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Louisa Mellor Jul 19, 2017

In The Dark’s second episode was an odd mixture of darkness and silliness. Spoilers ahead in our review…

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I’ll say this before we start: crime drama absolutely needs more of dandy Matt King in a cravat airily making deductions about decomposed corpses, and winding up pig farmers. That’s a must. Give Philip the pathologist with a brain the size of a planet his own comedic spin-off in which he can go cottaging and summarily solve murders over bacon butties to his heart’s content.

But keep Phil far, far away from scenes in which MyAnna Buring brilliantly pulls herself inside out with raw pain. Matt King’s character may brighten up the place like a jazzy lamp, but...

Alexander Payne has made a successful career out of losers. Whether it’s Jim McAllister (Matthew Broderick) in “Election,” Warren Schmidt (Jack Nicholson) in “About Schmidt,” Miles Raymond (Paul Giamatti) in “Sideways,” Matt King (George Clooney) in “The Descendents” or Woody Grant (Bruce Dern) in “Nebraska,” the writer/director has crafted a dependable niche focusing on the […]

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From selfies to hilarious memes and epic rants, Facebook is a visual feast. But what's the social media experience like for the blind? A group of engineers at Facebook are now working to make the heavily visual site accessible for everyone - including those who can't see. Matt King and Jeff Wieland, two members of Facebook's accessibility team, are developing software to improve blind users' experiences with the photo-heavy website through object recognition technology. King, who was declared legally blind as a child, explains that blind users now have the ability to scroll through a news feed or look at...

If I ever had a problem with Peep Show, it is that the characters aren’t particularly nice people. They like to think they are, particularly Mark (David Mitchell) with his snobbish selfish view on life and Jeremy (Robert Webb) …who is just Jeremy. In the end for me it’s the people like Super Hans (Matt King) who end up being more likable because he knows who he is, and just doesn’t give a damn.

Peep Show is a show that is built of uncomfortable humour based on the actions of a group of idiots, with the fact that the camera angles come from the actor’s viewpoints making it a little different than usual comedy shows. We get to hear their inner thoughts and get more of an insight into their actions. Whether you like the characters or not, this does make for interesting television.

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Peep Show stays true to nine series of brilliant comedic form in its finale. So are Mark and Jez going to be alright? Well...

A renowned novelist (well, an actor pretending to be a renowned novelist in Showtime’s The Affair) once said “if you’ve laid all your cards out in the proper order, the ending should flow. It should feel inevitable. At some point, fate takes over a story and even the author himself loses control.” If last week’s doom-tinged episode of Peep Show was the harbinger of a dark fate, this week saw the apocalypse itself unfold in all its lovely destructive glory. The End Times finally came to Peep Show and inevitably enough, with all the cards finally on the table we learnt that in the sad, self-absorbed lives of Mark and Jez, the more things change, the more they stay the same.

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Peep Show series 9 delivers another belter in Gregory's Beard, as Super Hans gets married and Jez ponders his sexuality...

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9.2 Gregory’s Beard

Last week’s series opener didn’t just deliver in terms of quality; it also returned the El Dude Brothers to their familiar odd-couple dynamic. If anything could be said to be missing from that episode, perhaps it was the onslaught of sneering judgements that the duo regularly bestow upon each other. Instead, under the makeshift banner of a sort-of-truce, our two heroes formed a temporary alliance to return to a comfortable state of domestic unhappiness.

With the status quo restored, Peep Show let rip with a wonderful second episode that took full advantage of Mark and Jez’s return to acrimony as they took potshots at each other from vantage points of dubious superiority. The episode’s opening found them...

Each year, Dictionary.com adds new words, phrases, and proper nouns to its database. In 2015, the list includes chillax, respawn, and feels, but what do those words mean? What do they connote? In order to answer those questions, Dictionary.com enlisted a group of social media influencers, who offered up their personal definitions for this year’s neologisms.

To create the videos, Dictionary.com teamed up with Collab, which is best known for working with Vine stars. Collab turned to its roster of partners, including Meghan McCarthy, Lizzza, Harmony & Elliot, Matt King, Brock Baker, Rickey Thompson, and Jd Witherspoon, and turned them loose on the dictionary’s new words. The results are a mixed bag. Some of them are earnestly informative; others, such as the video describing “yaaas” (yes, that is a real word now), move more in the cringe comedy direction.

The videos were posted to Dictionary.com’s...

Peep Show kicks off its ninth and final series (season), on UK Channel 4, Wednesday, November 11, 2015. The series centers on odd-couple flatmates Mark Corrigan (David Mitchell) and Jeremy "Jez" Usbourne (Robert Webb). In 2013, Channel 4 cancelled Peep Show, when announcing the ninth series would be its last.

