Psychoville
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Psychoville is an award-winning British dark comedy
television serial
written by and starring The League of Gentlemen
members Reece Shearsmith
and Steve Pemberton
. It debuted on BBC Two
on 18 June 2009
. Pemberton and Shearsmith each play numerous characters, with Dawn French and Jason Tompkins
in additional starring roles. The first series was followed by a Halloween special, broadcast on 31 October 2010, which saw Imelda Staunton
added to the main cast along with previously supporting actors Eileen Atkins
, and Daniel Kaluuya
. The second series started broadcasting on 5 May 2011 and ended on 6 June. Reece Shearsmith has officially announced that there will not be a third series.
-obsessed man-child who still lives with his mother Maureen (Shearsmith); Mr. Jelly (Shearsmith), an embittered one-handed children's entertainer; Oscar Lomax (Pemberton), a blind millionaire who collects stuffed toy animals; Joy Aston (French), a midwife who treats a practice doll as if it is her real child; and Robert Greenspan (Tompkins), a panto
dwarf
in love with his Snow White
who believes he has the power of telekinesis. All five are connected by a mysterious blackmail
er who has sent them a letter each with the message: "I know what you did".
The series is named after the title given to The League of Gentlemen when the series was sold to Japan
and Korea
.
" from the musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
. It is later disclosed that the institution was called Ravenhill Hospital. In Episodes Five and Six, the characters discover the final message: a key depicting a raven. At least David's letter also contains the message "I'm waiting...". Ultimately it is revealed that Joy, Robert, David and Oscar were involved in the death of Nurse Edwina Kenchington (Eileen Atkins
), who is the blackmailer's mother and Dr Stuart Strachen, aka Mr Jolly. Jolly blackmailed Jelly whom he blamed most, as he was operating on Jelly's hand (which was later amputated after the operation went wrong) while Kenchington was dying. David knocked her over and Joy pronounced her dead. The group started a fire to cover their tracks, but Kenchington woke up and attempted to escape. Oscar, Joy and Robert prevented her from leaving the room she was trapped in, but she somehow survived and returns to Ravenhill in the final episode looking for her locket. At the end of the series, Mr Jolly blows up part of the asylum with most of the main characters and Kenchington inside and it is revealed that Robert has the locket.
Series two begins with Mr Jelly, Oscar, and Oscar's assistant Michael, aka "Tealeaf", attending the funeral of Mr Jolly. Afterwards, Jelly is given a box of Jolly's props, which also turns out to contain Strachen's mobile phone and his ID card at Andrews Nanotech. Posing as Mr Jolly, Mr Jelly discovers that Strachen was using his surgical skills to deal in the black market organ trade, and that Kenchington had an account with a cryogenic storage facility where her late father Ehrlichmann's head was kept frozen. Meanwhile, Andrews Nanotech has hired a police detective to retrieve Kenchington's locket by any means necessary. Robert gives the locket to Debbie for safekeeping, but after Robert's death, Debbie gives it away to make-up lady Hattie. Detective Finney tracks down the former Ravenhill patients, questioning, then killing, Joy, Robert, and Oscar, and attempting to kill Mrs Wren. Oscar's friend, toyshop owner Peter Bishop, deduces that Oscar was killed for his connection to Ravenhill. He enlists Tealeaf's help with his investigation and they successfully retrieve the locket from Hattie before Finney can get to it, and contact Mr Jelly, whose own investigations have resulted in him taking possession of Ehrlichmann's frozen head. Bishop kills Tealeaf and travels to London with Mr Jelly to attempt to sell the locket and head to Grace Andrews. It is revealed that the method for restoring a frozen head to life, worked out by Edwina Kenchington, was microscopically engraved on the links of the locket chain, and using this information, Andrews' team is able to bring Erlichmann's head back to life. The head is subsequently destroyed, but the technique has been proven to work. The series ends with the revelation that David Sowerbutts is storing the corpse of his mother Maureen (who has died of cancer) in a bathtub filled with ice, suggesting that she could be resurrected by the same technique.
man who cannot hold down a job because of his lack of skill and his morbid obsession with famous serial killer
s.
One night at his work as part of a murder mystery evening, David ad-libs a far more gruesome murder scenario (including disembowelment) and is fired. Upon returning home, Maureen believes her son has actually killed someone. She finds the blackmail note saying "I know what you did", and mistakenly believes it is from Graham (Nicholas Le Prevost
), David's boss. She asks him not to go to the police, but (knowing nothing about the note) Graham mistakenly believes Maureen is blackmailing him about his conviction for molestation. When he tries to call the police but, Maureen and David take him hostage. Graham escapes, but gets run over as he flees. Maureen decides they must kill everyone who knows about the "murder" (not realising it wasn't real), and she and David kill Cheryl (Janet McTeer
), another member of the company, by electrocuting her.
In the fourth episode they strangle another company member, Martin Pike (David Smallbone) . David feels guilty for killing his own father many years before by giving him too many sleeping pills to help him sleep. Before they can leave, a man claiming to be a police inspector (Mark Gatiss
) arrives, mistaking David for Martin Pike. He wants to interview Pike about recent murders in the area. While Maureen is out of the room, the "inspector" reveals that he is really auditioning for a role in the murder reenactments. David goes to fetch their car and Maureen, who believes the inspector knows about their murders, confesses the truth about her husband's death; she had been poisoning him for months and let David take the blame. That was why David was institutionalised. The actor thinks she was improvising in the scene and breaks character, revealing that he isn't a real inspector. He starts to tell David what she said, but Maureen covers for herself with excuses. When the actor leaves, David says he doesn't want to commit any more murders. However, the actor returns to collect his coat and sees Martin Pike's body, so David has to then kill him.
David's next victim (Robin) is to meet him at a wax museum, in the section devoted to famous serial killers, but after meeting him there, all the wax works come to life in a musical number and convinces David that the real monster is his mother, so he lets Robin go free. Maureen leaves with David, believing that Robin was killed. Their last victim is supposed to be Lorraine (Natalie Cassidy
), and Maureen suggests that they barbecue her corpse to "celebrate." David has a flashback to Ravenhill, with a horrified Joy exclaiming that he killed Nurse Kenchington; and refuses to kill anyone else. Maureen locks him in and goes to murder Lorraine herself. She goes to where Lorraine works. Lorraine recognises her and lets slip that the "murder" David committed was just an enactment. Realising the implications of what she and David have done, Maureen takes a drug overdose. She tries to smother David with a pillow, as she thinks he is asleep under a sheet, but realises too late that he has escaped. Maureen collapses. David is seen walking towards Ravenhill with what appears to be a severed head in a bag.
David attempts to turn himself in by going to a Citizens' Advice Bureau, but the apathetic advisor refuses to help him. He instead goes to the grave of Nurse Kenchington. Flashbacks reveal the full story of her murder. David hears Kenchington's voice urging him to dig up the grave, which he does. She then appears, seeking her locket. When she doesn't find it, she shoots David. However he is carrying a watermelon in the bag and it saves his life. David is close enough to hear the explosion at the end.
In series 2, David visits Maureen, who survived her suicide attempt, but has a tumour in her liver, giving her only months to live. Returning home, they find another blackmail letter, again reading "I know what you did". They immediately suspect Robin, the one person who they did not murder and confront him at an audition. Failing to get their point across, Maureen invites Robin for dinner and he reveals he has a peanut allergy. After eating pudding laced with crushed peanuts Robin simply suffers severe gastric reactions, rather than death. He tells David he didn't send the blackmail letter. Meanwhile, Maureen performs an embarrassing Tina Turner act, leading David to reveal that she has cancer. She goes to bed, leaving David to clean up.
Later, David meets up with the real blackmailer - Simon from the Citizens' Advice Bureau. Because he has a large debt that he wants to clear, Simon asks David to murder his aunt, who is Mr Jelly's assistant, the elderly Mrs Wren. In return, David asks that his mother doesn't suffer any more. David breaks into Sunnydale Assisted Living to kill Mrs. Wren, but finds what appears to be her dead body, he leaves, believing the job was done. He actually found another lady named Pat, murdered by Detective Finney, believing her to be Mrs Wren. David returns home to find Maureen dismembering Simon. David tells her he simply intended for Simon to give her a disabled parking badge to stop the "suffering" she had been having from her bad leg, not murder her.
David decides to treat Maureen to a fun experience before she dies. Maureen hopes for wine-tasting in France, but David thought she wanted to go zorbing, which she enjoys anyway. Afterwards, she begins to cough up blood and is admitted to hospital. The doctor tells David that she won't make it through the night and sends them home. David recites a John Donne poem to her and Maureen dies peacefully. David then uses her corpse to perform a last dance - "Oops Upside Your Head" by The Gap Band, which was one of two cheerful songs Maureen wanted at her funeral.
from Salford
, Greater Manchester
. He incorporates his disability into his act, which he calls "Mr Jelly and his 100 hands" where he uses different artificial hands. He blames his recent failures on the similarly named Mr Jolly (Adrian Scarborough
, eventually revealed as the blackmailer), whose is really Dr Stuart Strachen, who became a clown after botching Jelly's operation to cure his repetitive strain injury
, causing his hand to be amputated. They fight in a ballpond, but when Jelly shows Jolly the blackmail letter, Jolly pretends that it was meant for him. At the end of episode three, Jolly is seen in the same video at the mental institution, but as a doctor.
