| The League of Gentlemen, comprising of writer/performer's Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith and writer Jeremy Dyson, started life on the London Fringe with a sketch−show first performed at the Cockpit Theatre in 1995. They then secured a weekly residency at the Canal Café Theatre, which led to their first visit to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 1996. Here they were quickly signed up by the BBC to record a radio series with a view to future TV work.
They returned to Edinburgh with a new show in 1997, scooping the Perrier Award for Comedy.
Their Radio 4 series, On The Town With The League of Gentlemen aired in 1997, winning the Sony Silver Award and subsequently a Talkie Award for 'Best Audio Comedy'.
The League's first television series, simply called The League of Gentlemen was filmed in 1998 and transmitted on BBC2 in January 1999. The programme went on to win a BAFTA for 'Best Comedy' in May 2000, as well as the prestigious Golden Rose of Montreaux and the RTS Award for 'Best Entertainment' 1999.
The second series of The League of Gentlemen aired in January 2000 and won the NME award for 'Best Television Programme' in February 2001.
The League of Gentlemen Christmas Special, a 50 minute one off with a horror/Christmas theme was aired in December 2000 and A Local Book For Local People, published by Fourth Estate was released in October 2000.
After a sell out UK tour in October−December 2000 which included venues such as The Liverpool Empire, Manchester Apollo and Birmingham NIA, they then went on to perform A Local Show For Local People at The Theatre Royal Drury Lane for a run of six weeks from 12th March 2003.
The third series of The League of Gentlemen aired in September 2002 and won the South Bank Show Award for Best Comedy in 2003.
The League Of Gentlemen's Apocolypse The Feature Film by The League of Gentlemen was released in 2005 and the DVD of The League of Gentlemen Are Behind You (their live panto) was released inDecember 2006.
Credit List
Jeremy Dyson
Television
Legend Of The Lost Tribe Animation Voice-over: 4th Viking
BBC1, 2002 (Comic Relief)
The League of Gentlemen - The Making of Series 3 Presenter on behind-the-scenes documentary
BBC Choice, 31st October 2002
The League of Gentlemen, Series 3
Writer/Assistant Producer
BBC2, September 2002
Randall And Hopkirk (Deceased), Series 2
Co-written with Mark Gatiss on episode, Two Can Play At That Game
BBC1, 2001
Comic Relief - Red Nose Day 2001 Writer
BBC1, 12th March 2001
The League Of Gentlemen Christmas Special
Writer/Assistant Producer
BBC2, 2000
The League Of Gentlemen, Series 1 & 2
Writer/Assistant Producer
BBC2, 1999 and 2000
Debt Wish Live Writer
BBC1, 12th June 1999
Theatre
A Local Show For Local People Writer
National tour, Oct - Dec, 2000 and March - June, 2001 and at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, March 2001
Debt Wish Live Writer
Brixton Academy, 5th June 1999
The League Of Gentlemen Writer
At venues including the Edinburgh Pleasance, London Pleasance, Komedia, Brighton, Battersea Arts Centre, London and the Canal Café Theatre, London, 1995 - 1999
Film
The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
Co-Writer
D: Steve Benedelack
UIP/FilmFour/Tiger Aspect Pictures, release date 3rd June 2005
The Cicerones (short) Director
Shown as part of the 'Explosive Fragments' strand of the Edinburgh International Film Festival, 15th & 16th August 2002, and as part of 'Frightfest' at the Prince Charles Cinema, London, 25th August 2002
Radio
Ringing The Changes Co-written with Mark Gatiss
Radio 4, 2001
On The Town With The League Of Gentlemen
Writer
Radio 4, 1997
Video/DVD
The League of Gentlemen Series 3 Writer
BBC Worldwide, 2003
The League of Gentlemen Christmas Special
Writer
BBC Worldwide, 2002
A Local Show for Local People Writer
VVL, 2001 (Recorded live at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane)
The League of Gentlemen Series 2 Writer
BBC Worldwide, 2001
The League of Gentlemen Series 1 Writer
BBC Worldwide, 2000
Books
The League of Gentlemen Scripts And That
Co-writer
Fourth Estate, 2003
The League Of Gentlemen - A Local Book For Local People Co-writer
Fourth Estate UK, 2000
Never Trust A Rabbit (Collected Short Fiction) Writer
Duckworth, published 25th May 2000
What Happens Now Writer
Abacus, published 6th April 2006
The Essex Files Co-written with Mark Gatiss
Fourth Estate UK, 1997
Bright Darkness: The Lost Art Of The Supernatural Horror Film Writer
Cassell UK, 1997
Oratorio
The Same Dog
Music by Joby Talbot, book by Jeremy Dyson Performed at the Barbican, 9th July 2000
Awards
The League of Gentlemen, Series 3
South Bank Show Award for Best Comedy, 2003
A Local Show for Local People
Olivier Award Nomination for Best Entertainment, 2002
The League Of Gentlemen, Series 2
NME Award for Best Television Programme, 2001
The League Of Gentlemen, Series 1
BAFTA Award for Best Comedy, 2000
Golden Rose of Montreux, 1999
RTS Award for Best Entertainment, 1999
On The Town With The League Of Gentlemen
Talkie Award for Best Contemporary Comedy, 1999 Sony Silver Award, 1997
The League Of Gentlemen
Perrier Award, 1997
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