A decade after Peep Show came to an end, one star has teased that we may very well get the reunion everyone wants.
The hit 00s sitcom starred David Mitchell and Robert Webb playing Croydon flatmates and best friends Mark Corrigan and Jeremy ‘Jez’ Usbourne as they navigate London living in all its awkward chaos.
Also featuring Olivia Colman as Sophie Chapman, Isy Suttie as Dobby, Matt King as Super Hans, and Sophie Winkleman as Big Suze, the Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain co-created show ran for 12 years before wrapping up in 2015.
Now the cast (aside from Robert) are reuniting for the Great British Bake Off Christmas special, which has fuelled hopes that the once-promised special might actually come to fruition.
As Matt told The Sun TVBiz column: ‘When it ended in 2015, [writers] Sam and Jesse said to us: “We’ll see you in ten years. We’re going to write a one-off.”
‘I did ask them six months ago. They said: “We still would be interested, but we’re just so busy, we can’t do a ten-year one.” I feel like it will happen.’
Isy also rallied behind the idea, although she had a much longer timeline in mind.
‘I’d do it, but we’d almost have to do it in 20 years with Mark and Jez in an old people’s home and us in the flats next door,’ she joked.
Still, Matt’s confidence is the most hope Peep Show fans have had in the years that the comedy might actually return, however briefly.
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What’s more, David and Robert have proven they’re still keen to work together, and as dynamic a duo as ever, with their new Channel 4 sketch show, Mitchell and Webb Are Not Helping.
Isy’s mode of thinking echoes what David and Robert have said about any potential revival before.
In 2023, Robert told NME: ‘We’ve always said that it would be funny to go back and see them as old men. Living in the same flat and having the same arguments… I think probably this side of, shall we say, 70?’
Adding to Varsity earlier this year: ‘If you come back and they’re 53 and they’re still living with someone they don’t want to live with and they’re still not fulfilled romantically or professionally, well, the jury’s back in, and you f***ed it. The show would just be so sad.’
Meanwhile, David shared a few years ago that while it was nice people still cared, he doesn’t ‘want to tack anything onto the end of [the original show].’
He added: ‘It would have to be a totally separate thing. I wouldn’t want it to drag the original thing down.’
Meanwhile, despite Matt’s optimistic outlook on a Peep Show return, the last time the Succession writer Jesse spoke of it, it was less of a sure thing.
He told The Hollywood Reporter in 2023: ‘There are no Peep Show revivals on the cards. I like working with [Sam]. We never stopped writing together because of any lack of enjoyment. We didn’t fall out.
‘We just ended up doing different things. So I’d always write with Sam again if we had the right thing cooking. But I don’t think there’s anything I’ve got that I’d like to come back to.’
Peep Show is available to stream on Channel 4 now.
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