Per Channel 4, Peep Show's, "David Mitchell and Robert Webb play two dysfunctional flatmates who reveal all their inner thoughts - whether dark, stupid or embarrassing. Or, occasionally, all three..." In addition to Mitchell and Webb, the Peep Show cast includes: Matt King, Paterson Joseph, and Olivia Colman. Continue on to watch the trailer. Read More…...

The El Dude brothers are back in town, one last time, from next month.

Channel 4 has announced that the last ever series of Peep Show will begin on Wednesday, November 11 at 10pm.

The sitcom's ninth run will pick up some time after its eighth, which ended with Mark (David Mitchell) and Jeremy (Robert Webb) abandoned by Dobby (Isy Suttie) - despite both declaring their love for her.

As the final series begins, it really is the end of an era - Mark has a new flatmate and a new job working at a bank, while Jeremy has found himself some new - and rather constrictive - living quarters. When Jez turns to his old friend for a loan, Mark finally spies his chance for revenge...

All this, and the pair have to contend with a newly sober Super Hans (Matt King) - though it's unclear just how long his new health kick will last.

Exclusive: Focus Features has tapped the spec script Boomtown, an oil-soaked thriller from Matt King. Marc Platt is set to produce the story of a slick corporate investigator with a closely guarded secret who discovers a sinister criminal conspiracy in North Dakota oil boom country. The deal is in the six figures. It’s the first sale for King, a former journalist who has written for The Village Voice, American Lawyer and Focus Europe and worked with PBS’ Frontline. He is…...

As Super Hans would say, this is bullshit! Peep Show is officially wrapping its final ever series.

Robert Webb sent out a few tweets this morning (September 15) about the show's end, including a long-awaited reunion of the Men with Ven alongside Matt King and David Mitchell.

Series 9 Men with Ven. pic.twitter.com/idLOIRIay7

— Robert Webb (@arobertwebb) September 15, 2015

Last day of shooting Peep Show. Heart already halfway up throat. 8pm wrap - ooh it's going to be a long, sad, marvellous day.

— Robert Webb (@arobertwebb) September 15, 2015

Co-writer Sam Bain also tweeted a photo of the cast:

Men with Ven. A @RealDMitchell van sneeze in 3 thrilling chapters @RealMattKing @arobertwebb #peepshow9 pic.twitter.com/pOceQv09q3

— Sam Bain (@sambaintv) September 15, 2015

Super Hans himself Matt King tweeted about his final day of shooting:

Men with ven for the venny last time. With @RealDMitchell @arobertwebb and genius writer @jessearmstrong1 pic.twitter.com/iXF9Sz...

Olivia Colman will definitely be in the last series of Peep Show, and she was in an emotional mood after she filmed her final scenes on the sitcom.

Co-star David Mitchell confirmed the news by posting a picture of himself and Robert Webb with a teary Colman on set earlier this evening (September 11).

Last day on #peepshow for Olivia Colman today. I must admit I am feeling some emotions. pic.twitter.com/9tawstpN69

— David Mitchell (@RealDMitchell) September 11, 2015

Neil Fitzmaurice hints at return of old faces in Peep Show series 9: 'Maybe one final kick in the nuts'

The actress's return will be welcomed by fans, who have witnessed the relationship between Colman's Sophie Chapman and Mitchell's Mark Corrigan fluctuate over the years.

Elsewhere, Paterson Joseph and Matt King have been confirmed to be back as Johnson and Super Hans on the show.

Indeed, Jeff actor Neil Fitzmaurice did recently hint...

Neil Fitzmaurice has hinted that familiar faces will make some sort of return to Peep Show during its final series later this year.

The Mount Pleasant actor - who plays Mark's longtime foe Jeff in the Channel 4 comedy - told Digital Spy that he would "love to" come back at least one more time.

When asked if he'll return as Jeff in series nine, he said: "I can neither confirm nor deny! Let's just say that I hope so.

"Especially as Jeff has had such a wonderful ability to turn up just as Mark didn't think it could get any worse. There's a distinct possibility, let's say, that when Mark is down on his knees, Jeff may swing his head round the corner to give one final kick in the nuts.

"I would very much love to, but fingers crossed that for the final series some of the old faces will come back.

You've read our first 10 shows you need to check out this autumn, right? If you haven't, go do that now.

But wait - there's more! Late 2015 is bursting with quality television, so here are some more TV gems you should check out as the evenings start to draw in...

1. The Last Panthers - Sky Atlantic

Sky Atlantic will follow up Fortitude with another ambitious original drama this autumn. A crime thriller from the pen of This Is England's Jack Thorne, The Last Panthers charts the aftermath of a daring jewel heist and has heavyweights Samantha Morton and John Hurt in the lead roles.

