{"id":173771,"date":"2025-12-04T00:20:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T00:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/173771\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T00:20:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T00:20:11","slug":"peacock-sky-developing-comedy-co-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/173771\/","title":{"rendered":"Peacock & Sky Developing Comedy Co-Production"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tPeacock<\/a> and Sky are officially developing their first co-produced comedy.<\/p>\n

\n\tPeacock scripted chief Lisa Katz confirmed the news at Content London<\/a>. While she didn\u2019t give any more detail, Tina Fey recently revealed at the Edinburgh TV Festival that she was working on a comedy titled The Cliffhanger, which was then reported by UK TV trade Broadcast to be for Peacock and Sky. Fey created hit comedy 30 Rock for Peacock and Sky\u2019s Comcast stablemate NBC. <\/p>\n

\n\tPeacock and Sky have so far co-produced heavy-hitting drama like The Day of the Jackal and Lockerbie: A Search for Truth, but Katz said there is no reason why a comedy can\u2019t work on both sides of the pond as long as it has an \u201cAmerican access point.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThere are sometimes different sensibilities, some things that might be funny in one culture but not the other one, but the thing that works for us is having an American access point,\u201d she added. \u201cIf you have that way in then that is helpful. With streaming, people watch all kinds of different shows, from Sweden to England to Israel. People gravitate to great storytelling.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tBeatrice Springborn, who runs Comcast\u2019s Universal International Studios and Universal Content Production, said buyers have to have a \u201cflexible mindset\u201d in this tricky market, as she pointed out that another Peacock series, All Her Fault, was relocated from Ireland to Chicago to suit the American audience. That one has been pulling in big ratings and was acquired by Sky in the UK.<\/p>\n

\n\tSpringborn, Katz and Sky scripted exec Meghan Lyvers concurred that the market for co-productions is challenged but they can still find ways to get shows on screen. <\/p>\n

\n\tLyvers cited Sky\u2019s Nick Cave adaptation The Death of Bunny Munro, which made it to screen without a U.S. buyer. \u201cBunny Munro has been incredibly well received over here yet we screened it in the States in May and it hasn\u2019t landed,\u201d she added. \u201cI think it will land but it is taking more time. The U.S. is going through a cycle, and yes it\u2019s a cycle. I\u2019m feeling a return to health.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Peacock and Sky are officially developing their first co-produced comedy. Peacock scripted chief Lisa Katz confirmed the news…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[95575,93,61,60,8048,282,49897],"class_list":{"0":"post-173771","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-content-london","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-peacock","13":"tag-tv","14":"tag-tv-markets"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}