Jolly reveals that the main characters were all present at Ravenhill Hospital and being cared for by Kenchington (later revealed as Jolly's mother), who was morally corrupt and sadistic, resulting in her death. Jolly tells Jelly that he plans to gather all the patients and anyone else involved and return to the scene of the crime to figure out what is going on.
In the sixth episode Jelly is performing at a retirement home when Jolly phones, asking to meet him. Jolly claims to have worked out the identity of the blackmailer: a highly dangerous and psychotic individual from Ravenhill. When Jelly arrives, Jolly fakes his own murder. The blackmailer then phones the police and says he had seen two clowns fighting.
Upon arriving Jelly and Claudia Wren, who he is handcuffed to, enter the hospital, find the others and are confronted by their blackmailer, who is revealed as Mr Jolly. Jolly blames all of them (except the innocent, who just happened to be there) for the death of his mother, Nurse Kenchington. When Jelly protests that he had nothing to do with it, Jolly reveals that it was Jelly's hand operation he was in the middle of when his mother died. Kenchington then arrives, and frantically searches for her missing locket, but no one knows its whereabouts. A scuffle ensues until Jolly reveals that he has a bomb, which then explodes.
Three months later, Jelly attends the funeral of Jolly, where the two clowns are again mixed up, with Jelly's name on a wreath and the gravestone. At the wake, Jelly is given some of Jolly's possessions. When he examines them, he discovers an address on an ID card and a missed call on Jolly's mobile. Later he answers Jolly's mobile and accepts a booking intended for Jolly. He arrives at a large mansion and acts as "Mr Jolly", but it is revealed that Jelly was there to do a kidney removal - a business Jolly had on the side to add it to his income.
After phoning Michael, he figures out that he and Mrs Wren are both in danger of being murdered by Detective Finney. He gets her from Sunnydale before Finney or David find her. Jelly disguises himself as Jolly to gain access to the warehouse where the removed kidney is to be stored. There, they find Jelly's missing hand (which he drops and shatters) and a frozen severed head of Kenchington's father, Ehrlichmann. Jelly is told by Peter Bishop to bring the head to London.
After the successful reanimation of Ehrlichmann's head, Grace Andrews tells Kelvin to kill Jelly and Claudia, whom she believes to be a Russian spy. Kelvin takes them into a storage room and handcuffs Claudia to a chair, then tries to inject Jelly with deadly chemicals. They fight, and Jelly is saved at the last moment by Kerry, using her telekinetic powers. Jelly and Claudia confront Andrews in front of her financial backers, who denies having any connection to the murders, but her plan is revealed on her projection screen, resulting in her arrest.
, West Yorkshire
. He lives in a vast mansion with support coming only from Michael Fry (Daniel Kaluuya
), who helps Lomax as community service
. Lomax calls Michael "Tea leaf" because of his criminal background, "tea leaf" being cockney rhyming slang
for "thief." Lomax spends his time collecting plush toys which he calls "commodities" and his "Holy of Holies", keeping them in a locked room. He carries a Club biscuit with him, mistaking it for a mobile phone.
Lomax only needs one more item to complete his collection, Snappy the Crocodile. He once discovered it online, but two more people, the Crabtree sisters (conjoined twins
from Braintree, Essex
) bought it before him. Lomax bought Snappy from the sisters in exchange for his eyes. After Ravenhill he let Snappy be stolen so he could once more feel the "thrill of the chase". Michael helps him make an offer on Snappy when it appears online, which results in a bidding war with the Crabtrees. The people selling Snappy withdraw the sale after seeing the demand for the toy. They tell Lomax he won the auction but then reveal that they don't know where Snappy is. Lomax tries to coax the information out of their son, but with no luck. Michael, meanwhile, bribes the child and escapes with the Crabtree sisters, along with the phone number of a third bidder who the son sent Snappy to. The bidder is the mysterious blackmailer. Michael cons the Crabtree sisters out of their money and arranges to meet the blackmailer at Ravenhill. There, Snappy has been left in a room. As Michael enters to collect Snappy, the door slams behind him and Joy locks it from the outside. Michael phones Lomax and begs to be rescued.
Lomax arrives with his new helper and they free Michael. Michael gives the toy crocodile to Oscar. The two walk out to a nearby cliff, where Lomax throws it over the edge. He confesses that he suffers from Paradise Syndrome
. Only by yearning and searching for something can he be truly happy, thus he'll keep searching for Snappy. Michael get's fed up and attempts to leave, but the blackmailer steals his keys. Both he and Lomax are present when the building explodes.
Oscar and Michael attend Jolly's funeral, Michael with a broken arm that prevents him from driving and Oscar in a wheelchair and heavily deaf. They and Jelly are interviewed by Detective Finney about the events at Ravenhill, and Michael shows Jelly information about Kenchington's hidden embezzled funds, which she planned to collect later. Her two-year absence is explained by her waiting until the fuss surrounding her disappearance had died down. Later Lomax reveals why he hates Tony Hancock
; they were best friends until Lomax found discovered his son, Billy, was not his, but Hancock's. His son has been trying to contact him, but Lomax ignores him. As Michael puts the latest letters in the rubbish outside, Billy Lomax is seen hiding in the bushes.
Later, Lomax admits that he himself is Tony Hancock; his best friend, whose wife Lomax/Hancock slept with, died following the betrayal. Michael persuades Hancock/Lomax to reunite with his son. However, Hancock/Lomax is murdered by Finney moments before the reunion, with the body arranged to look like suicide. Michael goes to visit Peter Bishop, owner of Hoyti Toyti's toy shop, which Lomax visited frequently. Bishop tells Michael that the toy shop is a front for his real business: trading Nazi memorabilia. They puzzle over the Ravenhill patients, believing that they were murdered, and discover that Edwina Kenchington was the daughter of a brilliant German scientist called Ehrlichmann. He had founded Ravenhill to perform experiments on people after World War II. Bishop also finds a photograph of a young Edwina wearing the locket, and they see in a television interview that Debbie is now wearing the locket. Successfully tracking the locket down to Hattie, they retrieve the locket and plan to travel to London. However, Bishop reveals himself to Michael in a full Nazi uniform, shooting him dead and taking the locket.
. She teaches ante-natal, but dwells on the painful and violent sides of giving birth. She treats a practice doll as if it were a real child, calling him Freddy. Her husband George (Pemberton) is even forced to care for Freddy. Joy steals blood from the hospital blood bank, putting it in a baby bottle for Freddie. In the third episode George refuses the charade of pretending that Freddy is real, but Freddy appears to have thrown his baby dish onto the floor. Joy is delighted that the blood seems to be bringing him to life.
In episode five Freddy seemingly comes to life, and violently attacks Joy, culminating with George's death and Joy's collapse. However, George is not dead, but Freddy is under Nicola's (Elizabeth Berrington) control, Joy's colleague with whom George is having an affair. They believe Joy is dead, so they dismantle Freddy and leave. However, Joy awakens and rushes Freddy to hospital, but since he is a doll, the doctors refuse treatment. So Joy kidnaps Nicola and drives her to Ravenhill, where Joy exsanguinates Nicola to transfer her blood to Freddy. As Nicola lies dying, Joy reveals that she was driven insane after the death of her son Paul and Freddie was given to her as part of her therapy. She then hears Michael Fry enter the building.
As the others arrive, Joy wanders away from Nicola. As her blood drain slows she becomes catatonic. Jennifer, Oscar's new helper, discovers Nicola and tries to help her out of the building. Joy believes the blood transfusion turned Freddy into Jennifer, and begins treating her like a baby boy. They are present when the building explodes.
In the second series, Joy is wearing a neck brace and looking after Jennifer (calling her Freddy), now completely disabled. George moves out and reveals that Nicola died from blood loss, since the emergency transfusion the hospital had was contaminated with Ribena, since it was the blood Joy stole in season one. She is interviewed by Detective Finney who is extremely interested in Kenchington's locket. She tells him she does not know its whereabouts, but Finney notices Jennifer's hand move, surmising that she might know something. After failing to get any information from Jennifer, he suddenly stabs Joy in the neck with the pencil and places it in Jennifer's hand, making it seem like she stabbed her. He leaves Joy bleeding to death alongside the incapacitated girl.
(playing himself). Robert is in love with the dim actress who is playing Snow White, Debbie (Daisy Haggard
), but she does not even notice him. Robert is mocked by everyone, in particular Brian (Shearsmith), the actor playing the Wicked Queen. Robert appears to be telekinetic, whenever he gets upset, although episode six reveals it is actually Kerry (Lisa Hammond).
When Robert gets the first blackmail letter, he believes it is because he once starred in a porn film. When he tells Brian, he is told not to worry. Later Robert sees Brian showing Debbie the video he starred in. His anger appears to cause the TV to blow up.
Debbie then plays a cruel trick. She convinced him to appear on stage naked in front of the whole cast, thinking that Debbie wanted a sexual fantasy with him. Kerry uses her powers to make a light explode, letting Robert think it was him. The next day Kerry uses telekinesis to close the lid of the coffin in the pantomime, knocking Debbie. Robert visits her in hospital and kisses her. She suddenly awakes, suffering from amnesia, so Robert claims they have been together for two years. Robert receives another letter from the blackmailer, this time containing a large key with the symbol of a raven.
