Comic-Con@Home: Disney TV Studios Sets Panel Slate With ‘Bob’s Burgers’, ‘Family Guy’, ‘Simpsons’, More

Adam B. Vary Senior Entertainment WriterWhen the COVID-19 pandemic caused the cancellation of the 2020 San Diego Comic-Con, it was the first time in the 50-year history of the fan convention that it would not take place.“It was really a heartbreaking decision,” says David Glanzer, chief communications officer and strategy officer at Comic-Con Intl., the organization that oversees SDCC and its sister event WonderCon in Anaheim, Calif., which also had to be canceled.

The Walking Dead will get a confirmed release date at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con.The episode, pushed back multiple times due to the ongoing coronavirus crisis, was promised for later this year.

Comic-Con@Home, this year’s virtual offering in place of San Diego Comic-Con, has been released.The five-day event will offer fans a range of events, entirely free to watch online, following the cancellation of this year’s convention (due to kick off on July 23) in light of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.This year’s convention will include talks regarding fan-favourite titles including Star Trek: Discovery, His Dark Materials, The Walking Dead, Bill & Ted Face The Music and more.But the

Comic-Con is bringing it home amid the global health crisis.

[email protected] event is taking shape with the schedule for the lineup of almost-entirely-prerecorded panels rolling out this week.HBO has set presentations for “His Dark Materials” and “Lovecraft Country” and Amazon Prime Video is bringing “The Boys,” “Upload,” “Truth Seekers” and “Utopia,” and also sponsoring its own Amazon Virtual-Con hub within the official [email protected] site.

[email protected] And even though there won’t be 6,500 fans screaming at the top of their lungs in Hall H, Comic-Con organizers are planning an event befitting its lofty stature that will take place two weeks from now, just when the in-person con would have been held.“Everybody is committed to trying to make something the fans can enjoy and can interact with and have that community feeling, even though it will be not in person,” Comic-Con International spokesperson David Glanzer told TheWrap.

Dino-Ray Ramos, Patrick Hipes Fanboys and fangirls may not be traveling en masse to San Diego for Comic-Con this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, but the confab is set to swing into people’s homes like Spider-Man with its very first virtual edition, dubbed Comic-Con@Home. The event will take place July 22-26 and is free.Organizers began revealing details of the schedule Wednesday.

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterAmazon Prime Video is not just bringing a roster of horror, comedy and superheroes  to Comic-Con@Home, but they are also bringing the first-ever Amazon Virtual-Con which will include virtual experiences and activations that you can enjoy from the comfort of your home. Things are set to kick off on San Diego Comic Con’s official YouTube channel and on the Amazon Virtual-Con portal starting at 12 p.m.

Comic-Con has some big plans ahead for their upcoming virtual event this year.

[email protected] event is starting to take shape, with several studios and networks jumping in to bring their shows and movies into fans’ living rooms with almost entirely prerecorded panels.AMC is hosting presentations for its “Walking Dead” universe and “NOS4A2,” while Disney is prepping 11 different panels, including a career retrospective on Nathan Fillion, who stars on ABC’s “The Rookie.” And Disney+ will make its Comic-Con debut with three virtual Q&As, including one for Nat Geo’s “The

hanging up the cape on this year's San Diego Comic-Con, organizers decided to instead go virtual with Comic-Con@Home, an online convention running July 22 — 26 that anybody with a WiFi connection can partake in from the comfort of their own homes.

[email protected], will be almost entirely prerecorded, TheWrap has learned exclusively.SDCC expects to run 300 to 400 online panels between July 23-26 and almost all of them will be pre-recorded by studios and networks and submitted in advance, a spokesperson for Comic-Con International told TheWrap Monday.According to the representative, the organization does not currently “anticipate anything live” for [email protected], but it is possible there will be “live elements to some

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterFX Networks is making its way to Comic-Con@Home and they are bringing Archer and What We Do In The Shadows with them. The virtual iteration of San Diego Comic-Con runs from July 23-26.The animated spy series Archer, which is entering its 11th season, will bring its signature snark to the fanboy-fangirl confab on July 24 at 5pm PT.

The Wire star Wendell Pierce has announced that he is starting a public campaign to become the voice of Family Guy character Cleveland Brown.Mike Henry, a white actor who has voiced the role of the black character since the cartoon’s beginning, announced last week that he would be stepping back from the part, saying “persons of colour should play characters of colour”.Following on from the news, Pierce tweeted: “Now that Mike Henry has consciously given up the role of Cleveland, I am publicly

Family Guy actor Mike Henry is stepping down from voicing the African-American character of Cleveland Brown to make way for a person of colour.Henry, who is white, originated the role back when the hit cartoon debuted in 1999, and also brought Brown to life on the spin-off series, The Cleveland Show, which ended after a four-season run in 2013. However, Henry has since announced he will no longer voice the part of Brown in the long-running Seth MacFarlane sitcom.

and  are the latest shows that are making big changes. Amid recent backlash over the use of blackface, as well as white actors voicing ethnic characters, a spokesperson for tells ET on Friday that «Moving forward, will no longer have white actors voice non-white characters.”Mike Henry, known as the voice of Cleveland Brown on, also said that he would no longer be voicing the Black character.

The Walking Dead panels at the first [email protected] virtual event, which is due to take place July 23-26, is being put on in place of this year’s San Diego Comic-Con after it was cancelled for the first time in its 50 year history due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.AMC’s plans at the comic book convention include panels for The Walking Dead, Fear the Walking Dead, and the newest addition The Walking Dead: World Beyond.In addition, they will also host a panel for vampire drama NOS4A2.

The Walking Dead panels at the first [email protected] virtual event, which is due to take place July 23-26, is being put on in place of this year’s San Diego Comic-Con after it was cancelled for the first time in its 50 year history due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.AMC’s plans at the comic book convention include panels for The Walking Dead, Fear the Walking Dead, and the newest addition The Walking Dead: World Beyond.In addition, they will also host a panel for vampire drama NOS4A2.

Comic-Con has some big plans ahead for their upcoming virtual event this year.