Alert – Sarah Parish says BBC’s hit comedy W1A will make a comeback as she teases exciting return

Sarah Parish has teased the return of BBC’s hit W1A series.

The actress, 55, who played Anna Rampton in the spoof comedy, said in a recent interview the show could be making a possible comeback.

Speaking on That Gaby Roslin Podcast, Sarah let slip that a new show featuring Hugh Bonneville, Jessica Hynes and Hugh Skinner could be in the works.

She said: ‘It’s being written, I think. I mean, maybe I’m talking out of turn [but] Ian Fletcher will continue. 

‘And I thought, “oh God, probably Siobhan [Jessica Hynes’ character] could probably go with him because wherever Ian goes, Siobhan goes as well”.

Sarah Parish, 55, has teased an exciting new return of BBC’s hit W1A series

‘So I’m hoping that those two characters will have another rebirth into a new series because it’d be great.’

The show began in 2014 to poke fun at the internal workings of the BBC and was last on air seven years ago.

W1A ran for three seasons until 2017. It was created as a follow-up series to the BBC’s popular Olympics parody Twenty Twelve.

Creator John Morton announced during the third series in 2017 that ‘this is probably going to be its final [series]. It was written to a conclusion and with that I mind I thought, “This has got to be good.”‘

Sarah also added that the staff at the BBC didn’t find the programme ‘remotely funny’.

The BAFTA-winning series, which was written and directed by John, followed a team at the BBC as they attempted to re-define the purpose of the organisation.

She added: ‘Most of the employees of the BBC thought we were making a documentary. 

‘They didn’t find it remotely funny because we were basically just living their everyday life.

The actress, who played Anna Rampton in the spoof comedy, said the show could be making a possible comeback in a recent interview (pictured in the comedy)

Speaking on That Gaby Roslin Podcast, Sarah let slip that a new show featuring Hugh Bonneville, Jessica Hynes and Hugh Skinner could be in the works

She said: ‘It’s being written, I think. I mean, maybe I’m talking out of turn [but] Ian Fletcher will continue. And I thought, “oh God, probably Siobhan [Jessica Hynes’ character] could probably go with him because wherever Ian goes, Siobhan goes as well”

The show began in 2014 to poke fun at the internal workings of the BBC and was last on air seven years ago

The BAFTA-winning series, which was written and directed by John, followed a team at the BBC as they attempted to re-define the purpose of the organisation

‘John Morton, the writer, is so brilliant and so fabulous at being able to pick out the subtleties of the horror of working in an institution that big and he did it brilliantly, I think.

‘I remember turning up at the read through going, ‘I wonder what people are going to bring to the table? 

‘You know, is it going to be any good?’ You just can’t tell from the scripts.’