Channel 4 comedy Peep Show is to return for a third series

It might have done better with critics than viewers, but Channel 4 has ordered another series of innovative comedy Peep Show.

The show - in which the socially inept characters' often-ridiculous inner voices are heard - has struggled in the ratings to be anything more than an undiscovered cult favourite.

Yet it's won the prestigious Golden Rose of Lucerne, been nominated as a Bafta and has won many well-placed fans, from TV reviewers to Ricky Gervais.

Channel 4 comedy head Caroline Leddy clearly has faith, too, and has ordered a third run from independent production house Objective Productions.

As before, it will star double act David Mitchell and Robert Webb and be scripted by former Smack The Pony writers Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain.

Meanwhile, America is working on its own remake of the show, after the Fox network ordered a pilot episode. And you'll be able to listen to brand new sketch material from the Peep Show team on Radio 4 this Thursday in That Mitchell and Webb Sound.