With Futurama on the way out, Comedy Central has a new animated comedy in the works. THR reports that the cable network has commissioned an animated pilot called Moonbeam City. The pilot will be executive produced by Will Gluck, director of Easy A, and written/created by Scott Gairdner (pictured), a former writer/director for Funny or Die who is currently on Conan's writing staff. Moonbeam City is an absurdist riff on '80s crime dramas following Dazzle Novak, a dumb, handsome undercover cop who is desperate to avoid solving crimes. Gairdner, creator of web series like Tiny Fuppets and Clip Cup, surely has some amazing stuff cooked up for [...]
Taking a break from staring at each other's perfectly symmetrical faces in platonic awe, Ryan Reynolds and Sandra Bullock join And Then There Was Gordon, an animated series co-written by Reynolds and Allan Loeb for Fox. Sort of an inside-out Allen Gregory, Gordon focuses on "an ordinary child surrounded by his prodigy siblings and brilliant, but neurotic mother," allegedly played by Bullock. Having already portrayed a socially awkward genius in All About Steve, at least we know that Sandra is capable of…good god, just so, so much more than All About Steve.
Sadly, Daniel Tosh's Brickleberry is not a flavor of limited-run ice cream like I'd momentarily thought. My brain, constantly trying to find delicious ways to get rid of my teeth, will be disappointed. Instead it's his new animated series for Comedy Central, wherein Tosh will executive produce, as well as lend his voice to "a group of dysfunctional park rangers tasked with saving their fledgling national park from closure." So many open bear traps, so many unsuspecting genitals, so little precious, precious time.
I'm sure there are a lot of other questions people might have about the new Napoleon Dynamite show, such as "Why did it take this long after the movie to be made?" and "Does it even make sense as a cartoon?" and "What?" However, the Napoleon Dynamite animated trailer leaves me with only one query: where is Kip's wife Lafawnduh? Based on the series description, the new show takes places after Pedro's election as class president, ergo it would seem to follow the same time line and reality of the movie. The rest of the original cast is returning to voice their cartoon avatars; I did not watch [...]
