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Adult Swim Announces New Series & Pilots

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday May 10, 2013 @ 6:00am PDTTags: Adult Swim
Nellie Andreeva

UPDATED: Ahead of Adult Swim‘s upfront next Wednesday, which will feature a performance by Kanye West, the network has set a slate of new animated and live-action series, pilots and specials. It includes previously announced new half-hour animated comedy series Rick And Morty, from Community creator Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland, which is set to premiere in primetime later this year; a Mike Tyson quarter-hour animated series featuring the former boxer as a mystery solver; and off-network acquisition Bob’s Burgers, which launches this summer. 2013 marks Adult Swim’s most-watched year to date among adults and males 18-24, 18-34, and 18-49. Here are details about the network’s new original series, specials and pilots:

Related: Adult Swim Acquires Off-Network Rights To ‘Bob’s Burgers’

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Adult Swim Acquires Off-Network Rights To ‘Bob’s Burgers’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday May 1, 2013 @ 9:59am PDTTags: Adult Swim, Bob's Burgers, Twentieth Television
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EXCLUSIVE: Adult Swim has closed a deal with Twentieth Television for exclusive off-network cable rights to 20th Century Fox TV’s animated comedy series Bob’s Burgers, now in its third season on Fox and renewed for a fourth. The deal includes Seasons 1-3 of Bob’s Burgers, which will begin airing on Adult Swim this summer. I hear the license fee is just shy of $500,000 an episode, in line with what TBS and Adult Swim paid for Twentieth TV’s animated comedy The Cleveland Show in 2010. In addition to Cleveland, Bob’s Burgers will join two other current/former Fox animated comedies on Adult Swim, Family Guy and King Of The Hill.

While not a breakout for Fox, Bob’s Burgers has been an OK ratings performer and quickly has achieved cult status. It also has been well received by critics and landed an Emmy nomination for best animated program last year. The timing of the show’s rollout on Adult Swim, ahead of the broadcast fall launch, could give it a boost on Fox as many series experience a ratings resurgence as a result of additional exposure on cable. Read More »

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Adult Swim Orders Live-Action Detective Comedy Pilot From Pam Brady, Arden Myrin

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday April 4, 2013 @ 11:45am PDTTags: Adult Swim, Arden Myrin, Hole To Hole, Pam Brady
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EXCLUSIVE: Adult Swim has greenlighted a pilot for live-action quarter-hour comedy Hole To Hole, co-created/executive produced by South Park alumna Pam Brady and … Read More »

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Time Warner Licenses Animated Shows And ‘Dallas’ To Netflix

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Monday January 14, 2013 @ 9:06am PSTTags: Adult Swim, Big Deals TV, Cartoon Network, Dallas, Netflix, Time Warner

This is the second licensing deal the entertainment giant has cut with Netflix over the last week. In the latest one, beginning on March 30 the streaming service lands all past seasons of Cartoon Network‘s Adventure Time, Ben 10, Regular Show, and Johnny Bravo, as well as Warner Bros Animation’s Green Lantern. It also will have Adult Swim shows Robot Chicken and Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Sony Pictures Television’s The Boondocks and Warner Bros Television’s Studio 2.0′s Childrens Hospital. Subscribers have to wait a year, to January 2014, before Netflix begins its exclusive streaming run of the first two seasons of TNT’s Dallas. The companies didn’t disclose financial terms.  

The addition of children’s shows to Time Warner‘s deal with Netflix may revive the debate over whether the streaming service is cutting into ratings for ad-supported kids shows on TV. That was a big concern last year when ratings dropped at Nickelodeon after many of its shows appeared on Netflix.

