Adult Swim

Adult Swim Orders 8 Pilots Including an Animated HAROLD & KUMAR Series and a New Series from COMMUNITY’s Dan Harmon

by Matt Currie    Posted: May 15th, 2012 at 4:36 pm

The future of Adult Swim, Cartoon Network’s weird older brother, just got a little bit clearer, as the cable network has announced a bevy of new pilots that will compete for a schedule spot in 2012-2013. The most prominent of the bunch are an untitled animated continuation of the pot-fueled adventures of Harold & Kumar and Rick & Morty, a comedy from Community creator, Dan Harmon. The former is being scripted by franchise writers (and directors of Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay) Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg and will see stars John Cho and Kal Penn giving voice to animated versions of themselves. Rick & Morty, meanwhile, follows the adventures of an inventor and his dimwitted grandson. Hit the jump for more.

ROBOT CHICKEN Taking Aim at DC Comics for Next Special; Neil Patrick Harris, Nathan Fillion and Megan Fox to Lend Voices

by Ethan Anderton    Posted: April 25th, 2012 at 1:21 pm

Seth Green and his crew behind Robot Chicken have already skewered the Star Wars universe several times over with entire specials dedicated to mocking George Lucas and the classic sci-fi saga. Now the stop-motion animated comedy series has their sights set on DC Comics as Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim will present a Robot Chicken special featuring Seth Green as Batman, Robin and Aquaman, Paul Reubens as The Riddler, Neil Patrick Harris as Two-Face, Alfred Molina as Lex Luthor, Nathan Fillion as the Green Lantern, Megan Fox as Lois Lane, and Breckin Meyer as Superman. More after the jump!

FOX to Develop New Late-Night Block of Animated Programming

by Dave Trumbore    Posted: January 8th, 2012 at 7:51 pm

Move over, Adult Swim; there’s a new player in the pool. For more than ten years now, Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim programming block has been the place to find some of the most progressive, insane and “mature” animated programming on TV (stateside, at least). Due to its role in reviving such series as Family Guy and Futurama, FOX has paid attention to Adult Swim’s success over the years and saw that there was money to be made. Already promoting their “animation domination” with regular series Family Guy, The Simpsons and more, FOX has now developed a new unit of animation to focus on a late-night block of animated programming. Not only will this new unit focus on televised programming, they will also have counterparts running online. The shows will air on Saturdays from 11PM to 12:30 AM ET/PT and will feature four new animated series each season, starting in January 2013.  The digital channel starts in 2012 and will feature 50 original creations. Hit the jump to check out the press release.

Comic-Con 2011: BLACK DYNAMITE Animated Series Pilot Review

by Hunter Daniels    Posted: July 23rd, 2011 at 4:50 pm

Black Dynamite is one of the strangest and most enjoyable movies of the last few years and in spite of featuring DTV luminary Michael Jai-White as its biggest star, the blaxploition homage/spoof has caught on with mainstream audiences well enough to warrant a comic book series, an upcoming live action sequel and an Adult Swim Cartoon.

Today, White, Carl Jones, Scott Sanders and Kym Whitely presented a panel on the upcoming cartoon and showed the audience the pilot. It was every bit as raucous and un-PC as you would hope.  Read on for a review of the show.

Venture Bros. Season 4 Part 1 DVD Review

by Aaron Roxby    Posted: January 13th, 2011 at 11:50 am

One of the hallmarks of a great television series is the willingness to shake up the status quo, to risk alienating the audience in the service of letting the characters and story evolve.  No two creators seem to embrace this ethic more than Doc Hammer and Jackson Publick.  When we left The Venture Bros. at the end of their third season, Henchman 24 was dead, the boys had lost their clone-based immortality and, Brock Samson quit, replaced by recovering pedophile super-villain Sergeant Hatred.

Much of Season 4, part 1 concerns the ramifications of these events. Brock’s post-venture career, 21’s transformation from sweet-natured incompetent to deadly possible-maniac and the boys, finally, growing up. Because of season 4’s new format (2 sets of 8 episodes as opposed to 13), many of these story lines don’t play out until part 2. Nonetheless, there is still a lot of gold in part 1 and, when coupled with the still-unreleased part 2, makes for one of the strongest seasons of television in years. My review of The Venture Bros. Season 4 after the jump.

