“A Quiet Night In” is the second episode of the British dark comedy television anthology series Inside No. 9. Written by Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton, it first aired on 12 February 2014 on BBC Two. The episode progresses almost entirely without dialogue, relying instead on physical comedy and slapstick. It was submitted to the British Academy of Film and Television Arts for the 2015 awards, but it was not nominated.
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“A Quiet Night In” is the second episode of the British dark comedy television anthology series Inside No. 9. Written by Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton, it first aired on 12 February 2014 on BBC Two. The episode progresses almost entirely without dialogue, relying instead on physical comedy and slapstick, though more sinister elements are present in the plot. It was submitted to the British Academy of Film and Television Arts for the 2015 awards, but it was not nominated. Critics generally responded positively to the episode, and a particularly laudatory review by David Chater was published in The Times, prompting a complaint from a reader who found the episode more traumatic than comedic. The writers have said that they have no plans to do further silent episodes, but have compared the episode to the highly-experimental “Cold Comfort” from Inside No 9’s second series. The only dialogue in the episode is at the end, with the writers comparing the concept to that of the Silent Movie film of the same name, and comparing it to Mel Brooks’ “The Silent Movie” The episode also stars Denis Lawson and Oona Chaplin, a grandchild of the silent film star Charlie Chaplin. The pair had originally considered including a dialogue-free segment in their television series Psychoville, but ultimately did not; they found the format of Inside no. 9 appropriate for revisiting the idea. As an anthology series with horror themes, inside No. 9 also pays homage to Tales of the Unexpected, The Twilight Zone and Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
The writers had considered omitting dialogue from a ten-minute section in an episode, or even from the whole episode, as there were too many good jokes which they wanted to fit into the sequence. At the start of the writing process, the pair did not the intention of scripting the entire episode without dialogue. However, once they had entered the correctmindset, it was easier to write the episode. On its first airing, \”A Quiet night In\” was watched by 940,000 viewers. It was nominated for a BAFTA award for best comedy episode of 2014, but did not receive a nomination for any of the four awards it was shortlisted for. It also starred Joyce Veheary and Kayvan Novak, who also starred in the first two episodes of the series, as well as the two episodes from the third and fourth series. It is the only episode in the series to have been filmed entirely in a single room, which was in turn inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope, and was filmed in only two shots. The second series of the anthology series is expected to feature six different stories with a complete new house of people each week, with each episode taking place in a different time period. In the first episode, the writers said they had been so involved with labyrinthine over-arcing, they thought it would be nice to do six differentstories with a different new house each week. At the same time, the concept was a response to the first series of Psychovilles.
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