Last Gasp (Inside No. 9)
“Last Gasp” is the fourth episode of the first series of Inside No. 9. It first aired on 26 February 2014 on BBC Two. The story revolves around the ninth birthday of the severely ill Tamsin. A charity called WishmakerUK has arranged for pop star Frankie J Parsons to visit. Frankie dies after blowing up a balloon, leading to arguments over the now-valuable balloon containing Frankie’s last breath.
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“Last Gasp” is the fourth episode of the first series of British dark comedy anthology television programme Inside No. 9. It first aired on 26 February 2014 on BBC Two. The story revolves around the ninth birthday of the severely ill Tamsin. A charity called WishmakerUK has arranged for pop star Frankie J Parsons to visit. Frankie dies after blowing up a balloon, leading to arguments over the now-valuable balloon containing Frankie’s last breath. The episode is more comedic than others in the series, and critiques celebrity culture and human greed. It is, so far, the only episode not to star Reece Shearsmith. It drew 872,000 viewers, lower than any previous episode. Pemberton subsequently sold a balloon containing his own breath on eBay, with proceeds going to a Sport Relief charity. He described the episode as like a My Family episode “gone wrong”; in retrospect, Hearsmith claimed that “people hated” the episode. It starred Sophie Thompson as Jan, the mother; Lucy Hutchinson as 9-year-old TamsIn; David Bedella as popstar Frankie J. Parsons; Tams in Greig as Sally, of Wishmaker UK; and Adam Deacon as Si, Parsons’s assistant.
For more information on the BBC Two version of the episode, click here. For the BBC One version, go to www.bbc.co.uk/inside-no-9 and click here for more information about the BBC2 version of the episode, including how to watch it on a mobile phone and how to buy a copy of the DVD, or watch the DVD on a computer. For a full list of all the episodes from the first two series, visit the BBC iPlayer. For an overview of the BBC 2 version of this episode, visit www.BBC2.com/InsideNo. 9/Inside-No-9/Inner-No.9-Last-Gasp-Episode-1-2-4. For further information on this episode and the other episodes, visit BBC2’s inner-nostalgic programme ‘Inside No. 9’, which airs on Tuesdays at 9pm and Thursdays at 10pm, or click here to watch the full episode. For. the full BBC2 transcript of this article, visit the BBC Online and the BBC Home Network and the BBC iPlayer at 9pm on Thursday, February 26 2014 and Friday, February 28 2014. For the full BBC Two transcript, visit the BBC Online and the BBC TV channel “Inside No. 9”, or the BBC Home Channel at 9pm and Friday, March 28, 2014.
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