Later, Robert convinces Debbie they are engaged. This upsets Kerry, who is in love with Robert. She and Brian conspire to get Robert sacked from the pantomime and then corner him during a rehearsal. Kerry reveals that she has the telekinetic powers and she wanted to protect him from the bullying from the rest of the cast. She demands that he tell her he loves her. Robert attempts to leave, but Brian knocks him out and Kerry bundles him into a car.
Robert and Kerry end up on the road where Kerry apologizes. Robert accepts, but their vehicle runs out of petrol. They find an abandoned home where there is soup on the table. Kerry makes a phone call for help and Robert helps himself to the soup. He then notices that the phone is disconnected from the wall. Kerry calls out to a woman she calls "grandma" for help and an old woman emerges as Robert passes out from the drugged soup. Robert is not in the climax at Ravenhill, but in the final shot with Nurse Kenchington's stolen locket hanging from his neck.
In the second series, Robert escapes his prison while Kerry and "grandma" concoct a love potion for Robert. He finds Debbie, who is now in film work and asks her to keep the stolen Kenchington locket safe. Robert then goes to an audition, unaware that it is a trap by Detective Finney. In the final scene, Robert is lying dead, hidden behind some rubbish bins.
Debbie continues to wear the locket until makeup artist Hattie takes an interest in it. Following a television interview, she opens it to find that it contains what appears to be glitter, and believing it to be of no value, Hattie washes it down the drain. As of the end of series 2, it appears that the contents of the locket were a red herring
, and Hattie's disposal of them was of no consequence; it was actually the locket's chain which was valuable, not its contents. In the final episode of Season 2, Kerry tracks down the those who were responsible for Robert's murder and saves Mr Jelly and Mrs Wren from Kelvin's murder attempt, knocks out Ehrlichmann's guard and, as revenge for ultimately being responsible for Robert's death and for insulting her, she telekinetically made his head explode.
Drew contacted a production company making the fictional series Dale Winton
's Overnight Ghost Hunt. Phil Walker, a location scout, joined him on a tour of the building the same night as the explosion, with Drew recounting the night he spent in Ravenhill. Kenchington returns to Ravenhill and Drew, believing her to be dead, thinks she is a ghost. She tells him she is not and presses him to see if he stole her locket again. Drew denies the theft and asks her why she was so protective of it. Being worthless to her, Kenchington shoots Drew and leaves to confront the main characters. Phil tries to drag Drew to safety and get help but the two of them are caught in the bomb blast and killed. Phil's camera footage is recovered by Grace Andrews.
After the book is not returned, he sneaks into the woman's house and persuades her daughter to find it for him. Having discovered that her daughter spoke to Jeremy in her bedroom, she sends her mother out to walk their dog. Jeremy follows and attacks her, cutting the grandmother's ponytail off and stealing the dog. He later calls and demands an exchange of the book for the unharmed dog. Meeting in the park, she exchanges the book for her dog. Just as Jeremy discovers she handed him "Volume 1" of the series, he is arrested by the police.
He is later interviewed by Detective Finney, who has "Volume 2" and starts to damage it, forcing Jeremy to talk. Jeremy was also a patient at Ravenhill who brought Kenchington her breakfast every morning. Reading the complicated equations on a her blackboard, he corrects a figure, balancing the equations, impressing Kenchington. They work on the equations together for months before Jeremy goes up for review. Having been cured and about to be released, Jeremy makes up the Silent Singer based on the appearance of a female patient walking past the window. They deny his release, allowing him to stay. However, the Silent Singer actually becomes real in his head and he is not released for seven years. He claims that the locket contains "the secret of eternal life" and does not tell Finney any more. When left alone in the interview room, Jeremy picks up the book but finds all the pages blank and appears to have a mental breakdown as a result.
Chris, returning early, rescues Sharouz during a wedding photoshoot, leaving Hattie mentally unbalanced. She instead takes the wedding photographer hostage and chains him to the radiator. Detective Finney later arrives to arrest her and discovers that Michael and Peter Bishop, posed as detectives, took the locket with them.
) are both introduced in the Hallowe'en special as working for an unknown organisation which is trying to pinpoint where all the other characters are, tracking their every moment in the hope of finding the locket. Andrews is always obsessed with new technology and laments that her workplace isn't like Minority Report
and more like a village post office. In Episode 6, she is arrested for the murders of the Main Characters, seen in the previous episodes, as she accidentally reveals it on her Plasma T.V
A new Psychoville Experience was created for series two, with a new interface and a selection of new fictional websites released after each episode. Viewers were asked to find a number each week and input them into a keypad to unlock a 'secret chamber' at the end of the series. The chamber once opened reveals the revived head of the Nazi Doctor Ehrlichmann (Kenchingtons father). Five questions are asked and a certain amount correct gets you a free 'freeze and reanimation ticket' from CG Medistore and andrewsnanotech to print out.
The websites were again written by Shearsmith and Pemberton.
created a customisable viral video, which enabled users to seemingly broadcast their friends' darkest secrets on a digital billboard at London's Piccadilly Circus
.
British dark comedy
British dark comedy refers to a comedy containing gloomy or disturbing elements, produced in Britain. One of the most successful British dark comedies is the League of Gentleman, coming in at number 41 in the BBC Britain's Best Sitcom.-2000s:...
television serial
Miniseries
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written by and starring The League of Gentlemen
The League of Gentlemen
The League of Gentlemen are a group of British comedians formed in 1995, best known for their radio and television series.The League of Gentlemen may also refer to:* The League of Gentlemen ,...
members Reece Shearsmith
Reece Shearsmith
Reeson "Reece" Shearsmith is an English actor and writer. He is most famous for his work as part of The League of Gentlemen along with fellow performers Steve Pemberton, Mark Gatiss and co-writer Jeremy Dyson.-Early life:...
and Steve Pemberton
Steve Pemberton
Steve James Pemberton is an English actor, comedian, writer and performer, most famous as a member of The League of Gentlemen along with fellow performers Reece Shearsmith, Mark Gatiss and co-writer Jeremy Dyson.-Early life:...
. It debuted on BBC Two
BBC Two
BBC Two is the second television channel operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It covers a wide range of subject matter, but tending towards more 'highbrow' programmes than the more mainstream and popular BBC One. Like the BBC's other domestic TV and radio...
on 18 June 2009
2009 in British television
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. Pemberton and Shearsmith each play numerous characters, with Dawn French and Jason Tompkins
Jason Tompkins
Jason Tompkins is a British actor and dwarf. He is most famous for his role as Robert Greenspan, one of the main characters in a dark comedy series Psychoville. He also had a notable role in an episode of Jonathan Creek, as well as a minor role in an episode of The 10th Kingdom.-External links:...
in additional starring roles. The first series was followed by a Halloween special, broadcast on 31 October 2010, which saw Imelda Staunton
Imelda Staunton
Imelda Mary Philomena Bernadette Staunton, OBE is an English actress. She is perhaps best known for her performances in the British comedy television series Up the Garden Path, the Harry Potter film series and Vera Drake...
added to the main cast along with previously supporting actors Eileen Atkins
Eileen Atkins
Dame Eileen June Atkins, DBE is an English actress and occasional screenwriter.- Early life :Atkins was born in the Mothers' Hospital in Clapton, a Salvation Army women's hostel in East London...
, and Daniel Kaluuya
Daniel Kaluuya
Daniel Kaluuya is an English actor, comedian and writer, who is best known for playing Posh Kenneth in the E4 teen-drama Skins. He has most recently been seen starring in the BBC dark comedy series Psychoville playing Michael Fry and Mac in the new BBC 3's horror drama The Fades.-Biography:Kaluuya...
. The second series started broadcasting on 5 May 2011 and ended on 6 June. Reece Shearsmith has officially announced that there will not be a third series.
Premise
The series revolves around five different characters from different parts of England: David Sowerbutts (played by Pemberton), a serial killerSerial killer
A serial killer, as typically defined, is an individual who has murdered three or more people over a period of more than a month, with down time between the murders, and whose motivation for killing is usually based on psychological gratification...
-obsessed man-child who still lives with his mother Maureen (Shearsmith); Mr. Jelly (Shearsmith), an embittered one-handed children's entertainer; Oscar Lomax (Pemberton), a blind millionaire who collects stuffed toy animals; Joy Aston (French), a midwife who treats a practice doll as if it is her real child; and Robert Greenspan (Tompkins), a panto
Pantomime
Pantomime — not to be confused with a mime artist, a theatrical performer of mime—is a musical-comedy theatrical production traditionally found in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Jamaica, South Africa, India, Ireland, Gibraltar and Malta, and is mostly performed during the...
dwarf
Dwarfism
Dwarfism is short stature resulting from a medical condition. It is sometimes defined as an adult height of less than 4 feet 10 inches , although this definition is problematic because short stature in itself is not a disorder....
in love with his Snow White
Snow White
"Snow White" is a fairy tale known from many countries in Europe, the best known version being the German one collected by the Brothers Grimm...
who believes he has the power of telekinesis. All five are connected by a mysterious blackmail
Blackmail
In common usage, blackmail is a crime involving threats to reveal substantially true or false information about a person to the public, a family member, or associates unless a demand is met. It may be defined as coercion involving threats of physical harm, threat of criminal prosecution, or threats...
er who has sent them a letter each with the message: "I know what you did".
