Mel & Griff return
Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones are to revive their comic partnership for the BBC.
They will perform some new close-up head-to-head dialogues – the format that became their trademark – for the forthcoming Smith & Jones Sketchbook series.
But most of the show will involve repackaging their best work from the Eighties - the same format that recently proved so successful in resurrecting The Two Ronnies’ sketches.
Smith and Jones will also provide a commentary on the background and the making of their series, which ran from 1984 to 1988.
Production has already started on the six-part show, which is being made by Talkback Thames.
It will air on BBC One next year.
Published: 25 Oct 2005