'Jonathan Creek' will not be returning to TV.
Alan Davies in Jonathan Creek
Alan Davies was last seen in the titular lead role of the long-running comedy drama in a 2016 Christmas special and now writer David Renwick has revealed he won't be penning any more scripts for the show - which ran for five series and a number of one-off episodes from 1997 - because he's getting older and is no longer "tempted" to work on television shows.
He told the Daily Star Sunday newspaper: "'Jonathan Creek' has always been hard to write and construct. After 30-odd stories, I feel burned out on it.
"And age is catching up with me. That's the deciding factor. I did fall ill during the last series.
"I directed half of it and then a bone marrow condition popped up and I had to hand it over to someone else.
"I feel like I've had a fairly good run and I feel like I had the best of it during that generation of comedy. The landscape has changed - I'm not tempted to be part of what television is now."
The 70-year-old writer praised Alan for not pressuring him to return to the show.
He added: "Alan Davies is very loyal to the show and was very happy to do it if I resurfaced. He's very proud of what he did.
"But he has been very good about me deciding not to write any more.
"He is not the kind of actor to say, 'Why aren't you writing some more 'Jonathan Creek's?'
"He is very sympathetic and empathetic about it and doesn't want me to do anything I don't want to do. He said to me, 'Don't make yourself ill.' "
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