Actor and comedian Ricky Gervais has announced that he plans on bringing his most iconic character back to our TV screens, for a 'behind-the-scenes' look at his David Brent and Foregone Conclusion tour. The tour showcases the fairly non-existent musical talent of David Brent and the series would be filmed in a mockumentary style similar to The Office.
Although, it is still just the seed of an idea, Gervais told The Sunday Times; "It's just an idea. I want to do a tour, a little tour and people think they're seeing a tour,” he explained. “I film it, but actually it's Brent who thinks he's making a Scorsese-type thing of [Jack Kerouac’s] On the Road."
"Of course, behind the scenes, it is so much sadder and more poignant. It's Spinal Tap meets sad Scorsese meets Anvil. It's more of the breakdown of this man who thought he was going to be something else."
So why has he waited until now to give us another taster of TV's most cringe-inducing boss? He said; "The reason I didn’t bring Brent back before is that I wanted to do lots of other things first, but secretly I do want to do something else. It has to be right, it has to be justified. It can’t be an unwanted encore. It can’t even be a wanted encore, because people don’t know what they want"
While we don't know as of yet if filming has even began on the project, his tour as David Brent continues across the UK at the moment - watch this space I guess!
We can only HOPE we see more of these moves...