Mackenzie Crook has said that he already has plenty of ideas for the second series of Detectorists.
Speaking before the BBC Four comedy was renewed for another run, the 43-year-old actor explained that he had always hoped the show would turn out to be "a very low-key thing".
In an interview with Digital Spy, Crook said: "I'd really like to do another series. I don't think it could run for years and years like Only Fools and Horses, but I think I could definitely write another.
"When I wrote the first series there was lots of stuff that I ended up taking out just because there was too much going on, so I've got all of those things ready to go - these other ideas that didn't make it."
Of the reaction that the BBC Four show has garnered from people, Crook told DS: "It's been great. It was what I was hoping for.
"People seem to have embraced it and accepted it for what it is. The few criticisms that it's got is that it's so slow-paced and gentle, and that's what the people that like it like about it!
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"And that's what it was always intended to be," he added. "A very low-key thing."
Asked whether he would say that the show was too buried in a late slot on BBC Four, Crook said: "Actually I don't know if I would.
"It's so accessible… on iPlayer. And I don't think BBC Four is a particularly obscure channel.
"It's a geek's channel – it's a nerd's channel. There are loads of documentaries about niche things. So I think Detectorsists sits really well in amongst those quirky programmes, and it's perhaps bringing more people to BBC Four."
Detectorists is available on DVD from 10 November.
