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Not Satire: The Onion Gets a TV Deal With Comedy Central

Source: Mashable!

Nov 06, 2009

Summary

America’s most trusted satire newspaper and website, The Onion, has been steadily moving into online video in the past few years (with many hilarious pokes at the Web, the iPhone, and social media along the way).

Now, the outfit has landed a very real deal with Comedy Central to develop a pilot for a show based on its Onion Sports Network (OSN) videos.

According to a statement put out by the companies, “the as-yet untitled series will take on the whole universe of modern sports – teams, players, leagues, sycophantic fans, ridiculous products and over-hyped sports coverage – with an eye towards appealing to sports fanatics and more casual fans.”

It’s not hard to see an OSN-based show fitting in nicely alongside The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. The completely over-the-top parodies of ESPN and FOX Sports Net talking heads and cliché stories and soundbites is very analogous to what the network has done with its take on cable news.

You do have to wonder, however, if the humor of stories like today’s “Tom Coughlin Retires From Family to Spend More Time With

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Comments (1)

Mitchellmckenna,

Nov 09, 2009

Should be a pretty funny show for all your sports fanatics...