A random act of malice sets in motion a domino run of coincidences and catastrophes turning one man's ordinary day into a living nightmare.

Peep Show follows the lives of two men from their twenties to thirties, Mark Corrigan, who has steady employment for most of the series, and Jeremy "Jez" Usbourne, an unemployed would-be musician.

The New Statesman is a British sitcom of the late 1980s and early 1990s satirising the Conservative government of the time.