Britain’s Channel 4 Doing New Sitcom About The Irish Potato Famine
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Britain’s Channel 4 is going dark for a new sitcom idea. One million dead men, women and children dark. The network has ordered a sitcom that’s set in the Irish Potato Famine. The comedy series about a family living in starving Ireland in the mid-1800s is from screenwriter Hugh Travers.
When asked why make a comedy about a million people dying from a lack of food, Travers told the Irish Times, “Well, they say ‘comedy equals tragedy plus time’”. He also described the show this way, “We’re kind of thinking of it as Shameless in famine Ireland.”
The new sitcom, “Hungry” should debut on Channel 4 sometime this year. Then Travers can start working on that slapstick Ebola comedy idea of his.
