BRING BACK JACK AND VICTOR? I'M STILL GAME

Scottish showbiz royalty Hemphill will never say never to a Craiglang reunion but for now he's just happy to be Queen of the New Year

- BY RICK FULTON

STILL Game legend Greg Hemphill has revealed he'd bring the hit show back “tomorrow”.

But the 55-year-old said it’s not just up to him and “sometimes these things are better left alone”.

Thanks to Netflix reruns and social media clips of its funniest moments, Scotland's most successful sitcom has never really gone away since it came off air in 2019 after nine series.

Greg has since become a poster boy for wild swimming and is back on our screens this Hogmanay with sketch show Queen of the New Year. Fellow Still Game creator Ford Kiernan, who played Jack Jarvis to Greg's Victor McDade, now hosts a podcast. But the pair are still in business putting their characters’ name to a range of alcohol and merchandise.

Greg admitted they are always looking for something else to do together - but find it hard to follow up such a well-loved show.

He said of Still Game: “We speak all the time. And we did bring it back. We were so grateful to come back and do three more series and the live Hydro shows.

“So who knows? I'm 55 and my character is 75. It's one of the magical things about it.”

The writer, actor and director revealed a spooky coincidence and wondered if there could be something more in the air about a potential return.