Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps to make TV return after 10 years

Over a decade on from its last episode, the hit BBC sitcom Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps is set to make its grand return to our screens.

The comedy followed the antics of a group of friends in their twenties and, though it was never a big hit with critics, it was consistently popular with viewers and ultimately ran for nine seasons, coming to an end in 2011.

And now, ten years on from the finale, it’s set to make a comeback.

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The show’s creator Susan Nickson revealed recently that she is currently in talks with the BBC and explained that Will Mellor and Ralf Little, who played Gaz Wilkinson and Jonny Keogh, are also on board for the reboot.

Speaking on the Drama School Dropout podcast, she explained that the cogs of the BBC machine are moving ‘extremely slowly,’

She said: “So basically what you’ve got, it’s me, Will, Ralf and all three of us are just going ‘yeah, we’re here, we’ll do it’ and the BBC are going ‘ah brilliant, yeah let’s do it’ and I’m sort of sat here going ‘okay, when?’ and they go ‘well, we don’t know.’

“So what we’ve got is a corporation that has no idea.”

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Susan did acknowledge that with a reboot would come a drastic script change to accommodate modern topics and issues such as the ‘Me Too’ movement which calls out toxic masculinity. She said that she pictures the ‘two ageing working-class geezers’ not fully understanding that some men treat women badly.

She said: “I want to see the comforting story of people like Gaz and Jonny, who live in a world where bad guys don’t exist. I want them to acknowledge the bad guys are out there though, but I don’t want Gaz and Jonny to be them.”

However, Susan did admit that she is unsure whether Sheridan Smith would return to reprise her role of Janet Keogh.

The BBC are yet to formally announce the reboot.