Team to return to Five Go Mad...

More Comic Strip Presents… are in the pipeline following the revival of the comedy brand for the new Tony Blair spoof.

Delegates at the Edinburgh International Television Festival this weekend were given a sneak peak at the new Channel 4 film The Hunt For Tony Blair, which reunites the team for the first time in six years.

But writer Peter Richardson revealed that other films were in the pipeline, saying: ‘I think we're already planning more stuff for Channel 4.’

The next will see a return to the Enid Blyton spoof that launched the series on Channel 4’s opening night in 1982.

Richardson said: ‘I think we're already planning more stuff for Channel 4. Five Go To Rehab, we've already started working on. The Famous Five 30 years later. They all bump into each other and think it's a hotel. That will just be a one-off.’

The 60-minute Hunt For Tony Blari will star Stephen Mangan as the former Prime Minster on the run for mass murder. A host of comic stars play political figures including Jennifer Saunders playing Margaret Thatcher in the style of Bette Davies in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane.

Nigel Planer is said to steal the film as Peter Mandelson; while the cast also includes Harry Enfield as Alistair Campbell, Still Game’s Ford Kiernan as Gordon Brown and Morgana Robinson as Carol Caplin.

Published: 27 Aug 2011