CREATOR/ACTOR EXCLUSIVE
Nine Lives
Reece Shearsmith talks us through the latest season of Inside No. 9
The lads enjoy a joke on the set between filming.
Who knows what wacky antics they’ll be up to?
AT THE TIME OF THE first lockdown in March last year, Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton were three days into the filming of Inside No. 9’s sixth series. “In the 10 months in-between we wrote six more,” Shearsmith reveals to Red Alert, “that became a mix and match of series six and seven.” New social distancing rules meant that some of the originally intended series six episodes would be more difficult to film, so the pair brought forward some of the more contained stories.
One of those, “Simon Says” (which is mostly a two-hander), stars Pemberton as a writer of a TV fantasy show and Shearsmith as a fan who implores his hero to write one more series, to make up for the much-loathed finale. It’s clearly inspired by the furore over Game Of Thrones’ controversial final season and the fan campaign to remake it.