Peep Show may have come to an end, but Robert Webb has an idea for a potential return.
Before you put it in your diaries though, it'll be some decades into the future as Webb told Digital Spy at the BAFTA TV Awards last night (May 8) that it "won't come back in its present form".
"If David and I are so blessed and live into our early 60s or something like that, we like the idea of it coming back with Mark and Jeremy as old men, even older men and having the same arguments in the same place," he explained.
Webb also said that the end of the sitcom was sad as he realised that the set for the boys' flat was going to be repurposed.
"Normally at the end of the series, they'd take it down and put it in a cupboard, and this time I knew they were going to turn it into some wood for some other show, which was outrageous," he explained, before adding that he was "coping" with the show's end.
Webb will reteam with David Mitchell for new Channel 4 pilot Back, written by Peep Show's Simon Blackwell, who's also written for Veep and The Thick of It.
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He revealed that they shot the pilot "a couple of weeks ago" and, most importantly, "it's a very funny script".
Peep Show ran on Channel 4 for nine series between 2003 and 2015. Last night, it lost out to Peter Kay's Car Share for the Scripted Comedy BAFTA.
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