After 13 years, Channel 4’s cult sitcom Peep Show is about to draw to a close with the airing of its ninth and final series later in 2015.

While fans will be sad to see the back of Mark and Jez’s flat-sharing adventures, stars David Mitchell and Robert Webb are said to be attached to a new sitcom together from Peep Show writer Simon Blackwell.

Speaking to the Radio Times, David Mitchell explained the series, titled Back, is “much more middle-aged” than Peep Show.

“It’s very early stages,” he said. “It’s a very, very funny script that Simon’s written, a sitcom, and it is our hope that it will be televised.

“We’re developing it for Channel 4 with Phil Clarke, who’s the head of comedy, who produced many series of Peep Show. So, you know, we hope that’ll happen at some point.”

There we have it - even though the El Dude brother are nearly gone, that won’t be the last we see of Mitchell and Webb together on-screen.

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Peep Show Series 9 is coming soon to Channel 4