Comedy Central announced in a press release today that they’ve picked up the CC:Studios web series This Is Not Happening, a standup storytelling show hosted by Ari Shaffir, for an eight-episode run on television to premiere this fall. This order marks the network’s first pickup of a show developed via its digital initiative CC:Studios. “The only reason we are picking up This Is Not Happening is to prove we can incubate an idea digitally and then have it migrate to the linear channel,†said Kent Alterman, president of the network’s development and original programming. “And also, it’s really funny storytelling with fantastic talent.†For more on This Is Not Happening, check out our interview with Shaffir from last year.
Comedy Central Orders ‘This Is Not Happening’ to Series
