Scripted series · Channel 4
Peep Show
Welcome to the private world of Jeremy and Mark - two very ordinary weirdos.
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
David Mitchell
Mark Corrigan
54 eps
Robert Webb
Jeremy Usborne
54 eps
Neil Fitzmaurice
Jeff Heaney
21 eps
Sophie Winkleman
Big Suze
10 eps
Matt King
Super Hans
36 eps
Rachel Blanchard
Nancy
8 eps
Elizabeth Marmur
Toni
8 eps
Olivia Colman
Sophie Chapman
33 eps
Rosie Cavaliero
Vicky
1 eps
Leanne Wilson
Cafe Girl
1 eps
Peter Capaldi
Professor Alistair MacLeish
1 eps
Kevin Bishop
Ollie
1 eps
Tim Preece
Mr. Klugman
1 eps
Philip Herbert
Lazerbowl Manager
1 eps
Cheryl Campbell
Penny Chapman
2 eps
Paul Clayton
Ian Chapman
5 eps
Joe Van Moyland
Jamie Chapman
2 eps
Nigel Boyle
JLB Worker
1 eps
Ellie Chidzey
Lap Dancer
1 eps
Endy McKay
Lisa
5 eps
James Carlton
Matt Townsend
1 eps
Agnieszka Liggett
Eva
1 eps
Stuart McQuarrie
Gym Manager
1 eps
Liz May Brice
Sally Slater
1 eps
Francis Magee
Russell
1 eps
Jay Simpson
Foz
1 eps
Dorothy Atkinson
Therapist
1 eps
Katy Brand
Lucy
1 eps
Cara Horgan
Aurora
1 eps
Tom Knight
Malcolm
1 eps
Colin Mace
Motorist
1 eps
Mathew Baynton
Simon
4 eps
Justin Edwards
Alan
1 eps
Tom Chadbon
Martin
1 eps
Ingrid Oliver
Natalie
1 eps
Daisy Haggard
Practice Nurse
1 eps
Sarah Hadland
Karen
1 eps
John Hodgkinson
Tony
4 eps
Isy Suttie
Dobby
18 eps
Paterson Joseph
Alan Johnson
17 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Peep Show actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Peep Show reads strongest on Humour, Character Depth and Bingeability.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
The story
What it's about
Peep Show follows the lives of two men from their twenties to thirties, Mark Corrigan, who has steady employment for most of the series, and Jeremy "Jez" Usbourne, an unemployed would-be musician.
The run
Seasons
9 seasons · 54 episodes.
Season 0 · Unannounced
Specials
45 episodes
Season 1 · Complete
Series 1
20036 episodes
7.7IMDbTwo dysfunctional flatmates, Mark and Jeremy, fumble through work, love, and life in South London, with their awkward thoughts laid bare in the show’s signature point‑of‑view style.
Best episode · S01E06 Funeral
Season 2 · Complete
Series 2
20046 episodes
8.3IMDbMark and Jeremy’s awkward misadventures continue in South London as Mark copes with Sophie’s shifting relationships and personal setbacks, while Jeremy pursues chaotic love, new opportunities, and questionable life choices—again seen through the show’s signature inner‑thought point‑of‑view style.
Best episode · S02E05 The Man Show
Season 3 · Complete
Series 3
20056 episodes
8.4IMDbMark and Sophie finally start a relationship while Mark struggles with commitment and awkward life choices, and Jeremy juggles romantic complications, jury duty, and chaotic schemes—all shown through their unfiltered inner thoughts.
Best episode · S03E03 Shrooming
Season 4 · Complete
Series 4
20076 episodes
8.3IMDbWith Mark and Sophie engaged, the season follows their fraught wedding preparations, growing doubts about the future, and a disastrously awkward ceremony, as Jeremy’s own escapades add to the chaos in typical cringe‑comedy fashion.
