EXCLUSIVE: Stath Lets Flats producer Roughcut TV has hired two development execs to bolster its scripted comedy/drama credentials and is taking the hit Channel 4 comedy back out to U.S. networks. R…
have been piloted in the U.S. before, with Amazon and NBC ordering respectively, although neither were taken to series.aired last year and Atalla said conversations are taking place over the potential to adapt other Roughcut TV shows for the big screen.Mind of Herbert Clunkerdunk
producer Ben Worsfield, both of whom join as development producers. The former has plied her trade for BBC Studios for seven years and the latter worked for Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s Stolen Picture. Gordon and Worsfield will work across comedy and drama and Atalla, who made a name for himself producing hits such as Ricky Gervais’said the move heralds a new era for Roughcut, as barriers between comedy and drama break down.
“There used to be a traditional marker of what a comedy was but the streamers have completely disrupted that,’ he added. Atalla said the company’s slate now contains scripted projects that have barely any comedic elements in them and predicted broadcasters may soon start merging their comedy and drama departments, although he warned: “The worry here is that traditional comedy would suffer.
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