Comedy Central's 2008-2009 development slate includes several animated projects.
Projects in development run the gamut from short-form and sketch/variety to scripted narrative and animation, as well as Comedy Central's first foray into medieval comedy, and feature a cross-section of top comedic talent including Snoop Dogg, Andy Richter, David Alan Grier, Michael Ian Black and Michael Showalter, Nick Swardson, Daniel Tosh, Bobby Lee and Opie & Anthony.
The first of the 2008-2009 development slate to receive a series order marks Comedy Central's first fantasy-comedy and will premiere during the first quarter 2009.
KROD MANDOON AND THE FLAMING SWORD OF FIRE is an outrageous, live-action, character-driven comedy that takes place in the "long ago past" and features the reluctant hero Krod Mandoon, a sensitive, clueless freedom fighter, as the last great hope in a medieval struggle.
The series is written by Peter Knight and executive produced by Knight, Keith Samples, Brad Johnson, Courtney Conte and Flody Juarez.
Other projects that have been greenlit for pilot/presentation production include:
*UNTITLED SNOOP DOGG ANIMATED PROJECT, a half-hour animated comedy featuring Snoop Dogg as a 15 year-old growing up in 1980s Long Beach, California.
*GAY ROBOT, an animated, scripted series about the day-in-the-life, post-college adventures of Gay Robot, voiced by Nick Swardson (RENO 911!) and his roommates partying their way through life while trying to find their way in the world.
*UNTITLED ANDY RICHTER SKETCH SHOW, a sketch show starring Andy Richter, executive produced by Kent Alterman (SEMI-PRO, ELF).
*DAVID ALAN GRIER'S CHOCOLATE NEWS, a fake magazine show hosted by the IN LIVING COLOR alum that covers inherently urban pop culture topics.
GYPSY CAB has been approved for script development.
It's an animated series consisting of two eleven-minute stories per episode revolving around the life of a driver of a dilapidated Gypsy Cab and his passengers, who will be portrayed in each episode by a different stand-up comedian.
The Cab will be "home base" but viewers will also visit the cab depot, his apartment and spend time with his mom.
Created by Jordan Rubin and written by Rubin and Aaron Lee. Rubin, Lee and Generate's Dave Rath are the executive producers.
