Huzzah! New Shows For Dylan Moran and Mark Heap!

Mmmm ... Logboy just forwarded along some news that makes Todd a very happy boy. Two of my very favorite performers in the Brit-com world - Dylan Moran of Black Books, Shaun of the Dead, and Tristram Shandy and Mark Heap of Spaced, Green Wing and Brass Eye - have both signed on to star in new pilot shows commissioned by BBC One.

Moran's is titled Too Much Too Young, in which he will re-team with Black Books director Nick Wood and star Moran as a man who had a daughter when he was only eighteen and has to deal both with her becoming an adult himself and his own fading grasp on youth. Which means a bit of a dramatic turn for him, a very good thing in my books as he's been a bit over reliant on his admittedly very funny half drunken schtick in recent days and I'd love to see him flesh out some of the depth he showed in How Do You Want Me.

Mark Heap - one of the funniest men on the planet, bar none - will star in Now The Weather, playing an insecure weatherman in a show shot in that edgy single camera style that all the kids think is so hott. Heap doing insecurity? Not much of a stretch, but he's damn good at it and it'll be a blast just to see the man finally getting a lead role.

More details here.