BBC Two's new sitcom White Gold is getting (half of) the gang back together – with The Inbetweeners stars James Buckley and Joe Thomas sharing the screen again.

But is there any chance their old cast-mates Simon Bird and Blake Harrison could make an appearance, giving us a full-blown (*snigger*) Inbetweeners reunion?

Speaking to Digital Spy, White Gold creator – and Inbetweeners co-creator – Damon Beesley explained that he'd always had Buckley and Thomas in mind to play hapless salesmen Fitzpatrick and Lavender in the '80s-set comedy.

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"They are brilliantly funny and I think The Inbetweeners wouldn't be the show it was if it wasn't for that kind of camaraderie between the four of them. But I was pretty much told that two Inbetweeners would be enough. If you put too many in there it sort of erodes the realism!

"There's a bit of me that wants to work with them all the time, because they're good friends and really brilliant comic actors. So whenever I write a role, I think Simon or Blake might be brilliant. But everyone's like, 'Yeah, but you can't have them!'.

"Maybe I'll get my way. They might not want to do it now. They might be really offended that I didn't ask them in the first place!"

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Not a bit of it – in fact, Bird (who played Will in The Inbetweeners) previously told us that he's open to appearing in White Gold.

The series also stars Gossip Girl's Ed Westwick as suave double-glazing salesman Vincent, with Buckley telling us that the show does "feel a bit like The Inbetweeners".

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"I'm hoping that it will give those people their fix," he said. "Because it's every single day that somebody asks me, 'Will there be more Inbetweeners?' – so hopefully this will be enough like it to satisfy those people, and also different enough to be interesting and fresh.

"It's definitely a lot more grown-up, so I hope it pleases Inbetweeners fans and I hope it can also have something there for people that felt The Inbetweeners was puerile and juvenile... which it was!"

White Gold begins tonight (Wednesday, May 24) at 10pm on BBC Two.

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