IFC is bringing in some new scripted comedies as part of a re-branding effort that includes a new look and a new slogan: "Always On. Slightly Off."
The network that already airs Monty Python's Flying Circus, Arrested Development and The Whitest Kids You Know has now greenlit two new original series.
The first series reunites Arrested co-stars David Cross and Will Arnett in The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret, which is a fish out of water story about "Todd Margaret (Cross), a corporate nobody and pathological liar who unexpectedly finds himself running his company's London office." Arnett is set to play the blowhard boss, and the comedy is set to air in the fall. IFC has also given the go ahead to Onion News Network, the "first television series based on the popular alternative weekly fake newspaper and web series" – which is set to air in the first quarter of 2011.
On top of those two shows, IFC has acquired The Kids in the Hall: Death Comes to Town, a KITH reunion series which will debut in August, and a satirical zombie series called Dead Set, which takes place on the set of the U.K.'s Big Brother house and will be premiering in October.