Comedy Centrals DRAWN TOGETHER, television's first animated reality series, is set to premiere on Oct. 27, 2004, at 10:30 pm with the first of eight episodes.
DRAWN TOGETHER presents a world where cartoon characters from various genres of animation are brought together to live under one roof. The eight characters leave their animated "reality" and enter a new world where their cartoon universes collide, combining different styles of animation and different personalities all "drawn together."
The eight stars/housemates represent iconic archetypes from the world of animation and include: "Captain Hero," a not-so-moral do-gooder reminiscent of the Saturday morning TV superheroes of the 70s; "Clara," a 20-year-old sweet and naive fairy-tale princess; "Toot Braunstein," a black-and-white pudgy heartthrob from the 20s; "Foxxy Love," a sexy mystery-solving musician; "Spanky Ham," a foul-mouthed internet download pig; "Ling-Ling," an adorable Asian trading card mini-monster; "Wooldoor-Sockbat," a wacky Saturday morning "whatchamacallit;" and "Xandir," a strong young adventurer, similar to great videogame warriors.
The characters create alliances with some of their housemates, but the fighting and backstabbing will usually take center stage. This satirizes the world of animation, and also parodies many clichés of reality television. The characters are also prone to break into songs that are spoofs from various genres of animation (the emotional love song ballad, the girl-group rock band, group sing-a-long), but with original lyrics.
Matt Silverstein and Dave Jeser serve as creators, writers and exec producers. The series is based on characters developed by Silverstein, Jeser and Jordan Young (THE SIMPSONS). Silverstein and Jeser previously served as writers on Comedy Centrals THE MAN SHOW and ACTION and ANDY RICHTER CONTROLS THE UNIVERSE. Zoe Friedman is the exec in charge of production for Comedy Central.
This is Comedy Central s first original animated series that is drawn traditionally and in 2D digital ink and paint animation. The series is animated by Rough Draft studios.
Comedy Central (www.comedycentral.com), the only all-comedy network, currently is seen in more than 85 million homes in the U.S. Comedy Central is owned by Comedy Partners, a wholly-owned division of MTV Networks.
