‘Little Britain’: Matt Lucas Says He’s Talking To Netflix About Reviving The Iconic UK Sketch Show
Matt Lucas and David Walliams, the creators and stars of the BBC sketch present Little Britain, have held talks with Netflix about rebooting the comedy greater than 14 years after the final episode aired on British tv.
In an interview with BBC Radio 2 on Friday, Lucas — who has gone on to star in options together with Bridesmaids — stated he and Walliams sat down with Netflix and there’s a probability they may make additional episodes for the streamer.
“It’d occur. We had a dialog with them some time in the past and so the seed was planted in our head. We’d like to deliver it again indirectly and sooner or later. We’re each fairly busy boys, however we’re talking typically and one concept was to perhaps do a stage present of it once more,” he stated. “It would come again in some type, we’re simply nonetheless determining what that shall be.”
The feedback comply with a report in British tabloid newspaper The Solar, by which a supply claimed that Lucas and Walliams have a phone assembly with Netflix deliberate subsequent week and have been supplied £3M ($3.6M) to remake the present, which is produced by BBC Studios.
Little Britain ran for 3 seasons on the BBC within the noughties, in addition to the two-part particular Little Britain Overseas in 2006. It spawned iconic characters together with Lucas’ fast-talking Vicky Pollard and Daffyd, often called “the one homosexual within the village.” Netflix has streamed the present within the UK as a part of a library of BBC content material.
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