Rising-Star Comedian Dane Baptiste Gets BBC Three Sitcom

LONDON: BBC Three has ordered the original comedy Sunny D to series following its pilot debut as part of this year’s BBC Three Comedy Feeds.

The sitcom stars comedian Dane Baptiste as a man trapped in a mundane 9-to-5 job who is still living at home with his moody twin and unsympathetic parents. It is a BBC Comedy in-house production executive produced by Rebecca Papworth.

Damian Kavanagh, controller for BBC Three, said: “We’re excited to have Dane and Sunny D on BBC Three. BBC Three will always be the home of the best and brightest new comedy talent.”

Papworth remarked: “Sunny D gives full flight to rising star Dane Baptiste’s comic rage against an unsympathetic universe. It is laugh out loud, imaginative, compelling and honest storytelling from a big name of the future.”

Baptiste added: “I’m incredibly happy that Sunny D has been commissioned! It represents the possibility of the mainstream opening the comedy landscape to a new perspective and the resurrection of the Black British sitcom. I grew up watching sitcoms on the BBC, so to have them invest in my own project is an opportunity that I relish and am grateful for.”