Peep Show (British TV series)

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Television series
Original title Peep show
Country of production United Kingdom
original language English
Year (s) 2003-2015
Production
company		 Objective Productions
length 24 minutes
Episodes 54 in 9 seasons
genre Sitcom , farce , cringe
Theme music Daniel Pemberton: Pip Pop Plop (Season 1)
Harvey Danger: Flagpole Sitta (from Season 2)
idea Andrew O'Connor, Jesse Armstrong, Sam Bain
production Phil Clarke
music Daniel Pemberton
First broadcast September 19, 2003 on Channel 4
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Peep Show is a British comedy series written by Andrew O'Connor, Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain and starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb . It was first broadcast in 2003 on the English channel Channel 4 . Peep Show was the longest-running comedy series of the transmitter and ended after nine seasons in the year 2015. Because of the casual use of expletives and the right open theming of sex and drug use were, with one exception, all the episodes of the sitcom in England a Certificate from 15 Years, with an episode of the first season only being released from the age of 18 due to offensive scenes. Peep Show won two BAFTA TV Awards , the Rose d'Or and three British Comedy Awards , and was nominated for the International Emmy Award , but has always had low audience ratings . However, the high sales of DVD releases made several extensions possible.

Characteristic of the sitcom is the frequent use of point-of-view shots and voice overs , as well as many embarrassing situations in which the protagonists get ( cringe comedy ).

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Peep Show is mainly about the experiences of the characters Mark (David Mitchell) and Jeremy (Robert Webb), who share an apartment in the London borough of Croydon . They work extensively with the first-person perspective of both (hence the name of the show: from the English "peep" = short look) as well as with inner monologues that expose the sometimes ironic cryptic thoughts of the two. Jeremy and Mark met at the (fictional) University of Dartmouth, where they called themselves "El Dude Brothers". In the course of the series, Jeremy's turbulent love life and Mark's complicated relationship with his colleague Sophie are told in particular. In season 7, Mark has a son.

Characters

main characters

Mark Corrigan

The leading actors Robert Webb and David Mitchell

Mark is the financially better off of the two, works as a senior employee in an international finance company and owns the apartment he and Jeremy live in. As a chronic pessimist, Mark often imagines the worst possible turns a situation can take for him and is also very clumsy when it comes to socializing. Neither of these, however, prevents him from being the most morally exemplary male figure in the series, which primarily earns him points from Sophie, his work colleague and secret love, even if his attempts to get closer to her were repeated in the first few seasons. T. tragically fail. When he finally gets together with her, his happiness lasts only a short time, as Mark realizes more and more that he doesn't really love her, which only comes out after their wedding. In season 6, Mark (like all English employees of his group) loses his job and goes looking for a new job to take care of the child he and Sophie had after the divorce. Despite his fundamental decency, he too lets himself be carried away to questionable undertakings: He spies on Sophie's emails or gives his employees hurtful and imaginative names in outbursts of anger. In addition, the conservative , but basically liberal Mark, like many British people, has a peculiar fascination for the Second World War and especially for Nazi Germany , which is reflected in the books he reads as well as in the fact that he plays in his computer games and always assumes the role of the Germans in war reenactments (in Wehrmacht uniform). In an episode in which Mark has a nervous breakdown and a psychiatrist asks him to say the first word he can think of about any term, the first thing Mark thinks of when he hears the term “father” is the word “Führer”. Mark is played by David Mitchell .

Jeremy 'Jez' Osborne

Jeremy is an almost continuously unemployed musician who often falls behind on his rent and likes to envision his future career, even though there is basically no sign that it could begin anytime soon. Nevertheless, in contrast to Mark, Jeremy is much more extroverted and sociable and also has a much more optimistic view of the world, although he never really lost the separation from his great love, "Big Suze", which just took place at the beginning of the first season Head goes. Morally, Jeremy is much more "flexible" than Mark, whom he often stabs in the back when it works to his advantage. Because basically he wants to live the life of a musician with sex and drugs, which Mark keeps him from doing again and again by insisting on his right as a roommate and the lack of rent payments that Jeremy owes him - and thus on Jeremie's financial dependence on him. Jeremy is played by Robert Webb .

