As if a chat between Desus & Mero with celebrated journalist and author Malcolm Gladwell wasn’t enough for you to satisfy you, the wonderful artists over at Cartuna put the icing on the cake by animating the interview.
In the animated world, they really play up the contrast of Gladwell in Desus & Mero’s world and also lets you imagine a current day conversation that doesn’t require social distancing. Enjoy it here.
As teasers and trailers a plenty are dropping all weekend long because of Comic Con, TBS has a sneak peek for their first wave of original animated series.
That includes Close Enough from JG Quintel (Regular Show), Tarantula from Carson D. Mell (Silicon Valley, Eastbound & Down), and Final Space from Olan Rogers.
Though in all different settings, all three shows are “out there” in the own unique way. Also, Final Space has a pretty star studded line-up of voice talent including Conan O’Brien, Andy Richter, Ron Perlman, Steven Yeun, Tom Kenny, and David Tennant to name a few.
See all of this for yourself in the sneak peeks, respectively here, here, and here.
Donald Glover and Stephen Glover or, The Glover Brothers, if we may, made their presence known right out of the gate with the award winning Atlanta (Donald created, starred in and wrote the series and Stephen also wrote along with doing some of the music for the show).
Now, they’ll get to take the R-rated comedy box office smash hit action comedy Deadpool and adapt for television on FXx for 10 episodes. At that network, we’re guessing the tone, style, and “blueness” of the humor will be mostly preserved.
At this point, we have no doubt that Glover could get score an EGOT if he wanted.
While the anthropomorphizing of animals isn’t anything new, it’s usually reserved for children’s tales.
However, the last few years has brought plenty of great animated dramedy that tangle with more nuanced adult issues such as existential despair, complicated relationships, etc.
Phil Matarese and Mike Luciano’s Animals on HBO is one such show and the teaser for their second season looks like it’s promising more exquisite examining of the human condition in the absurd framework of animals both big and little.
Also, the voices of Emilia Clarke, Ice T, Jason Alexander, Kim Gordon, Big Sean, Dan Harmon, Killer Mike, Andy Richter, Mark Duplass, Judy Greer, Fred Armisen, and Jon Lovitz will be featured this season.
If you’re on board, mark your calendars for the season premiere on Friday March 17th at 11:30PM on HBO.
If you’ve seen any of Jon Stewart’s recent appearances on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, you can reasonably assume that Jon will be coming back to having his own show with full force.
Also, the fact that he’ll be on HBO and it’ll be animated satirical parody of cable news would make us guess that Jon is definitely not sparing any of his well-channeled, honed, sharpened comedic verve (i.e. business as usual).
This series can’t come soon enough.
(via Deadline)
FX is making the most out of their overall deal with Louis C.K.
With another season of Louie at some point, Baskets set to premiere near the end of this month, Better Things with Pamela Adlon in production, and probably several other projects that haven’t been publicly announced, FX and Louis C.K. have made quite the business relationship with each other.
The overall development deal he has at the network produced yet another project as C.K. is now working on an animated pilot with the great Albert Brooks. The pair will voice the lead roles, write, EP for this project, which is largely being kept under wraps, plot/premise wise, for now.
At this rate, we wouldn’t be surprised if C.K. got head his own network/channel/streaming service/etc. spun off from FX.
At this time, you’ve either seen Star Wars: The Force Awakens or you’re not going to see Star Wars: The Force Awakens for about a week, so you should go watch this.
The long-awaited animated series from Bill Burr, F Is for Family, is now here. Take a journey back to the 70s when Bill grew up and is not sugarcoating it at all. If anything, he’s making any sugar is gone and leaving how screwed up that time really was.
Get into it on Netflix here.
(via Variety)
Props to HBO for decisiveness.
Both The Duplass Brothers and HBO are expanding their comedic scope by going two seasons in on an animated comedy series created by Phil Matarese and Mike Luciano. Apparently, it’s good enough to warrant the entire first season being picked up by HBO as well as the order for a second one all in one feel swoop.
As Animals follows NYC based animals and is targeted at adults, we’re curious how many animal jokes they’ll be firing off as compared to BoJack Horseman.
Nick Kroll, Katie Aselton, and Mark Duplass are all set to voice various animals.