The series is named after the title given to The League of Gentlemen when the series was sold to Japan
Japan
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and Korea
Korea
Korea ) is an East Asian geographic region that is currently divided into two separate sovereign states — North Korea and South Korea. Located on the Korean Peninsula, Korea is bordered by the People's Republic of China to the northwest, Russia to the northeast, and is separated from Japan to the...
.
Plot
The series features a diverse set of five characters who live in different parts of England, all of whom have been blackmailed by the same individual (referred to in the credits for episode seven as "Black Gloved Man"), who has given them each a letter with the message "I know what you did…" In the second episode, the blackmailer leaves them a second message that reads, "You killed her". In the third episode they receive a videotape showing them in an asylum together (several having previously revealed that they had been institutionalised) performing "Close Every DoorClose Every Door
"Close Every Door" is a song from the musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber. It is the penultimate song of the first act of the musical, sung by Joseph while imprisoned for his supposed relationship with Potiphar's wife. In addition to voicing...
" from the musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical with lyrics by Tim Rice. The story is based on the "coat of many colors" story of Joseph from the Hebrew Bible's Book of Genesis. This was the first Lloyd Webber and Rice musical to be performed publicly...
. It is later disclosed that the institution was called Ravenhill Hospital. In Episodes Five and Six, the characters discover the final message: a key depicting a raven. At least David's letter also contains the message "I'm waiting...". Ultimately it is revealed that Joy, Robert, David and Oscar were involved in the death of Nurse Edwina Kenchington (Eileen Atkins
Eileen Atkins
Dame Eileen June Atkins, DBE is an English actress and occasional screenwriter.- Early life :Atkins was born in the Mothers' Hospital in Clapton, a Salvation Army women's hostel in East London...
), who is the blackmailer's mother and Dr Stuart Strachen, aka Mr Jolly. Jolly blackmailed Jelly whom he blamed most, as he was operating on Jelly's hand (which was later amputated after the operation went wrong) while Kenchington was dying. David knocked her over and Joy pronounced her dead. The group started a fire to cover their tracks, but Kenchington woke up and attempted to escape. Oscar, Joy and Robert prevented her from leaving the room she was trapped in, but she somehow survived and returns to Ravenhill in the final episode looking for her locket. At the end of the series, Mr Jolly blows up part of the asylum with most of the main characters and Kenchington inside and it is revealed that Robert has the locket.
Series two begins with Mr Jelly, Oscar, and Oscar's assistant Michael, aka "Tealeaf", attending the funeral of Mr Jolly. Afterwards, Jelly is given a box of Jolly's props, which also turns out to contain Strachen's mobile phone and his ID card at Andrews Nanotech. Posing as Mr Jolly, Mr Jelly discovers that Strachen was using his surgical skills to deal in the black market organ trade, and that Kenchington had an account with a cryogenic storage facility where her late father Ehrlichmann's head was kept frozen. Meanwhile, Andrews Nanotech has hired a police detective to retrieve Kenchington's locket by any means necessary. Robert gives the locket to Debbie for safekeeping, but after Robert's death, Debbie gives it away to make-up lady Hattie. Detective Finney tracks down the former Ravenhill patients, questioning, then killing, Joy, Robert, and Oscar, and attempting to kill Mrs Wren. Oscar's friend, toyshop owner Peter Bishop, deduces that Oscar was killed for his connection to Ravenhill. He enlists Tealeaf's help with his investigation and they successfully retrieve the locket from Hattie before Finney can get to it, and contact Mr Jelly, whose own investigations have resulted in him taking possession of Ehrlichmann's frozen head. Bishop kills Tealeaf and travels to London with Mr Jelly to attempt to sell the locket and head to Grace Andrews. It is revealed that the method for restoring a frozen head to life, worked out by Edwina Kenchington, was microscopically engraved on the links of the locket chain, and using this information, Andrews' team is able to bring Erlichmann's head back to life. The head is subsequently destroyed, but the technique has been proven to work. The series ends with the revelation that David Sowerbutts is storing the corpse of his mother Maureen (who has died of cancer) in a bathtub filled with ice, suggesting that she could be resurrected by the same technique.
David and Maureen Sowerbutts
David Sowerbutts (Pemberton) is a man-child who lives with his mother Maureen (Shearsmith). David is a simpleMental retardation
Mental retardation is a generalized disorder appearing before adulthood, characterized by significantly impaired cognitive functioning and deficits in two or more adaptive behaviors...
man who cannot hold down a job because of his lack of skill and his morbid obsession with famous serial killer
Serial killer
A serial killer, as typically defined, is an individual who has murdered three or more people over a period of more than a month, with down time between the murders, and whose motivation for killing is usually based on psychological gratification...
s.
One night at his work as part of a murder mystery evening, David ad-libs a far more gruesome murder scenario (including disembowelment) and is fired. Upon returning home, Maureen believes her son has actually killed someone. She finds the blackmail note saying "I know what you did", and mistakenly believes it is from Graham (Nicholas Le Prevost
Nicholas Le Prevost
Nicholas Le Prevost is an English actor. He was educated at Shaftesbury Grammar School, Shaftesbury, Dorset from 1957 to 1961 and at Kingswood School, Bath from 1961 to 1964...
), David's boss. She asks him not to go to the police, but (knowing nothing about the note) Graham mistakenly believes Maureen is blackmailing him about his conviction for molestation. When he tries to call the police but, Maureen and David take him hostage. Graham escapes, but gets run over as he flees. Maureen decides they must kill everyone who knows about the "murder" (not realising it wasn't real), and she and David kill Cheryl (Janet McTeer
Janet McTeer
Janet McTeer, OBE is a British actress.-Life and career:McTeer was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom, the daughter of Jean and Alan McTeer...
), another member of the company, by electrocuting her.
In the fourth episode they strangle another company member, Martin Pike (David Smallbone) . David feels guilty for killing his own father many years before by giving him too many sleeping pills to help him sleep. Before they can leave, a man claiming to be a police inspector (Mark Gatiss
Mark Gatiss
Mark Gatiss is an English actor, screenwriter and novelist. He is best known as a member of the comedy team The League of Gentlemen, and has both written for and acted in the TV series Doctor Who and Sherlock....
) arrives, mistaking David for Martin Pike. He wants to interview Pike about recent murders in the area. While Maureen is out of the room, the "inspector" reveals that he is really auditioning for a role in the murder reenactments. David goes to fetch their car and Maureen, who believes the inspector knows about their murders, confesses the truth about her husband's death; she had been poisoning him for months and let David take the blame. That was why David was institutionalised. The actor thinks she was improvising in the scene and breaks character, revealing that he isn't a real inspector. He starts to tell David what she said, but Maureen covers for herself with excuses. When the actor leaves, David says he doesn't want to commit any more murders. However, the actor returns to collect his coat and sees Martin Pike's body, so David has to then kill him.
David's next victim (Robin) is to meet him at a wax museum, in the section devoted to famous serial killers, but after meeting him there, all the wax works come to life in a musical number and convinces David that the real monster is his mother, so he lets Robin go free. Maureen leaves with David, believing that Robin was killed. Their last victim is supposed to be Lorraine (Natalie Cassidy
Natalie Cassidy
Natalie Ann Cassidy is a British actress, most commonly known for appearing in the television soap EastEnders where she played Sonia Jackson for many years. She has also appeared in the BBC Two sitcom Psychoville and was a contestant on the seventh series of Strictly Come Dancing.-Career:As a...
), and Maureen suggests that they barbecue her corpse to "celebrate." David has a flashback to Ravenhill, with a horrified Joy exclaiming that he killed Nurse Kenchington; and refuses to kill anyone else. Maureen locks him in and goes to murder Lorraine herself. She goes to where Lorraine works. Lorraine recognises her and lets slip that the "murder" David committed was just an enactment. Realising the implications of what she and David have done, Maureen takes a drug overdose. She tries to smother David with a pillow, as she thinks he is asleep under a sheet, but realises too late that he has escaped. Maureen collapses. David is seen walking towards Ravenhill with what appears to be a severed head in a bag.
David attempts to turn himself in by going to a Citizens' Advice Bureau, but the apathetic advisor refuses to help him. He instead goes to the grave of Nurse Kenchington. Flashbacks reveal the full story of her murder. David hears Kenchington's voice urging him to dig up the grave, which he does. She then appears, seeking her locket. When she doesn't find it, she shoots David. However he is carrying a watermelon in the bag and it saves his life. David is close enough to hear the explosion at the end.
In series 2, David visits Maureen, who survived her suicide attempt, but has a tumour in her liver, giving her only months to live. Returning home, they find another blackmail letter, again reading "I know what you did". They immediately suspect Robin, the one person who they did not murder and confront him at an audition. Failing to get their point across, Maureen invites Robin for dinner and he reveals he has a peanut allergy. After eating pudding laced with crushed peanuts Robin simply suffers severe gastric reactions, rather than death. He tells David he didn't send the blackmail letter. Meanwhile, Maureen performs an embarrassing Tina Turner act, leading David to reveal that she has cancer. She goes to bed, leaving David to clean up.
Later, David meets up with the real blackmailer - Simon from the Citizens' Advice Bureau. Because he has a large debt that he wants to clear, Simon asks David to murder his aunt, who is Mr Jelly's assistant, the elderly Mrs Wren. In return, David asks that his mother doesn't suffer any more. David breaks into Sunnydale Assisted Living to kill Mrs. Wren, but finds what appears to be her dead body, he leaves, believing the job was done. He actually found another lady named Pat, murdered by Detective Finney, believing her to be Mrs Wren. David returns home to find Maureen dismembering Simon. David tells her he simply intended for Simon to give her a disabled parking badge to stop the "suffering" she had been having from her bad leg, not murder her.
