It seems that there’s a very good chance that the hugely successful sitcom Butterflies, written by Carla Lane and starring Wendy Craig and Geoffrey Palmer, could be aired again in an updated where-are-they-now series.

Carla Lane and Wendy Craig have apparently expressed an interest in reforming for a new version of the sitcom with Carla telling the Daily Mail, “I always loved Butterflies and I have an idea for how Ria and her husband Ben might have changed over the years.”

Wendy added, “I would love to find out what happened to Ria 25 years on. It would be great to get back together with Geoffrey Palmer, Nicholas Lyndhurst and the others.”

The last time we saw Wendy as scatty Ria was during Children in Need in 2001. In the ten-minute sketch that was specially written for the fund raiser, Ria had just turned 60 but not a great deal had changed for her. However, if a new series is to be penned, we’d get to see what happened to her sons and of course, her butterfly collecting dentist hubby Ben.

Here’s a clip from Butterflies when it was at the height of its success in the ‘80s…

I hope Carla Lane is commissioned to write a new series. It’d be great to see what happened to them all!