BBC Comedy Shorts (BBC Three/iPlayer) - Fri 26 May

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Posted this earlier about a new project from Ricky Gervais ...
Not much info on this apart from an identical tweet and Facebook post from Gervais along with a British Comedy Guide entry which states that it's "Due to be broadcast on Friday on iPlayer".


Comedy about two people who attempt suicide in the same place at the same time. Stars Joe Wilkinson and Seroca Davis.
A desolate train track seems the perfect spot to end it all, until someone else turns up with the same idea. Awkward.

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It's part of a new series of comedy shorts ...


The daddy of comedy is here!

BBC Comedy Short Films coming to BBC Three and BBC iPlayer from Fri 26 May.

Jon Petrie, Director of Comedy, speaking at the BBC Comedy Festival in Cardiff, has announced eleven brand new BBC Comedy Short Films which are launching on BBC iPlayer and BBC Three.

The BBC Comedy Short Film strand was created as a place for both new and established talent to develop and showcase exciting concepts that centre on originality and experimentation.

BBC Comedy joined forces with teams in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland to capture the best ideas from across the UK.

Jon Petrie, Director of Comedy, says: “It’s been exciting to create a space for comedy creatives to flex their funny bones and we’re particularly proud to have given 11 new writers and 6 new directors their first BBC Comedy credit. We can’t wait to see them go out.”

The Shorts will be available on BBC iPlayer on Friday 26 May and will be shown on BBC Three in the coming months.

EXCLUSIVE: Ricky Gervais has directed his first BBC project in a decade as the corporation’s Comedy Director Jon Petrie unveils his debut batch of 11 Short Films since taking on the role last year.

Deadline can reveal that The Office and After Life creator Gervais has directed 7 Minutes, a show about two people awkwardly contemplating suicide from his own Derek Productions.

Penned by Harry Carlile and Jonathan Parramint and starring Joe Wilkinson and Seroca Davis, 7 Minutes’ logline reads: “A desolate train track seems the perfect spot to end it all, until someone else turns up with the same idea. Awkward.”

Petrie’s Comedy Shorts are comprised of 10-15 minute one-offs, which are self contained but could be further developed. “It’s been exciting to create a space for comedy creatives to flex their funny bones and we’re particularly proud to have given 11 new writers and six new directors their first BBC Comedy credit,” he said, prior to addressing an event at the BBC Comedy Festival in Cardiff this evening. In his public speaking appearances so far, Petrie has expressed a desire to put more investment behind pilots.

Also featuring on the eclectic slate are shows about a British Nigerian middle-class family in Milton Keynes, a slapstick offering based on a Beano comic starring Catastrophe‘s Mark Bonnar and a mockumentary titled This is Gay.

The former, titled Jobless, is written by Black Women in Scripted founder Thara Popoola and follows the Adenugas, a family desperate to make their mark on the world.

In Beano-based Calamity James, a man cursed with ‘acute misfortune syndrome’ tries to reconnect with his dad, while This is Gay from Kirk Flash and produced by Steve Coogan’s Baby Cow follows a figure known as Host who takes viewers on a strange adventure to Renaissance Italy, modern-day London, a charming Welsh parish and a fridge.

Other Comedy Shorts include A Better Place about an oddball trio who inherit their failing family funeral business, a show spotlighting two emotionally-unassembled Northern Irish kids titled Funboys and Man Eater, about someone who embraces the beast within them – a beast who eats pervy men.

The Shorts will be available on BBC iPlayer from tomorrow and will air on BBC Three in the coming months.
 

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