Even people who like the series seem to like it for the wrong reason. I wouldn’t invite my wife to watch it. I’m addicted.

Shotgun Blast! Knock it off you two, this is a hospital!

I loved Dark Place , bought the cd and was a broken man when there were no more series. Great to find to find fellow admirers of the quirky.

Very interesting to learn that Dr. Sanchez was created around Matt ‘The Voice’ Berry. In the Darkplace intro, as the credits play, Sanchez does an eyebrow raise. It’s as priceless and Dr. Dagless’ ‘corridor’ running technique.

The Garth Marenghi audio books are just as hilarious.

Fucking love Matt Holness ❤

So what happened between you and this Renwick customer ? 🤨

Some episodes definitely stronger than others.

I've said this elsewhere, but as an American, it's interesting for me to hear Matthew Holness speak candidly because his Garth Marenghi voice always sounds to me like someone with an English accent doing a bad impression OF an English accent.

Darkplace couldn't have been anything other than a piece of cult history, if it had become massive it would have ruined the premise.

is there a longer version of this interview?

" I went to Uni at Cambridge and joined footlights" said every TV comedian forever

I'm a huge comedy fan, and 'Garth Marenghi's Darkplace' is absolutely, sidesplittingly hilarious. I am also a huge Horror fan, very few films actually scare me (well, they do but that's the fun of it) but I couldn't even reach the end of the trailer to this film. I was truly gobsmacked when I looked up who wrote this film.

Alum Armstrong and Sean Harris are often willing to take on really tricky characters to play. Armstrong is wildly underappreciated. Everyone loves Matthew Holness though. Rightly so.

Blood? Blood. Blood. Blood... And bits of sick...

It is so interesting seeing him being himself. Hearing what his non role playing voice sounds like, what his real facial expressions are and gestures.

Phenomenal piece of filmmaking. Beautifully crafted and the performances were incredible.

Dark Place is one of the few series where I think we can comfortably say that it's perfect. What it set out to achieve, it did in spades, I can't fault it - while I would have loved a second season, in a way it's a good thing that it is its own standalone season, perfect from start to finish and never ran the risk of the premise being tired, or having to deal with episodes that maybe weren't as good as others (every episode of Dark Place is great, not a bad on in there and so much detail the rewatchability alone to see what you didn't pick up on, is a testimate to the quality of the show).

After this interview, he went Go- Karting at 'SuperKarts'!!!!!!

So brilliant that many people don't get it until you remind them it's brilliant, then later they agree. There is definitely something to be said for not being instantly a smash hit. I think even classics like Father Ted, Spaced and The Office gradually built an audience. To be honest this is because many people require a humour adjustment to appreciate them. The adjustment can take one or two viewings. Unless you're like me and you originally were one of those fans who insisted on the unique brilliance from first watching. (You're very welcome new fans)

Darkplace was awesome. his short "A Gun For George" was sublime too

I found this an interesting listen. A underrated gem in my eyes.

Brilliant line excellently performed by Tim Stern 😊

It's actually refreshing to see he doesn't utterly disdain his characters. Modern American satire could learn from this, it's literally a mean girls clique doing straw man again and again with no depth or subtext to be found.

Garth Marenghi is super awesome. But Holness's short 20min film "A Gun For George" is SUBLIME

nice to see Holness doing well after all these years. I've always held out hope for a modern Darkplace remake parodying the style of modern remakes where everything is overwrought and unnecessarily cgi-generated rather than the original parody of campy and underbudget 80's horror.

I loved the film and I'm so impressed that this guy did Possum. He's brilliant in The Office, brilliant in Dark Place and this is his masterpiece. Please direct more films Matthew...

You don’t write characters for Matt Berry to play. You meet Matt Berry then you make HIM the character

Garth Marenghi seems a bit off here even his voice seems different

Darkplace has a very special place in my heart. It's goofy and it's wonderful.

I think the best part of _Dark Place_ was how Matthew Holness looks like a young Patrick McGoohan.

"Thank goodness I only took a tiny sip" Probably the most quotable show ever. Part of me wishes they'd made more, the other part is glad they didn't stretch it out and ruin it.

Amazing how Matthew was the center piece of people like Mitchell and Webb, and Ayoade, and Berry. Throw in noel Fielding and Julian Barrat, and they are all the core of everything I love in comedy. Amazing I can't find anything that David Mitchell and Mat Berry worked on together. that would be my dream team! Am I missing something??

I utterly love Darkplace.

One of the greatest series I've seen. Matt is a genius as far as I'm concerned, it was all beautifully observed and the cast were perfect.

"Darkplace, the show that divided the critics. Half hated it and the other half haven't seen it."

Matt Holness is hilarious! He left out his show Bruiser which had him Robert Webb David Mitchell Olivia Coleman Martin Freeman and maybe one other hysterical person like the most amazing cast

I'm completely put off by the Kubrick portrait because anyone that knows anything about directing knows he was an absolute fucking hack 🤣 he knew cinematography but beyond that his incompetence at every other level of directing was abundantly clear to even the most blind and stupid 🤦‍♂️😅

Saw this guy bombing it round the speedway once. He hit a ramp, we were all thinking ‘he’s definitely dead’, but he turned over in the air, landed on his wheels, and got out and asked what we were worried about.

recommend everyone buy the audiobook of TerrorTome by Garth, its amazing, like 3 new episodes!

02:45 Talking about 'Bruiser'?

I did indeed watch it pirated on KZbin.

Dark Place has so many quotable lines and memorable "bad" acting. I admit on my first episode I didn't get it at first. A mate told me to watch it so I say though the first episode until I suddenly clicked with the style within a style. From then on I was hooked and couldn't get enough. It's annoyingly underrated, probably because it's so well done that people think it was actually filmed in the 80s, lol.

I’m one of the few people you’ll meet who’ve written more books than I’ve read.

It is impossible to look at this seriously. It’s great to hear how this started and all but the format of him doing a retrospective interview is just too funny.

My group of friends were all all over Darkplace from the beginning.

Darkplace was just ahead of its time.

I will admit I hated it when it came to adult swim. But upon rewatching it later it was good, far too short. Amazing Mighty Boosh got so many reasons and that was 1. I think the show was a bit too over the top with the violence and gore and that kinda throws things off.

I remember watching Garth Marenghi's Dark Place on Adult Swim. I think around 2006/7 in the states. Even though I was only like 11/12 years old I LOVED the show. I wish it was more popular.

Amazon spends 500 mil on crap they should bring this back