OHMYGOSSIP — Blake Harrison doesn’t think there will ever be a reboot of ‘The Inbetweeners.’
36-year-old actor – who shot to fame as Neil Sutherland in the coming-of-age comedy series alongside Simon Bird, Joe Thomas and James Buckley – admitted that while the gang are “always asked” to make more, he thinks the show came to a definitive end with the show’s second spin-off movie almost a decade ago.
He said: “I feel like we have been done [with ‘The Inbetweeners’] since 2014. When we did the last film. When we last filmed the movie. But people like it, they always ask us to do more. I can’t see that happening but you never know.”
The actor is now returning to his role of decorator Dan in the second series of ITV sitcom ‘Kate and Koji’ – which also stars Brenda Blethyn as his aunt and seaside café owner Kate who strikes up an unlikely friendship with asylum seeker doctor – and explained how “weird” it was to have filmed a show in front of a live studio audience.
Speaking on ITV’s ‘Lorraine’, he said: “I loved it. A lot of the sitcom that loved growing up were ‘Friends’ and ‘Frasier’ so to be able to do something like that when you’ve got the live audience is amazing. In rehearsals, it feels like you’ve got four and a half days to put on a very short play but you’ve got to realise you’ve got a couple of hundred in the audience and you’ve got to wait for them to laugh or they might laugh when you’re not expecting it. But you’ve also got to do it for the cameras and the millions of people at home so it’s a weird hybrid between TV and theatre.”
The second series of ‘Kate Koji’ is set to premiere on ITV1 on 16.03.2022 at 9pm.