David Baddiel is working on his first major TV project for many years – a single-camera sitcom for Channel 4.
The comedian-turned-novelist is developing Sit.com (working title) for C4 head of comedy Phil Clarke. It will focus on the everyday domestic life of a technology-addicted family.
The project has been characterised as a lighter counterpart to the darker comedy of C4’s Black Mirror and a response to the way that the likes of Charlie Brooker’s show and films such as The Matrix and The Social Network represent the internet as “very big, dark and important”.
The project is in its early stages but it is thought likely that Avalon would be the production company were it to be greenlit. The company represents Baddiel, who has focussed on writing novels rather than TV work in recent years.
His books include Time for Bed, Whatever Love Means, The Death of Eli Gold and The Secret Purposes and he wrote 2010 feature film The Infidel.
Baddiel also contributed to Sky 1’s Little Crackers strand in 2010.
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