David decides to treat Maureen to a fun experience before she dies. Maureen hopes for wine-tasting in France, but David thought she wanted to go zorbing, which she enjoys anyway. Afterwards, she begins to cough up blood and is admitted to hospital. The doctor tells David that she won't make it through the night and sends them home. David recites a John Donne poem to her and Maureen dies peacefully. David then uses her corpse to perform a last dance - "Oops Upside Your Head" by The Gap Band, which was one of two cheerful songs Maureen wanted at her funeral.
Mr Jelly, Mr Jolly and Claudia Wren
Mr Jelly (his real name is Sean) (Shearsmith), is a one-handed clownClown
Clowns are comic performers stereotypically characterized by the grotesque image of the circus clown's colored wigs, stylistic makeup, outlandish costumes, unusually large footwear, and red nose, which evolved to project their actions to large audiences. Other less grotesque styles have also...
from Salford
City of Salford
The City of Salford is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. It is named after its largest settlement, Salford, but covers a far larger area which includes the towns of Eccles, Swinton-Pendlebury, Walkden and Irlam which apart from Irlam each have a population of over...
, Greater Manchester
Greater Manchester
Greater Manchester is a metropolitan county in North West England, with a population of 2.6 million. It encompasses one of the largest metropolitan areas in the United Kingdom and comprises ten metropolitan boroughs: Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, Wigan, and the...
. He incorporates his disability into his act, which he calls "Mr Jelly and his 100 hands" where he uses different artificial hands. He blames his recent failures on the similarly named Mr Jolly (Adrian Scarborough
Adrian Scarborough
Adrian Philip Scarborough is an English character actor and won an Olivier award for best actor in a supporting role in 2011.Scarborough was born in Melton Mowbray, and trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, winning the Chesterton Award for Best Actor.In 1993, he was nominated for the Ian...
, eventually revealed as the blackmailer), whose is really Dr Stuart Strachen, who became a clown after botching Jelly's operation to cure his repetitive strain injury
Repetitive strain injury
Repetitive strain injury is an injury of the musculoskeletal and nervous systems that may be caused by...
, causing his hand to be amputated. They fight in a ballpond, but when Jelly shows Jolly the blackmail letter, Jolly pretends that it was meant for him. At the end of episode three, Jolly is seen in the same video at the mental institution, but as a doctor.
Jolly reveals that the main characters were all present at Ravenhill Hospital and being cared for by Kenchington (later revealed as Jolly's mother), who was morally corrupt and sadistic, resulting in her death. Jolly tells Jelly that he plans to gather all the patients and anyone else involved and return to the scene of the crime to figure out what is going on.
In the sixth episode Jelly is performing at a retirement home when Jolly phones, asking to meet him. Jolly claims to have worked out the identity of the blackmailer: a highly dangerous and psychotic individual from Ravenhill. When Jelly arrives, Jolly fakes his own murder. The blackmailer then phones the police and says he had seen two clowns fighting.
Upon arriving Jelly and Claudia Wren, who he is handcuffed to, enter the hospital, find the others and are confronted by their blackmailer, who is revealed as Mr Jolly. Jolly blames all of them (except the innocent, who just happened to be there) for the death of his mother, Nurse Kenchington. When Jelly protests that he had nothing to do with it, Jolly reveals that it was Jelly's hand operation he was in the middle of when his mother died. Kenchington then arrives, and frantically searches for her missing locket, but no one knows its whereabouts. A scuffle ensues until Jolly reveals that he has a bomb, which then explodes.
Three months later, Jelly attends the funeral of Jolly, where the two clowns are again mixed up, with Jelly's name on a wreath and the gravestone. At the wake, Jelly is given some of Jolly's possessions. When he examines them, he discovers an address on an ID card and a missed call on Jolly's mobile. Later he answers Jolly's mobile and accepts a booking intended for Jolly. He arrives at a large mansion and acts as "Mr Jolly", but it is revealed that Jelly was there to do a kidney removal - a business Jolly had on the side to add it to his income.
After phoning Michael, he figures out that he and Mrs Wren are both in danger of being murdered by Detective Finney. He gets her from Sunnydale before Finney or David find her. Jelly disguises himself as Jolly to gain access to the warehouse where the removed kidney is to be stored. There, they find Jelly's missing hand (which he drops and shatters) and a frozen severed head of Kenchington's father, Ehrlichmann. Jelly is told by Peter Bishop to bring the head to London.
After the successful reanimation of Ehrlichmann's head, Grace Andrews tells Kelvin to kill Jelly and Claudia, whom she believes to be a Russian spy. Kelvin takes them into a storage room and handcuffs Claudia to a chair, then tries to inject Jelly with deadly chemicals. They fight, and Jelly is saved at the last moment by Kerry, using her telekinetic powers. Jelly and Claudia confront Andrews in front of her financial backers, who denies having any connection to the murders, but her plan is revealed on her projection screen, resulting in her arrest.
Oscar Lomax and Michael Fry (Tealeaf)
Oscar Lomax (Steve Pemberton) is a blind millionaire from IlkleyIlkley
Ilkley is a spa town and civil parish in West Yorkshire, in the north of England. Ilkley civil parish includes the adjacent village of Ben Rhydding and is a ward within the metropolitan borough of Bradford. Approximately north of Bradford, the town lies mainly on the south bank of the River Wharfe...
, West Yorkshire
West Yorkshire
West Yorkshire is a metropolitan county within the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England with a population of 2.2 million. West Yorkshire came into existence as a metropolitan county in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972....
. He lives in a vast mansion with support coming only from Michael Fry (Daniel Kaluuya
Daniel Kaluuya
Daniel Kaluuya is an English actor, comedian and writer, who is best known for playing Posh Kenneth in the E4 teen-drama Skins. He has most recently been seen starring in the BBC dark comedy series Psychoville playing Michael Fry and Mac in the new BBC 3's horror drama The Fades.-Biography:Kaluuya...
), who helps Lomax as community service
Community service
Community service is donated service or activity that is performed by someone or a group of people for the benefit of the public or its institutions....
. Lomax calls Michael "Tea leaf" because of his criminal background, "tea leaf" being cockney rhyming slang
Cockney rhyming slang
Rhyming slang is a form of phrase construction in the English language and is especially prevalent in dialectal British English from the East End of London; hence the alternative name, Cockney rhyming slang...
for "thief." Lomax spends his time collecting plush toys which he calls "commodities" and his "Holy of Holies", keeping them in a locked room. He carries a Club biscuit with him, mistaking it for a mobile phone.
Lomax only needs one more item to complete his collection, Snappy the Crocodile. He once discovered it online, but two more people, the Crabtree sisters (conjoined twins
Conjoined twins
Conjoined twins are identical twins whose bodies are joined in utero. A rare phenomenon, the occurrence is estimated to range from 1 in 50,000 births to 1 in 100,000 births, with a somewhat higher incidence in Southwest Asia and Africa. Approximately half are stillborn, and a smaller fraction of...
from Braintree, Essex
Braintree, Essex
Braintree is a town of about 42,000 people and the principal settlement of the Braintree district of Essex in the East of England. It is northeast of Chelmsford and west of Colchester on the River Blackwater, A120 road and a branch of the Great Eastern Main Line.Braintree has grown contiguous...
) bought it before him. Lomax bought Snappy from the sisters in exchange for his eyes. After Ravenhill he let Snappy be stolen so he could once more feel the "thrill of the chase". Michael helps him make an offer on Snappy when it appears online, which results in a bidding war with the Crabtrees. The people selling Snappy withdraw the sale after seeing the demand for the toy. They tell Lomax he won the auction but then reveal that they don't know where Snappy is. Lomax tries to coax the information out of their son, but with no luck. Michael, meanwhile, bribes the child and escapes with the Crabtree sisters, along with the phone number of a third bidder who the son sent Snappy to. The bidder is the mysterious blackmailer. Michael cons the Crabtree sisters out of their money and arranges to meet the blackmailer at Ravenhill. There, Snappy has been left in a room. As Michael enters to collect Snappy, the door slams behind him and Joy locks it from the outside. Michael phones Lomax and begs to be rescued.
Lomax arrives with his new helper and they free Michael. Michael gives the toy crocodile to Oscar. The two walk out to a nearby cliff, where Lomax throws it over the edge. He confesses that he suffers from Paradise Syndrome
Paradise Syndrome
Leisure Sickness, similar to Paradise Syndrome, is the name given to a purported psychological condition, not universally recognized by psychologists, by which some people are more likely to report feeling ill during weekends and vacations than when working...
. Only by yearning and searching for something can he be truly happy, thus he'll keep searching for Snappy. Michael get's fed up and attempts to leave, but the blackmailer steals his keys. Both he and Lomax are present when the building explodes.
Oscar and Michael attend Jolly's funeral, Michael with a broken arm that prevents him from driving and Oscar in a wheelchair and heavily deaf. They and Jelly are interviewed by Detective Finney about the events at Ravenhill, and Michael shows Jelly information about Kenchington's hidden embezzled funds, which she planned to collect later. Her two-year absence is explained by her waiting until the fuss surrounding her disappearance had died down. Later Lomax reveals why he hates Tony Hancock
Tony Hancock
Anthony John "Tony" Hancock was an English actor and comedian.-Early life and career:Hancock was born in Southam Road, Hall Green, Birmingham, England, but from the age of three was brought up in Bournemouth, where his father, John Hancock, who ran the Railway Hotel in...
