The Bill (Inside No. 9)
The Bill is the second episode of the third series of Inside No. 9. It first aired on 21 February 2017, on BBC Two. The episode was written by Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton, and directed by Guillem Morales. It won the Best TV Situation Comedy award at the 2018 Writers’ Guild Awards.
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The Bill is the second episode of the third series of Inside No. 9. It first aired on 21 February 2017, on BBC Two. The episode was written by Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton, and directed by Guillem Morales. It was inspired by a real dispute seen by the writers, and also influenced by Yasmina Reza’s play ‘Art’ Though set in northern England, the episode was filmed in a Hendon restaurant. Critics responded positively to the episode, praising its humour, direction and acting. But some commentators questioned the effectiveness of a twist in the closing minutes, several criticising the final scene. It won the Best TV Situation Comedy award at the 2018 Writers’ Guild Awards. It is the first of a run of five episodes, and the second of a series of six episodes. The series is set in the north of England at night, and re-introduced challenges to be introduced to the episodes. For this particular episode, the producer Adam Tandy found the episodes to be particularly claustrophobic, and introduced re-takes of the first and second series of inside No. 9 to be filmed at a different location. The episodes will be shown in a different time slot each week, from 9pm to 11pm. For more information on the series, visit insideno.9.org.uk or go to the BBC’s official website, where you can also find out more information about the series and the actors involved in it. The first episode of this third series, was shown as a Christmas special on 26 December 2016, and followed a few months later, on 21 January 2017.
The second episode, \”The Devil of Christmas\”, was shown on BBC2 on 26 January 2017, and was followed by the third episode on 29 April 2017, The fourth and final episode, which aired on 29 May 2017, was The fifth and final series, The Bill, was aired on 28 May 2017. The final episode was shown on 29 June 2017, at 9pm and 10pm on BBC 2. The fifth series, the final episode of inside no. 9, will be aired on 30 June 2017 and 29 July 2017, and was filmed in Hendon, London. It will be the last series to be aired in a London restaurant, which was close to the filming location for the first two episodes of the series. The last episode will be screened in a restaurant in the south of England, close to Tandy’s home town of Tandy, where the writers had lunch every day while writing the programme’s third series. For. this episode, Jason Watkins as Kevin, Philip Glenister as Craig, and Ellie White as Anya, were all singled out for particularly compelling performances. Some parts that were written were not filmed. Limoncello remained a part of the narrative, however, and formed the basis of a joke that was one of one of the favourites from the series: a quip that was likely to bring a waitress to bring one of them a lemon and a glass of limon cello rather than a drink.
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