Exclusive: An animated series based on Robert C. O’Brien’s Rats of Nimh book series is in the works at Fox as the broadcast network further bolsters its animation drive.
Deadline understands that the network has handed a script commitment to Nimh, which comes from Fox Entertainment and MGM’s Orion Television. The animated drama, which is searching for a writer, is based on the trilogy of books that began in 1971 with O’Brien’s Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh. It was followed by Rasco and the Rats of Nimh and R-t, Margaret and the Rays of Nimh, both written by O’Brien’s daughter Jane Leslie Conly.
The series follows Mrs. Frisby, a mouse, who in an effort to save her family goes on a spectacular journey through an unfamiliar and underground world to discover a colony of escaped super-intelligent lab rats who help her on a...
Deadline understands that the network has handed a script commitment to Nimh, which comes from Fox Entertainment and MGM’s Orion Television. The animated drama, which is searching for a writer, is based on the trilogy of books that began in 1971 with O’Brien’s Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh. It was followed by Rasco and the Rats of Nimh and R-t, Margaret and the Rays of Nimh, both written by O’Brien’s daughter Jane Leslie Conly.
The series follows Mrs. Frisby, a mouse, who in an effort to save her family goes on a spectacular journey through an unfamiliar and underground world to discover a colony of escaped super-intelligent lab rats who help her on a...
- 9/8/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Animated family comedy Duncanville has been renewed for a third season at Fox ahead of its Season 2 premiere.
The series comes from Amy Poehler and her Paper Kite Productions, The Simpsons veteran Mike Scully and his wife, former Simpsons writer-producer Julie Scully.
Produced by 20th Television Animation, Universal TV and Fox Entertainment, the show’s second season is set to launch in May. It will premiere with two episodes on Sunday, May 23, before moving to a Monday timeslot following the debut of Housebroken on May 31.
The premiere will also see a mini-Parks and Recreation reunion with Adam Scott, Aubrey Plaza, Retta and Nick Offerman making guest voice appearances alongside Poehler and Rashida Jones.
Duncanville follows a spectacularly average 15-year-old boy (voiced by Poehler) with a rich fantasy life and the people in his world. Duncan can see adulthood on the horizon: money, freedom, cars, girls. But the reality is more like: always being broke,...
The series comes from Amy Poehler and her Paper Kite Productions, The Simpsons veteran Mike Scully and his wife, former Simpsons writer-producer Julie Scully.
Produced by 20th Television Animation, Universal TV and Fox Entertainment, the show’s second season is set to launch in May. It will premiere with two episodes on Sunday, May 23, before moving to a Monday timeslot following the debut of Housebroken on May 31.
The premiere will also see a mini-Parks and Recreation reunion with Adam Scott, Aubrey Plaza, Retta and Nick Offerman making guest voice appearances alongside Poehler and Rashida Jones.
Duncanville follows a spectacularly average 15-year-old boy (voiced by Poehler) with a rich fantasy life and the people in his world. Duncan can see adulthood on the horizon: money, freedom, cars, girls. But the reality is more like: always being broke,...
- 4/7/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
The current second season of Fox’s Bless the Harts will be its last.
Fox has confirmed that the comedy will finish out its current season in May and will not return to the schedule.
Bless the Harts was the first of the new wave of animated series on Fox as the network, fresh from its break from Disney, doubled down on the genre. It also marks the first of this new crop of show, which also includes The Great North and Duncanville, as well as upcoming series Housebroken, to come to an end.
While the network was happy with the show creatively, it never gained traction in the ratings, which averaged at a 0.5 live-plus-seven in adults 18-49 with 1.4M total viewers and 2M multi-platform viewers.
It will be replaced like-for-like with another animated series in Fox’s Animation Domination Sunday night block next season. Fox has Housebroken, featuring the voices of Lisa Kudrow,...
Fox has confirmed that the comedy will finish out its current season in May and will not return to the schedule.
Bless the Harts was the first of the new wave of animated series on Fox as the network, fresh from its break from Disney, doubled down on the genre. It also marks the first of this new crop of show, which also includes The Great North and Duncanville, as well as upcoming series Housebroken, to come to an end.
While the network was happy with the show creatively, it never gained traction in the ratings, which averaged at a 0.5 live-plus-seven in adults 18-49 with 1.4M total viewers and 2M multi-platform viewers.
It will be replaced like-for-like with another animated series in Fox’s Animation Domination Sunday night block next season. Fox has Housebroken, featuring the voices of Lisa Kudrow,...
