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Mark Gatiss teases return of League of Gentlemen

The League of Gentlemen could be returning to screens and it’s partly thanks to “Brexit”.

The League of Gentlemen (PA)
Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith, Mark Gatiss and Jeremy Dyson of The League of Gentlemen (PA)

It seems the result of the EU referendum has spurred on Mark Gatiss to bring back the English black comedy television series that aired on the BBC from 1999 to 2002 and produced a movie-spinoff three years later.

A visit to Royston Valley is long overdue and fans of the show will be delighted that the sinister clown Papa Lazarou and local butcher Hilary Briss – who served meat that made people’s noses bleed – could be set to return.

Speaking to Radcliffe and Maconie on BBC Radio 6 Music this afternoon, the award-winning writer said: “We’re hoping to [do it again]. We’ve talked seriously about doing something, we’re not quite sure what it is yet but we’d love to do something, it is 10 years…

(Reece Shearsmith's Twitter)
(Reece Shearsmith’s Twitter)

“I think increasingly, talking about prescience, we have become a local country for local people and I wonder if there is something Brexity in us that we can do.”

Watch this space!