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A dark Dawn in Psychoville
Prepare for a helping of horror in the new darkly comic serial thriller from two of the minds behind The League of Gentlemen. Dibley it ain’t.
Psychoville explores the lives of five curious characters — spread around the country and apparently unconnected. One thing unites them; they have each received an anonymous card that warns, “I know what you did…”
Dawn French plays Joy Aston, a desperately misguided midwife with a very odd child. As she and the other characters receive this chilling message, we follow their everyday, strange and scary lives.
Among the other characters are:
- Mr Jelly (Reece Shearsmith) — an embittered hook-handed clown and children’s entertainer. Mr Jelly is tormented by the success of his rival Mr Jolly
- Robert (Jason Tompkins) — a love-struck telekinetic dwarf. Robert is performing in Snow White as Blusher and in love with his panto Snow White
- Debbie/Snow White (Daisy Haggard) — Debbie is beautiful and not very smart
- David Sowerbutts (Steve Pemberton) — a serial-killer-obsessed man-child
A big part of this dark world is the online experience that the show’s creators Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith have written to run in parallel with the show. Each character gets their own website with video, plus extra comedy and details about them. Users can also interact with the mystery blackmailer or blackmail a friend through a viral tie-in with The Graham Norton Show.
Psychoville starts Thursday 18 June 2009 10pm, BBC Two (see all)
Comments (6)
Wish we in the USA could see the clip. For "copyright" reasons, this clip cannot be viewed in the US.
Posted on 14 June 2009, 11:17 PM
Now you know how we feel about Hulu, etc.! =)
Posted on 17 June 2009, 10:16 PM
Seems not quite like Hulu, though--this isn't a full episode, it's a clip (I know, they have those on Hulu, too--and if at least clips aren't playable outside the US, that's dumb too), and I'd think the BBC and other content producers would WANT to have wide coverage of promotional clips. I can see not having full episodes available outside the UK (as when Channel 4 posts the IT Crowd episodes online a week before they air), but a promotional clip only leads to clamoring for something (if it's good) outside the UK...and, at least in my case, the purchase of said Region 2 DVD when it comes out, via UK Amazon.
So, _promo_ clips should be available everywhere. That's just logical. And it's self-defeating not to do it.
P.S. Will someone tell the Beeb that even though I'm in the US, I'd gladly pay the license [licence :-)] fee to be able to watch this sort of stuff?! (Not the reality-show junk, but anything F&S, and much comedy and drama.)
Posted on 20 June 2009, 5:35 PM
I just watched the first episode on iplayer or watever it's called, everything begins with an i nowadays don't they? But anyway just watched it and it is BRILLIANT! Dawn you rock my world! Love you lots like Vodka shots!
Posted on 24 June 2009, 11:55 PM
I have been viewing this web page for almost 2 years and I am not sure that French and Saunders even have a connection to the site.
But just in case they do, I would like to leave a note regarding Ab Fab on Fox here in the U.S.. Sorry, they let you down. Their loss. And ours. My suggestion to you would be a cable channel instead of a network like Fox, ABC, CBS or NBC, they have to many people they are accountable to. HBO would be perfect or Showtime, I am serious, if you don't believe me ask Tracey Ullman.
A concerned fan who would like to see French and Saunders "conquer America". You both deserve the international attention.
Posted on 21 July 2009, 4:37 AM
french and saunders are undoubtably the best double comic act there has ever been, i loved to see them in a reality show like celebrity big brother or celeb get me out of here, it'd be fantastic!Can't belive there finished :( gona miss French and Saunders :( !!!!!
from Keels
Posted on 16 August 2009, 8:14 PM