David Mitchell and Robert Webb might be back on Channel 4 as real(ish) brothers in brand new sitcom Back, but what about the infamous El Dude brothers?

Well, despite bidding farewell to Mark and Jeremy when Peep Show ended in 2015, it looks like everyone's favourite dysfunctional duo could actually be returning.

Not in the near future, mind you.

Chatting to NME about the cult comedy series, David admitted that the team are definitely up for revisiting Mark and Jez in "10 or more years time". (Ah.)

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Adding that it would be a "different show", with even a "different name", David said he would "love to work with Sam [Bain] and Jesse [Armstrong] again".

"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."

Channelling his inner-Mark rather than Jez, Robert was a little less optimistic about any future Peep Show outing. "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."

Mark and Jeremy as pensioners? Sign us up right here, right now.

While we may be waiting indefinitely for the return of the El Dude bros, we can at least catch Mitchell and Webb in Back, which happens to have been written by one of Peep Show's alumni.

Back will air on Channel 4.

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