Best episode · S04E05 Holiday
Season 5 · Complete
Series 5
20086 episodes
8.2IMDbAfter the fallout from the wedding, Mark awkwardly navigates new relationships while Jeremy runs out of money and pursues various schemes, leading both flatmates into fresh humiliations and misguided life choices with all thoughts laid bare.
Best episode · S05E02 Spin War
Season 6 · Complete
Series 6
20096 episodes
7.9IMDbMark and Jeremy face major life changes as Sophie’s pregnancy nears, Mark pursues Dobby while juggling career ups and downs, and Jeremy falls head‑over‑heels with a new love interest, leading both into chaotic choices and awkward situations seen through their signature inner thoughts.
Best episode · S06E02 The Test
Season 7 · Complete
Series 7
20106 episodes
8.4IMDbMark is navigating fatherhood and awkward relationships while Jeremy pursues new love interests and half‑baked career ideas, leading to more chaotic misadventures in flat sharing life and friendships with their inner thoughts on full display.
Best episode · S07E01 St Hospital's
Season 8 · Complete
Series 8
20126 episodes
7.9IMDbMark and Dobby’s relationship hits bumps as they consider moving in together and Mark grows jealous of rivals, while Jeremy tries therapy and self‑improvement yet still finds ways to complicate their lives in classic cringe‑comedy fashion.
Best episode · S08E06 Quantocking II
Season 9 · Complete
Series 9
20156 episodes
8.4IMDbIn the final season, Mark and Jeremy reunite after a fallout and return to their dysfunctional routines, confronting fading hopes, awkward adult life decisions, and their enduring yet turbulent bond with humor and discomfort through their signature point‑of‑view style.
Best episode · S09E06 Are We Going to Be Alright?
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.
S04E05
Holiday
Jeremy takes Mark on a stag weekend, with a rented canal boat. There, they meet two sisters, Aurora and Lucy, and their father. Jeremy falls in love with Aurora, whilst Lucy becomes sexually attracted to Mark. The father offers Mark a job in India, a way out of his impending marriage to Sophie, whilst Jeremy accidentally kills, and then eats a bit of Aurora's dog.
- Written by Jesse Armstrong, Sam Bain
S03E03
Shrooming
Jeremy plans to throw a secret magic mushroom party in the flat, where he hopes to seduce his ex, Big Suze. But when Mark suddenly comes home from work with gastric flu, Jeremy's plans go to pieces.
- Directed by Tristram Shapeero
- Written by Jesse Armstrong, Sam Bain
S04E06
Wedding
It's Mark's wedding day. He is torn about whether he should go through with it or not. Jeremy discourages him but Mark continues. On the way to the reception, Sophie breaks down and runs away. Jeremy comforts Mark as the 'El Dude Brothers' are reunited.
- Written by Jesse Armstrong, Sam Bain
S03E06
Quantocking
Mark worries he and Sophie are drifting apart and proposes. Elsewhere Super-Hans decides to give up drugs, and Jeremy once again gets intimate with past love Big Suze.
- Directed by Tristram Shapeero
- Written by Jesse Armstrong, Sam Bain
S09E06
Are We Going to Be Alright?
It's the last ever Peep Show from the El Dude Brothers. Jeremy is turning 40 - and it's hitting him hard - while Mark makes an audacious attempt to win the woman of his dreams.
S03E05
Jurying
Jeremy gets called for jury service but soon complicates things by falling for the defendant. Elsewhere, Mark & Sophie go clubbing.
- Directed by Tristram Shapeero
- Written by Jesse Armstrong, Sam Bain
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Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Rachel SpringettProducer
- Jesse ArmstrongExecutive Producer
- Jesse ArmstrongProducer
- Robert PopperProducer
- Philip ClarkeProducer
- Andrew O'ConnorExecutive Producer
Writing
- Jesse ArmstrongWriter
- Sam BainWriter
Direction
- Jeremy WoodingDirector
- Tristram ShapeeroDirector
Where to watch
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