E4 has announced the commission of Bad Robots, a new comedy series using hidden cameras and computer-generated pranks.

The six 30-minute episodes feature a host of everyday machines, from tanning booths to photo booths, and showcases argumentative vending machines, patently biased pub quiz machines, abusive electronic road signs and overly helpful service tills – all giving their human users a really hard time.

Creator Nathan Eastwood teased: “It’s a really simple idea that gets hilarious reactions: hidden camera comedy at its best.”

Phil Clarke, Channel 4’s Head of Comedy commented: “The strength of Bad Robots is the simplicity of its idea – it’s a show about everyday machines (computers, automatic doors, road signs, self -service tills etc.) pranking people.”

He added: “We interact with machines every day; We rely on them utterly, and trust them implicitly. We’ve learnt to obey their instructions without question. So what happens when the machines go bad? This new prank shows reveals that there is nothing more hilarious, and nothing more enduring, than the human spirit when confronted by a bad robot.”

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