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David Mitchell and Robert Webb are bringing their Mitchell and Webb comedy sketch show to Channel 4 this year - with a new supporting dramatis personae .
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David MitchellandRobert Webbare get their sketch drollery show back to television , this time onChannel 4 , with a brand - new serial with a host of exciting and advanced future star topology in a confluence of clowning minds across generation . Mitchell & Webb will be supported by an ensemble cast of next - genesis writer / performer : Kiell Smith - Bynoe , Lara Ricote , Stevie Martin , andKrystal Evans , plus a dynamical team of established and upcoming comic writers . That Mitchell and Webb Lookbegan as a BBC Radio 4 comedy serial before going to television for four series on the BBC from 2006 to 2010 . The young six - part series will be produced by That Mitchell & Webb Company in connection with Big Talk Studios ( Friday Night Dinner , Back , Ludwig ) , which is part of ITV Studios , and helmed by the BAFTA - winning duo ’s long - standing Producer Gareth Edwards .
David Mitchell and Robert Webb said together , " When Channel 4 asked us to do another sketch show , we were startled , bemused , and available . It ’s a precarious time for the industry and so it ’s our Leslie Townes Hope that relaunching the trickiest musical genre of comedy is a brilliant patch of counterintuitive commissioning . And we ’re confident that , unlike Roger Moore with his horseshoe on the bonnet of a car teetering on the edge of a drop inFor Your eye Only[REPLACE WITH 21ST CENTURY REFERENCE ? ] , we ’re not about to give British idiot box funniness a terminal lethal nudge into the abyss . We’re looking forward to working with our brilliant new dramatis personae despite their youthfulness and talent and would care to promote watcher to see the advert break cautiously and do their best to bribe something . It does n’t have to be a car but , you know , a box of hot chocolate or an app or something . "
Smith - Bynoe said,“Getting to join this project with comedy fable Mitchell & Webb feel like getting to sit down on the grown - ups ' mesa that you ’ve been trying to get on for years , then you realise the grown - ups are just as funny , silly , and they ’ll have you have a sip of Advocaat . I ’m really excited to be a part of this long - expect return of clowning royalty . " Ricote shared , " I am overjoyed to be making this with the best there is . It ’s such a silly , good , and fresh radical , and the survey are just very amusing . I am experience very golden to be part of this . The writers ' rooms were SO fun and now we get to act in it ? It ’s a dream ! "
Martin added , " I started doing online sketches because I never think I ’d get to do sketch clowning on real TV – but now I ’m doing it on actual TV with the two multitude who made me require to be a sketch comedian in the first spot ? ! It ’s perfectly wild . Also , they ’ve both been so fun and generous to work on with – plus David was very decent when I said I enjoyed his show ' Luther' . “Evans noted,“Working with these Guy and this incredibly gifted hurl is an actual dream come dead on target , and also , they give us free biscuit and , if we ’re really serious , pizza . "
Mitchell and Webb are best known on Channel 4 for their ethnic hit phenomenon , Peep Show , which was create byJesse Armstrongyears before he hit crowing withSuccessionon HBO.After nine series , it is Channel 4 ’s longest - function sitcom , and to this day , Peep Showremains one of the best - performing comedy shows on streaming . WithPeep Showcementing their comedy partnership , Mitchell and Webb went on to success withThat Mitchell & Webbfranchise of radio and tv set sketches and became two of the UK ’s most exportable television endowment .
The six - episode sketch show was commissioned byCharlie Perkins , Head of Comedy , andJoe Hullait , commission Executive , Comedy at Channel 4.Kenton Allenfor magnanimous Talk Studios , Mitchell , and Webb are the executive director producers;Gareth Edwardswill bring out the series .
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