The past few weeks have been an emotional time to be a Friday Night Dinner fan: yes, Channel 4's amazing sitcom is returning this Friday (27th March), but rumours have also been swirling that this might be the last series.

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Simon Bird, who plays Adam, recently suggested that the upcoming sixth series was "probably the end" of the show – even more upsetting for loyal viewers than when Wilson died.

But we have good news! Speaking to RadioTimes.com, series creator/writer Robert Popper has suggested that Friday Night Dinner might not be ending after all.

"That’s news to me!" Popper said.

He continued: "Simon said it feels like it could be the last one. Well, I’ve no plans to end it now."

Though Channel 4 is yet to order any additional episodes, Popper told us that there's a good chance he'll be writing more stories featuring the Goodman family (played by Bird, Tom Rosenthal, Tamsin Greig and Paul Ritter) and their bizarre neighbour Jim (Mark Heap) in future.

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"You know, whenever you make a TV series, you always think, ‘Well, that’s probably our lot' – you never really know," Popper explained.

"But obviously, the show has now become successful, which is lovely. So you’d like to think they’d do it again. I think they would. But it’s also down to me, if I want to do it again. So I always have to think: do I want to do it again or not?"

He concluded: "I love writing it. So who knows? I haven’t got a thought like 'I want to end it'."

Sounds like we can expect at least a few more servings of squirrel and crimble crumble then...

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Friday Night Dinner returns to Channel 4 on Friday (27th March) at 10pm – check out what else is on with our TV Guide

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