2. Marvel's Jessica Jones - Netflix

The follow-up to the brilliant Daredevil, this November series casts Breaking Bad standout Krysten Ritter as Jessica Jones - an ex-superhero now working as a private detective. Upping the geek cred is David Tennant as Jessica's arch-nemesis, while Mike Colter will co-star...

The final series of Peep Show is on its way, and David Mitchell has posted a photo from the show's last ever readthrough.

Mitchell has played Mark Corrigan in the previous eight series of Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong's sitcom.

Last Ever Peep Show readthrough today. I promise I will shave before we start shooting. pic.twitter.com/T7r6oidoNX

— David Mitchell (@RealDMitchell) July 16, 2015In the photo he is seen with co-star Robert Webb, who plays Jez Usborne, as well as Paterson Joseph (Alan Johnson) and Matt King (Super Hans).

"Last Ever Peep Show readthrough today," Mitchell said. "I promise I will shave before we start shooting."

Mitchell and Webb will reprise their roles as Mark and Jez in the ninth and last series of the comedy on Channel 4 later this year.

Mitchell said last November that it was time for Peep Show to end because "the...

The Jash YouTube channel produced plenty of bizarre stuff in the first year of its existence, but an upcoming release may be the strangest Jash series yet. It's called The Amazing Gayl Pile, and it dives into the dark, violent world of home shopping. The Amazing Gayl Pile is produced by Toronto-based studio Larue Entertainment. It centers on its titular character, who works as a salesman for a home shopping network. We're not sure, from watch the initial teaser, where exactly things go wrong, but they most certainly do. The second half of the teaser portrays a home shopping world filled with "rampant sex, violence and spiritual corruption." Jash, the comedy hub that features Sarah Silverman, Reggie Watts, Michael Cera, and Tim & Eric, will serve as The Amazing Gayl Pile's distributor. "We are thrilled to be partnering with Jash for the release of The Amazing Gayl Pile," said Larue head Matt King.

For any superstar, one of the great rites of passage is the practice of registering under a fake name at a hotel. Because some fans are both passionate and unscrupulous, a certain level of anonymity is required when traveling on the road. Professional athletes do it all the time (Michael Vick became somewhat notorious for using the pseudonym "Ron Mexico," most notably when getting treated for herpes at a clinic), and the alter-egos can stretch anywhere from late politicians to fictional characters. According to a report, 16-year-old Canadian singing sensation Justin Bieber prefers the latter, as he has been known to check into hotels as "Chandler Bing," which was the name of Matthew Perry's character on the long-running sitcom "Friends."

Of course, once an alias has been made, it has to be retired (because how many people are actually named Chandler Bing?), which is why Bieber will need to...

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Last Sunday would have been the 60th birthday of comedic actor John Candy, who died of a heart attack at the age of 43 while filming the movie 'Wagons East.' A lovable big lug who specialized in playing bumbling, goodhearted losers, Candy co-starred with Steve Martin in one of the greatest mismatched-duo road comedies ever, 'Planes, Trains and Automobiles,' a film we can't help flashing back to with the release of the similarly themed 'Due Date.'

Candy, who was known to be as benevolent off screen as on, first came to prominence as a member of Toronto's Second City comedy troupe, which would eventually spawn the renowned 'Second City Television' (Sctv) show in the late 1970s. Due to Sctv's popularity -- it was picked up by NBC in 1981 - Candy was already somewhat of a name before his movie career took off.

Filed under: Features, Cinematical

Last Sunday would have been the 60th birthday of comedic actor John Candy, who died of a heart attack at the age of 43 while filming the movie 'Wagons East.' A lovable big lug who specialized in playing bumbling, goodhearted losers, Candy co-starred with Steve Martin in one of the greatest mismatched-duo road comedies ever, 'Planes, Trains and Automobiles,' a film we can't help flashing back to with the release of the similarly themed 'Due Date.'

Candy, who was known to be as benevolent off screen as on, first came to prominence as a member of Toronto's Second City comedy troupe, which would eventually spawn the renowned 'Second City Television' (Sctv) show in the late 1970s. Due to Sctv's popularity -- it was picked up by NBC in 1981 - Candy was already somewhat of a name before his movie career took off.

When we quiet and polite Canadians first began planning our non-violent take-over of Pajiba I breezily volunteered to do a Famous Canadians list. How difficult could it be to pick 10 Canadians who were famous for being more than just incredibly polite motherfuckers? Seventeen hours and eleventy billion Google hits later it became apparent that it was much more difficult than you bitches think. We've managed to smuggle, I mean introduce, a helluva lot of Canadians into the Us over the years and while some of them stick out like wearing a toque on a hot summer day, others have managed to blend in so well even I was surprised to discover they were one of us. So, in order to whittle my list down to 10 I decided to only include people who were universally recognized as Canadians.

And yeah, I realize there are famous Canadians out there other than actors (hello Frank Gehry!