Murder In Successville commissioned to full series
Following a successful 2014 pilot episode, BBC Three has commissioned a six-part series of Murder In Successville.
Described as a "comedy entertainment and interactive murder mystery series", the show is set in Successville, a fictional town brimming with celebrities from Harry Styles to Mary Berry and Taylor Swift.
Production company Tiger Aspect explains: "The famous faces in this town are not all they seem. They'll be played by an exciting pool of established and fresh comedy talent, including Tom Stourton, Frances Barber, Cariad Lloyd, Tony Way, Gemma Whelan and Jenny Bede.
"Successville's a surreal place that that feels like Midsomer Murders meets Sin City. Unfortunately it also has a high celebrity homicide count."
Each episode will feature a real-life celebrity enlisted to to assist D.I. Sleet (Tom Davis) solve the town's latest high-profile murder.
Celebrity sidekicks such as Dermot O'Leary, Louis Smith, Jamie Laing and Greg James (pictured, with Davis) are given the daunting task of starring in their very own cop drama in a strange town and have no idea who they are going to meet, what's going to happen or who's committed the crime.
Ed Sleeman, Executive Producer for the BBC, said today: "Murder In Successville manages to reinvent three genres of TV - part sitcom, part improv show and with a cop show style murder to solve along the way...all this and we haven't even started on Tom Davis's hilarious lead character DI Sleet! This promises to be unlike anything the audience will have seen before."
Tiger Aspect's Head of Entertainment, Andy Brereton, who Executive Produces for Tiger, added: "It's been great to bring the town of Successville to life in a new kind of comedy entertainment show. A world where Harry Styles can run a mafia gang and Mary Berry is the owner of a strip club. All under the watchful eye of DI Sleet, a new detective who is just like Sherlock, except he doesn't have the good looks, has an odour problem and can't solve any crimes."
Filming for the series is currently under way. It is not known when the series will be ready for BBC Three audiences, nor - pending approval for plans to move the channel online-only - whether it will be broadcast by the station at all.