BBC3 is to air a new show dubbed "Trigger Happy TV meets Newsnight" that turns the spotlight on politicians, "self-obsessed and narcissistic celebrities" and "bonus-guzzling bankers".

The Revolution Will Be Televised features Heydon Prowse – who hit the headlines after covertly filming Alan Duncan MP – and collaborator Jolyon Rubinstein.

Prowse and Rubinstein have become internet hits with their satirical work for Don't Panic Online, with their targets including Fox News and phone hacking at the News of the World, when they pretended to be reporters from the paper and door-stepped former editor Andy Coulson.

The Revolution Will Be Televised will use a combination of covert and overt filming and is being made by Hat Trick, the independent producer behind Have I Got News For You and Outnumbered.

It is one of three new comedies that have been commissioned by BBC3 controller Zai Bennett.

Also in the pipeline is Bad Education, a six-part series starring Jack Whitehall as a teacher, and Some Girls, a comedy about teenage girls at an inner-city school in London.

In a further expansion of BBC3's comedy, lookalike specialist Alison Jackson is among those making shows for The Comedy Kitchen Pilots. Six comedies are being made that will be aired on the internet and on BBC iPlayer, including Jackson's Breaking News and a mockumentary about a pirate radio station called People Just Do Nothing.

BBC3 – which is due to relocate to Salford by 2016 – is also broadcasting a season of hard-hitting factual programmes about crime.

They include Teenage Gangs UK, My Mugger and Me and Rape: Don't Call Me a Liar.

And to mark the 50th anniversary of a report that suggested men should be allowed into delivery rooms, BBC3 is to air Don't Mind Him, He's My Midwife – a programme that challenges young fathers to deliver their first-born children.

Bennett also revealed there will be a second series of young parent comedy Pramface, a third series of sitcom Him & Her and a multi-series deal for Russell Howard's Good News.

Making the announcements at a Broadcasting Press Guild lunch in London on Wednesday, Bennett said: "BBC3 is the channel that breaks new comedy in the UK … Our mission is not only to make our audiences laugh, but also to make them think."

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