Family sitcom Outnumbered is set to return for a one-off special on the BBC.
The largely improvised show, focusing on couple Pete and Sue Brockman and their three young children, won a huge fan-base for its attention to detail around the absurdities of life as a parent, and ran for five series between 2007 and 2014.
The show’s writing duo Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin are ‘working on new ideas’ for a special episode which could air at Christmas.
Speaking on FUBAR Radio, Hamilton said: “We hope to visit the family for a kind of one-off. Me and Guy, on our wall, in our office, we have a list of ideas we are trying to work out.”
He also spoke about the issues that sometimes arise in making a one-off episode for the Christmas period.
“We've done a few Christmas specials, but you kind of disappear in a big gap of Christmas programming,” Hamilton explained. “We're kind of inclined to do it somewhere else if we can.”
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The three child actors are now considerably more grown up, with Ramona Marquez now aged 14, Daniel Roche aged 16, and Tyger Drew-Honey aged 19.
No doubt the special episode will throw plenty of teenage problems at the Brockman family.
