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Viceland UK embarks on copros

Vice Media has begun commissioning third-party content for its youth-targeting linear TV network Viceland in the UK.

Bobby & Harriet Get Married will be coproduced with UK indie Rockerdale Studios

The channel, which launched in the territory on Sky last autumn, has ordered four new series amounting to 20 hours of original programming.

Bobby & Harriet Get Married (working title) is a copro with fledgling UK indie Rockerdale Studios. Described as Viceland’s first reality sitcom, the six-part series follows stand-up comedians Bobby Mair and Harriet Kemsley as they plan their real-life wedding.

Two other series are copros with Viceland US: property show Generation Rent (wt), which investigates the housing crisis facing young people in the UK and elsewhere; and stand-up comedian Jamali Maddix’s follow-up to his series Hate Thy Neighbour, documenting organisations, radical individuals and extremist groups in America.

The comedian is already behind a series looking at Brexit for the network.

The final commission comes via a development deal with Andy Amadi, founder of hit UK web series and debate show BK Chat, which features young men and women on opposing sides debating subjects such as love, sex, relationships and finances.

The new shows were commissioned by Kevin Sutcliffe, Viceland International’s senior VP of TV and video programming. As well as airing on Viceland in the UK, the US copros will air stateside and in Canada, while Bobby & Harriet will broadcast in Benelux, France, Australia, New Zealand and Africa.

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