Peep Show is an award-winning
British sitcom starring
David Mitchell and
Robert Webb. The
television programme is written by
Jesse Armstrong and
Sam Bain, with additional material by Mitchell and Webb amongst others. It has been broadcast on
Channel 4 since 2003. The show's eighth series (broadcast late 2012) makes it the longest-returning comedy in Channel 4 history
[1] (though in episode terms it ranks third). Stylistically, the show uses
point of view shots with the thoughts of main characters Mark and Jeremy audible as voiceovers.
Peep Show follows the lives of two men from their twenties to thirties, Mark Corrigan (Mitchell), who has steady employment for most of the series, and Jeremy "Jez" Usbourne (Webb), an unemployed would-be musician.
[2][3] The pair met at the fictional Dartmouth University, and now share a flat in
Croydon,
South London. Mark is initially a loan manager at the fictional JLB Credit, later becoming a waiter, and then a bathroom supplies salesman. He is financially secure, but awkward and socially inept, with a pessimistic and cynical attitude. Jeremy, having split up with his girlfriend Big Suze prior to the first episode, now lives in Mark's spare room. He usually has a much more optimistic and energetic outlook on the world than Mark, yet his self-proclaimed talent as a musician has yet to be recognised, and he is not as popular or attractive as he would like to think himself, although he is more successful with the opposite sex than Mark.
[4]