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Adult Swim’s ‘Black Dynamite’ Renewed For Second Season

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday December 20, 2012 @ 12:21pm PSTTags: Adult Swim
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EXCLUSIVE: I’ve learned that Adult Swim has picked up a 10-episode second season of animated series Black Dynamite for a debut in late 2013 or early 2014. Based on the 2009 feature, Black Dynamite further chronicles the exploits of the central character — 1970s ex-CIA agent and full-time ladies man Black Dynamite — and his crew. Spearheaded by Carl Jones (The Boondocks), the series features the voices of Michael Jai White, Tommy Davidson, Kym Whitley and Byron Minns, all of whom starred in the feature. Black Dynamite is animated by Titmouse and produced by Ars Nova Entertainment.  Jones, Jon Steingart and Jillian Apfelbaum executive produce. Read More »

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Adult Swim Picks Up Dan Harmon’s Animated Comedy ‘Rick & Morty’ To Series

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday October 29, 2012 @ 8:16am PDTTags: Adult Swim, Dan Harmon
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Rick And Morty Dan Harmon Adult SwimEXCLUSIVE: Community creator Dan Harmon is back on the air with a new series, this time on Adult Swim. The network has given a series order to Rick & … Read More »

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‘Robot Chicken’ Returning For Season 7

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday October 12, 2012 @ 3:30pm PDTTags: Adult Swim, Cartoon Network

Adult Swim said today it has ordered another season of Robot Chicken, with Season 7 set to air on Cartoon Network next year. Season 6 of the Emmy-winning stop-motion series — which included its 100th episode — … Read More »

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Adult Swim Picks Up ‘Childrens Hospital’ & ‘NTSF:SD:SUV::’ For New Seasons

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday October 3, 2012 @ 9:33am PDTTags: Adult Swim

The Rob Corddry-created series and the San Diego anti-terrorist team are coming back to Adult Swim. The network announced today that it has picked up a fifth season of Childrens Hospital and a third season of … Read More »

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Adult Swim Greenlights ‘Childrens Hospital’ Spinoff Series ‘Newsreaders’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday May 16, 2012 @ 9:38am PDTTags: Adult Swim
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Adult Swim has given straight-to-series order to Newsreaders, a spinoff of the network’s hit comedy series Childrens Hospital. Based on the “Newsreaders” episodes of Childrens Hospital that aired during seasons two and three, Newsreaders is a satire of … Read More »

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Adult Swim Puts Animated ‘Harold & Kumar’ In Development, Greenlights Seven Pilots

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday May 15, 2012 @ 11:55am PDTTags: Adult Swim, Lionsgate
Nellie Andreeva

Adult Swim 2012 ProgramsAhead of its upfront party tomorrow, Adult Swim has unveiled its development slate, which includes seven greenlighted animated and live-action pilots and an animated series based on the Harold & Kumar movies in development. The animated Harold & Kumar  project was taken to the marketplace in November by Lionsgate, which produces the movie franchise. Original Harold & Kumar Adult Swimwriters Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg are on board to write and produce and stars John Cho and Kal Penn will voice the lead characters and also produce. Adult Swim’s greenlighted pilots include an animated project from Community creator Dan Harmon. Here is the slate:

Untitled Animated Harold & Kumar Project (In Development) – An animated version of the eponymous blockbuster stoner comedy series. Produced by Lionsgate.

Rick & Morty – A genius inventor grandfather and his less than genius grandson, and the journeys in life they share. From Dan Harmon (Community) and Justin Roiland. (30-minute animated) Read More »

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RENEWALS: Fox Picks Up ‘Dance’, Adult Swim To Bring Back ‘NTSF:SD:SUV’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday October 6, 2011 @ 5:15pm PDTTags: Adult Swim, Fox, So You Think You Can Dance, TV Renewals
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It was busy day for renewals and cancellations. Two more that happened this afternoon: Fox has officially ordered a ninth season of summer staple So You Think You Can Dance, and Adult Swim committed to a second season of NTSF:SD:SUV::

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Cablevision Unveils TV Everywhere Arrangement For Turner Programming

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Tuesday September 13, 2011 @ 2:46pm PDTTags: Adult Swim, Cablevision, Cartoon Network, CNN, Comcast, Dish Network, HLN, MTV Networks, TBS, TNT, TruTV, Turner Entertainment Networks, Verizon, Viacom

It may not sound like much at first, but Cablevision and Time Warner took an important step today to help make TV Everywhere a reality. The companies announced that Cablevision customers now can watch shows from TBS, TNT, CNN, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, and truTV on broadband-enabled devices outside the home — not just inside. The arrangement also provides for live streaming of news from CNN and HLN. Over the next year or so you can expect to hear a lot of announcements like this from pay TV distributors and programmers. Comcast, Dish Network, and Verizon are already a step ahead of Cablevision in offering out-of-home service. But this deal for a package called Turner TV Everywhere is the first time Cablevision has offered such popular entertainment and news programming so broadly to digital devices. Read More »

