TV Review: The League of Gentlemen

Monday 10pm BBC2

Starring Mark Gattis, Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith

After a gap of 15 years (excluding a 2005 film version) the village of Royston Vasey and it's inhabitants make a return to the TV screen. And in it's first few minutes it maintains it reputation to be both shocking and hilarious in the same moment. A regular character is swallowed by a photo booth while another the World's worst vet Dr.(Gatiss) Chinnery blows out the insides of a Hedgehog over a Mother and her Daughter. Elsewhere there is plot revolving around the town getting redrawn in a boundaries exercise which lead to some characters plotting to vent their fury. The League of Gentlemen is a show that plays by it's own rules so will never gain a mainstream audience, one way to describe is to think of an episode of Last of the Summer Wine as directed by David Lynch. If you are in a mood for dark laughs then these 3 new episodes will be right up your street.