Robert Webb has mentioned Peep Present might return when the characters are “previous males” of their seventies.
The actor, who performed Jeremy within the Channel 4 sitcom, reaffirmed the thought in an interview with NME to mark the present’s twentieth anniversary.
“We’ve all the time mentioned that it might be humorous to return and see them as previous males,” Webb mentioned. “Residing in the identical flat and having the identical arguments… I believe in all probability this aspect of, let’s consider, 70?”
His co-star David Mitchell, nevertheless, believes any future reunion must be a “completely separate factor”.
“It’s good that individuals nonetheless give a shit… I don’t need to tack something onto the tip of it,” Mitchell mentioned. “It must be a very separate factor. I wouldn’t need it to tug the unique factor down.”
The present’s co-creator Jesse Armstrong expressed curiosity in returning to the characters, including: “I’d have an interest to know what Mark and Jeremy have been so far..”
Mitchell and Webb beforehand detailed the thought of returning to the characters in “their older age” in an interview with LadBible in 2021. “The way in which we have now it in thoughts – although the necessity to work might intervene, who is aware of, we could also be pitching it in six months time – was to not do it after they have been middle-aged however after they have been previous,” Mitchell mentioned.
“So actually at the very least 20 years after the present completed, not seven.”
Peep Present, co-created by Armstrong and Sam Bain, ran for 9 seasons between 2003 and 2015. The sequence adopted the lives of Mark Corrigan (Mitchell) and Jeremy ‘Jez’ Usbourne (Webb) of their Croydon flat.
Final 12 months, a fifth try at a US remake was reported to be within the works from Atlanta author Stefani Robinson, which might comply with the first-person narrative format with two feminine leads.
In the identical interview with NME, co-creator Bain revealed that he rejected plans to show Peep Present right into a stage play.
“There was a proposal to do a stay Peep Present, a stage present, after the final sequence, which we did rigorously think about as a result of it was coming from some correct folks,” Bain mentioned. “However we simply, we simply couldn’t get our heads round how it might be Peep Present on stage. And I believe with that type of factor, we’d need to watch out.”
