Lanterns is moving from Max to HBO and has received an official series order.
13.06.2024 - 12:55 / variety.com
Jamie Lang During its Annecy panel this afternoon, Adult Swim is unveiling full series greenlights for a pair of new shows as well as a season three order for its popular surreal workplace comedy “Smiling Friends.” Created by Emmy-winning writer and executive producer Adele “Supreme” Williams (“My Dad the Bounty Hunter”), “Oh My God, Yes! A Series of Extremely Relatable Circumstances” is inspired by her book of a similar name, which got a pilot episode that first aired during Adult Swim’s pilot block in 2023. It’s also available to stream on the Adult Swim website.
The quarter-hour, 30th-century-set comedy follows three best friends in Los Angeles who collectively navigate the worlds of sex, dating, and womanhood in the year 2102. It’s executive produced by Dominique Braud and produced for Adult Swim by Six Point Harness.
The second new show in production is “Ha Ha You Clowns,” a full-series pickup of the fan-favorite Adult Swim Smalls animated short series. Fifteen-minute episodes will follow three jacked, surprisingly kindhearted brothers who are accompanied by their loving and similarly swole father as they engage in a series of adventures to bond after their mother’s passing.
Forgoing traditional jokes or punchlines, the series’ surreal comedy comes from its premise: that a group of deep-voiced, musclebound bros are actually sensitive, well-educated and articulate sweethearts who would do anything for one another. The show was created by Joe Cappa, whose animated short “Ghost Dogs” was a 2021 Sundance Festival Official Selection and the Satoshi Kon Award winner at Fantasia.
Lanterns is moving from Max to HBO and has received an official series order.
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After the success of the pilot episode of Hazbin Hotel in 2019, Vivienne Medrano showed the potential that an adult animated musical series could offer. A potential that saw A24 joining into the animation space, leading to an eight episode season on Prime Video and a renewal for season 2. Joining Medrano on the project are songwriters Sam Haft and Andrew Underberg, who used multiple styles of music to give the series a more musical feeling than the pilot episode.
Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic Calling all amateur malacologists: With “Memoir of a Snail,” stop-motion director Adam Elliot (an Oscar winner for “Harvie Krumpet”) invites us to study snails of every shape and size, starting with a gastropod-hoarding outcast named Gracie Pudel (pronounced “puddle”), who withdrew from the world after an unhappy childhood in which she was bullied and orphaned and shipped off to Canberra to be raised by a pair of negligent swingers. Fitting squarely on the shelf of grownup films about misfit kids, Elliot’s latest — which comes 15 years after Sundance opener “Mary and Max” — finds the Australian auteur deeply committed to his dark and surprisingly moving brand of storytelling.
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Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Talpa Studios, the company founded by “The Voice” and “Big Brother” creator John de Mol, has recommissioned its hit reality show “Million Dollar Island” for new seasons in the Middle East and the Netherlands, produced at Saudi Arabia’s innovative Neom production hub. The upcoming seasons, respectively titled “Million Dollar Land” for Middle East broadcaster MBC and “Million Dollar Desert” for NET5 in the Netherlands, will be executive produced at Neom by Dubai-based Blue Engine Studios.
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