; they were best friends until Lomax found discovered his son, Billy, was not his, but Hancock's. His son has been trying to contact him, but Lomax ignores him. As Michael puts the latest letters in the rubbish outside, Billy Lomax is seen hiding in the bushes.
Later, Lomax admits that he himself is Tony Hancock; his best friend, whose wife Lomax/Hancock slept with, died following the betrayal. Michael persuades Hancock/Lomax to reunite with his son. However, Hancock/Lomax is murdered by Finney moments before the reunion, with the body arranged to look like suicide. Michael goes to visit Peter Bishop, owner of Hoyti Toyti's toy shop, which Lomax visited frequently. Bishop tells Michael that the toy shop is a front for his real business: trading Nazi memorabilia. They puzzle over the Ravenhill patients, believing that they were murdered, and discover that Edwina Kenchington was the daughter of a brilliant German scientist called Ehrlichmann. He had founded Ravenhill to perform experiments on people after World War II. Bishop also finds a photograph of a young Edwina wearing the locket, and they see in a television interview that Debbie is now wearing the locket. Successfully tracking the locket down to Hattie, they retrieve the locket and plan to travel to London. However, Bishop reveals himself to Michael in a full Nazi uniform, shooting him dead and taking the locket.
Joy and George Aston
Joy Aston (French) is a midwife in BristolBristol
Bristol is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, with an estimated population of 433,100 for the unitary authority in 2009, and a surrounding Larger Urban Zone with an estimated 1,070,000 residents in 2007...
. She teaches ante-natal, but dwells on the painful and violent sides of giving birth. She treats a practice doll as if it were a real child, calling him Freddy. Her husband George (Pemberton) is even forced to care for Freddy. Joy steals blood from the hospital blood bank, putting it in a baby bottle for Freddie. In the third episode George refuses the charade of pretending that Freddy is real, but Freddy appears to have thrown his baby dish onto the floor. Joy is delighted that the blood seems to be bringing him to life.
In episode five Freddy seemingly comes to life, and violently attacks Joy, culminating with George's death and Joy's collapse. However, George is not dead, but Freddy is under Nicola's (Elizabeth Berrington) control, Joy's colleague with whom George is having an affair. They believe Joy is dead, so they dismantle Freddy and leave. However, Joy awakens and rushes Freddy to hospital, but since he is a doll, the doctors refuse treatment. So Joy kidnaps Nicola and drives her to Ravenhill, where Joy exsanguinates Nicola to transfer her blood to Freddy. As Nicola lies dying, Joy reveals that she was driven insane after the death of her son Paul and Freddie was given to her as part of her therapy. She then hears Michael Fry enter the building.
As the others arrive, Joy wanders away from Nicola. As her blood drain slows she becomes catatonic. Jennifer, Oscar's new helper, discovers Nicola and tries to help her out of the building. Joy believes the blood transfusion turned Freddy into Jennifer, and begins treating her like a baby boy. They are present when the building explodes.
In the second series, Joy is wearing a neck brace and looking after Jennifer (calling her Freddy), now completely disabled. George moves out and reveals that Nicola died from blood loss, since the emergency transfusion the hospital had was contaminated with Ribena, since it was the blood Joy stole in season one. She is interviewed by Detective Finney who is extremely interested in Kenchington's locket. She tells him she does not know its whereabouts, but Finney notices Jennifer's hand move, surmising that she might know something. After failing to get any information from Jennifer, he suddenly stabs Joy in the neck with the pencil and places it in Jennifer's hand, making it seem like she stabbed her. He leaves Joy bleeding to death alongside the incapacitated girl.
Robert Greenspan, Kerry and Debbie
Robert Greenspan (Tompkins) is a dwarf actor, lately playing Blusher in a Snow White pantomime. The panto stars and is directed by Christopher BigginsChristopher Biggins
Christopher Kenneth Biggins is an English actor and media personality.-Career:Biggins was born in Oldham, Lancashire, England and brought up in Salisbury, Wiltshire, where he took elocution lessons and participated in local drama groups...
(playing himself). Robert is in love with the dim actress who is playing Snow White, Debbie (Daisy Haggard
Daisy Haggard
-Family:The daughter of film director Piers Haggard and his wife Anna Slovsky, she was raised and educated in Dulwich, South London at the James Allen's Girls' School.-Career:...
), but she does not even notice him. Robert is mocked by everyone, in particular Brian (Shearsmith), the actor playing the Wicked Queen. Robert appears to be telekinetic, whenever he gets upset, although episode six reveals it is actually Kerry (Lisa Hammond).
When Robert gets the first blackmail letter, he believes it is because he once starred in a porn film. When he tells Brian, he is told not to worry. Later Robert sees Brian showing Debbie the video he starred in. His anger appears to cause the TV to blow up.
Debbie then plays a cruel trick. She convinced him to appear on stage naked in front of the whole cast, thinking that Debbie wanted a sexual fantasy with him. Kerry uses her powers to make a light explode, letting Robert think it was him. The next day Kerry uses telekinesis to close the lid of the coffin in the pantomime, knocking Debbie. Robert visits her in hospital and kisses her. She suddenly awakes, suffering from amnesia, so Robert claims they have been together for two years. Robert receives another letter from the blackmailer, this time containing a large key with the symbol of a raven.
Later, Robert convinces Debbie they are engaged. This upsets Kerry, who is in love with Robert. She and Brian conspire to get Robert sacked from the pantomime and then corner him during a rehearsal. Kerry reveals that she has the telekinetic powers and she wanted to protect him from the bullying from the rest of the cast. She demands that he tell her he loves her. Robert attempts to leave, but Brian knocks him out and Kerry bundles him into a car.
Robert and Kerry end up on the road where Kerry apologizes. Robert accepts, but their vehicle runs out of petrol. They find an abandoned home where there is soup on the table. Kerry makes a phone call for help and Robert helps himself to the soup. He then notices that the phone is disconnected from the wall. Kerry calls out to a woman she calls "grandma" for help and an old woman emerges as Robert passes out from the drugged soup. Robert is not in the climax at Ravenhill, but in the final shot with Nurse Kenchington's stolen locket hanging from his neck.
In the second series, Robert escapes his prison while Kerry and "grandma" concoct a love potion for Robert. He finds Debbie, who is now in film work and asks her to keep the stolen Kenchington locket safe. Robert then goes to an audition, unaware that it is a trap by Detective Finney. In the final scene, Robert is lying dead, hidden behind some rubbish bins.
Debbie continues to wear the locket until makeup artist Hattie takes an interest in it. Following a television interview, she opens it to find that it contains what appears to be glitter, and believing it to be of no value, Hattie washes it down the drain. As of the end of series 2, it appears that the contents of the locket were a red herring
Red herring
A red herring is a deliberate attempt to divert attention.Red herring may refer to:* Red herring , the informal fallacy of presenting an argument that may in itself be valid, but does not address the issue in question....
, and Hattie's disposal of them was of no consequence; it was actually the locket's chain which was valuable, not its contents. In the final episode of Season 2, Kerry tracks down the those who were responsible for Robert's murder and saves Mr Jelly and Mrs Wren from Kelvin's murder attempt, knocks out Ehrlichmann's guard and, as revenge for ultimately being responsible for Robert's death and for insulting her, she telekinetically made his head explode.
Drew Aspinall and Phil Walker
Drew Apsinall is a disturbed 22-year old who encountered Kenchington and her patients on Halloween when he was 9. His house overlooked Ravenhill and he spent a lot of time obsessing over the institution after he met Kenchington. He was dared to break in and steal something from Kenchinton's office. He stole her locket but returned it after being caught. Kenchington then sadistically frightened him by telling vivid ghost stories, taking him on rounds to the disturbed patients and locking him in an empty cell. He later created a website about Ravenhill which formed part of Psychovilles viral advertising campaign.Drew contacted a production company making the fictional series Dale Winton
Dale Winton
Dale Winton is an English radio DJ and television presenter.-Early life:Winton's father, Gary, was "domineering" and died when Winton was 13. Winton was brought up by his mother, actress Sheree Winton...
's Overnight Ghost Hunt. Phil Walker, a location scout, joined him on a tour of the building the same night as the explosion, with Drew recounting the night he spent in Ravenhill. Kenchington returns to Ravenhill and Drew, believing her to be dead, thinks she is a ghost. She tells him she is not and presses him to see if he stole her locket again. Drew denies the theft and asks her why she was so protective of it. Being worthless to her, Kenchington shoots Drew and leaves to confront the main characters. Phil tries to drag Drew to safety and get help but the two of them are caught in the bomb blast and killed. Phil's camera footage is recovered by Grace Andrews.
Jeremy Goode
Jeremy (Shearsmith), in the second series, is a librarian who is obsessed with the return of the overdue book "50 Great Coastal Walks of the British Isles, Vol. 2" by a woman who claims she lost it. When angry, or when he believes that things "aren't right", Jeremy sees a figure he calls the 'Silent Singer' (Shearsmith). The Silent Singer is a jagged-toothed man dressed in braided pigtails who pretends to sing (silently) into a walking cane.After the book is not returned, he sneaks into the woman's house and persuades her daughter to find it for him. Having discovered that her daughter spoke to Jeremy in her bedroom, she sends her mother out to walk their dog. Jeremy follows and attacks her, cutting the grandmother's ponytail off and stealing the dog. He later calls and demands an exchange of the book for the unharmed dog. Meeting in the park, she exchanges the book for her dog. Just as Jeremy discovers she handed him "Volume 1" of the series, he is arrested by the police.
