Paramount Comedy (Russia)

Paramount Comedy is a 24-hour Russian cable television and satellite television comedy channel available in Russia, launched in 2012. It is owned by ViacomCBS Networks EMEAA and ViacomCBS.

History[]

Paramount Comedy was launched in Russia in 2012 & television brand in the United Kingdom (not in 2009) but the comedy central extra one on November 1, 1995, in Spain in March, 1999, in the Ireland on May 9, 2004, in Italy on December 1, 2004 and in Russia on April 1, 2012. Paramount Comedy also launched in the Middle East and North Africa in 1996, but it went defunct in 2000. In both the United Kingdom and Spain the channel originally shared the broadcast channel with corporate sibling Nickelodeon, but later the two separated. In Arabia, the channel time-shared with TV Land but the two networks disappeared in 2000.

On 12 February 2009, Paramount Comedy UK&I announced that it was to re-brand as Viacom's international comedy brand Comedy Central on 6 April 2009.^[1] Later, most of the rest of international versions of Paramount Comedy completed the re-brand to Comedy Central: Paramount Comedy Italy on May 1, 2007 and Paramount Comedy Spain on May 14, 2014.^[2]

By 2017, nearly all international versions of Paramount Comedy have become Comedy Central with the exception of two countries: Russia (Paramount Comedy launched there in 2012) and Ukraine (Paramount Comedy launched there in 2017).

List of Paramount Comedy programs[]

• 30 Rock
• 3rd Rock from the Sun
• The Abbott and Costello Show
• Ally McBeal
• Andy Richter Controls The Universe
• Asylum
• Bad Robots
• Baddiel and Skinner Unplanned
• Barry Welsh is Coming
• Beauty and the Beast
• Beavis And Butthead
• Becker
• Big Bad World
• Bill Bailey - Bewilderness
• Bill Plympton's Shorts
• Birds of a Feather
• A Bit of Fry & Laurie
• Black Books
• Bless This House
• Bram And Alice
• Brotherhood
• Calvin and the Colonel
• Caroline in the City
• Celebrity Death Match
• Cheers
• Clueless
• Comedy Store
• The Comic Strip Presents...
  • Bad News Tour
  • The Bullshitters: Roll Out The Gunbarrel
  • The Strike
  • The Yob
• Coupling
• Courting Alex
• Cybill
• 
  (featuring Manga Entertainment series such as Dominion: Tank Police)
• Dead Ringers
• Desmonds
• The Detectives
• DiResta
• Dirty Sanchez
• Dirty Sexy Funny
• Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist
• Drawn Together
• Drop the Dead Donkey
• Duckman
• Duty Free
• Epic Meal Empire
• Eurotrash
• Everybody Hates Chris
• Everybody Loves Raymond
• Flipside TV
• The Frank Skinner Show
• Friends
• Frasier
• George and Mildred
• Give Out Girls
• Goodness Gracious Me
• Grace Under Fire
• Grosse Pointe
• Grumpy Old Men
• Grumpy Old Women
• Happy Days
• Happy Tree Friends
• He's a Lady
• Hippies
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• In Bed with Medinner
• In-Laws
• Ink
• It's Garry Shandling's Show
• Jack Dee Live at the Apollo
• Just For Laughs
• Kate & Allie
• Keith Barret Live
• King of Queens
• Knights-A-Lot: It's a Wonderful World
• Kitchen Confidential
• Kristin
• Lee Evans:
  • Live from the West End
  • Live in Scotland
  • Wired & Wonderful
• Less Than Perfect
• Linc's
• The Liver Birds
• The Magician
• MAD
• Man About the House
• Married... with Children
• M*A*S*H
• Mash and Peas
• May to December
• The Micallef Program
• The Mighty Boosh
• Mike & Molly
• Minder
• A Minute with Stan Hooper
• Modern Toss
• Moesha
• Monty Python's Flying Circus
• Moonlighting
• More Bad News
• Mork & Mindy
• Mr. Bean
• Mr Jolly Lives Next Door
• Murder Most Horrid
• Naked and Funny
• Ned & Stacey
• Never Mind the Buzzcocks
• The New Statesman
• Night Stand with Dick Dietrick
• The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore
• Not Going Out
• Not the Nine O'Clock News
• The Office (US)
• Pablo's Deadly Secret
• People Like Us
• The Piglet Files
• Pimp My Ride
• Police Squad!
• Popeye and Son
• Punk’d
• Rab C. Nesbitt
• The Ren & Stimpy Show
• Rendez-View
• Respectable
• Rex the Runt
• Rhoda
• Robin's Nest
• Robot Chicken
• Roseanne
• Rules of Engagement
• Samantha Who
• The Sarah Silverman Program
• Seinfeld
• Sex and the City
• Shane
• Sister Sister
• skitHOUSE
• Sledge Hammer!
• Soap
• South Park
• Spin City
• Spitting Image
• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Stacked
• Suburban Shootout
• Taxi
• Terry and June
• That '70s Show
• The Ducks Show
• The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
• Threesome
• Time Gentlemen Please
• Trailer Park Boys
• Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps
• (Un)natural Acts
• The Upper Hand
• Veronica's Closet
• Vic Reeves Big Night Out
• Whose Line is it Anyway?
• Whitney
• Wings
• The Wonder Years
• The World Stands Up
• The Young Ones

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