Paddy McGuinness says ‘Phoenix Nights’ is ready to make a comeback.
The 46-year-old comedian – who played doorman Paddy O’Shea in classic comedy – revealed Peter Kay’s iconic British sitcom could be returning to TV screens with the original cast.
He told the Daily Star newspaper: "It was great. There’s always talk about doing another one. It’s just time, it’s just getting everyone together. But everyone is up for it."
The show – co-written by Kay, Neil Fitzmaurice and Dave Spikey – aired on Channel 4 for two series from 2001 to 2002, but the regulars at the working’s man club haven’t been seen together since they reunited in 2015 for Comic Relief.
Paddy added: "We did do it live and that went really well, we sold out five nights playing to 15,000 people a night and that were great."
Last year, Spikey – who also portrayed Jerry St.Clair – admitted he was disappointed the sitcom ended when it did, and he claimed Paddy and Peter "rode away into the sunset" rather than working on a third series.
He insisted there "should have" been another season of the programme because the ideas were in place, but Peter and Paddy – who played bouncers Max and Paddy respectively – went on to make spin-off ‘Max and Paddy’s Road to Nowhere’.
Describing a reunion as a "lost cause", he previously wrote on Twitter: "You can never go back. Should have done a third series and a Christmas special. The ideas and storylines were there
"Series 3 was never written although the ideas were there. Max and Paddy rode away into the sunset and sadly that was the end of that (sic)"