Psychoville

Curse you BBC and your damnably effective region-sensitive video player!  I can’t even crack this thing with the help of UK based proxy servers!  This hurts rather a lot right now because earlier this week the venerable Beeb released the first clip from Psychoville, the new dark comedy series from Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith - best known as one half of The League Of Gentlemen, of whom I an am enormous fan.  Here’s the skinny on the new show:
Psychoville is a dark character comedy mystery in which different characters are strangely linked.
An embittered one-handed clown who makes balloon animals with his hook; a desperately misguided midwife; a lovestruck telekinetic dwarf who’s in love with his panto Snow White; a blind avaricious collector; and a serial-killer-obsessed man-child… five seemingly unconnected characters share one thing in common.
Yet despite having different backgrounds, different interests, and coming
Todd Brown

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Need a fresh reason to be excited for upcoming BBC comedy Psychoville - the new creation from The League of Gentlemen‘s Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith.  Well, then click here.  Yummy.
Psychoville is a dark character comedy mystery in which different characters are strangely linked.
An embittered one-handed clown who makes balloon animals with his hook; a desperately misguided midwife; a lovestruck telekinetic dwarf who’s in love with his panto Snow White; a blind avaricious collector; and a serial-killer-obsessed man-child… five seemingly unconnected characters share one thing in common.
Yet despite having different backgrounds, different interests, and coming from different parts of the country they share a common link. Every one has been sent an anonymous, black-edged card marked just with the words: “I know what you did…”

Todd Brown

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We’re unabashedly enormous fans of the lads from The League of Gentlemen so any project that they’re now involved in certainly has our interest and this just looks tip top.
Psychoville is a dark character comedy mystery in which different characters are strangely linked.
An embittered one-handed clown who makes balloon animals with his hook; a desperately misguided midwife; a lovestruck telekinetic dwarf who’s in love with his panto Snow White; a blind avaricious collector; and a serial-killer-obsessed man-child… five seemingly unconnected characters share one thing in common.
Yet despite having different backgrounds, different interests, and coming from different parts of the country they share a common link. Every one has been sent an anonymous, black-edged card marked just with the words: “I know what you did…”
The site goes fully live in June but for now there is a brand new clip of Dawn French in
Mack

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