We hope this is a hit not only to have a good show, but to encourage networks to give bigger season orders to new shows or have faith in new shows at all.
(via The Hollywood Reporter)
As far as we can tell, it sounds like Westworld meets Thelma and Louise meets Blazing Saddles or future Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid as an animated comedy.
Lake Bell and Kaitlin Olson will voice a badass bandit duo that goes back and forth between staying in and out of trouble, but ultimately getting into trouble anyway in a world that’s both post apocalyptic America and popularizes saloons again. Other characters will be voiced by the likes of Jeffrey Tambor and Susan Sarandon (AKA Louise).
Megan Ganz and Adam Reed from Community/Modern Family and Archer respectively, wrote the pilot that we’re curious if it’ll explain the reference to Muhummad Ali’s original name.
Still, this sounds intriguing on so many levels that we hope it gets picked up just so we can see what it would look like.
(via Variety)
Get ready for Cranston to be done up Robot Chicken style.
In announcing their entire upcoming slate, Crackle has unveiled an animated series starring Bryan Cranston that’s set for release in the fall. Collaborating with Robot Chicken’s Matthew Senreich and Zeb Wells, Cranston will star as an older superhero attempting to lead other older superheroes in SuperMansion. Seth Green, Keegan Michael-Key, and Jillian Bell will also be featured voices in the cast.
Now we’re wondering if Seth Meyers’ The Awesomes on Hulu and SuperMansion’s superhero team “The League of Freedom” would ever have a cross streaming service showdown.
Yet another promising animated series trailer lands today. After the trailer for Adult Swim’s Mike Tyson Mysteries found its way from Comic Con to the Internet, Comedy Central just posted a trailer for their latest animated series, Moonbeam City.
Between the voices of Rob Lowe, Elizabeth Banks, Kate Mara, and Will Forte, and the spectacular neon color palate, over sized clothes, etc. Moonbeam City looks like everything you’d want an 80s animated procedural comedy to be.
Netflix is trying to keep their original content streak rolling and have set their next series to be Bojack Horseman. It’s an animated series that follows the life of a former sitcom star that is also a horse. Will Arnett voices Bojack Horseman joined by the voices of Amy Sedaris, Aaron Paul, and Alison Brie.
We’re definitely getting a sort of GOB Bluth as a horse vibe here, which we’re completely on board for. Watch the trailer and mark Aug. 22nd on your calendar, the date when it comes out on Netflix.
Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg’s Animated Comedy ‘Sausage Party’ Sets Cast/Gets Release Date
Myq Kaplan has been having bits of his stand-up animated over the past year or so and the result has been pretty great.
Thanks to animator Robert Potter, we get to see every nuance of this Kaplan bit on drugs brought to life. Watch it here.
Will Arnett, Aaron Paul, and Amy Sedaris To Voice Netflix Animated Series, Bojack Horseman
Do we need to say anything beyond the headline to get you excited about Bojack Horseman?
We really hope that your answer was no. If it was yes, well, then really don’t know what to do with you.
Other than this description of the show off the production company Shadowmachine’s website “TRIP TANK is a block of animation shows in a variety of formats by a variety of talented writers, creators, and animators,” there’s not much other detail about Comedy Central’s brand new animated series probably coming next year.
Yet, you can catch a preview at 10:30PM tonight and find out exactly what it is for yourself.
FX Orders Seth Rogen-Produced ‘Bigfoot’ Animated Comedy Pilot
After the success of This Is The End, we’ve all been wondering what’s next for Seth Rogen behind the camera and it turns out an animated series on Bigfoot over at the soon to be launched FXx is what’s in store.
The details of the show aren’t completely outlined yet, but we would think that a Rogen voiced Bigfoot would seem fitting.
Here’s a Preview for Dan Harmon’s Animated Adult Swim Series “Rick and Morty”
Imagine Dexter’s Laboratory meets Futurama meets The Simpsons and you’ll get something like what will be Dan Harmon’s highly anticipated (it looks pretty great) next project over at Adult Swim, “Rick and Morty”.
How did we come up with that mix? Well, watch the trailer revealed at Comic Con at the link and you’ll see what we’re talking/excited about.