- 4/2/2021
- by Denise Petski and Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Tyler, The Creator has reteamed with Lionel Boyce and Davon ‘Jasper’ Wilson, two of his bandmates in the Odd Future collective and producers on Adult Swim series Loiter Squad for a new animated comedy at Fox.
The network is developing Shell Beach and has handed the project, which comes from Fox Entertainment and Bento Box Entertainment, a script commitment.
The show follows an overzealous lifeguard named Wally and his very smart, but lazy partner, Tyson, who, along with their unique group of friends, inhabit Shell Beach – the most famous beach town in the world. Wally’s passion to be the best lifeguard often makes very simple problems become much more complex than they ever would need to be.
Boyce and Wilson, two members of the LA hip hop group, are writing and exec producing the project. The pair both co-created, wrote and produced Loiter Squad, the sketch comedy series...
The network is developing Shell Beach and has handed the project, which comes from Fox Entertainment and Bento Box Entertainment, a script commitment.
The show follows an overzealous lifeguard named Wally and his very smart, but lazy partner, Tyson, who, along with their unique group of friends, inhabit Shell Beach – the most famous beach town in the world. Wally’s passion to be the best lifeguard often makes very simple problems become much more complex than they ever would need to be.
Boyce and Wilson, two members of the LA hip hop group, are writing and exec producing the project. The pair both co-created, wrote and produced Loiter Squad, the sketch comedy series...
- 2/19/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Fox is going royal with its latest animated comedy development.
The network has handed a script commitment to Price Wawa, an animated comedy from comedians Tim Baltz and Lily Sullivan and exec produced by Cobra Kai creators Jon Hurwitz, Josh Heald and Hayden Schlossberg.
The comedy centers around a naive merman prince, voiced by Baltz, who juggles life between the ocean, the only home he’s ever known, and his new life on land with his human mother in the breathtaking metropolis of Tampa, Florida.
Baltz, who stars in HBO’s The Righteous Gemstones, and Sullivan, who appeared in Netflix’s sketch show I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson, will write and exec produce Prince Wawa.
Heald, Hurwitz and Schlossberg will exec produce via their production company Counterbalance Entertainment along with Counterbalance head of development Dina Hillier.
It comes from Sony Pictures Television, where Counterbalance has an overall deal,...
The network has handed a script commitment to Price Wawa, an animated comedy from comedians Tim Baltz and Lily Sullivan and exec produced by Cobra Kai creators Jon Hurwitz, Josh Heald and Hayden Schlossberg.
The comedy centers around a naive merman prince, voiced by Baltz, who juggles life between the ocean, the only home he’s ever known, and his new life on land with his human mother in the breathtaking metropolis of Tampa, Florida.
Baltz, who stars in HBO’s The Righteous Gemstones, and Sullivan, who appeared in Netflix’s sketch show I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson, will write and exec produce Prince Wawa.
Heald, Hurwitz and Schlossberg will exec produce via their production company Counterbalance Entertainment along with Counterbalance head of development Dina Hillier.
It comes from Sony Pictures Television, where Counterbalance has an overall deal,...
- 2/16/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Iron Man 3 writer and director Shane Black is moving into animation with a new comedy project at Fox. Black, who also wrote the first two Lethal Weapon movies, is developing Crag Banyon P.I., based on James Mullaney’s book series.
Black and Mullaney will write and exec produce the project, which will also be exec produced by Stampede Ventures’ David Silverman, Greg Silverman and Paul Shapiro; Greenlit’s David Greenblatt; and Vinson Films’ Tripp Vinson.
If the project receives a presentation order at the network, David Silverman, who helmed The Simpsons Movie, will direct. It currently has a script commitment with Fox Entertainment as the studio with Bento Box producing the animation.
Crag Banyon P.I follows the supernatural adventures of Banyon, an alcoholic ex-cop and current private investigator, as he solves cases in an alternate noir, otherworldly reality. Mullaney has written seven books in the series including...
Black and Mullaney will write and exec produce the project, which will also be exec produced by Stampede Ventures’ David Silverman, Greg Silverman and Paul Shapiro; Greenlit’s David Greenblatt; and Vinson Films’ Tripp Vinson.
If the project receives a presentation order at the network, David Silverman, who helmed The Simpsons Movie, will direct. It currently has a script commitment with Fox Entertainment as the studio with Bento Box producing the animation.
Crag Banyon P.I follows the supernatural adventures of Banyon, an alcoholic ex-cop and current private investigator, as he solves cases in an alternate noir, otherworldly reality. Mullaney has written seven books in the series including...
