Sam Bain 'fears Peep Show decline'

One of the writers of Peep Show has admitted that he fears the show could eventually go downhill.

Sam Bain, who pens the programme with writing partner Jesse Armstrong, told the BBC that their concerns about the show had changed now it was in its sixth series.

Bain said: "Our philosophy is that as much fear as possible is good because if you get complacent then you're dead.

"In the first series, it was the fear that the show would be a failure and now the fear is that the show is going to go downhill and become a bloated and bad excuse for itself."

He added: "Channel 4 have always been incredibly supportive, a lot of other channels would have cancelled us but they've never done that."

Bain said that he and Armstrong "don't feel pressure to change the show" and also joked that the current series would be the programme's "breakthrough".

Peep Show continues this Friday at 10pm on Channel 4.