Friends REUNITED

STEVE PEMBERTON and REECE SHEARSMITH on getting their mate Mark Gatiss on board

- CAREN CLARK, SEAN MARLAND

INSIDE NO.9

NEW WEDNESDAY, 10PM (NI, 11.15PM), BBC2 COMEDY

Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith are delighted that their old pal Mark Gatiss will be gueststarring in Inside No. 9 when their hit black-comedy anthology series returns to BBC2 for a seventh outing.

This week's opening episode, Merrily, Merrily, sees the trio - who created and starred in cult sketch show The League of Gentlemen - play three university friends who go on a boat trip together at a remote lake.

Here, Steve, 54, and Reece, 52, tell TV Times more about the story, which also features Motherland's Diane Morgan...

This seems a perfect episode for Mark to come on board...