Its been several months since our last reader mailbag post – so welcome to the ‘bumper edition.’ I’ve weeded through the unread questions in our mailbox and picked ten or so questions to run with. So if you’ve sent us a question recently and we haven’t responded it’s because I was abducted by aliens and used for some strange experiment you may find the answer below!
Sky Atlantic has ordered a new entertainment series titled Set List. The new series is a fully improvised stand-up show which will take place in front of a live audience. The broadcaster has ordered 14 episodes for the show’s first season, which will feature such comedians as Robin Williams, Ross Noble, Russell Kane, Tim Minchin, Drew Carey, Frank Skinner and Dara O’Briain.
Exclusive: BBC One has renewed it’s hit comedy series Outnumbered for a fifth season and ordered a forty minute Christmas special, TVWise has learned. The show’s Christmas special will air in December, while the six episode fifth season will air in 2013.
Netflix UK & Ireland has closed a deal with Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution to acquire the exclusive rights to the upcoming fourth season of comedy series Arrested Development and FX’s comedy series The League, which revolves around six friends competing in a fantasy football league. The first three seasons of Arrested Development are already available to subscribers of the streaming service, with the show’s 10 episode fourth season set to premiere on Netflix in early 2013.
Exclusive: Well this one very nearly slipped under the radar. Sources tell me that Comedy Central has closed a deal with CBS Studios International to acquire the exclusive first run pay TV rights to CBS’ short lived comedy series How To Be A Gentleman. I’m also being told that Comedy Central has set the premiere for the show’s nine episode first season for Monday July 9th at 9:30pm.
TBS has renewed comedy series Men At Work for a second season. The network has ordered 10 episodes for the show’s second season, whis set to premiere in 2013 alongside the fourth season of Cougar Town.
ABC has handed an early renewal to summer series Rookie Blue. The alphabet network, in conjunction with Global Television, has announced that the series will return next year for a 13 episode fourth season.
BBC America has picked up a new 10 part science fiction series titled Orphan Black, which had previously been green-lit by Canada’s Bell Media for their Space channel. Ten episodes have been ordered for the show’s first season, which will air as part of the network’s ‘Supernatural Saturday’ programming block.