Comedian Alan Carr has signed a �3m ($6m) deal with Channel 4.
The deal, which is aforementioned to run over two years, will give the broadcaster exclusive rights to all the award-winning comedian's UK television system output.
Carr, 32, had been approached by ITV and the BBC, with ITV reportedly prepared to pay �2m ($4m) over deuce years.
Carr will continue to host The Sunday Night Project alongside Justin Lee Collins and will too return for more series of quiz show Alan Carr's Celebrity Ding Dong.
The new deal will as well include other major prime time serial publication currently in development, Channel 4 said.
Alan, named best live stick up comedian at last year's British Comedy Awards, aforementioned of the deal, "I'm absolutely thrilled to be spending deuce more glorious years at Channel 4. It's a civil ceremony made in heaven."
A source told the Telegraph newspaper that Carr rejected the other network's offers because he was "incredibly felicitous" at Channel 4, although he hadn't ruled out moving to a more mainstream channel at the end of his contract.
Channel 4 aforesaid it was "thrilled" he was staying on.
"He is one of the funniest men on TV," aforementioned Andrew Newman, the Channel 4 headland of comedy and entertainment. "We look forward to developing his TV calling over the next deuce years while making him an even bigger superstar."
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