Martin Clunes thinks ‘Men Behaving Badly’ would struggle to get made in 2019.
The 57-year-old actor starred in the popular sitcom – which ran from 1992 until 1998 – alongside the likes of Neil Morrissey and Caroline Quentin, but Martin thinks it’d be tough for the show to get the green light in the current TV landscape.
He quipped: "These days, it’d have to be ‘People of No Particular Gender Behaving Badly’."
The show’s pilot episode was directed by John Howard Davies – who helmed the iconic ‘Fawlty Towers’ series – and Martin was initially told to "be more like John Cleese".
But the show – and Martin’s character – gradually evolved over time, and ended up being completely different to the original plan.
The actor – who played the part of Gary Strang on the show – told Radio Times: "That pilot never got shown. We remade it – and if you look at the way the show went, it was completely the opposite.
"Gary forgave Tony for sleeping with his girlfriend, that’s how close they were – and that’s why it was funny. But at the time there were these very rigid ideas, and I think that’s what killed sitcoms."
Meanwhile, Martin previously insisted he never "set out to do a zeitgeisty thing" with the sitcom.
He added: "Although it aired in the early 1990s, it was never meant to sum up that particular time. It was just funny to laugh at people like Gary and Tony."
Martin Clunes doubts Men Behaving Badly would be made in 2019
