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Dyson's three acting colleagues have reunited in the period since The League Of Gentlemen for a series of sketches on kids' history show Horrible Histories. Dyson, meanwhile, was writing and directing his own, more grown-up, skewed take on famous figures of history with Sky Arts' Psychobitches.

The Thick Of It's Rebecca Front stars as a psychiatrist attempting to offer therapy to an impressive roster of female comedy talent including Sharon Horgan, Julia Davis, Catherine Tate, Katy Brand and Morgana Robinson as historical women both iconic - from Cleopatra to Marie Curie, and Marilyn Monroe to the Bronte sisters - and a little more obscure - including cellist Jacquelin du Pre, vaudeville performer Betty Knox, and visionary mystic St Hildegard of Bingen. (Plus Gatiss as Joan Crawford, Shearsmith as Princess Margaret and Pemberton as Gorillas In The Mist's Dian Fossey).

Originally aired as part of Sky Arts' Playhouse Presents series of one-off shows in 2012, Psychobitches was expanded into a full series the following year. Dyson directed every episode and was one of a rotating team of writers.

Psychobitches is a comedy of smart, well-read people being very silly. Dyson's particular brand of surreal grotesquery is on show in a number of the absurdly exaggerated caricatures of famous historical women (although others hew closer to vaguely realistic impressions) with a strong central performance from a bewildered but supportive Front. It's just a shame that it aired on a channel that so few actually watch.