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Him & Her is to return to BBC Three for a fourth and final series.



The six-part Him & Her: The Wedding - starring Russell Tovey and Sarah Solemani - will be set entirely during Laura's (Kerry Howard) wedding.

In addition, the channel has recommissioned Pramface - the sitcom, which stars Scarlett Alice Johnson and Sean Michael Verey as two young parents, will return for a third series.

Alongside the two returning series, BBC Three controller Zai Bennett has also ordered several new comedies for TV and online.

Uncle stars stand-up comedian Nick Helm as Andy, a dissolute out-of work musician who forges an unlikely alliance with his 11-year-old nephew, while People Just Do Nothing is a mockumentary about pirate radio station Kurupt FM and its crew.

In addition, eight[?] comedy pilots have been commissioned for BBC iPlayer to showcase up-and-coming comedy talent.

Bamboo will follow two posh idiots who try to set up their own nightclub, Fuzzbox is a comedic take on a puppet show and C Bomb will tell the story of "the godfather of the South Yorkshire dubstep scene".

Nick Helm's Heavy Entertainment is a studio-based comedy show, The Committee is a new sitcom set at a Welsh social club, while Going Native is another mockumentary starring Mona Yusef as three different foreign women - a Russian gold digger, a Japanese internet sensation and a Middle Eastern entrepreneur.

The final online pilot is Kerry - a multi-character sketch show written by and starring Him & Her's Kerry Howard.

"New British comedy is king on BBC Three, so I'm delighted to be able to announce we've commissioned Nick Helm's first TV series, Uncle, and that another one of last year's Comedy Feed pilots is going to full series in the fantastic People Just Do Nothing," said Zai Bennett.

"We are also celebrating success on Three by recommissioning the delightful Pramface and the sublime Him & Her. To ensure we keep finding the hits of the future we are also soon showcasing our latest batch of 8 Comedy Feed pilots on BBC iPlayer."

"New British comedy is king on BBC Three"