The Starz attempt, promisingly, has pulled in original creators Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong to act as consulting producers on the show.
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Peep Show is set to make a comeback – in America.
The US Office bears little to no resemblance to Ricky Gervais’ original whilst Veep is essentially a British comedy with American actors walking around in it. The hope is that if Starz takes this on, they’ll follow a similar vein with Armando Iannucci and Veep, i.e. basically make another series of Peep Show, with similar American actors.
“Peep Show”, the half-hour comedy that starred British comedians David Mitchell and Robert Webb and was shot entirely through the first-person perspective of its two protagonists, won two BAFTA Awards and another six nominations over its nine seasons. The series centers around two dysfunctional friends who share their lives while trying to adjust to the professional world. Eli Jorne, the co-creator of Fox’s forthcoming combined live-action and animated sitcom Son of Zorn, has been brought on as showrunner as well as executive producer.
Whilst speaking with Deadline, Bain and Armstrong said: “We are hugely relieved to hand over the responsibility of coming up with the dark and twisted thoughts of two awful men to the extremely amusing, dark and twisted Eli Jorne”.
“I feel lucky to be working with Starz again”, said Jorne.
RadioTimes.com broke the story earlier this year that the U.S. division of Objective Productions, the producers of the comedy, was “in negotiations about Peep Show in America”.
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He said he was “grateful to Sam and Jesse for entrusting me with nine seasons” worth of insightful, darkly hilarious material that I can hopefully pass off to American audiences as my own’.
