Inside No 9: Once Removed preview

With another great episode tonight, this year's series of Inside No 9 is shaping up to be the best yet - and that from an already strong baseline. As always, this preview won't contain any major spoilers, but if you want to be completely surprised, click away now.

Inside No. 9: Series 4, Episode 3 - Once Removed review

Inside No. 9 episodes are known for having at least one twist, but Once Removed has so many twists and turns it is hard to know where to start.

Inside No 9 review: Memento meets farce

Just when you think Inside No 9 has seen it all, along comes an episode with a gun hidden in an oven mitt, attempted smothering with bubble-wrap, and a dementia-stricken father who thinks he's Andrew Lloyd Webber.

Inside No. 9 series 4 episode 3 review: Once Removed

Inside No. 9 winds back the clock in a cleverly structured episode that keeps the audience guessing.

Inside No 9 review: this is criminally underappreciated

Let's hope the makers of last year's flop BBC drama Rellik were watching, taking notes and hanging their heads in shame. Inside No. 9 (BBC Two) just provided a masterclass in how to tell a crime story backwards.

Inside No. 9 - Series 4, Episode 3, Once Removed, BBC2

Just as you, well I, might have been thinking that Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton were going soft in this series, along comes Once Removed like a punch in the gob.

Preview: Inside No. 9 series 4

Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton's Inside No. 9 returns to BBC Two for its fourth series on Tuesday 2nd January. Here's a spoiler-free review from Sophie who has seen episodes 1-4 of the new series...

Dog Down review

Tedious, infantile Britcom starring Jason Durr and Nick Moran.

The high body count in this series, and the storyline's refusal to go back and rake over old ground, means there are great characters everywhere, barely known before being discarded at the side of the road. Following Nick Moran's small-time crook and Dougray Scott's surprisingly vulnerable spook, in this episode there's a bit more of Karel Roden excelling as Marat, the Russian gangster who is caught between his country's security services and ours.

Making him tender and childlike fits with the tone of a penultimate episode that's the most thrilling yet but also the most heartfelt, as we get to know Sam and Phil more deeply, just as they have to decide whether to risk everything to become heroes.

The laughs often come with a fist-pumping cheer not far behind: Mat Baynton's line at the end of a fantastic four-way punch-up with an FSB heavy could be a quotable highlight from an Edgar Wright movie.