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Brace yourselves: C4 is not bringing back Peep Show. Industry sheet Broadcast blames a fall in average ratings, from 1.4m for series 2 to 1.3m for series 3.

But chin up, comrades. This is good news. First, it means that Peep Show never had the chance become Men Behaving Badly. And three series on DVD don't take up much shelf space.

It'll also give David Mitchell and Robert Webb time to practice some red-carpet posing ahead of their movie debuts. Mitchell has just wrapped I Could Never Be Your Woman, directed by Amy (Clueless) Heckerling and featuring a cast that reads like someone's trippy CBB fantasy: Michelle Pfeiffer, Graham Norton, Henry Winkler, Tracey Ullman and Steve Pemberton. What?

After the break: Sketch show car crash ahead?

Meanwhile, Webb has finished filming wacky-wedding Britcom Confetti, in which he stars with Martin Freeman, Julia Davis and the underworked Jimmy Carr.

Once the movie junkets are over, M&W can get cracking on the telly pilot of brill Radio 4 show That Mitchell & Webb Sound -- and on the sketch show that C4 wants them to do, according to Broadcast. Be afraid, chaps. There lie the corpses of The Armando Ianucci Show and Bang Bang It's Reeves & Mortimer. On the other hand, it could be another Fast Show. Watch this space for news.

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