{"id":2398,"date":"2021-07-29T16:08:31","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T14:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1298900"},"modified":"2021-07-29T16:08:31","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T14:08:31","slug":"peep-show-female-led-spin-off-was-considered-reveals-dobby-actress-isy-suttie","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/peep-show-female-led-spin-off-was-considered-reveals-dobby-actress-isy-suttie\/","title":{"rendered":"Peep Show female-led spin-off was considered, reveals Dobby actress Isy Suttie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"> Suttie went so far as to perform read-throughs with other actors. <\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Patrick Cremona\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Thursday, 29 July 2021 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n<p>Peep Show star Isy Suttie has revealed that a female-led spin-off of the sitcom was once considered, revolving around her character Dobby.<\/p>\n<p>The actress and comedian said that Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong, who created the popular series, had even written some scripts for the potential spin-off \u2013 with Suttie going so far as to perform read-throughs with other actors, including comedian Josie Long.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <a href=\"\/\/www.comedy.co.uk\/tv\/news\/6473\/female-version-of-peep-show\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">The British Comedy Guide<\/a>, Sutie explained, \u201cI went into Objective who made Peep Show, and we spent a day with me doing chemistry reads with different actresses using a couple of short scenes Sam and Jesse had written.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen for whatever reason they didn\u2019t develop it further, as happens with a lot of TV!\u201d<\/p> <p>After making her debut in series five, Dobby became a hugely popular character on the series for the remainder of its run, serving as a love interest for David Mitchell\u2019s character Mark Corrigan before leaving for New York in series eight.<\/p>\n<p>Rumours about a female-led spin-off had first circulated in 2008, with reports at the time suggesting that Channel 4 wanted to do a show based on Dobby and her best friend due to demand from young female viewers.<\/p>\n<p>And there could still be a female-led Peep Show series in the future \u2013 a remake with two female leads is currently being developed in the US for the channel FX, with a script written by Portlandia scribe Karey Dornetto.<\/p>\n<p>However, there\u2019s no certainty that this project will successfully make it to the small screen \u2013 it is the fourth time that a US version of the series has been in development, and so far none of them have received a series order.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Peep Show is available to stream on Netflix, All 4 and BritBox. <\/strong><strong>You can also take a look at our\u00a0<a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/tv-listings\/&quot;\">TV Guide<\/a> for more to watch.<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Suttie went so far as to perform read-throughs with other actors. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":2399,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/07\/peep-show-female-led-spin-off-was-considered-reveals-dobby-actress-isy-suttie.jpg",1920,1080,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/07\/peep-show-female-led-spin-off-was-considered-reveals-dobby-actress-isy-suttie-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/07\/peep-show-female-led-spin-off-was-considered-reveals-dobby-actress-isy-suttie-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/07\/peep-show-female-led-spin-off-was-considered-reveals-dobby-actress-isy-suttie-768x432.jpg",768,432,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/07\/peep-show-female-led-spin-off-was-considered-reveals-dobby-actress-isy-suttie-1024x576.jpg",800,450,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/07\/peep-show-female-led-spin-off-was-considered-reveals-dobby-actress-isy-suttie-1536x864.jpg",1536,864,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/07\/peep-show-female-led-spin-off-was-considered-reveals-dobby-actress-isy-suttie.jpg",1920,1080,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Suttie went so far as to perform read-throughs with other actors.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/2398"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}