Chris Ramsey to front Comedy Central pilot
- Chris Ramsey is to host a topical comedy pilot for Comedy Central
- The format will see him "taking a fast-paced look at the stories everybody has been talking about"
- The pilot episode of the currently un-named show is due to be recorded in London in early July
Comedy Central has ordered a pilot of a new comedy entertainment show hosted by stand-up comedian Chris Ramsey.
The 22-minute pilot, which currently has the working title Too Much Information, will feature Ramsey and guest comedians "taking a fast-paced look at the stories everybody has been talking about and sharing via social media".
Producers say the format will include "a mixture of regular and random games, pre-recorded items and audience interaction in an informal studio setting".
Louise Holmes from Comedy Central says: "Chris is ingenious enough to have had pizza delivered to a moving train and incautious enough to have been arrested in his underpants. We await his pilot with a giddy mix of anticipation and fear."
The commission is part of a push by Comedy Central to increase the volume of its non-scripted original British comedy. Recent new shows from the network include Drunk History and Russell Howard's Stand Up Central. Russell Howard is also filming another show - currently titled Travels With My Mum In The US - for the network, which it will broadcast in the Autumn.
This is not the first time Chris Ramsey has hosted a topical comedy pilot. He has previously fronted the non-broadcast 2012 pilot @IAmChrisRamsey for BBC Three and last year's recorded another version of this format, Chris Ramsey's Too Much Information, for Channel 4.
The new pilot will be shot in front of a live audience at Tthe London Studios in early July (Tickets). It is being produced by Avalon Television, the company that also makes Russell Howard's Good News.