den of Geek. Archived from the original on 5 May 2017 . Retrieved 29 April 2017.

The joy of these scripts is in being able to appreciate the craft and ambition involved in the sharpness of the dialogue, the cunning of the plotting, and the desire never to repeat themselves, as Pemberton and Shearsmith build each episode into a miniaturist treasure. A must for anyone who wants to write for television, or who just wants to see how the magic is done.’ Williams, Mary Elizabeth (7 April 2018). "The best show you're not watching is the UK import "Inside No. 9" ". Salon. Archived from the original on 7 April 2018 . Retrieved 8 April 2018. I treasure not ordinariness but originality, which is ill-advised, because how are you supposed to do that? Being ordinary, that is something you can be. Being original… maybe not. But recognisable details are then not something I treasure but something I want to escape from. Felix Hughes (Pemberton) hires lip reader Iris ( Sian Clifford) to watch his wife Brenda Doyle in a Central London hotel room using binoculars. He suspects Brenda is cheating on him with anti- government campaigner Dmitri Novak, whose press secretary she is. a b c d e Lawson, Mark (5 February 2014). "Inside No 9: How Shearsmith and Pemberton have revived a lost genre". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 18 January 2015 . Retrieved 6 February 2014.Now I live in Norway and people leave me alone. I’m living the dream! All I’ve ever wanted was to be left alone. Norwegians have this bizarre attitude that, having made friends at school and with coworkers, they’re not “open to new relationships.” Ah, as if the human heart had a quota! The stuff of poetry, that idea is. How we must envy the Norwegians that their cups all runneth over! (Then what’s with all the suicides?) a b Dessau, Bruce (2 February 2014). "Gentlemen in a league of their own: Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton discuss their new series". The Independent. Archived from the original on 8 February 2014 . Retrieved 13 February 2014. A My Family episode gone wrong". BBC. 26 February 2014. Archived from the original on 22 March 2017 . Retrieved 1 February 2014. Hapless cat burglars Eddie (Pemberton) and Ray (Shearsmith) break into a luxury house to try to steal a painting while Gerald ( Denis Lawson) and Sabrina ( Oona Chaplin), the couple who live in the house, argue. The episode progresses almost entirely without dialogue.