Dom Joly confirms Trigger Happy TV spin-off is in the works

Dom Joly has confirmed a 'Trigger Happy TV' spin-off is in the works.

The 55-year-old comedian says the new format has the "same sense of humour" as the original Channel 4 show - which ran from 2000 to 2003, before a brief reboot from 2016 to 2017 - and has the same people behind it, and he is "really excited" about the programme.

He said: "I spent a lot of time on 'Trigger Happy' honing my skills annoying members of the public so now I'm going to take those skills and maybe take on something else.

"I did a small reboot for Channel 4 before but there were two things I really wanted to do: one was a movie and the other was to try and get a completely new spin on 'Trigger Happy'.

"So it’s the same sort of comedy, same sense of humour and the same people behind it but doing it for a completely different purpose and I think we've come up with a completely new format so it's really exciting."

Dom admitted he is still waiting for the "green light", but he is hopefully it will be "really cool".

One of the most memorable characters from 'Trigger Happy' saw Dom portray "Big Mobile Guy", who went around shouting into a huge novelty mobile phone, but the star isn't a huge fan of the character.

He added to The Sun newspaper's TV Biz column: "I kind of don't really like the mobile character much.

"The rest of 'Trigger Happy' was about surrealism and weirdness and it was quite dark whereas Big Mobile Guy was just a bit in your face.

"Back in 2017 we made it a big smartphone and I was live vlogging food and, you know, using it for Tinder."