The League of Gentlemen (comedy)
| The League of Gentlemen | |
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Title card (1999–2002)
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| Directed by | Steve Bendelack |
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| Country of origin | England |
| No. of series | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 19 (List of episodes) |
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| Running time | 30–60 mins. |
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| Original network | BBC Two |
| Original release | 11 January 1999 – 31 October 2002 |
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The League of Gentlemen is an English black comedy television series that premiered on BBC Two in 1999. The show is set in Royston Vasey, a fictional town in Northern England based on Alston, Cumbria. It follows the lives of dozens of bizarre townspeople, all of whom are played by the show's writers—Jeremy Dyson, Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton, and Reece Shearsmith—who formed the League of Gentlemen comedy troupe in 1995.
The series was filmed mainly in Hadfield; other locations include Glossop, Gamesley, and Hope Valley in Derbyshire; Marsden and Todmorden in West Yorkshire; and Bacup in East Lancashire; and Mottram in Greater Manchester.
The series ended in 2002, and was followed by a film (The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse) and a stage production (The League of Gentlemen Are Behind You!) in 2005. Shearsmith and Pemberton later collaborated to create another dark comedy series, Psychoville (2009); Mark Gatiss appeared in one episode. The three also performed together in the fourth series of Horrible Histories, in which they play American film producers who hear movie pitches from historical figures. Shearsmith and Pemberton also wrote and starred in the black comedy anthology series Inside No. 9, which premiered on BBC Two in 2014.
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