Comedy – Page 69
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Fox to air Adult Swim block
UK pay-TV channel Fox is launching an Adult Swim-branded block after striking a deal with Turner Broadcasting.
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Jonathan Shalit’s agency bids to disrupt comedy market
Jonathan Shalit’s talent agency Roar Global is to expand into comedy as it bids to break up the dominance of Avalon Entertainment and Off The Kerb Productions.
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Audible funds third series of Crackanory
UKTV has agreed a deal with Amazon-owned digital audio service Audible to fund the third series of Crackanory.
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Extras exec steers talent from BBC3
Veteran comedy producer Charlie Hanson has claimed that BBC3 is no longer his first port of call for pitching new comedy ideas and urged talent to produce and distribute work themselves.
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Sky 1 beefs up comedy with The Muppets
Sky 1 has landed three comedy-led series, including exclusive rights to The Muppets in the UK and Ireland, as part of a 20% increase in original content on the channel.
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The Brittas Empire set for comeback
The BBC is working with writer Richard Fegen to develop a comeback episode of 90s sitcom The Brittas Empire.
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C4 orders “plus size” bride doc
Educating Yorkshire producer Twofour will go behind the scenes at a “plus size” bridal shop for a one-off Channel 4 ob-doc.
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Off Their Rockers probed by Ofcom
ITV’s Off Their Rockers spin-off show is to be probed by Ofcom after its trailer featured a person emerging from a tumble dryer.
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John Thomson to front Gold stand-up show
UKTV has ordered a stand-up comedy clip show hosted by John Thomson in the guise of ‘PC Northern club comic’ character Bernard Righton.
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Tensions surface at BBC3 comedy briefing
Shane Allen set out his ambitions for the future of BBC3 comedy at an indie briefing today where tensions over the channel’s future came to the fore.
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C4 drops British Comedy Awards
Channel 4 has relinquished the rights to the British Comedy Awards after hosting the event for the last four years.
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Dave buys The Last Man on Earth
Dave has acquired Will Forte-fronted apocalyptic sitcom The Last Man on Earth as UKTV continues to grow its US comedy output.
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Romesh Ranganathan goes back to his roots for BBC3
BBC3 has commissioned a series from Rumpus Media following comedian Romesh Ranganathan as he learns more about his Sri Lankan roots.
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ITV raids Objective for indie launch
ITV Studios is launching a major entertainment production company with a trio of senior execs from Objective Productions and its co-founder Andrew O’Connor.
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INFOGRAPHIC: Car Share, BBC1
The consolidated viewing figures for BBC1 comedy Peter Kay’s Car Share.
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Porridge writers pen royal sitcom
The creators of Porridge and The Likely Lads have written a single-camera sitcom about a fictional king as part of a trio of Gold commissions.
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Never Mind The Buzzcocks cancelled after 19 years
BBC2 has pulled the plug on Never Mind The Buzzcocks after 19 years.
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In brief: Pact names vice chair; ITV2 re-orders sketch show
Hat Trick’s Paul Cohen lands Pact role, while Keith Lemon’s Kardashians are set to return
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BBC3 orders third series of Cuckoo
BBC3 controller Damian Kavanagh and comedy controller Shane Allen have ordered a third series of Greg Davies sitcom Cuckoo.
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Juliette Howell to leave Working Title UK TV
Working Title Television UK’s Juliette Howell is leaving the NBC Universal joint venture once she has overseen it existing slate.