Comedy Central laughs in 2012 with a sneak peek of some of the comedy shows to look out for this year across all channels. This doesn’t include Celebrity Big Brother fyi.
Zooey Deschanel
Sitcom: New Girl
New Girl comes with quite a write-up: 10 million viewers in the States enough for ya? Zooey Deschanel splits up with her boyfriend and moves in with three new dysfunctional ones. The show throws a whole new modern and outrageous spin on male and female relationships ‘parently.
Cartoon: Napoleon Dynamite
Not content with executively producing the most hilarious animation of all time, the man behind The Simpsons, Mike Scully has taken the cult film, Napoleon Dynamite and coloured it in with a felt tip pen. The Napoleon Dynamite cartoon does what the movie did with many of the original cast reprising their roles, including Jon Heder as the main man.
Comedy: 2 Broke Girls
From the writer of Sex and The City, Michael Patrick King, comes the much talked-about smash hit US comedy about a trust fund girl down on her luck and another one, just down on her luck. Both need to raise $250,000 to start a business but can’t even find the money down the back of the sofa to pay their rent.
UK cult show: Stella
Coming off the back of Gavin and Stacey, Ruth Jones, its co-writer and co-star is launching Stella. A take on life in the Welsh Valleys, the ensemble cast centres around Ruth’s Stella as a fortysomething hardworking mum and her extended offbeat family.
Obligatory Olympics-related show: Twenty Twelve
The BBC gets behind the biggest event of 2012 with a mockumentary based in the fictional offices of the games’ organisers who’ve got £9billion to spend on the Biggest Show on Earth. Uh-oh. Hugh Bonneville and Jessica Hynes star while David Tennant narrates for the sitcom that’s already won a British Comedy Award.
Comedienne-vehicle: Whitney
US comedienne Whitney Cummings takes centre-stage in Comedy Central’s hilarious new show about an insecure woman, her put-upon boyf and a bunch of female friends with far too many opinions on their relationship.
