Ten Part Comedy Shorts for Sky Atlantic

The eleven minute shorts, entitled Comedy Republic, will introduce brand new comic characters to Sky Atlantic over ten episodes. Shot in mock documentary style, each character may have a touch point with others in the series but they will exist primarily in their own unique world.

Lucy Lumsden, Head of Comedy for Sky, says “Inspired by the success of Sky1HD’s Little Crackers, Sky Atlantic now has its own season of short form comedies that are all about unleashing the next great comic characters from the new and the known.”

Comedy Republic is the latest in Sky’s comedy commissioning which is part of the network’s commitment to increase its investment in original British content by 50% over the next three years. Other series from this increase in homegrown content includes supermarket sitcom Trollied, greasy spoon set comedy The Cafe and the world of a single mother in sitcom Stella.

The series of shorts will be produced by Baby Cow Productions
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