Michael Palin returns to TV after 22 years

London: Veteran actor Michael Palin is all set to make his first television acting appearance in over two decades with a World War I drama- `The Wiper Times`.

The drama is based on the true story of a satirical newspaper produced by soldiers in the trenches, reported BBC online. The project appears in good hands, with `Private Eye` editor and `Have I Got News For You` director Ian Hislop teaming up with his `My Dad`s The Prime Minister` writing partner Nick Newman on the script. This is Palin`s first television role since Alan Bleasdale`s `GBH` in 1991, in which he played a school headmaster intimidated by a newly-elected city council leader, played by Robert Lindsay. `The Wiper Times` also stars Ben Chaplin as Captain Fred Roberts, who discovers a printing press in the ruined Belgian town of Ypres in 1916, using it to publish his satirical newspaper. PTI