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The League of Gentlemen return

Reece Shearsmith, Mark Gatiss and Steve Pemberton in The League of Gentlemen
  • Posted at 3:17pm
  • 20 October 2008
  • by JackSeale-RT

The League of Gentlemen are coming back - but in separate projects. Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton will write and appear in Psychoville for BBC2 next year, while Mark Gatiss stars in the Christmas drama Crooked House, which he's written for BBC4.

Psychoville (which is what The League of Gentlemen was called when it was shown in the Far East) is closer to League in style: it's a dark comedy mystery with characters including a one-handed clown who makes balloon animals with his hook, and a panto dwarf who's in love with Snow White. It co-stars Dawn French, Eileen Atkins and, indeed, Christopher Biggins.

Gatiss's Crooked House, a portmanteau drama in which he plays a museum curator telling stories about a haunted house, also features Green Wing's Julian Rhind-Tutt, Lee Ingleby, Daniela Denby-Ashe and, in his first acting role, Derren Brown. Says Gatiss: "Ever since I was a child and thrilled to the BBC's classic MR James adaptations, I've dreamt of sending a festive shiver down the nation's spine."

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