- 12/10/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Fox continues to draw on animation as a major source of development with workplace comedy Greater Good from American Dad co-creator Mike Barker and Comedy Bang! Bang! director Stoney Sharp its latest bet.
The network has committed to a script for the animated comedy, which is being developed internally at Fox Entertainment. Barker and Sharp will act as writers and exec producers on the project.
It comes a day after Deadline revealed that The Simpsons and Bob’s Burger network was developing hybrid animated-single-cam comedy Demi-God with Bella and the Bulldogs writer Katie Greenway.
Greater Good asks whether the world is worth saving. Maybe? It’s a workplace comedy about an international team of highly qualified but socially remedial misfits working and living in a hi-tech laboratory in the middle of rural Oklahoma. The characters must navigate petty office politics and challenging interpersonal relationships in order to band together and save the world…...
The network has committed to a script for the animated comedy, which is being developed internally at Fox Entertainment. Barker and Sharp will act as writers and exec producers on the project.
It comes a day after Deadline revealed that The Simpsons and Bob’s Burger network was developing hybrid animated-single-cam comedy Demi-God with Bella and the Bulldogs writer Katie Greenway.
Greater Good asks whether the world is worth saving. Maybe? It’s a workplace comedy about an international team of highly qualified but socially remedial misfits working and living in a hi-tech laboratory in the middle of rural Oklahoma. The characters must navigate petty office politics and challenging interpersonal relationships in order to band together and save the world…...
- 11/10/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Fox is continuing to double down on animation – adding hybrid animated-single-cam project Demi-God from Bella and the Bulldogs writer Katie Greenway to its development slate.
The network has handed the project, from writer and exec producer Greenway, a script commitment and is developing the project internally via Fox Entertainment.
Demi-God follows a powerless fast food employee who escapes into a fantasy world she’s created in her favorite video game – only to have it turn against her when the virtual townspeople are granted sentience in the game’s latest upgrade.
Greenway previously worked on Nickelodeon comedy Bella and the Bulldogs and wrote the script for Townies, a multi-camera comedy exec produced by Green Eggs and Ham writer/executive producer Jared Stern that was in development at CBS during the 2018 season.
It is the latest animation project for Fox, which has been expanding aggressively into this space. It recently set...
The network has handed the project, from writer and exec producer Greenway, a script commitment and is developing the project internally via Fox Entertainment.
Demi-God follows a powerless fast food employee who escapes into a fantasy world she’s created in her favorite video game – only to have it turn against her when the virtual townspeople are granted sentience in the game’s latest upgrade.
Greenway previously worked on Nickelodeon comedy Bella and the Bulldogs and wrote the script for Townies, a multi-camera comedy exec produced by Green Eggs and Ham writer/executive producer Jared Stern that was in development at CBS during the 2018 season.
It is the latest animation project for Fox, which has been expanding aggressively into this space. It recently set...
- 11/9/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
CBS has put in development Townies, a multi-camera comedy executive produced by Green Eggs and Ham writer/executive producer Jared Stern.
Penned/co-executive produced by young writer Katie Greenway (Bella and the Bulldogs), Townies follows an eclectic group of friends in their twenties who are happily living large in their small Wisconsin hometown.
Stern executive produces via his A Stern Talking To Productions for Warner Bros. TV where Stern is under an overall deal.
Stern serves as executive producer/showrunner of the Netflix/Warner Bros. Animation series Green Eggs and Ham, which he adapted from Dr. Seuss’ classic. He has been a writer and regular adviser on several Warner Bros. film projects as a member of its Warner Animation Group “think tank,” which launched back in 2013. Among the projects Stern has worked on through that pact are The Lego Batman Movie and Smallfoot.
Wreck-It-Ralph scribe Stern recently wrote and directed...
Penned/co-executive produced by young writer Katie Greenway (Bella and the Bulldogs), Townies follows an eclectic group of friends in their twenties who are happily living large in their small Wisconsin hometown.
Stern executive produces via his A Stern Talking To Productions for Warner Bros. TV where Stern is under an overall deal.
Stern serves as executive producer/showrunner of the Netflix/Warner Bros. Animation series Green Eggs and Ham, which he adapted from Dr. Seuss’ classic. He has been a writer and regular adviser on several Warner Bros. film projects as a member of its Warner Animation Group “think tank,” which launched back in 2013. Among the projects Stern has worked on through that pact are The Lego Batman Movie and Smallfoot.
Wreck-It-Ralph scribe Stern recently wrote and directed...
- 11/10/2018
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
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