Supporting characters

Super Hans

Besides Mark Jeremy's best friend and "band mate", Super-Hans is musically more successful as a recording studio employee than Jeremy, which is why he is his secret role model. Hans stands out in the series above all for his radicalism (he wants to baptize a pub “Free the Pedos” - “Liberated Pädophile”) as well as for his ruthlessness and excessive drug use (crack, cocaine). He is an unreliable friend who doesn’t stop at teasing Jeremy’s girlfriend, and he always wants to go against the tide with his opinions. Therefore, his views are usually nothing more than a mixture of pure opposition and the confused views of an extensive stoner, paired with a good portion of a feeling of superiority over everything and everyone. Super Hans is played by Matt King .

Sophie Chapman

Sophie is Mark's work colleague and, as his secret love, the center of his interest. Mark, meanwhile, shares this interest with Jeff, another colleague with whom he has an intimate enmity. Sophie is interested in both Mark and Jeff, initially dating Jeff for a long time before deciding on Mark, whom she married in the final episode of season four, only to request a divorce minutes later. Although Mark and Sophie actually get divorced and want to go their separate ways after their "terrible" wedding, they sleep together in a moment of weakness, with the result that Sophie becomes pregnant and finally gives birth to Mark's child at the end of the sixth season . Sophie is a down-to-earth and happy person at the beginning of the series, who enjoys the nightlife of London and smokes a joint every now and then, which is rather strange to Mark. After London, she escaped from the country life in the small village from which she comes and where her mother regularly cheats on her father (in one episode even with Jeremy). After the separation from Mark and not least because of the pregnancy and the associated responsibility that she demands from Mark, she becomes an increasingly uncomfortable character and with Mark the viewer loses almost all sympathy for her. Sophie is played by Olivia Colman .

Alan Johnson

Alan Johnson, usually just called "Johnson", is the credit manager and Mark's supervisor at his workplace. Johnson is the classic alpha animal, a self-confident, decisive and dignified cool personality with a penchant for the direct kind. Mark adores him so much that he even tries violently to become homosexual in one episode because he is the potentially ideal in Johnson Life partner sees. However, since both are thoroughly fond of the opposite sex (which is shown in an episode in which Johnson snatches the hopeful Jeremy Big Suze from under the nose), nothing more connects them than a thoroughly honest professional friendship. Johnson is played by Paterson Joseph .

Seasons

Season Number of episodes First broadcast Director
Season premiere Season finale
season 1 6th September 19, 2003 October 24, 2003 Jeremy Wooding
season 2 6th November 12, 2004 December 17, 2004 Tristram Shapeero
season 3 6th November 11, 2005 December 16, 2005 Tristram Shapeero
Season 4 6th April 13, 2007 May 18, 2007 Becky Martin
Season 5 6th May 2, 2008 June 6, 2008 Becky Martin
Season 6 6th September 18, 2009 October 23, 2009 Becky Martin
Season 7 6th November 26, 2010 December 29, 2010 Becky Martin
Season 8 6th November 25, 2012 December 24, 2012 Becky Martin
Season 9 6th November 11, 2015 December 16, 2015 Becky Martin

Awards

British Academy Television Award

  • 2009: Best Comedy Performance - David Mitchell
  • 2008: Best Situation Comedy

British Comedy Award

  • 2007: Best TV Comedy
  • 2007: Best TV Comedy Actor - David Mitchell
  • 2006: Best TV Comedy

Rose d'Or

  • 2004: sitcom

Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award

  • 2011: Best Television Comedy

Royal Television Society Award

  • 2008: Best Comedy Performance - David Mitchell and Robert Webb
  • 2006: Best Writer - Sam Bain, Jesse Armstrong

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  1. ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11100448
  2. ↑ Andrew Anthony: Mitchell and Webb on Peep Show: 'We just wanted to milk it' on theguardian.com (accessed January 2, 2018)
  3. ↑ Peep Show: sitcom for a rootless generation on spiked-online.com (accessed February 3, 2018)

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