This is the end…or is it? (Picture: Channel 4)

Don’t worry, Peep Show fans – there’s a very good chance season nine won’t be the last we see of Mark Corrigan and Jeremy Usborne.

The El Dude brothers will return to our screens on Wednesday for six more episodes, which will take us up to about 21 and a half hours of Peep Show goodness.

And while that sounds like the makings of a ridiculously good marathon, there’s only so many times we can watch Jeremy piss himself and Mark do rainbow rhythms.

Fortunately, though, Peep Show writers Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain have revealed that tentative plans are in place for a tenth season – emphasis on the word tentative.




‘We’ve got a document called “Peep Show Series 10” with one line on it about a lawnmower,’ said Bain at a premiere screening of the ninth series.

So yeah, very tentative – although David Mitchell sounded interested.

‘That’s perfect for when they’re in retirement. It’s all going to be a prequel to Last of the Summer Wine,’ he said.

‘Compo is Super Hans. Clegg is definitely Mark.’

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It’s unlikely that we’d get that tenth series in the near future, although Armstrong admitted that the prospect of catching up with Mark and Jeremy may be too good to turn down.

‘I don’t think we’d do it anytime soon but we’ve all said we really love working together, we like writing the jokes, it feels like now is the time to stop it, but I would like to find out what they do later in their life,’ he said.

And more crucially, Robert Webb likes the idea too…

‘No not at all,’ he said when asked if he’d rule out a return.

‘Peep Show as we know it, it’s good that it’s stopping now. We go around saying it’s a show about two young-ish men – I was 30 in Series 1.’

‘It was never Skins.’

For now though, we’ll have to make do with one more series, and trust us – it’s brilliant.

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