The Inbetweeners could make a return to screens after more than a decade due to a new deal which has unlocked the title rights.<\/p>\n
The coming-of-age sitcom, which was originally broadcast on E4 between 2008-2010, follows the misadventures of teenager Will MacKenzie and his friends Simon Cooper, Neil Sutherland and Jay Cartwright.<\/p>\n
On Monday it was announced that a new deal between Banijay UK and Fudge Park Productions, the company founded by the series\u2019 writers and creators, Iain Morris and Damon Beesley, has unlocked the rights of the comedy title with the potential of its return across film, TV and stage.<\/p>\n
Beesley and Morris said it was \u201cincredibly exciting to be plotting more adventures for our four favourite friends (ooh friends)\u201d.<\/p>\n
Navigating school, friendship, lad culture and failed sexual encounters, the award-winning series starred Simon Bird<\/a>, Joe Thomas, James Buckley and Blake Harrison.<\/p>\n The cast reprised their roles, following the success of the show, for two films which were released in 2011<\/a> and 2014<\/a>.<\/p>\n Jonathan Blyth, managing director at Fudge Park said: \u201cWe are thrilled to announce this exciting partnership with Banijay who share our vision and ambition for one of the most iconic comedies in British history.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is a wonderful moment for fans, there are exciting conversations afoot and more news to follow.\u201d<\/p>\n Patrick Holland, chief executive at Banijay UK said: \u201cI have worked with Damon and Iain on a number of Fudge Park projects over the years and was delighted to pick up the conversation about the future of The Inbetweeners with them.<\/p>\n \u201cThey have an infectious creative vision for the brand which will resonate with audiences old and new so I can\u2019t wait to get going.\u201d<\/p>\n Banijay Rights are distributors of The Inbetweeners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Inbetweeners could make a return to screens after more than a decade due to a new deal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[73358,18,117,19,17,72587],"class_list":{"0":"post-120218","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-banijay-uk","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-the-inbetweeners"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}