But they want to do something different..

The team behind Goodness Gracious Me are planning a new comedy project.

 Meera Syal says she is working on material with Kulvinder Ghir, Nina Wadia and her husband Sanjeev Bhaskar – but it won’t be an exact revival of their hit sketch show.

‘We don’t want to redo something for the sake of it, but we’re discussing something,’ Syal told the new issue of Radio Times. ‘We’d like to bring our brand of humour back but in a different format.

‘We have to be confident we’ve got the material and I think we have. We’re gathering it. That could well happen.’

In the interview, Syal also complained that the representation of Asian people on British TV has moved backwards, and fails to reflect contemporary life. ‘It’s a conservative climate with lots of period pieces and lots of nostalgia,’ she said.

And on Twitter, Bhaskar said Asians were under-represented in comedy, too, tweeting: 'In last 20 yrs I can think of 5 "Asian" comedies that got on TV out of maybe 200+?A TV commissioner decides what gets on. That's the problem.'

Goodness Gracious Me started life on Radio 4 before transferring to BBC Two from 1998 to 2001. The team reunited for the channel's 50th anniversary in 2014, with another special in 2015.

Published: 7 Mar 2017