BAFTA: Martin Freeman would say NO to a UK Office reboot

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The Sherlock star has returned to screens with a second series of The Responder. Report by Nelsonj. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00 Great to see you. How does it feel to have the nation gripped by the Short and Curlies

00:05 right now? A lot of people we've talked to tonight, I've been talking about how they've

00:08 been watching Responder and its triumphant return.

00:12 That's lovely.

00:13 Is there any kind of nerves for you anymore when a show comes back? You know it's got

00:17 an audience, you know it's doing well but you're just hoping it's going to resonate

00:20 the same way?

00:21 Yeah, yeah you really do. You really do. Because it's one thing to believe in it yourself and

00:25 I do believe in the show and I love this series myself as a maker of it. But you always just

00:31 hope people will agree. That's the thing. You're like well we might put it out and be

00:36 really proud of it and 20 people go yay and everyone else doesn't care. So the fact that

00:41 it's been met with the reaction that it has is fantastic.

00:44 Is there any sort of secret sauce that you pick up when you're working on a project like

00:47 that? The last time we've seen you in TV for a prolonged period of time I guess was with

00:52 Sherlock and I guess when you started that you didn't know just how well that was going

00:55 to resonate and how successful that was going to be. Was there any element of that in the

00:58 Responder? Like oh we're on to something here, are you just shooting in the dark?

01:01 A bit of both I think. I think I know when I'm on to something when I read a good script.

01:07 But then there are so many things it has to go through before it comes out to the public.

01:11 Like you know so many potential pitfalls that you just hope you kind of miss those pitfalls.

01:16 But yeah the script is everything. You know what I mean? It's everything in terms of the

01:20 starting point. Then directors, cast, crew, design, composer. You know like I think this

01:27 series of Responder has maybe even surpassed the first. I'm delighted about it.

01:31 And very quickly I was catching up with Stephen Merchant earlier. We had a chat about how

01:35 The Office is obviously coming back again in the US as a sort of like a kind of spin

01:40 off. I think it's going to be another Office but new cast, new people. I thought it was

01:44 talking about extended universes and whether that would be a good idea or maybe a blueprint

01:47 to see whether it would work over here. Do you think you'd be ever interested if they

01:51 gave you the call? Never again?

01:52 No, never. No.

01:53 Never again?

01:54 No, never. Quit while you're ahead man. Why do we have to keep repeating ourselves?

01:57 Because it could be great.

01:58 It's a dreadful idea.

01:59 Go in for another slice of cake. There's nothing wrong with it.

02:01 Alright mate. Pleasure to see you. Take care of yourself.

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