The BBC has announced that Nicholas Lyndhurst is set to reprise the role of time travelling, two-timing romeo Gary Sparrow for a Goodnight Sweetheart one-off special which is being produced as part of the BBC’s landmark sitcom season.
Radio Times is reporting that original creators Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran have penned a brand new script, which will see Gary travelling where he’s never been before as the show is catapulted into the 21st century.
“Gary has been trying for the last 17 years to find a way back to the present,” said Marks and Gran. “Now he’s found one, and he’s asked us to turn it into a TV show, featuring much-loved old Goodnight Sweetheart friends and one or two new ones.”
“The whole sitcom season is geared towards giving comedy royalty their due recognition and in Goodnight Sweetheart we have heavy-weight writing and performing talents reunited in this hugely popular and fondly remembered show,” adds Shane Allen, Controller of BBC Comedy Commissioning. “The conceptual update is sublime and it was heart-skipping stuff to read – it’s an absolute belter.”
Goodnight Sweetheart aired between 1993 and 1999 and followed Lyndhurst’s accidental time-traveller, who discovered a portal allowing him to travel between present day and World War II-era London, and ended up living a dual life with his wife Yvonne in the present day and girlfriend Phoebe in war time London.
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Originally published July 5, 2016. Updated April 15, 2018.
