Inside No 9 season 9 marks the end of the anthology series after being on our screens since 2014.
There have been plenty of dark, often funny, episodes across the series but it's bittersweet news as the series will return for the last time in 2024. Once again, there'll be six new stand-alone stories, each set in a different location, the style and tone changing each week.
Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton have become masters at shocking fans and keeping them guessing, and they'll no doubt be going out with a bang as they say farewell to their now iconic series.
In a statement, they said: "It is with mixed emotions that we announce we have started filming the final series of Inside No. 9. We overheard some crew members the other day describe us as ‘a couple of Wonkas’ and that seems an apt description. We take the finest ingredients (stellar casts and creatives) and blend them with our secret recipe to produce unique confections that are delicious and often deadly.
"It has been the greatest privilege to have been allowed to make 55 wildly different episodes and we’ll miss the yearly challenge of trying to entertain and surprise our audience. We honestly feel like golden ticket winners - which makes us not a couple of Wonkas, but a pair of Charlies.”
Inside No 9 season 9 release date
Inside No 9 season 9 will premiere on BBC Two and iPlayer on Wednesday, May 8 at 10 pm.
Episodes will then air each Wednesday in the same timeslot.
Confirming the news, Steve Pemberton tweeted: "Time to say goodbye to #InsideNo9 having just wrapped series 9. This takes us to 55 episodes, a very decent innings. Mixed emotions but can’t wait to share what we’ve made."
Time to say goodbye to #InsideNo9 having just wrapped series 9. This takes us to 55 episodes, a very decent innings. Mixed emotions but can’t wait to share what we’ve made.@ReeceShearsmith pic.twitter.com/VdE8AhMWLpFebruary 1, 2024
Inside No 9 season 9 cast
Alongside Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith, there's a great line-up of guest stars for the ninth and final season.
The BBC has confirmed that Dorothy Atkinson, Mark Bonnar, Charlie Cooper, Philippa Dunne, Siobhan Finneran, Joel Fry, Katherine Kelly, Matthew Kelly, Eddie Marsan, Vinette Robinson, Adrian Scarborough, Hayley Squires, and Susan Wokoma will all star.
It is assumed that even more names will be announced as they have teased "and more", and knowing Reece and Steve there'll be a few surprises along the way...
Inside No 9 season 9 plot
We now have the first synopsis for Inside No 9 season 9, revealing one of the episodes is called Boo to a Goose.
It follows late-night passengers who get stuck inside a tunnel when their train breaks down, they all wait patiently for the replacement to arrive. But when a nurse gets her purse stolen, tempers start to fray...
In an interview with us, Reece and Steve teased a bit more about Boo to a Goose, saying: 'Well, that one, we’ve always wanted to do something - if we could
achieve it - on a train, and we had this idea of some sort of 12 Angry Men-type situation where disparate characters who don’t know each other get trapped in the same place and have to resolve something where they become their own judge, jury and executioner, so that was the sort of impetus to create the mechanics to allow that story to happen.
"We never knew we could achieve it, because having a tube carriage is quite a
big ask on our budget, but they managed to do it, which was great! It was thrilling,
because we had it on the back burner and it was not confirmed for quite a long time in production that we could do it, so it was like ‘are you going to turn round and say to us we can’t do the tube one, and have another script suddenly?’ But happily that didn’t happen, and we were able to film it.
Is there a trailer for Inside No 9 season 9?
Yes, and it looks like they're going out on a high! Here, we get a glimpse at some of Reece and Steve's characters this time around, as well as some guest stars. As ever, plot details are deliberately vague. We can't wait!