He is later interviewed by Detective Finney, who has "Volume 2" and starts to damage it, forcing Jeremy to talk. Jeremy was also a patient at Ravenhill who brought Kenchington her breakfast every morning. Reading the complicated equations on a her blackboard, he corrects a figure, balancing the equations, impressing Kenchington. They work on the equations together for months before Jeremy goes up for review. Having been cured and about to be released, Jeremy makes up the Silent Singer based on the appearance of a female patient walking past the window. They deny his release, allowing him to stay. However, the Silent Singer actually becomes real in his head and he is not released for seven years. He claims that the locket contains "the secret of eternal life" and does not tell Finney any more. When left alone in the interview room, Jeremy picks up the book but finds all the pages blank and appears to have a mental breakdown as a result.
Hattie
Hattie (Pemberton), in the second series, is a movie makeup artist. Her gay friend Chris has a boyfriend, an Iranian waiter in the local cafe named Sharouz. Because his visa expires soon, Chris asks Hattie to marry Sharouz so he can stay in the country. Taking the plan too far, she marries and sleeps with the petrified Sharouz. Later, desperate to keep him as her husband, she chains him to the bedroom radiator to prevent him escaping. At work, she prepares Debbie for her television interview and after getting it open, tips the contents of Kenchington's locket (glitter dust) down the drain. Debbie, thinking that the K on the front of the locket is an H, gives the locket to Hattie.Chris, returning early, rescues Sharouz during a wedding photoshoot, leaving Hattie mentally unbalanced. She instead takes the wedding photographer hostage and chains him to the radiator. Detective Finney later arrives to arrest her and discovers that Michael and Peter Bishop, posed as detectives, took the locket with them.
Grace Andrews and Kelvin
Grace Andrews (Imelda Staunton) and her assistant Kelvin (Daniel IngsDaniel Ings
Daniel Ings is an English actor.He trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and The National Youth Theatre and has appeared in a number of stage, short films and television programs. His most notable roles to date are those of Jake in the Channel 4 comedy Pete versus Life and Kelvin in the BBC...
) are both introduced in the Hallowe'en special as working for an unknown organisation which is trying to pinpoint where all the other characters are, tracking their every moment in the hope of finding the locket. Andrews is always obsessed with new technology and laments that her workplace isn't like Minority Report
Minority Report (film)
Minority Report is a 2002 American neo-noir science fiction film directed by Steven Spielberg and loosely based on the short story "The Minority Report" by Philip K. Dick. It is set primarily in Washington, D.C...
and more like a village post office. In Episode 6, she is arrested for the murders of the Main Characters, seen in the previous episodes, as she accidentally reveals it on her Plasma T.V
Detective Finney
Finney (Mark Bonnar), only appearing in the second series. He first talks to Jelly, Lomax and Michael at Jolly's funeral but yields few leads. He later interviews Joy and, after failing to gain any new information from her paralysed patient Jennifer, unexpectedly stabs her through her neckbrace with a pencil, killing her. In the second episode, he leads Robert to a false audition and, again, murders him shortly afterwards. In the third episode, he pretends to be Lomax's long-lost son Billy and sits with him for a while. Failing to discover what happened to Kenchington's locket, he hangs Lomax and makes it appear like suicide. In episode four, he goes undercover as a cleaner at Sunnydale and, thinking an old lady to be Mrs Wren (who is in fact her friend Pat, wearing Mrs Wren's cardigan), kills her quickly. In a phone call, he then asks whether to go for "the clown or the kid" next. Instead, he interrogates Jeremy, and then arrests Hattie, to try and trace down the locket, only to find out that Michael and Peter Bishop have beaten him to it. In the final episode of the series he tracks down David, intending to kill him, but discovers Jennifer, who reveals that she has "told someone" about Finney killing Joy. David then hits Finney with a plank of wood before placing him in Maureen Sowerbutts' coffin. The coffin is cremated, killing Finney.Web presence
Shearsmith and Pemberton collaborated with Rob and Neil Gibbons to produce fictional web content to accompany the show including an interactive treasure hunt. Fake websites and promotional websites were created for many of the characters to allow viewers of the programme to get "an overall Psychoville experience".A new Psychoville Experience was created for series two, with a new interface and a selection of new fictional websites released after each episode. Viewers were asked to find a number each week and input them into a keypad to unlock a 'secret chamber' at the end of the series. The chamber once opened reveals the revived head of the Nazi Doctor Ehrlichmann (Kenchingtons father). Five questions are asked and a certain amount correct gets you a free 'freeze and reanimation ticket' from CG Medistore and andrewsnanotech to print out.
The websites were again written by Shearsmith and Pemberton.
- Jelly Parties
- Jolly Parties
- Lomax Commodities
- Best Murders
- Joy's Advice to Young Mums Website
- Goldfish Bowl Productions
- Debbie Hart
- Hoyti Toyti/The Nazi Bay (type 'NAZI' in the valuation booth)>
Cast
| Actor | Character | No. of Episodes |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reece Shearsmith Reece Shearsmith Reeson "Reece" Shearsmith is an English actor and writer. He is most famous for his work as part of The League of Gentlemen along with fellow performers Steve Pemberton, Mark Gatiss and co-writer Jeremy Dyson.-Early life:... |
Mr Jelly | 12 | Children's Entertainer |
| Maureen Sowerbutts | 12 | David's mother | |
| Brian MacMillan | 2 | "Evil Queen" in Snow White Snow White "Snow White" is a fairy tale known from many countries in Europe, the best known version being the German one collected by the Brothers Grimm... |
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| Jeremy Goode | 6 | Obsessive Librarian | |
| The Silent Singer | 6 | Appears to Jeremy when something bad is happening | |
| Phil Walker | 1 | TV location scout | |
| John Christie John Christie (murderer) John Reginald Halliday Christie , born in Halifax, West Yorkshire, was a notorious English serial killer active in the 1940s and '50s. He murdered at least eight females – including his wife Ethel – by strangling them in his flat at 10 Rillington Place, Notting Hill, London... |
1 | Appears to David in a vision | |
| Steve Pemberton Steve Pemberton Steve James Pemberton is an English actor, comedian, writer and performer, most famous as a member of The League of Gentlemen along with fellow performers Reece Shearsmith, Mark Gatiss and co-writer Jeremy Dyson.-Early life:... |
David Sowerbutts | 14 | Ex-Ravenhill resident |
| Oscar Lomax | 8 | Ex-Ravenhill resident | |
| George Aston | 9 | Joy's husband | |
| Hattie | 5 | Shahrouz's Blackmailing Wife | |
| Judge Pennywise | 1 | Clown in Mr Jelly's nightmare | |
| Daniel Kaluuya Daniel Kaluuya Daniel Kaluuya is an English actor, comedian and writer, who is best known for playing Posh Kenneth in the E4 teen-drama Skins. He has most recently been seen starring in the BBC dark comedy series Psychoville playing Michael Fry and Mac in the new BBC 3's horror drama The Fades.-Biography:Kaluuya... |
Michael "Tealeaf" Fry | 13 | Oscar's home help |
| Dawn French | Joy Aston | 9 | Ex-Ravenhill resident |
| Jason Tompkins Jason Tompkins Jason Tompkins is a British actor and dwarf. He is most famous for his role as Robert Greenspan, one of the main characters in a dark comedy series Psychoville. He also had a notable role in an episode of Jonathan Creek, as well as a minor role in an episode of The 10th Kingdom.-External links:... |
Robert Greenspan | 9 | "Blusher" in Snow White, ex-Ravenhill resident |
| Eileen Atkins Eileen Atkins Dame Eileen June Atkins, DBE is an English actress and occasional screenwriter.- Early life :Atkins was born in the Mothers' Hospital in Clapton, a Salvation Army women's hostel in East London... |
Edwina Kenchington | 9 | Nurse at Ravenhill Hospital |
| Imelda Staunton Imelda Staunton Imelda Mary Philomena Bernadette Staunton, OBE is an English actress. She is perhaps best known for her performances in the British comedy television series Up the Garden Path, the Harry Potter film series and Vera Drake... |
Grace Andrews | 7 | Wants Kenchington's locket |
| Vilma Hollingbery Vilma Hollingbery Vilma Hollingbery is a British actress, born on 21 July 1932. She has appeared in many TV programs and films since the 1960s, and is known for her appearances as Claudia Wren in Psychoville, and has also appeared in in A Touch of Frost, the 1980 film Babylon, Doctor Who and The Bill, in which she... |
Claudia Wren | 6 | Care Home Resident and Jelly's Assistant |
Supporting cast
| Actor | Character | No. of Episodes |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lisa Hammond | Kerry | 9 | "Sniffy" in Snow White |
| Daisy Haggard Daisy Haggard -Family:The daughter of film director Piers Haggard and his wife Anna Slovsky, she was raised and educated in Dulwich, South London at the James Allen's Girls' School.-Career:... |
