It's been a few years since anything new from Chris Morris has graced our screens, his last offering being the highly controversial Brass Eye Paedophilia Special which, in 2001, attracted a record number of complaints from over two thousand Daily Mail readers.

But the wait could nearly be over. For most of us it's the wait for some exciting new comedy to grace our screens. For a few others it's the wait to utilise their angriest handwriting and finally make use of that Country Cottage style writing set (just 25 tokens collected every Sunday guaranteeing entry into the £50,000 prize draw) which has been sat in the mahogany bureau for the last six months.

Details about the new show are thin on the ground.  Insiders expect it to be broadcast before the end of 2004 but a Channel 4 spokesperson would say no more than that they "are working with Chris Morris on a long-term project", while Morris' collaborator, Charlie Brooker, simply commented that "It's got narrative elements."

He later went on to add: "It's fairly pointless to say any more because everything could change, but it's probably not going to be quite what people would expect."

A pilot episode, produced by Talkback and Zeppotron, is thought to have been filmed last summer and apparently takes a different approach to the current affairs parody style that Morris is best known for.