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Peep Show is an award-winning British sitcom starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb. The television programme is written by Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain, with additional material by Mitchell and Webb amongst others. It has been broadcast on Channel 4 since 2003. The show's eighth series makes it the longest-returning comedy in Channel 4 history. Stylistically, the show uses point of view shots with the thoughts of main characters Mark and Jeremy audible as voiceovers. Peep Show follows the lives of two men from their twenties to thirties, Mark Corrigan, who has steady employment for most of the series, and Jeremy "Jez" Usbourne, an unemployed would-be musician. The pair met at the fictional Dartmouth University, and now share a flat in Croydon, South London. Mark is initially a loan manager at the fictional JLB Credit, later becoming a waiter, and then a bathroom supplies salesman. He is financially secure, but awkward and socially inept, with a pessimistic and cynical attitude. Jeremy, having split up with his girlfriend Big Suze prior to the first episode, now lives in Mark's spare room. He usually has a much more optimistic and energetic outlook on the world than Mark, yet his self-proclaimed talent as a musician has yet to be recognised, and he is not as popular or attractive as he would like to think himself, although he is more successful with the opposite sex than Mark.
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Peep Show is an award-winning British sitcom starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb. The television programme is written by Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain, with additional material by Mitchell and Webb amongst others. It has been broadcast on Channel 4 since 2003. The show's eighth series makes it the longest-returning comedy in Channel 4 history. Stylistically, the show uses point of view shots with the thoughts of main characters Mark and Jeremy audible as voiceovers. Peep Show follows the lives of two men from their twenties to thirties, Mark Corrigan, who has steady employment for most of the series, and Jeremy "Jez" Usbourne, an unemployed would-be musician. The pair met at the fictional Dartmouth University, and now share a flat in Croydon, South London. Mark is initially a loan manager at the fictional JLB Credit, later becoming a waiter, and then a bathroom supplies salesman. He is financially secure, but awkward and socially inept, with a pessimistic and cynical attitude. Jeremy, having split up with his girlfriend Big Suze prior to the first episode, now lives in Mark's spare room. He usually has a much more optimistic and energetic outlook on the world than Mark, yet his self-proclaimed talent as a musician has yet to be recognised, and he is not as popular or attractive as he would like to think himself, although he is more successful with the opposite sex than Mark.
Sitcom | 2004
Situation Comedy Award | 2004 | Andrew
Best Situation Comedy | 2010 | Philip
Best Comedy Performance | 2008 | David
Best Scripted Comedy | 2016 | Jesse
Best Writer | 2009 | Jesse
Best Male Performance in a Comedy Role | 2010 | David
Best Television Comedy Actress | 2008 | Olivia
Best Female Comedy Breakthrough Artist | 2010 | Isy
Best TV Sitcom | 2009 | Sam
Best TV Comedy Actor | 2006 | David
Best Female Comedy Breakthrough Artist For | 2010 | Isy
Best Television Comedy Actor | 2008 | David
Best Television Comedy | 2008
Best Female Comedy Newcomer | 2008 | Isy
Best Comedy Newcomer | 2005 | David
Best Tape and Film Editing Entertainment and Situation Comedy | 2010
Comedy | 2010 | Jesse
Writer Comedy | 2005 | Jesse
Best Scripted Comedy | 2009 | Sam
Best Tape and Film Editing Entertainment Situation Comedy | 2006 | Mark
Writer Comedy | 2016 | Jesse
Outstanding Actor Comedy Series | 2007 | Robert
Outstanding Actress Comedy Series | 2007 | Sophie
With very few exceptions (and apart from establishing shots of locations at the beginning of scenes) every shot is from a character's point of view (as if the viewer is seeing things through their eyes). Also, every single scene features either Mark or Jeremy, if not both.
Jeremy and Super Hans constantly change the name of their band from episode to episode. In Peep Show: The Interview (2003) Super Hans says it's called The Hair Blair Bunch or Spunk Bubble, Jeremy says it's Momma's Kumquat, in Peep Show: University Challenge (2004) it's Coming Up For Blair, in Peep Show: Holiday (2007) it's Various Artists ("to fuck over people with iPods") and in Peep Show: Jeremy's Manager (2008) it's Curse These Metal Hands. In Peep Show: Man Jam (2010), they join a band called Man Feelings. Jeremy gets kicked out of it but when he gets a job working for Ben's website he promises to get them featured on it on the condition they change their name to Danny Dyer's Chocolate Homunculus. In Peep Show: Jeremy Therapised (2012) Super Hans decide to officially end the band but neither of them can remember what it's called, Jeremy guesses it's 13 Bastards.
Super Hans was originally written with Danny Dyer in mind. Russell Brand also auditioned for the part and Jake Wood was one of the final three before Matt King was cast.
In an interview for The Culture Show (2004) Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain said that two of the main inspirations for Peep Show were the scene in Annie Hall (1977) where Alvy and Annie are talking and their real thoughts are shown as subtitles, and also the documentary Being Caprice (2000) (which in turn was inspired by Being John Malkovich (1999)), which used a POV style of filming that they thought was an arresting technique which would go well with the inner thoughts/voice-overs of Mark and Jeremy. They also cited Danny in Withnail & I (1987) as an inspiration for the quirky, drug-addled Super Hans (also the dynamic of an even weirder third character alongside a double act).
'Peep Show' was originally set to be called 'POV', after the show's Point-of-view perspective. The idea however was scrapped as writers Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain felt that the title would make the show sound 'too gimmicky'.
