November marked the ten-year anniversary of Adult Swim’s broadcast of Xavier: Renegade Angel, a show that spanned two ten-episode seasons and for a small, rabid viewership still represents the crowning achievement of irreverent art collective PFFR. Known for working on the sidelines to help realize misfit comedy shows like truTV’s At Home with Amy Sedaris, […]
Continue ReadingShowtime’s new animated Trump show now has a full trailer. Ordered to series back in July, the 10-episode half-hour series, titled Our Cartoon President, is based on The Late Show’s recurring “Cartoon Trump” segments, and Stephen Colbert and Late Show EP Chris Licht are attached as executive producers. The series takes place in a “parallel cartoon […]
Continue ReadingShowtime’s new animated Trump show now has a full trailer. Ordered to series back in July, the 10-episode half-hour series, titled Our Cartoon President, is based on The Late Show’s recurring “Cartoon Trump” segments, and Stephen Colbert and Late Show EP Chris Licht are attached as executive producers. The series takes place in a “parallel cartoon […]
Continue ReadingAn animated series starring a time-traveling Barack Obama and Joe Biden is currently in the works with some help from Conan O’Brien. According to Deadline, O’Brien is attached as an executive producer behind the series, titled Barry & Joe: The Animated Series, which is in development at production company Titmouse. Created by Adam Reid, the series […]
Continue ReadingNick Kroll and Andrew Goldberg’s animated series Big Mouth is returning for another season. In the above clip, Netflix announced that it’s renewed the show for a second season, which will premiere sometime in 2018. Here’s what Kroll told us about a possible season 2 when we interviewed him last month: It’s something that we […]
Continue ReadingAnother comedy series is heading to Hulu. Today the streaming network announced that the entire Futurama library, including all four movies, will be available on Monday, October 16th. Like 30 Rock, Futurama was previously available on Netflix, but Hulu will be its new exclusive home starting next week. Futurama joins a growing list of comedies recently […]
Continue ReadingGet ready to see Bob’s Burgers on the big screen. According to Deadline, 20th Century Fox is working on a feature film for the animated series, which is slated to hit theaters in July 2020. “We’re thrilled to be invited to bring Bob’s Burgers to the big screen,” Loren Bouchard said on the news. “We know the […]
Continue ReadingLooking at animated versions of middle schoolers’ penises and vaginas would typically get someone put on a watch list, but prepare for it to be the talk of the TV comedy world pretty soon. Netflix’s Big Mouth, starring, co-created, and executive produced by Nick Kroll (The League, Kroll Show), centers around a group of middle […]
Continue ReadingGet ready for more BoJack. On Twitter today, the team behind BoJack Horseman announced that Netflix has officially renewed the show for a fifth season: SO, THIS HAPPENED… pic.twitter.com/ZgRcG7anIF — BoJack Horseman (@BoJackHorseman) September 21, 2017 Season 4 premiered earlier this month. Read our review of the new season here as well as our closer […]
Continue ReadingSuperheroes have gone mainstream. They stare back at us from every conceivable surface: movies, soda cans, and The CW. And every intellectual property under the sun — from Heathers to Will & Grace — is getting a second chance. So it makes sense to bring back an IP that has been knowingly goofing on superheroes […]
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