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If you're in the know, then you will have already been watching Fleabag, waiting patiently for the last five Thursdays as 成人论坛 Three released each episode online. If you're not in the know, we'd like to put you in the know, so, y'know...know, and give you the opportunity to start watching the series from the beginning as it airs on 成人论坛 Two on Sunday 21 August at 10pm.

The creation of (who also co-wrote the excellent Crashing shown earlier this year on Channel 4), Fleabag started life as a one-woman play which debuted at The Edinburgh Festival in 2013. Waller-Bridge wrote and stars in the dark comedy, her response to Damian Kavanagh, Digital Controller of 成人论坛 Three being "I can't believe they've let me do this.”

Fleabag has been described as a lot of things from '' (Guardian), to '' (Telegraph), to '' (Grazia) and has seemed to have caught the imagination of viewers too, with a large amount of them taking to Twitter to praise the show, from popstars:

to journalists:

to fellow comedy writers:

So, as mentioned, the series starts its run on terrestrial TV on Sunday 21 August, but Fleabag is not the first comedy that has found its footing in the nurturing environment of 成人论坛 Three and then made the leap to 成人论坛 One or 成人论坛 Two. We had a quick scan through the archives and found these 成人论坛 Three original comedies that were repeated on or moved to the mainstream 成人论坛 channels and went on to great success.

Starting out on Radio 4, Little Britain had it's first airing on television as part of the new channel showcase on 成人论坛 Three on February 9th, 2003, listed as 'Comedy sketches satirising modern life', the show was repeated on 成人论坛 One from December of the same year and spawned a host of quotable catcphrases from schoolgirl Vicky Pollard's 'Yeah but no but' to the jobsworthian 'Computer says no'.

Written by and starring Julia Davis, this (very) dark sitcom centred around Jill, a 27 year old beauty salon owner, determined to make a fresh start after learning her husband Terry (Kevin Eldon) has terminal cancer. Airing on 成人论坛 Three in January 2004, it made it's way to 成人论坛 Two two months later. The show which also starred Angus Deayton and Rebecca Front (The Day Today, The Thick Of It) won critical acclaim, winning BAFTA awards for Best Comedy Performance and Situation Comedy, and Best New TV Comedy at the British Comedy Awards in 2005.

Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding's offbeat sitcom set in a magical zoo was a follow on to The Boosh radio series which was first broadcast on 成人论坛 London Live in 2001. The Mighty Boosh first appeared on TV in May 2004. The duo's surreal 'journey through time and space' became a cult classic and series one was repeated on 成人论坛 Two in November, 2004. The comedy ran for three series and the pair also toured a stage version of the show. Fielding went on to become (among other things) a team captain on 成人论坛 Two's Never Mind the Buzzcocks.

After appearing in the aforementioned Little Britain (as Myfanwy) and Nighty Night (as Linda), Ruth Jones went on to co-write Gavin and Stacey with James Corden (The Wrong Mans). The award-winning sitcom following the blossoming relationship between a girl from Barry and a boy from Billericay was first broadcast in July 2007 on 成人论坛 Three with a repeat of the following month on 成人论坛 Two. The second series was also premiered on the 成人论坛's digital only channel, but the Christmas special in 2008 and the third (and final) series were first aired on 成人论坛 One, with the show's last episode on January 1st, 2010 attracting just over 10.2 million viewers.

Alright, so Him & Her, a comedy based around the lives of Becky and Steve, a young couple living together in a flat in Walthamstow, never actually left 成人论坛 Three, much in the same way the two main characters never seemed to leave their flat, but we thought it was worth a mention, not only because of it's popularity, but because the writer, Stefan Golaszewski's latest creation  was broadcast on 成人论坛 Two earlier this year. Starring Leslie Manville as Cathy, a recently widowed mum of a grown up son, this charming sitcom, too, struggled to leave the house.

Kicking off in September 2012, was 成人论坛 Three's most watched comedy launch. Starring Greg Davies, Helen Baxendale and originally starring Tamla Kari as Rachel and US Comic Andy Samberg (Saturday Night Live, Brooklyn Nine-Nine) as the title character, the comedy about a suburban family dealing with their daughter's, new, New Age husband proved popular and continues to be a jewel in the 成人论坛 Three crown. Series three was one of the first programmes to become available when 成人论坛 Three became an online only channel in February 2016 with the series being repeated on 成人论坛 One.

Jen Macro is Digital Content Producer, About the 成人论坛 Blog and website.

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