User:Caliburn/PeepShow
Status: Partially Found
Peep Show was a popular British sitcom series that aired from 2003 to 2015, starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb as flatmates Mark Corrigan and Jeremy Usbourne. There were two known attempts to bring the sitcom to an American audience: once in 2005 and again in 2008, neither of which got past a pilot. The 2005 pilot is reasonably well documented and is readily available in full, but the 2008 pilot, produced by Funny Little Man Productions, Pangea Corporation and RDF USA, is considerably more obscure. Unlike the 2005 pilot, the 2008 pilot was written by Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong, the creators of the British version of the show. The pilot was reported on by a few sources,[1] and has an IMDb page, but has not yet resurfaced in full and seems to have never been broadcast on television.
In 2020, YouTuber andrxxw managed to recover fragments of the pilot from the demo reels of some of the actors listed on the IMDb page, totalling to a runtime of about 6 minutes, while the full pilot is expected to last between 20 and 30 minutes. The pilot seems to borrow from Peep Show's third episode "On the Pull", where Mark meets a very young college student at a party, takes her bowling and finishes the night with a very awkward sexual encounter. Unlike the 2005 pilot, the 2008 pilot uses the "POV" style of shooting that Peep Show is notable for, and overall seems far more faithful to the British show.
External Links
- andrxxw's video on the topic
- The recovered footage arranged in approximate order based on the British series, compiled by andrxxw