Channel 4 has announced three new comedy pilot commissions for 2014.
Flack, Catastrophe and Sit.com will join the channel's lineup next year, alongside several returning comedies.
Flack, which began filming this month, stars Sheridan Smith as a woman struggling to keep her life on track while dealing with the outrageous problems of her celebrity PR clients.
Twitter comedian Rob Delaney and Pulling actress Sharon Horgan co-wrote and will also star as the lead characters in Catastrophe, a comedy about an American man and an Irish woman who embark on a relationship in London and "make a bloody mess" along the way.
Written and directed by David Baddiel, Sit.com is billed as a traditional family sitcom with a twist. The comedy will take a look at the infiltration of technology into people's everyday lives.
Both Catastrophe and Sit.com will start filming in early 2014 and are produced by Avalon for Channel 4.
Flack, Catastrophe and Sit.com will join the channel's lineup next year, alongside several returning comedies.
Flack, which began filming this month, stars Sheridan Smith as a woman struggling to keep her life on track while dealing with the outrageous problems of her celebrity PR clients.
Twitter comedian Rob Delaney and Pulling actress Sharon Horgan co-wrote and will also star as the lead characters in Catastrophe, a comedy about an American man and an Irish woman who embark on a relationship in London and "make a bloody mess" along the way.
Written and directed by David Baddiel, Sit.com is billed as a traditional family sitcom with a twist. The comedy will take a look at the infiltration of technology into people's everyday lives.
Both Catastrophe and Sit.com will start filming in early 2014 and are produced by Avalon for Channel 4.
- 12/16/2013
- Digital Spy
Comedy Central‘s Cc: Studios — the in-house creative initiative for the development of original digital comedy — today unveiled a development slate of six series greenlights and three series renewals. Projects include sketch/variety to animated to scripted narrative and feature talent including Kurt Braunohler, Dan St. Germain, Jillian Bell, Charlotte Newhouse and Ari Shaffir. The slate also features series from talent who have inked multiplatform deals with Comedy Central, including Jon Gabrus and Justin Tyler. From today’s announcement: Cc:studios Development Slate Series Greenlights: • “Biatches” (Working Title) Dana Min Goodman and Julia Wolov (writers on “Punk’d” and “Good Vibes”) wrote and star in this animated series about bad girls kicked out of middle school and forced to attend the Special Education Students program – but they’re not going to let that stop them from wreaking their raunchy brand of havoc. • “Idiotsitter” Charlotte Newhouse and Jillian Bell (“Workaholics”) created and...
- 11/5/2013
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
Musical sitcom The Midnight Beast has been a cult hit for E4. Stefan Abingdon, Dru Wakely and Ashley Horne star as the fictionalised wannabe band hoping to become superstars. Watch a behind-the-scenes clip from The Midnight Beast below:
The trio have established themselves a huge fanbase online with more than 45 million YouTube views to date. Midnight Beast originally found mainstream fame (more)...
The trio have established themselves a huge fanbase online with more than 45 million YouTube views to date. Midnight Beast originally found mainstream fame (more)...
- 8/9/2012
- by By Alex Fletcher
- Digital Spy
The Midnight Beast have promised that their new E4 comedy series will be full of nudity, "eightsomes" and "a lot of crazy things". The musical comedy group - individually known as Stefan Abingdon, Dru Wakely and Ashley Horne - said that they were perfectly happy eating dog food and embarrassing themselves for the cameras.
"We just do quite a lot of crazy things," Horne told Digital Spy. "I s***k in a puppet, so that was kind of interesting. "I generally get naked all the time... eightsomes," he joked. "We're (more)...
"We just do quite a lot of crazy things," Horne told Digital Spy. "I s***k in a puppet, so that was kind of interesting. "I generally get naked all the time... eightsomes," he joked. "We're (more)...
- 7/4/2012
- by By Daniel Sperling
- Digital Spy
Online sensation The Midnight Beast will be performing live on E4 tonight (June 28) and could be doing it naked if their fans campaign hard enough. The humour band - individually known as Stefan Abingdon, Dru Wakely and Ashley Horne - will appear on the channel and YouTube at 10pm to launch their self-titled comedy series, which premieres on July 5. It has been promised that the performance will feature "multiple set and costume changes, choirs [and] a baseball bat", but the members of The Midnight Beast will also strip down if a significant number of tweets (more)...
- 6/28/2012
- by By Daniel Sperling
- Digital Spy
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