Keep an eye out for a tall guy in silly outfits. Trigger Happy TV is coming back after 12 years.

Channel 4 has decided to bring back Dom Joly's prank show, unless of course Joly's announcement is a prank itself.


Speaking to BBC Radio London's Robert Elms, Joly promised a more "cinematic" version of the original series, which ran from 2000 to 2003 including an American spinoff on Comedy Central.

"I'm bringing Trigger Happy back. I just went to Channel 4 yesterday. I'm doing it in a very different way.

"I'm doing it in kind of 'modules' because I really want to make some cinematic-style ones. I want some really big hits.

"So it's not coming back as the original show, it's coming back as a Trigger Happy stunt show, so I'm quite excited about that."

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Joly said he found fame "really terrifying" in the early 2000s, explaining: "I didn't want that level. All you think is that you're being judged.

"I'm better off on the outside biting at ankles. I'd become kind of an 'ish' celebrity, and it's difficult to take the mickey of celebs when you're in that world."

Speaking about his disappointing time at the BBC, he said: "When I got to the BBC I got lazy I think. I was making stuff and thought it would all be fine. I had a three-series deal and it just tanked. I hated being at the BBC."

He added: "The third one was one of my favourite shows - World Shut Your Mouth - but nobody watched it."

Joly previously spoke of bringing back Trigger Happy TV in 2011 as a film, but it was never released.

Watch a classic moment from Trigger Happy TV below: