Following comments from Smack The Pony trio Fiona Allen, Sally Phillips and Doon Mackichan, Fiona Allen, has expanded on possible plans for the trio to return.

In January Allen said they were working together again and Sally Phillips joked: “I think the time has perhaps come for an entirely period-based sketch show: The Big Red One. We used to joke about that. No, I’m still joking.”

Then in June Doon Mackichan said the trio had written new sketches but had been unable to attract a TV network.

Mackichan said: “It’s just been really difficult. We’ve pitched to a few places and it’s not happening. I don’t know whether it’s [because it’s] older women but it’s not happening, which is, to me, astonishing. You think, how funny does it have to be? With the brand?”

Now in an interview with Richard Herring for his Leicester Square Theatre Podcast Allen has revealed more details about possible projects for the threesome.

Asked about the current state of play Allen told Herring: "We've been knocking around ideas for the last five or six years....we are actually talking about doing stuff. We want to."

With regard to the recent story that they had been turned down by broadcasters Allen said: " They wanted us to do something but not in a sketch form...I'm still really childish and still like sketches."

They are, however, now working on a different format though Allen was reluctant to be specific about what it was at this stage: "This new idea is only really right at the beginning. We'll shout about it if it moves forward."

Allen also talked nostalgically about the Channel 4 show, which ran from 1999 to 2003, recalling a particular sketch where she played a bullfighter who was in love with a bull. Budgets were clearly more generous then. They hired an actual bull Allen complained that it was brown and they had to get a black one instead. 

Listen to the full interview here. The Smack The Pony chat comes towards the end after around fifty minutes.