There has apparently been a lot of discussion as to whether the show should return again or go out on a high and another instalment is far from set in stone.

However Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s chief content officer, did say that they are in some “very preliminary talks” with the show’s creators.

In the meantime, Alexis Bledel, who shot to fame playing the then teenage Rory, has signed on as a series regular for season two of the The Handmaids Tale after blowing us away with her guest performance in the first.

But here’s hoping she might be able to take time out of her schedule for something less bleak, like a Gilmore Girls Christmas film..

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A Gilmore Girls Christmas film might be on the horizon, hints Lauren Graham