Debbie Hart | 7 | "Snow White" in Snow White |
| Daniel Ings Daniel Ings Daniel Ings is an English actor.He trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and The National Youth Theatre and has appeared in a number of stage, short films and television programs. His most notable roles to date are those of Jake in the Channel 4 comedy Pete versus Life and Kelvin in the BBC... |
Kelvin | 7 | Grace's assistant |
| Adrian Scarborough Adrian Scarborough Adrian Philip Scarborough is an English character actor and won an Olivier award for best actor in a supporting role in 2011.Scarborough was born in Melton Mowbray, and trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, winning the Chesterton Award for Best Actor.In 1993, he was nominated for the Ian... |
Mr Jolly | 6Also appears in the Halloween special in stock footage. | Dr Stuart Strachen, the blackmailer |
| Elyes Gabel Elyes Gabel Elyes Gabel is a British Asian actor who played Dr Gupreet "Guppy" Sandhu in the BBC medical drama, Casualty. He starred as PE teacher Rob Cleaver in BBC drama, Waterloo Road and appeared in the ITV Drama Identity... |
Shahrouz | 6 | |
| Elizabeth Berrington | Nicola | 5 | A nurse, colleague of Joy |
| Alison Lintott | Chelsea Crabtree | 4 | Kelly-Su's siamese twin |
| Debbie Chazen Debbie Chazen Debbie Chazen is an English actress. She is most famous for playing the roles of Annie in the BBC comedy The Smoking Room, Big Claire in Mine All Mine and various roles in the BBC sketch show Tittybangbang.... |
Kelly-Su Crabtree | 4 | Chelsea's siamese twin |
| Stacy Liu | Jennifer | 4 | Oscar's replacement home help |
| Christopher Biggins Christopher Biggins Christopher Kenneth Biggins is an English actor and media personality.-Career:Biggins was born in Oldham, Lancashire, England and brought up in Salisbury, Wiltshire, where he took elocution lessons and participated in local drama groups... |
Himself | 4 | Director and "Prince Charming" in Snow White |
| Nick Holder | Bob Dalton | 3 | Owner of Snappy the Crocodile |
| Alex Kelly | Karen Dalton | 3 | Bob's wife |
| Aaron Smith | Ian Dalton | 3 | Son of Bob and Karen |
| Sarah Solemani Sarah Solemani Sarah Solemani , is an English actress and writer, best known for starring in BBC Three's series Him and Her.Solemani was a member of the National Youth Theatre, starring as Elaine in the West End theatre production of The Graduate. After passing her A levels, she took a gap year before studying... |
Emily | 3 | Robin's dinner guest, later David's companion |
| Nicholas Le Prevost Nicholas Le Prevost Nicholas Le Prevost is an English actor. He was educated at Shaftesbury Grammar School, Shaftesbury, Dorset from 1957 to 1961 and at Kingswood School, Bath from 1961 to 1964... |
Graham | 2 | "Murder and Chips" leader |
| Janet McTeer Janet McTeer Janet McTeer, OBE is a British actress.-Life and career:McTeer was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom, the daughter of Jean and Alan McTeer... |
Cheryl | 2 | "Murder and Chips" actress |
| David Smallbone | Martin Pike | 2 | "Murder and Chips" actor |
| David Bamber David Bamber David James Bamber is an English actor, known for his television and theatre work. He is an Associate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.-Early years:... |
Robin | 4 | "Murder and Chips" actor |
| Natalie Cassidy Natalie Cassidy Natalie Ann Cassidy is a British actress, most commonly known for appearing in the television soap EastEnders where she played Sonia Jackson for many years. She has also appeared in the BBC Two sitcom Psychoville and was a contestant on the seventh series of Strictly Come Dancing.-Career:As a... |
Lorraine | 2 | "Murder and Chips" actress |
| Alex Waldmann Alex Waldmann Alex Waldmann is a young English actor from London. He is married to director Amelia Sears.-Career:After completing his training at LAMDA, Waldmann began his career in 2004 playing the role of Leto, in Fishbowl, directed by Paul Higgins, at Theatre 503... |
Drew Aspinall | 1 | Broke into Ravenhill as a child |
| Matthew Fenton | |||
| Daniel Millar | AA Man | 1 | Tries in vain to fix Mr. Jelly's car |
| Mark Gatiss Mark Gatiss Mark Gatiss is an English actor, screenwriter and novelist. He is best known as a member of the comedy team The League of Gentlemen, and has both written for and acted in the TV series Doctor Who and Sherlock.... Credited as Sam Kisgart |
Jason Griffin | 1 | "Murder and Chips" auditionee |
| George Asprey | John George Haigh John George Haigh John George Haigh , commonly known as the "Acid Bath Murderer" , was an English serial killer during the 1940s. He was convicted of the murders of six people, although he claimed to have killed nine... |
1 | Appears to David in a vision |
| Eric Loren Eric Loren Eric Loren is a London-based American actor and musician. He played Mr Diagoras and the Dalek Sec Hybrid in the long-running British TV series Doctor Who. He also played Kurtis Trent in Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness and a War Department Lieutenant in Saving Private Ryan... |
Albert DeSalvo Albert DeSalvo Albert Henry DeSalvo was a criminal in Boston, Massachusetts who confessed to being the "Boston Strangler", the murderer of 13 women in the Boston area. DeSalvo was not imprisoned for these murders, however, but for a series of rapes... |
1 | Appears to David in a vision |
| Glenn Carter Glenn Carter Glenn Carter is an English stage actor and singer-songwriter performing leading roles in musicals staged in London's West End... |
Jack the Ripper Jack the Ripper "Jack the Ripper" is the best-known name given to an unidentified serial killer who was active in the largely impoverished areas in and around the Whitechapel district of London in 1888. The name originated in a letter, written by someone claiming to be the murderer, that was disseminated in the... |
1 | Appears to David in a vision |
| Huw Edwards Huw Edwards (journalist) Huw Edwards is a BAFTA award-winning Welsh journalist, presenter and newsreader.He is a news presenter for BBC News in the United Kingdom. Edwards presents Britain's most watched news programme, BBC News at Ten, which is also the corporation's flagship news broadcast... |
Himself | 1 | Appears reading news on Joy's TV |
| Julian Bleach Julian Bleach Julian Bleach is an English actor who is best known as co-creator and "M. C." of Shockheaded Peter, a musical entertainment based on the works of Heinrich Hoffmann, which won the 2002 Olivier Award for Best Entertainment.Bleach trained at LAMDA... |
Doctor/Eddie | 1 | Appears in the Halloween special |
| Mark Bonnar Mark Bonnar Mark Bonnar is a Scottish actor who is best known is playing Bruno Jenkins in Casualty. He has also acted in afterlife, Taggart and Wire in the Blood. He has appeared in Nuclear Secrets and The Bill in 2007. In 2009, he starred in the BBC One series Paradox... |
Detective Finney | ||
| Jason Watkins Jason Watkins Jason Watkins is an American football offensive tackle for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League . He was signed by the Houston Texans as an undrafted free agent in 2009. He played college football at Florida.... |
Peter Bishop |
Production
Filming for the series began at locations around London in October 2008, with plans for the show to be broadcast in 2009. In May 2009 it was confirmed that the series would begin on 11 June, although it was later rescheduled to 18 June. In order to promote Psychoville's launch, digital agency Ralph & CoRalph & Co
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created a customisable viral video, which enabled users to seemingly broadcast their friends' darkest secrets on a digital billboard at London's Piccadilly Circus
Piccadilly Circus
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Ratings and Awards
| Series | Timeslot | Episode | Date of Episode | UK viewers (BBC Two) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thursday 22:00 BBC Two (30 mins. each) |
1 - Black Mail | 18 June 2009 | 1.73 million |
| 2 - Lomax | 25 June 2009 | 1.29 million | ||
| 3 - Jelly | 2 July 2009 | 1.30 million | ||
| 4 - David and Maureen | 9 July 2009 | 1.41 million | ||
| 5 - Joy | 16 July 2009 | 1.31 million | ||
| 6 - Robert | 23 July 2009 | 1.08 million | ||
| 7 - Ravenhill | 30 July 2009 | 1.45 million | ||
| — | Sunday 22:00 BBC Two (1 hour) | 8 - Halloween Special | 31 October 2010 | 1.50 million |
| 2 | Thursday 22:00 BBC Two (30 mins. each) |
9 - Survivors | 5 May 2011 | 1.15 million |
| 10 - Dinner Party | 12 May 2011 | 0.99 million | ||
| 11 - Hancock | 19 May 2011 | 0.74 million | ||
| 12 - Sunnyvale | 26 May 2011 | 0.66 million | ||
| 13 - The Hunt | 2 June 2011 | 0.80 million | ||
| 14 - Andrews Nanotech | 6 June 2011 | 0.63 million |
- Psychoville won the 2009 British Comedy AwardBritish Comedy AwardsThe British Comedy Awards is an annual awards ceremony in the United Kingdom celebrating notable comedians and entertainment performances of the previous year.-History:...
for "Best New British TV Comedy".
External links
- Viral Promotion
- Fan Site
- The League of Gentlemen launch Psychoville, The Sunday TimesThe Sunday TimesThe Sunday Times is a British Sunday newspaper.The Sunday Times may also refer to:*The Sunday Times *The Sunday Times *The Sunday Times *The Sunday Times...
, 31 May 2009 - Reece Shearsmith on Twitter (@RealReeceShears)