Atom.com, Comedy Central Greenlight New Series

NEW YORK: Comedy Central and its digital comedy portal Atom.com are co-funding the new Waverly Films web series The Fuzz.

The Fuzz is a procedural cop series in which humans and puppets join forces to crack down on criminals in a corrupt city. The series has been given the go-ahead for five webisodes that will premiere on Atom.com later this year. Comedy Central will work closely with both Atom.com and Waverly Films to develop the series as a pilot for potential on-air distribution.  

This new deal is an extension of the existing partnership between Atom.com and Waverly Films. Their first collaboration was Stickman Exodus, a series featuring a ragtag band of stick figures struggling to reach the "promised page" in a high-school kid’s notebook. The series debuted on Atom.com in June 2008 and has exceeded 500,000 plays to date.