Peacock and Sky are officially developing their first co-produced comedy.

Peacock scripted chief Lisa Katz confirmed the news at Content London . While she didn’t give any more detail, Tina Fey recently revealed at the Edinburgh TV Festival that she was working on a comedy titled The Cliffhanger , which was then reported by UK TV trade Broadcast to be for Peacock and Sky. Fey created hit comedy 30 Rock for Peacock and Sky’s Comcast stablemate NBC.

Peacock and Sky have so far co-produced heavy-hitting drama like The Day of the Jackal and Lockerbie: A Search for Truth, but Katz said there is no reason why a comedy can’t work on both sides of the pond as long as it has an “American access point.”

“There are sometimes different sensibilities, some things that might be funny in on

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