We’ve known for a while now that The League of Gentlemen was making a return to BBC this Christmas after a 15 year hiatus and now we know exactly when, thanks to star Reece Shearsmith.
The actor tweeted that the new show will be a three episode story told over three nights just before Chistmas on the 18th, 19th and 20th of December (below).
This is great news as Christmas is a special time for gifts, giving and terrifying circus performers who steal women and tell them they’re his wife now.
Ahem.
Star Steve Pemberton said of filming the show’s return in a BBC interview: “I just had this big smile on my face thinking, I can’t believe we’re back here doing this.”
“I thought it would take us a couple of days just to get back into the swing of it, and it didn’t,” adds fellow star Mark Gatiss.
“The lovely thing is it’s born of wanting to do it not having to do it. We’re not wanting to feel like a ’90s band going back on the road, like Bros or something.
“We’ve had a really good laugh. You have to be relaxed to feel funny – to feel that you can just do what you like.”
Described as “the most original, distinct and influential writer-performers since Monty Python” by Shane Allen, the BBC’s controller of comedy commissioning, we feel we have every right to be excited to see what the League can bring us in the time of social media and world greatly changed since the one we lived in 15 years ago. Don’t you?
BBC Two can confirm that the much-loved and critically-acclaimed comedy The League Of Gentlemen will be back on screen later this year for three special episodes, to commemorate the twentieth anniversary since their debut on BBC Radio. Their career launched with the BBC in the same year they won the Perrier Award for Comedy at the 1997 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith and Jeremy Dyson will be reuniting for a return to Royston Vasey. The League Of Gentlemen ran for three series on BBC Two and won the Rose D’Or and the BAFTA for Best Comedy Series in 2000.
The specials are commissioned by Patrick Holland and Shane Allen, Controller BBC Comedy, and they will be produced by BBC Studios. Executive producer is Jon Plowman, the producer is Adam Tandy, and the director is Steve Bendelack.
Our new “League of Gentlemen” shows will be shown on the 18th, 19th and 20th December on @BBCTwo. Merry Christmas!
— Reece Shearsmith (@ReeceShearsmith) November 27, 2017
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