Baby Cow Manchester has today announced a year-long collaboration with Comedy North, part of Vision Productions Comedy, to develop comedy scripts for production out of MediaCityUK.

The venture will see BBC In House Comedy and Baby Cow, which was founded by Steve Coogan, develop a number of narrative scripts which seek to bring through the next generation of on- and off-screen comedy talent from the North of England.

BBC In House Comedy head Mark Freeland said of the joint-venture: “As our commitment to comedy being produced from the North increases, I can think of no one better with whom to partner than the creative comedy minds of Baby Cow.”

Baby Cow MD Henry Normal added: “It's exciting to be developing comedy with BBC Comedy North. The new MediaCityUK media centre is a new adventure for all of us.”

BBC Three will tomorrow show the 50th episode of BBC In House and Baby Cow co-production Ideal, of which Coogan said: “Having co-produced seven series of Ideal together we are reasonably confident the BBC Comedy North/Baby Cow combination can work well.”