Fox Short-Com Comedy Hour Means New Opportunities for Comics

FOX will launch THE SHORT-COM COMEDY HOUR in Summer 2013, building on television’s rich past to reinvent comedy for the future. Both a contemporary spin on multi-camera comedy and an alternative development platform, THE SHORT-COM COMEDY HOUR will feature four unique short-form sitcoms – or “short-coms” – in a fast-paced hour-long broadcast. Each short-com will feature both established and up-and-coming actors and comedians in one-act scenes, creating a comedy showcase brimming with today’s best, brightest and freshest voices.

“We are basically ripping open the traditional scripted comedy development process with THE SHORT-COM COMEDY HOUR,” said Kevin Reilly, President of Entertainment, Fox Broadcasting Company. “Our end goal is to provide distinct comedy voices with a world-class platform to experiment, grow and perfect their ideas and to hopefully build them into mainstream comedy hits in the future. We’re looking forward to seeing what the untapped comedy community has to offer.”

The short-com development process will be as distinct as the end result, featuring hand-picked talent from the world of stand-up comedy. In an effort to open up the traditional development process, FOX will facilitate a creatively open environment for comedy talent to hone their voices and material within the context of their self-produced short-coms.

In addition to airing them as part of THE SHORT-COM COMEDY HOUR, FOX will commission the most fully realized of these scripted vignettes to series, helping to seed the future of the FOX multi-camera brand.

They are currently scouting in Montreal at the Just for Laughs Comedy Festival.

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New Comedy TV Shows

All networks (except CW) have some new comedies coming this fall:
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Highlights of the new NBC Fall schedule include an expansion of comedy to Tuesday and Friday nights for a total of five full hours of primetime comedy.

The season's new fall comedies are "Go On," "The New Normal," "Animal Practice" and "Guys with Kids." Other mid-season comedies include "Save Me," "1600 Penn" and "Next Caller."

Here's a preview of Animal Practice "A veterinarian's office comedy with plenty of horsing around."


And another of The New Normal "Two gay dads and a baby mama create a totally new kind of family comedy."

Here's a preview of a couple of Fox's new comedies:


This is a new FOX New comedy Ben & Kate:



This next FOX series is currently titled: The Mindy Project
Produced by Universal Television and 3 Arts Entertainment. From creator writer/producer and New York Times best-selling author Mindy Kaling.


CBS added Partners and Friend Me to the comedy line-up.

There are many more comedies added to the network's line-ups. The good news -for comedians- is more work!

Comic Bible Magazine will have an overview in the next print edition (on stands soon). CB will also post some more preview trailers here. Let Comic Bible know what you think. Comment below!!
and FYI:
HBO To Develop a 1980s Wall Street Comedy Starring Rob Riggle With Adam McKay, Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg And Chris Henchy.