FORD Kieran and Greg Hemphill admit they would love to write another comedy series together - but are put off by the success of Still Game. The pair saw their BBC sitcom, which was networked around the UK , run for nine season’s before the cast all faded away in the final episode called That’s Plenty, which aired in March 2019. 4 Greg Hemphill and Ford Kieran are back in cartoon form.
4 The Still Game comic book, series one, is out now. 4 Ford recently met the "geeze a swatch" boy (left) as a fully grown man in a supermarket. 4 Karen Dunbar fulfils the cheeky boy's request in the classic sketch from Chewin' the Fat.
But Greg says they fancy writing for their other comedy creatures including hopeless actor Ronald Villiers from their 1990s sketch show Chewin’ The Fat. Greg says: “It is a tough one to answer as we do talk about working together all the time. “But the challenge now is if you’re doing a sitcom, then you’re comparing it to something that’s beloved, and you’ll be thinking ‘How is this going to come off?’ Ford adds: “We wouldn’t want to do something that’s going to come off poorer than Still Game was received.
” READ MORE IN SHOWBIZ COP OUT Moment two Still Game stars get stopped by cops in Glasgow park RIGHT TRACKS Still Game star returns to screens in major new BBC drama And while they are mostly remembered for playing the pesky OAPs , Ford revealed he recently met a star from Chewin’ The Fat that he didn’t recognise. He explains: �.