New deal with Baby Cow

Steve Coogan’s production company Baby Cow – makers of Ideal, Gavin & Stacey and the Mighty Boosh – have signed a year-long deal to develop comedy scripts for the BBC.

The company will work with the BBC’s in-house comedy team to develop sitcom scripts involving comic talent from the North of England, to be produced from the corporation’s new base in MediaCity UK in Salford.

The BBC’s Mark Freeland, said: ‘As our commitment to comedy being produced from the North increases, I can think of no one better with whom to partner than the creative comedy minds of Baby Cow.

‘Together, if we can develop some more comedies that, like Ideal, last for 50 episodes and beyond, and are so damn good, then we will be able to say it has worked fabulously well.’

Baby Cow's managing director Henry Normal said the deal was an ‘exciting new adventure’.

Published: 8 Jun 2011