BBC Worldwide Productions & My Damn Channel Team for Comedy Series

LOS ANGELES: BBC Worldwide Productions and My Damn Channel have reached a deal to co-produce and distribute Gigi: Almost American, a new series created by and starring Josh Gad.

Gad’s recent acting credits include Love and Other Drugs, 21 and Back to You, as well as serving as a correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. He is part of the comedy troupe The Lost Nomads. Along with Gad, The Lost Nomads feature Tyler Clancy, Ida Darvish, Kevin Larsen and Tyler Moore.

The ten-episode digital series Gigi: Almost American will feature the adventures of a loveable foreigner new to the U.S. with dreams of becoming an "average American." Gigi has a lack of street smarts and no fashion sense and has not yet mastered the English language, yet none of this will stand in the way of his American dream.

"I am ecstatic," said  Gad. "We’ve been developing Gigi with BBC Worldwide Productions for the past year and it is truly a passion project for the me and the Nomads. My Damn Channel’s commitment to top quality comedy programming made it the ideal place to showcase the series and we’re thrilled to have found the perfect home for it."

"We are proud to debut Gigi as the first original digital series from BBC Worldwide Productions," commented Jane Tranter, the executive VP and head of BBC Worldwide Productions. "Josh Gad is a tremendous talent and his comedic gifts, along with those of his fellow Lost Nomads troupe members, make Gigi an inspired and innovative series, in line with the quality programming viewers expect from the BBC."

"Award-winning comedy by top talent is the driving force behind My Damn Channel. We know Josh Gad and Gigi will win big," added My Damn Channel founder and CEO Rob Barnett.