Peep Show could return to TV, David Mitchell reveals

Modern sitcom classic could potentially return to catch up with Jez and Mark - but fans may have to wait

There's been a hole in everybody's hearts since Peep Show ended. Let's not deny it.

Without the grand misadventures of Jez and Mark, we've been missing a TV show about people who are so terrible at living their own lives, they make us feel marginally better about ours.

Some hope, then. Speaking to the NME, stars Robert Webb and David Mitchell revealed plans to return to the beloved sitcom in the future, specifically as a catch-up 10 years or so down the line.

"When it ended, Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong and Rob [Webb] and I agreed that we would be up for doing a return to those characters in 10 or more years time," Mitchell said.

"I think it would be a different show. I think we would give it a different name but I’d certainly love to work with Sam and Jesse again and I think they would be interested to write those characters again but basically at the other end of their lives when they’re 50 odd or even older."

Webb, meanwhile, agrees that the show will only return after enough time has elapsed.

"In its perfect form, it is over," he said. "I know that all four of us have said that we’re keeping the door on the latch for a return when Mark and Jeremy are much older, and I mean seriously older, otherwise it’s just a tired reboot."

The pair currently star across from each other in Back, from Peep Show writer Simon Blackwell, which sees Mitchell star as a man forced to take over his father's pub when he dies.

His plans are interrupted when a former foster child of his parents, played by Webb, turns up eager to renew his relationship with what he sees as his only true family.

Back starts on Channel 4 at 10pm on Wednesday.