[adult swim]‘s SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE ANIMATION

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: August 13th, 2010 at 9:46 am

I really hope you see Scott Pilgrim vs. The World this weekend and that you like it.  And after you see the movie, if you want a little more you can now see [adult swim]‘s Scott Pilgrim vs. The Animation online.  It’s a four-minute short that centers on Scott’s high-school relationship with Kim Pine.  It’s a relationship that’s featured in Bryan Lee O’Malley’s books and briefly alluded to in the movie.  Michael Cera and Alison Pill reprise their roles from the movie and provide the voices for Scott and Kim while Mae Whitman (who plays evil-ex Roxy Richter in the movie) voices Lisa Miller and Jason Schwartzman (who plays evil-ex Gideon Gordon Graves) voices Simon Lee.

Hit the jump to check out the four-minute short.  Scott Pilgrim vs. The World is now in theaters and you should go see it.

SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE ANIMATION to Air on [adult swim] on August 12th

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: August 3rd, 2010 at 1:51 pm

The full-court marketing press for Edgar Wright’s Scott Pilgrim vs. The World continues as Cartoon Network’s [adult swim] will be airing a short animated film dubbed Scott Pilgrim vs. The Animation on August 12th at midnight.  /Film reports that the short will cover Scott’s high-school relationship with Sex Bob-omb’s sardonic drummer Kim Pine that was featured in volume two of Bryan Lee O’Malley’s series but didn’t end up in the movie.  Universal, O’Malley, and Wright quickly got on board after hearing the network’s pitch.  Wright even managed to secure the voice acting talent of Michael Cera and Alison Pill reprising their roles from the film and getting co-stars Mae Whitman and Jason Schwartzman to provide the voices for Lisa and Simon Lee, respectively (although O’Malley says voice casting Whiteman as Lisa was his idea).

Hit the jump to learn more about this very cool project.  Scott Pilgrim vs. The Animation will air on Cartoon Network’s [adult swim] in two parts between 12:00 and 12:30 am and then the following day (when Scott Pilgrim vs. The World comes out) on adultswim.com, and on the [adult swim] and Scott Pilgrim Facebook pages.

Radical Axis Interview Comic-Con; CEO Scott Fry, VP of Production Craig Hartin and Animation Director Todd Redner

by Hunter Daniels    Posted: July 30th, 2010 at 9:50 am

Meeting the creators of Adult Swim’s perennial late night favorite, Aqua Teen Hunger Force is almost as strange as seeing the show for the first time. CEO Scott Fry, VP of production Craig Hartin and animation director Todd Redner apply the type of consistent, dedicated deadpan that can only come with a decade of shared life experience. Clearly intelligent and antisocial in equal measure, this trio made for one of the most interesting, and infuriating interviews I have ever conducted.

Read on for the audio and an explanation of the madness.

SDCC 2010: CHILDRENS’ HOSPITAL Interviews with Rob Corddry, Lake Bell, Erinn Hayes, Paul Scheer, Rob Huebel, David Wain, and Nick Kroll

by Jason Barr    Posted: July 22nd, 2010 at 9:03 pm

Today I had the privilege of participating in a roundtable with the creators and cast of Adult Swim’s Childrens’ Hospital. Initially a web series on TheWB.com, the hilariously over-the-top primetime drama parody is crossing platforms, and will premiere its second season on Adult Swim on August 22nd. Members of the show participating in the interview included: creator Rob Corddry (Hot Tub Time Machine), Lake Bell (It’s Complicated), Erinn Hayes (Parenthood), Paul Scheer (Human Giant), Rob Huebel (The Other Guys), Nick Kroll (Get Him to the Greek), and writer/director David Wain (Role Models).

It probably goes without saying, given the comedic talents of those involved, but the roundtable was a very light, very funny place for the amount of time we were given. Hit the jump for a bulleted breakdown of some of the highlights.

The Rob Corddry Web Series CHILDRENS HOSPITAL Is Coming to Adult Swim July 11

by Brendan Bettinger    Posted: May 21st, 2010 at 11:43 am

As the outrageous twists of medical soaps like Grey’s Anatomy and House are ripe for parody, Rob Corddry (Hot Tub Time Machine) took it upon himself to create Childrens Hospital for TheWB.com, a web series which sends up the silly doctor dramas with an all-star cast.  Adult Swim took notice, and in a rare live-action effort, ordered an adaptation of the web series for their late night programming.  In addition to Corddry, the regular cast includes Malin Akerman, Lake Bell, Erinn Hayes, Rob Huebel, Ken Marino, Megan Mullally and Henry Winkler.  On top of that, such notables as  Ed Begley Jr., Lizzy Caplan, John Cho, Paul Scheer, and David Wain are all slated for guest spots.

Childrens Hospital premieres July 11 at 10:30 on Adult Swim.  Check out the press release, and the first episode of the web series, after the jump.

