‘Cuz not only do we love the show, we have friends hard at work on it! Yay, friends! (Taking us out for dinner soon?)
Adult Swim Renews ‘Robot Chicken’ for Seventh Season – by Leslie Goldberg (Hollywood Reporter)
Adult Swim has renewed Robot Chicken for a seventh season.
Co-creators and executive producers Seth Green and Matthew Senreich used their platform Friday at New York Comic-Con to make the announcement that the series will return with all new episodes in 2013.
More importantly, we missed meeting his companion, Alisa:
Alisa and I will be attending the New York Comic Con this Saturday and Sunday. Conventions are cool! So many fun outfits.
(Alisa asks – anyone know of any Doctor Who or Tumblr meetups happening at the con?)
…And they sure as hell know a lot more than most TV execs!
The Future of Sitcoms According to the Creators of ‘Parks and Rec,’ ‘Enlightened,’ ‘Don’t Trust the B—’ and ‘Raising Hope’ – by Alison Willmore
Greg Garcia (the creator and executive producer of Fox’s “Raising Hope”), Nahnatchka Khan (the creator and executive producer of ABC’s “Don’t Trust the B— in Apartment 23”), Michael Schur (the co-creator of NBC’s “Parks and Recreation”) and Mike White (the co-creator, co-star and executive producer of HBO’s “Enlightened”) gathered in Manhattan this past weekend for a New Yorker Festival event entitled “The Future of Sitcoms.” While the panel did not, as jokingly promised by moderator Emily Nussbaum, the magazine’s TV critic, come up with a plan for the next stage of comedy during its 90-minute run, it did cover some very interesting ground about how sitcoms are evolving in a way that may be quieter but is no less significant than what’s happening with dramas. Here are some highlights from the event:
…And, just possibly, the other broadcast networks as well. But Dan Treadway definitely is kinda cool. (In the dweebie way the networks like NBC can never understand. But we know, don’t we? We know…)
NBC Is Stuck in a Century in Which Guys Taking Care of Kids Is a Hilarious Concept – by Dan Treadway (HuffingtonPost.Com)
I like to imagine the conversation in the NBC boardroom went something like this:
Johnson: Sir, we’ve been kicking around a few ideas to put our network’s comedy lineup back on the map since we’re completely abandoning the notion of providing fresh, original content in favor of copying the crap on CBS.
Yes, it’s true. Writers are geeks. (If we weren’t, wouldn’t we, um, maybe get laid now and then?) And this definitely is the trivia highlight of the TVWriter™ Gang O’Geeks so far this week:
Which Character Was Created Because Of Nintendo’s Inability To License Popeye? (How-To Geek)