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Adult Swim Renews ‘Childrens Hospital’ For Fourth Season

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday August 16, 2011 @ 3:15pm PDTTags: Adult Swim, David Wain, Jonathan Stern, Rob Corddry, Warner Bros. TV
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Adult Swim has renewed Rob Corddry’s comedy series Childrens Hospital for a fourth season with a 14-episode order. Production on the series, which creator/star Corddry executive produces with fellow writers Jonathan Stern and David Wain, will … Read More »

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Report: Prime Time Cartoons Show Kids “Shocking Levels” Of Sex and Drugs

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Tuesday August 16, 2011 @ 12:01pm PDTTags: Adult Swim, American Dad!, Cartoon Network, Disney Channel, Family Guy, Nick At Nite, Parents Television Council, Turner Entertainment Networks

The Parents Television Council fired another volley today at one of its favorite targets: adult-themed cartoons that also attract kids. The activist group called for “sweeping reform” of the TV content rating system as a study it released points to what it says are “shocking levels” of sex and drug references in primetime on animation channels that are popular with kids between 12 and 17. “Adult content isn’t just creeping into the cartoons that kids today are watching the most; it has overtaken much of that animated programming,” PTC president Tim Winter says. “Our data demonstrates that today’s norm is profanity-laden storylines involving everything from rape and cocaine to STDs and crystal meth.” PTC is especially upset with programming on Turner’s Cartoon Network and Adult Swim: The report, titled Cartoons Are No Laughing Matter, gave each an “F” grade for their handling of adult-themed animation. Disney Channel and Nick At Nite each received an “A”. Read More »

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Adult Swim Announces 3 New Series

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday May 19, 2011 @ 7:17am PDTTags: 2011 Upfronts, Adult Swim, China
Nellie Andreeva

Adult Swim, which held its upfront event last night in New York, announced three new series and several projects in development.

New original series:
THE HEART, SHE HOLLER
The Heart, She Holler is a new live-action soap opera about folk who ain’t never used soap or seen an opera.  It’s a satire on the emotional Hee-Hawification of America, set in a town so inbred, the folks have become almost supernaturally wrong. The series is produced by PFFR, and stars Patton Oswalt and Heather Lawless. The Heart, She Holler premieres this fall on Adult Swim. Read More »

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Adult Swim Renews Conan O’Brien-Produced ‘Eagleheart’ For Season 2

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday April 14, 2011 @ 1:23pm PDTTags: Adult Swim, Chris Elliott, Conan O'Brien, TV, TV Deals
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EXCLUSIVE: Adult Swim has picked up a second season of the live-action comedy Eagleheart, starring Chris Elliott. The quarter-hour series, a parody of butt-kicking crime dramas like Walker, Texas Ranger, hails from Conan O’Brien’s Conaco Prods. It was set up … Read More »

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Adult Swim Orders Bob Odenkirk Pilot

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday April 8, 2011 @ 6:09pm PDTTags: Adult Swim, TV, TV Deals
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Adult Swim has ordered Regal Productions, a live-action comedy pilot created, directed, produced and starring Bob Odenkirk. Odenkirk developed the project with Brian Jarvis and Jim Freeman, who will co-star in the pilot with him. The comedy, executive produced … Read More »

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Adult Swim Picks Up ‘Black Dynamite’ Series

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday April 6, 2011 @ 7:15am PDTTags: Adult Swim, series
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Adult Swim  has picked up animated series Black Dynamite for a spring 2012 debut. Based on the 2009  feature, Black Dynamite further chronicles the exploits of the central character, ex-CIA agent and full-time ladies man Black Dynamite, and his crew … Read More »

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Adult Swim Orders Season 3 Of ‘Delocated’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday March 2, 2011 @ 8:30am PSTTags: Adult Swim, Jon Glaser, TV, TV Deals
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Adult Swim has renewed live-action series Delocated for a third season. The mocumentary show, created by and starring Jon Glaser, has received a 10-episode order. After starting off with 15-minute episodes, Delocated was expanded to 30 minutes in Season 2. … Read More »

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