{"id":4219,"date":"2012-09-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2012\/09\/21\/bbc-three-commissions-new-sitcom\/"},"modified":"2012-09-21T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-21T00:00:00","slug":"bbc-three-commissions-new-sitcom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2012\/09\/21\/bbc-three-commissions-new-sitcom\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Three Commissions New Sitcom"},"content":{"rendered":"

LONDON: The Secret Dude Society<\/em>, a tentatively-titled sitcom, has been ordered by BBC Three from Zodiak Media’s The Comedy Unit.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The 6×30-minute studio show will be written and performed by Pappy’s, a popular U.K. comedy trio made up of Tom Parry, Matthew Crosby and Ben Clark.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

Filming will commence in 2013 at Glasgow’s BBC Pacific Quay studios.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

BBC Three controller Zai Bennett commented: "The Secret Dude Society<\/em> with Pappy’s has fantastic energy and a super high gag rate. It’s the first a studio sitcom we’ve greenlit in years on BBC Three and should complement our ongoing comedy renaissance."<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

Comedy commissioning executive editor Kristian Smith said: "I am thrilled that Matthew, Ben and Tom (who together are, the fantastic Pappy’s Fun Club) are coming to BBC Three in their first sitcom. Pappy’s have long delighted audiences on the comedy circuit, and I’m made up they have got their own series to excite both their fans and new audiences alike."<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

Gavin Smith, the creative director of The Comedy Unit, added: "We’ve long been fans of Pappy’s amazing live shows, so it’s been great to work with them on taking their onstage personas and finding a sitcom world for them to inhabit which still has room for all the mayhem they convey to a live audience. We can’t wait to get in the studio to do something a bit silly and a bit special."<\/font><\/span>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LONDON: The Secret Dude Society, a tentatively-titled sitcom, has been ordered by BBC Three from Zodiak Media’s The Comedy Unit. The 6×30-minute studio show will be written and performed by Pappy’s, a popular U.K. comedy trio made up of Tom Parry, Matthew Crosby and Ben Clark. Filming will commence in 2013 at Glasgow’s BBC Pacific Quay studios. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-top-stories"],"yoast_head":"\nBBC Three Commissions New Sitcom<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"BBC Three Commissions New Sitcom. LONDON, September 21: The Secret Dude Society, a tentatively-titled sitcom, has been ordered by BBC Three from Zodiak Media's The Comedy Unit.. Author - Joanna Padovano\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2012\/09\/21\/bbc-three-commissions-new-sitcom\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BBC Three Commissions New Sitcom\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"BBC Three Commissions New Sitcom. LONDON, September 21: The Secret Dude Society, a tentatively-titled sitcom, has been ordered by BBC Three from Zodiak Media's The Comedy Unit.. Author - Joanna Padovano\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2012\/09\/21\/bbc-three-commissions-new-sitcom\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"TVEUROPE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2012-09-21T00:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/logo.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"World Screen\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"World Screen\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2012\/09\/21\/bbc-three-commissions-new-sitcom\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2012\/09\/21\/bbc-three-commissions-new-sitcom\/\",\"name\":\"BBC Three Commissions New Sitcom\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2012-09-21T00:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2012-09-21T00:00:00+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/#\/schema\/person\/48d5d8caeca98083bf34512b4ce8c4c7\"},\"description\":\"BBC Three Commissions New Sitcom. LONDON, September 21: The Secret Dude Society, a tentatively-titled sitcom, has been ordered by BBC Three from Zodiak Media's The Comedy Unit.. Author - Joanna Padovano\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2012\/09\/21\/bbc-three-commissions-new-sitcom\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2012\/09\/21\/bbc-three-commissions-new-sitcom\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2012\/09\/21\/bbc-three-commissions-new-sitcom\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"BBC Three Commissions New Sitcom\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/\",\"name\":\"TVEUROPE\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/#\/schema\/person\/48d5d8caeca98083bf34512b4ce8c4c7\",\"name\":\"World Screen\",\"description\":\"The leading source of information for the international media business.\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/author\/admin\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"BBC Three Commissions New Sitcom","description":"BBC Three Commissions New Sitcom. LONDON, September 21: The Secret Dude Society, a tentatively-titled sitcom, has been ordered by BBC Three from Zodiak Media's The Comedy Unit.. Author - Joanna Padovano","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2012\/09\/21\/bbc-three-commissions-new-sitcom\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"BBC Three Commissions New Sitcom","og_description":"BBC Three Commissions New Sitcom. LONDON, September 21: The Secret Dude Society, a tentatively-titled sitcom, has been ordered by BBC Three from Zodiak Media's The Comedy Unit.. Author - Joanna Padovano","og_url":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2012\/09\/21\/bbc-three-commissions-new-sitcom\/","og_site_name":"TVEUROPE","article_published_time":"2012-09-21T00:00:00+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/logo.jpg"}],"author":"World Screen","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"World Screen","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2012\/09\/21\/bbc-three-commissions-new-sitcom\/","url":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2012\/09\/21\/bbc-three-commissions-new-sitcom\/","name":"BBC Three Commissions New Sitcom","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/#website"},"datePublished":"2012-09-21T00:00:00+00:00","dateModified":"2012-09-21T00:00:00+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/#\/schema\/person\/48d5d8caeca98083bf34512b4ce8c4c7"},"description":"BBC Three Commissions New Sitcom. LONDON, September 21: The Secret Dude Society, a tentatively-titled sitcom, has been ordered by BBC Three from Zodiak Media's The Comedy Unit.. Author - Joanna Padovano","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2012\/09\/21\/bbc-three-commissions-new-sitcom\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2012\/09\/21\/bbc-three-commissions-new-sitcom\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2012\/09\/21\/bbc-three-commissions-new-sitcom\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"BBC Three Commissions New Sitcom"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/#website","url":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/","name":"TVEUROPE","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/#\/schema\/person\/48d5d8caeca98083bf34512b4ce8c4c7","name":"World Screen","description":"The leading source of information for the international media business.","url":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/author\/admin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}