Legendary sketch show set for a reboot as lead actor confirms return
‘We’re like filming!’ Legendary Sketch Show Will Reboot When Main Star Confirms Return: 20 Years After Finale Episode
A legendary sketch show is set to get a reboot after one of the main stars confirmed his upcoming return on Wednesday.
Smack The Pony could be making a comeback 20 years after the final episode, as Fiona Allen revealed that they “are the kings of filming” in a recent interview.
The 57-year-old actress did not reveal when the series might hit TV screens, but added that it would be “great to see another one”.
speaking to Sun, Fiona said: ‘Wouldn’t it be great to see another one? We’re filming, talking, that would be a fun thing.
Smack The Pony returned briefly for Red Nose Day 2017, with the comic adding that it thinks it will still do well with today’s audiences.
Comeback: A legendary sketch show is set to get a reboot after one of the main stars confirmed her upcoming return on Wednesday.
She continued, “It was fun and a lot of silliness, which I love, I guess it was our style, and it worked really well and it spanned a lot of different age groups.”
“And we really enjoyed it, we used to have a lot of trouble laughing. It shows up all the time, it always shows up somewhere. So that’s pretty nice.
The Channel 4 comedy show ran for 23 episodes from 1999 to 2003 and featured Fiona, Doon Mackichan and Sally Phillips as the lead characters.
Most of the show’s characters were non-recurring with themes including failed dates, irritating roommates, and workplace problems.
The series won three Emmy Awards for Outstanding Popular Arts Performance and all three seasons received a Bafta nomination.
Sally, Fiona and Doon reunited to reprise some of their funniest characters with a modern twist for Comic Relief six years ago.
One of the show’s most beloved skits, featuring Sally and Fiona as language students, was reprized, with Sally obsessively correcting ‘Spanish’ Fiona as she cried over her husband’s affair at the wrong time.
A reboot of Smack The Pony was previously rejected by broadcasters two years ago after Sally said she had pushed for its return.
Coming soon: Smack The Pony could return 20 years after the final episode when Fiona Allen (pictured last month) revealed that they ‘are the kings of filming’ in a recent interview
She said Meter at the time: ‘We go through phases of introducing it to people and nobody really wants it.
Fiona Allen really is the engine behind it, so she’s always looking to see if anyone wants it and we’ve gone through periods of pitching it to channels and being very optimistic and then people saying no.
“We all three of us released it together in a lot of different environments and they also said no,” he revealed.