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The line-up of programming this season is headed by three new series and the return of animated satirical comedy 'Monkey Dust' and hidden-camera show '3 Non Blondes'.

Stuart Murphy, controller of BBC Three, said: "We have been on air for a little over six months and I think we're really starting to get under the skin of the audience, find out what they want and shape the channel accordingly."

Deayton has been given the OK to return to a forgiving BBC in 'Nighty Night' a new dark comedy written by and starring Julia Davis.

Deayton lost his 'Have I Got News for You' presenting job when a prostitute told the News of the World how she romped with Deayton while he snorted cocaine. The BBC decided that his position had been "unacceptably compromised" and sacked him from the programme in October 2002.

The comedy is said to be challenging and in a similar vein to the first series of 'Monkey Dust'.

The first new comedy show is 'Little Britain', which is back for a series following its critically acclaimed pilot on the launch of the channel in February.

The show is based on the Radio 4 series of the same name and presents a collection of funny, bizarre and memorable characters, written and performed by Matt Lucas and David Walliams.

Also new is 'Grass', a spin-off from 'The Fast Show', featuring Billy Bleach, the interfering pub know-it-all. Simon Day, who plays Bleach, wrote and stars in the new series.

The channel aims to balance its output, however, with other genres of programming including new shows about business, the arts and ethics, to give it a broad appeal.

"It's not all laughs on the channel as we try to get to grips with the passions and concerns of our audience," Murphy said. "I think we've genuinely got something on BBC Three for all young contemporary British adults this autumn."

'Art and the City' sees James Gooding aim to find today's most influential, exciting and talked about artists in Europe and New York.

Working life is tackled in 'New Tycoons', which aims to give the low-down on giving up the 9-5 slog and starting up in business.

Religion and spirituality is the focus of Jerry Hall's 'Gurus'. The show looks at alternatives to mainstream religion and spiritualism across the world at the beginning of the 21st century.

Current Affairs is covered off in 'The Third Degree', which is back with issue-based programmes dealing with subjects Murphy believes the channel's audience want to know about. Subjects the series will cover range from the debate around the MMR vaccination to an investigation into who really runs Britain's cities.

The channel also aims to build on the success of its online celebrity share-swapping game Celebdaq, which continues to air on Friday nights and now has 250,000 registered online users.

BBC Three has also commissioned 'Fightbox', which will show the results of the online game of the same name, which allows people to build their own virtual warrior and battle it out in front of the cameras.

Johnny Vaughan returns, but in a new role after his talkshow was axed. 'Dreamspaces', a weekly magazine programme about the spaces people live in, is also back, along with 'Body Hits', a look at the effects of modern living on the body, and drama 'Burn It'.

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