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| 16:45 UK time, Wednesday, 30 November 2011
Today we've re-branded our web exclusive comedy as part of 91Èȱ¬ Three. Misery Bear is the first to make the jump but pretty soon we’ll have many more web series appearing as part of 91Èȱ¬ Three's Feed My Funny. The web series will still appear on this website too but as you’ll see from Zai Bennett’s post on the Three Blog what's happening on bbc.co.uk/comedy is part of a wider story about 91Èȱ¬ Three, Comedy and the web. Enjoy the Teddynator!
Zai Bennett, Controller of 91Èȱ¬ Three says...
Today we announced a raft of new comedy commissions for 91Èȱ¬ Three and as well as a number of TV series, there's a major new investment to develop original comedy with six full pilots for a new online initiative, the Comedy Kitchen. And 91Èȱ¬ Three now becomes the home for all online comedy for the 91Èȱ¬, which explains the new Feed My Funny section on our website and the addition of Misery Bear to our comedy family.
There will be loads more original comedy appearing online, just follow us on or and we will tell you all about it.
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The new TV comedies announced today include; Bad Education written by and starring Jack Whitehall, The Revolution Will be Televised a vehicle for Don't Panic's Heydon Prowse and Jolyon Rubinstein and a new sitcom from Game On's Bernadette Davis called Some Girls. We've also recommissioned Him & Her for a third series, and there's a new multi-series deal now in place for Russell Howard's Good News.
And there's a brand new show starting in January that we are really excited about called Pramface. So excited infact, the second series has already been commissioned.
New series Pramface starts in January.
When the Comedy Kitchen in iPlayer opens next year, we will have a series of single full length comedy pilots, for you. They include The Imran Yusef Show, a mixture of stand up and sketch from the fast and furious Imran Yusef, People Just Do Nothing a pirate radio mockumentary andÌýImpratical Jokers, a new hidden camera format. PlusÌýthe world's foremost silent comedian The Boy With Tape On His Face will be building on his success from this year's Comedy@TheFringe with a solo project for us, we'll have a brand new sketch show fromÌýthe Ìýand Breaking News will use incredible lookalikes to bring a variety of celebrities down to size.
OurÌýcommitment to comedy on all platforms is self evident. 91Èȱ¬ Three is the channel that breaks new comedy in the UK. We are delighted that Bad Education, Some Girls and The Revolution Will Be Televised areÌýjoining our already exciting stable of TV comedy. And our additional investment online ensures that there is now a nursery slope for new writers and performers on the channel.
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