The long wait is over:David Mitchell and Robert Webbare officially back together on our screens. Channel 4 has released the first clip and image fromMitchell And Webb Are Not Helping, a brand-new sketch series that reunites thePeep ShowandThat Mitchell & Webb Lookstars with the genre that made them icons. Set to premiere inSeptember 2025, thesix-partseries features Mitchell and Webb leading anew generation of comedy talentin a chaotic blend ofsharp satire, dry wit, and surreal silliness. Produced by That Mitchell & Webb Company in association with Big Talk Studios (Friday Night Dinner,Back), the show is directed by longtime collaboratorGareth Edwardsand marks the duo’s biggest return to sketch sinceThat Mitchell & Webb Lookended over a decade ago.
Joining them in front of the camera areGhostsandTaskmasterstandoutKiell Smith-Bynoe,Lara Ricote(Live at the Apollo),Stevie Martin(Starstruck), andKrystal Evans(Scot Squad), alongside a multigenerational mix of established and emerging writers. The preview clip features a particularly flustered Mitchell as a passenger caught in the aggressive overreach of Airport Security, played with hysterical gusto by Smith-Bynoe and company. It’s classicMitchell & Webbterritory—awkward, absurd, and painfully relatable.
Why Are Mitchell and Webb Back?
In a statement, Mitchell and Webb joked:
“When Channel 4 asked us to do another sketch show we were startled, bemused and available. It’s a perilous time for the industry and so it’s our hope that relaunching the trickiest genre of comedy is a brilliant piece of counter intuitive commissioning… We’re looking forward to working with our brilliant new cast despite their youth and talent and would like to encourage viewers to watch the advert break carefully and do their best to buy something. It doesn’t have to be a car but, you know, a box of chocolates or an app or something.”
Kiell Smith-Bynoe, meanwhile, called the opportunity:
“…like getting to sit on the grown-ups table that you’ve been trying to get on for years, then you realise the grown-ups are just as funny, silly and they’ll let you have a sip of Advocaat. I’m really excited to be a part of this long-awaited return of comedy royalty.”
Channel 4’s Head of Comedy,Charlie Perkins, emphasized the importance of the sketch format’s revival:
“Sketch is back baby. We’re so honoured to be working with David, Robert and their contemporaries, alongside an exceptional collective of newer voices both on and off screen. Sketch shows have historically been the bedrock of generations of comedy writers and performers… It’s been such a sparky and joyous journey making this show so far and we can’t wait for audiences to see it.”
Mitchell And Webb Are Not Helpingwill premiere on Channel 4 in September 2025.
