He added: “If we ever end up revisiting Miranda and Gary and where they are in life, I of course will be on board for it. But I’ll be on board for it because Miranda’s got to a place where she feels she’s been able to write something that’s worthy of revisiting, which is one thing I’ve always loved about her.<\/p>\n
“She wrote every episode of that show; it all of it came out of her head. There were times when the BBC tried to help her out with other writers, but it just didn’t work because it was so unique to her voice.<\/p>\n
“That’s why there are only 20 episodes of Miranda, but they’re 20 brilliant episodes. We’re talking about it nearly 20 years later, and it’s still iconic – it’s iconic because Miranda resisted the temptation to cash in and do more and more and more of the show.”<\/p>\n
While Ellis is now living and working in the US, he\u2019s still reminded of home often \u2013 most recently on his new show, CIA<\/a>, during which he was encouraged to use his own accent after preparing to play an American.<\/p>\n In the FBI spin-off, which is now airing in the UK, Ellis plays Colin Glass, a rule-breaking CIA agent tasked with teaming up with rather more buttoned-up FBI agent, William \u2018Bill\u2019 Randall (Nick Gehlfuss).<\/p>\n The series comes from Dick Wolf, a titan of US TV, who made one crucial change when he met Ellis for the first time.<\/p>\n Tom Ellis as Colin Glass in CIA.\u00a0Mark Schafer\/CBS<\/p>\n “I was all in, ready to play an American character,” Ellis explained \u2013 but things changed when he met Wolf for the first time.<\/p>\n “After about a minute, he was like, ‘Tom, I’ve been talking to you for like five minutes, and we gotta make your character British. It’s so damn charming.'”<\/p>\n He added: “It kind of is the perfect cover – they actually do have some British operatives in the CIA \u2013 but they wanted me to just be to bring that to the show because they thought it would just be a kind of new, interesting dynamic.”<\/p>\n Miranda is available to stream on BBC iPlayer.<\/p>\n Check out more of our Comedy<\/a> coverage or visit our TV Guide<\/a> and Streaming Guide<\/a> to find out what’s on. For more TV recommendations and reviews, listen to The Radio Times Podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ever since comedy legend Miranda Hart brought her iconic sitcom to screens, fans have been desperate to see…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-587791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Tom](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/0309CIA1-f4883d3.jpg\" "\\"Tom")
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