Actor Martin Clunes has revealed he has reunited with his former Men Behaving Badly co-star Neil Morrisey for a new TV series.
The legendary pair starred opposite each other as Tony Smart and Gary Strang in the laddish flat-share comedy, which aired on ITV and then on BBC between 1992 and 1998.
Their reunion comes 27 years after the last episode of Men Behaving Badly aired as they reconnect for a road trip adventure through France. But Clunes ruled out the much-loved sitcom ever returning for a special episode.
Speaking to The Mirror ahead of Out There’s premiere, Clunes simply said “no”, when asked if a Men Behaving Badly special would return to television.
Clunes added: “I have just done a thing with Neil in France, like two old men driving around. It’s not a drama, it’s just me and Neil.
“When he’s not working he has a place in France, honestly the bad ideas people have planned for us to do over the years you wouldn’t believe.
The Doc Martin actor then joked: “One of them was ‘why don’t you and Neil do a pub crawl around Africa’. But this idea came up and it seemed not too crass and it’s a fee, so Neil just showed me around and we did some great stuff.”
Without giving too much away about their new show, Clunes opened up about some of the adventures they embarked while they enjoyed each others humour.
He added: “I have been to the Pyrenees, fished for tuna, and rode some Camargue horses in the south of France.
“It was nice, it was a bit tiresome as we had to make a programme. It was nice just to hang out with Neil and make each other laugh.”
The forthcoming three-part series for Gold, titled Neil & Martin’s Bon Voyage, will see them travel from Normandy, through the Alps to Morrissey’s home and cider apple orchard in the southern region.
As they take in the local food, landscapes and local traditions, the old friends will reconnect and reminisce on their professional and personal relationship that spans 30 years. The series is set to air later this year.
However, Martin returns to ITV on Sunday, January 19, as he leads the cast of a gritty new ITV crime drama Out There which focuses on drug dealing in a rural community.
The much-loved actor, 63, plays Nathan Williams, a man who runs a farm in Wales which has been in his family for generations, caught in a numbing rhythm of work and grief following the death of his wife, Sabine.
The farmer has serious concerns about his teenage son Johnny (Louis Ashbourne Serkis) and reconnecting with his friend and local drug dealer Rhys (Gerran Howell), farmer Nathan finds himself trying to protect his farm and local community from County Lines drug operations.
Out There airs on Sunday at 9pm on ITV and ITVX
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