Empty Orchestra start singing. The music was pumped up and we had a mini party, with mad dancing – that was a memorable scene to film." The filming introduced a number of technical challenges, with the producer Adam Tandy explaining that the simultaneous singing and conversing made production particularly difficult: "To record it all 'clean' and have options in the edit, that was technically hard on everybody." Typically, karaoke scenes in television will see characters sing only the opening lines, but because of the format of "Inside No. 9", the characters in "Empty Orchestra" sing the whole song. Each character sang a
Empty Orchestra "The Devil of Christmas". It was first shown on 7 March 2017, on BBC Two. "Empty Orchestra"—the name of which is a literal translation of the Japanese word "karaoke"—was written by Pemberton and Shearsmith, and was directed by Guillem Morales. It was the last episode of the series to be written, and was filmed on a set constructed at Shepperton Studios. The sides of the set could be removed for filming purposes, but, for the most part, the performers were confined. "Empty Orchestra" was originally intended as a wholly musical episode. The initial conceit was that the story would be