SUPERJAIL! Season 1 DVD Review

by Hunter Daniels    Posted: April 2nd, 2010 at 10:12 am

Have you ever had one of those short flings where you meet a girl or boy and they are funny, and mysterious, and sexy, and weird, and kinky, and exciting and just perfect? And you just fall into bed, totally infatuated and barely leave it until a few days later when you notice that there was nothing behind the mysterious façade, that the bag of kinky tricks doesn’t go very deep, and the weird and exciting parts are suddenly, all at once, utterly boring?

Well, Superjail! is just like that, minus the hickeys. Read on for the full review…

How Kevin Smith’s Dust-Up with Southwest Airlines REALLY Went Down

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: February 22nd, 2010 at 2:20 pm

By now, most fans of Kevin Smith are aware of the writer-director’s online scuffle with Southwest Airlines when he was asked to vacate a flight because he was deemed too fat to occupy one seat.  What Southwest Airlines didn’t know is that Smith uses Twitter and has 1.6 million followers.  After Smith used the power of his online pulpit to grab the attention of Southwest, the airline politely responded that their onboard staff made a judgment call, they apologize for the inconvenience, and will review the policy.  Southwest is a pretty good airline and one of the few (if not the only) airlines that hasn’t joined the scam to make customers pay to check bags.

However, the animators of this video interpreted the situation in a generally correct yet delightfully off-kilter manner.  I’m not sure if this is a parody of Apple-1 news’ CGI reenactments or the genuine article.  Either way, it’s kind of great and you should hit the jump to check it out.  And if you don’t know the greatness of these Taiwanese-news CGI reenactments, hit the jump to check out the video that that started it all: Tiger Woods’ wife chasing after him with a golf club.

Adult Swim Orders 40 More Pieces of Robot Chicken

by Keith Demko    Posted: January 21st, 2010 at 8:21 am

With Robot Chicken being its highest rated show, it should really come as no shock that [adult swim] has ordered more episodes of the hit animated program, but the size of the renewal might surprise you.

[adult swim] has handed the insanely fast and often just as funny stop-motion animation show from creators Seth Green and Matthew Senreich an order of 40 more episodes, meaning it will be on the air for at least a fifth and sixth season. Though the show can often make you feel like you have adult ADD much of the time and would probably go down best while stoned (I can’t attest to that, at least lately), it still hits its many targets much more often than it misses.

Hit the jump to hear what Green had to say about the renewal, and more about what else the Stoopid Monkey production company is up to.

BOONDOCKS Creator Aaron McGruder Sets Season Three Premiere in Early 2010

by Kevin Mahadeo    Posted: December 28th, 2009 at 10:54 am

Variety reports that creator Aaron McGruder announced via his twitter account the return of his critically acclaimed series The Boondocks after a two-year hiatus. Currently in production, the show’s third season will premiere in early 2010.  “Finally got an airdate for Season 3,” McGruder tweeted. “Not sure if I’m allowed to put it out yet, so I’ll just say you got about three months!”

The Boondocks originally premiered in November 2005 on Adult Swim for a 15-episode season. Based on the long-running newspaper strip written and drawn by McGruder, the show followed the lives of the black Freeman family and their exploits in a predominately white, high-class neighborhood. Since airing, the show has been nominated for Outstanding Comedy Series at the 37^th NAACP Image Awards and has won a Peabody Award for the episode “Return of the King,” which imagined what Martin Luther King, Jr. would think of the current racial climate in America were he alive today.

Hit to the jump for my thoughts on the news.

XAVIER RENEGADE ANGEL Season One and Two DVD Review

by Hunter Daniels    Posted: December 6th, 2009 at 4:48 pm

When you were a kid did you ever have crazy, bizarre nightmares filled with images right of Salvador Dali’s psycho-analysis sessions? Well, if you didn’t, now you can pretend you did thanks to Xavier Renegade Angel.

Xavier Renegade Angel is an intensely surreal (even by Adult Swim standards) show from Wonder Showzen creators, PFFR. It’s about a freakish man beast who is covered in fur, has 6 nipples, backwards knees, a third eye where his penis should be, a snake for a hand, an eagles beak, and Heterochromia, who wanders America trying to find spiritual fulfillment and the identity of the man who killed his parents. Unfortunately for Xavier and everyone with whom he comes into contact, he has no spiritual insight whatsoever, and remains totally oblivious to the fact that he was the one who killed his parents, even though their ghosts tell him so repeatedly. He most often ruins the lives of those he is trying to help while failing to grasp even the most basic truths about the world around him. At the end of each episode Xavier knows even less about the world than he did at the beginning. More after the jump:

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