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Bosses At Various Artists Talk Working With Jesse Armstrong In The Post-‘Succession’ Era, Teaming With A24 On ‘Such Brave Girls’ & The Return Of The Sitcom
Various Artists' Phil Clarke has talked Jesse Armstrong in post 'Succession' era & BAFTA-winner 'Such Brave Girls'
Bayles’ comments speak to the vision of BBC comedy head Jon Petrie, who told Deadline earlier this year upon the greenlight of a new Alan Partridge series that buyers in both the UK and U.S. are keen on sitcoms with a “high joke rate and relatable characters.” “For want of a better word,” Clarke, who commissioned the likes of Sharon Horgan’s Catastrophe and Coel’s Chewing Gum during a five-year tenure as Channel 4 comedy boss, says the British industry was “colonized” by U.S. streamers during the streaming boom, “and the ability to make a show has got more difficult financially.” Based on her own experience of being sexually assaulted and punctuated with raw honesty, I May Destroy You was the only series created this decade to make the prestigious Broadcasting Press Guild’s list of the best TV shows of the past 50 years, which published several weeks back.
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