Hurray! As any League of Gentlemen fans are no doubt already aware, half of the Gents are back – seven years later – with Psychoville, a comedy that's, preposterously, even darker than the antics in Royston Vasey.
From next Friday we'll be following each episode of Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton's deliciously creepy mystery thriller comedy here at theguardian.com/tv and trying to unravel just what on earth is going on.
We've seen the first episode and it looks as if it could be as brilliant as League of Gents. Without giving too much away, the plot involves six oddballs: a misanthropic clown, a crazed midwife (Dawn French), a lovesick dwarf with telekinetic powers, a blind, demented collector and a serial killer-obsessed loner who lives with his mother. You can see them all here. In episode one they are all sent a mysterious letter from an even more mysterious figure telling them: "I know what you did." Presumably, among the uncomfortable laughs, we'll eventually find out.
Shearsmith and Pemberton talk about the genesis of the show here and in tomorrow's Guide (all good newsagents etc), so have a delve around the website, watch the previews, blackmail your mates and cast your decade-old Tubbs impression into the bin and we'll see you back here next Friday morning.
• Psychoville starts on Thursday 18 June at 10pm. Guardian.co.uk/tv will be blogging each episode.
