The League Of Gentlemen: All Their Other Shows Ranked From Worst To Best

Rarely seen on screen except in fleeting cameos in crowd scenes and played in a barely less brief appearance by Michael Sheen in the film The League Of Gentlemen's Apocalypse, Jeremy Dyson is the member of the dark comedy foursome who is most often overlooked. While he may be lacking the acting credentials of his fellow League members, as a writer Dyson has produced some of the most interesting work of any of them.

Oddball comedy-drama-thriller-mystery Funland was written by Dyson and EastEnders writer Simon Ashdown for the then-fledgling BBC Three in 2005, going on to receive a BAFTA nod for Best Drama Serial.

Beginning with an unnamed individual in a gorilla suit tumbling to their death from Blackpool Tower, Funland then skipped back a few days to explain this bizarre image with an even more bizarre story full of sleaze, sex, stripping, incest, revenge, murder, prosthetic testicles and a supporting role for Gatiss as weird taxidermist Ambrose Chapfel.

Initially intended as an on-running serial, Funland ultimately ran to just eleven episodes and was not brought back for a second season, meaning that it was brought to a slightly abrupt conclusion. At its best the odd tonal melange of surreal dark comedy and soapish melodrama evokes Twin Peaks, but at its lesser moments it doesn't entirely hang together.