Many people haven’t seen Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace, but those who have seen it swear by it as one of the most creative comedies of the century. The show only aired six episodes in England in 2004, ...

Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace is a horror-comedy miniseries that was first released in 2004. According to IMDb, the series is a parody of classic ’80s, horror films, complete with “poor production values ...

Plenty of publications have been using the month of October to celebrate the best in horror, but the A.V. Club’s Erik Adams went another way, celebrating the genre at its absolute worst. Garth ...

It’s difficult to write about comedy. Specifically, it’s difficult to write positively about comedy, the danger being that the writer could easily fall into one of two traps: 1) explaining the joke, ...

We should have seen it coming. They’d managed to keep it under wraps for twenty years: hiding the tapes, suppressing the press coverage. Two long decades of misinformation separated us from a truth ...

As the suspenseful synthesizers fade out, a heavyset, pasty man in a leather jacket and amber-tinted glasses looks directly into the camera and says, “Greetings traveler, I’m Garth Marenghi, horror ...

Right now, Amazon Prime Video has one of the best shows ever made. A show you might know nothing about. Six episodes of utter comedy perfection that only recently became available to stream in the ...

Garth Marenghi's Darkplace ran for only one season on Channel 4 in the UK in 2004, adapted from Holness and Aoyade's spoof stage show Garth Marenghi's Fright Knight. "Garth Marenghi" (Holness), the ...

I will use any reason I can to write about Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace. The parody series—created, written, and starring Richard Ayoade and Matthew Holness—debuted January 29, 2004 on Channel 4 in the ...

The real comedic genius of the show is its sheer awfulness. The acting is purposely dreadful, the camera shots often stick from hilariously terrible angles that cut off half of people's heads, and ...