New British comedy TV coming in 2023

Here's a look at 20 new comedy shows coming to TV in 2023, which we're looking forward to seeing.

Black Ops

Black Ops. Image shows from L to R: Kay (Hammed Animashaun), Dom (Gbemisola Ikumelo), Tevin (Akemnji Ndifornyen)

This comedy thriller about undercover police officers is coming to BBC One. Gbemisola Ikumelo, Hammed Animashaun and Akemnji Ndifornyen star. Guide

Boarders

Daniel Lawrence Taylor

Daniel Lawrence Taylor is following up on Timewasters with this coming-of-age BBC Three comedy drama that follows the lives of five underprivileged black students who win scholarships to an elite boarding school. Guide

Changing Ends

Alan Carr

A semi-autobiographical sitcom for ITV1, based on Alan Carr's life growing up in Northampton in the 1980s. See our guide for a video of Alan Carr surprising the child actor who will play him with the casting news. Guide

Count Abdulla

Arian Nik

A high-concept sitcom that'll premiere on ITVX, it follows a British Pakistani Muslim junior doctor (Arian Nik) who is bitten by a halal-hunting vampire. Guide

Deep Fake Neighbour Wars

Deep Fake Neighbour Wars. Image shows left to right: Stormzy (Kane Brown), Harry Kane (Luke Kempner)

A new sketch show from [c]ITVX that uses the latest AI technology to make the impressionists look like their celebrity subjects. See the teaser trailer in our guide to judge for yourself how close they've managed to get the likes of Nicki Minaj and Greta Thunberg. Guide

Entitled

Entitled. Gabe (Brett Gelman). Copyright: David Gennard

Fleabag[/c] star Brett Gelman stars in this Channel 4 series as an American widower who must get to know his British wife's estranged family in their crumbling gothic mansion in the English countryside, as they complete for his newly inherited fortune. Guide

Everyone Else Burns

Everyone Else Burns. Image shows left to right: Amy James-Kelly, Fiona Lewis (Kate O'Flynn), David Lewis (Simon Bird), Harry Connor

This Channel 4 sitcom - about a Mancunian family and the puritanical Christian sect they are devoted to - launches soon. You can see the trailer if you click through to our guide to the series. Guide

Extraordinary

Extraordinary. Jen (Mairead Tyers). Credit: Natalie Seery, Disney+

A comedy drama for Disney+ based in a world where everyone has superpowers... apart from Jen (Mairead Tyers). We've seen the series already and it's great - look out for it later this month! Guide

Funny Woman

Funny Girl. Barbara Parker (Gemma Arterton)

Coming to Sky in February, this comedy is about a fictional British comedy actor, played by Gemma Arterton. Set in the swinging 60s, it's based on Nick Hornby's hit book. Guide

Hancock: Very Nearly An Armful

Tony Hancock: Very Nearly An Armful. Jack Dee

Coming to Gold on the 14th January alongside two beautifully colourised episodes from the landmark sitcom Hancock's Half Hour, Jack Dee presents this feature-length documentary about comedy icon Tony Hancock. Guide

Juice

Juice. Image shows from L to R: Jamma (Mawaan Rizwan), Guy (Russell Tovey)

Mawaan Rizwan's new comedy for BBC Three. Juice follows Jamma who desperately wants to be the centre of attention, but his family are constantly stealing his thunder. Russell Tovey plays his boyfriend. Guide

Queen Of Oz

Catherine Tate

Catherine Tate plays a disgraced member of the Royal Family who is sent to live in Australia in this new six-part series that's coming to BBC One later this year. Guide

Rain Dogs

Rain Dogs. Costello Jones (Daisy May Cooper)

Alongside appearing in another series of Am I Being Unreasonable?, Daisy May Cooper is set to star as a young, working class single mum living with her ten year-old daughter in this BBC comedy drama. Guide

Significant Other

Significant Other. Image shows left to right: Sam (Youssef Kerkour), Anna (Katherine Parkinson)

A romantic comedy on ITVX following two lonely neighbours (Katherine Parkinson and Youssef Kerkour) who embark on a hesitant relationship with each other after drastic life events bring them together. Guide

The Change

The Change

Bridget Christie has written and stars in this Channel 4 comedy drama about a menopausal mother of two looking to claim of her own identity back. Guide

The Family Pile

The Family Pile. Image shows from L to R: Yvette (Clare Calbraith), Nicole (Amanda Abbington), Stuart (Kieran O'Brien), Gaynor (Alexandra Mardell), Greg (James Nelson-Joyce), Ursula (Claire Keelan), Austin (Richard Pepple)

An ITV1 sitcom by Brian Dooley (The Smoking Room) that focuses on the comedic exploration of grief that follows two sisters who have lost their parents and are packing up the family home to sell. Guide

The Full Monty

The Full Monty

This Disney+ follow-up TV series to the hit 1997 film set in Sheffield has been delayed due to Hugo Speer being fired from the production, but it's set to land on the streaming platform later this year. Guide

The Really Really Rude Puppet Show

Mel Giedroyc. Copyright: Marco Vittur

Mel Giedroyc fronts this Channel 4 comedy entertainment series in which celebrities read steamy fan fiction acted out by a cast of lookalike puppets. Guide

Truelove

Julie Walters

Julie Walters and Clarke Peters play teenage sweethearts who have never quite managed to forget each other in this Channel 4 comedy drama. The show asks 'is it ever right to help end a life?'. Guide

Undoing Martin Parker

Undoing Martin Parker. Image shows from L to R: Diane (Rosie Cavaliero), Martin Parker (Conleth Hill), Kath (Sian Gibson)

A BBC One comedy drama about a self-made man struggling to keep his head above water as the 1980s turn into the 1990s. Conleth Hill, Sian Gibson and Rosie Cavaliero are amongst the stars. Guide


For a full list of shows, including those in development and returning for further series (Big Boys, Brassic, Ghosts, Inside No. 9, Mandy, Not Going Out, The Curse and We Are Lady Parts are amongst those to have been recommissioned), see our TV coming soon section. We also have a guide to new radio comedy.

Meanwhile, what was the best of 2022? Vote in the Comedy.co.uk Awards

Published: Tuesday 3rd January 2023

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