Comedy Central picks up two series

March 26, 2008 Comedy Central has handed out series pickups to David Alan Grier's fake magazine show and a reality spoof from the producers of NBC's "The Biggest Loser." The news comes on the heels of Comedy's 2008-09 development slate announcement, which included both projects as well as the series order for the fantasy comedy "Krod Mandoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire," which debuts in first-quarter 2009. The working-titled "David Alan Grier's Chocolate News," also bowing in the first quarter, will investigate such "inherently urban pop culture topics" as an operation to save black and white conjoined twins, steroid use in Little Leaguers and a rapper's public service announcement gone awry.

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