The Boondocks (2022 TV series)

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This article is about the upcoming 2022 television series. For the original television series, see The Boondocks (2005 TV series).
The Boondocks
GenreAnimated sitcom
Black sitcom
Created byAaron McGruder
Based onThe Boondocks
by Aaron McGruder
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
Production
Executive producers
Production companiesSony Pictures Animation
Rebel Base Productions
DistributorSony Pictures Television
Release
Original networkHBO Max

The Boondocks is an upcoming American adult animated sitcom created by Aaron McGruder and loosely based upon his comic strip of the same name.[1] Produced by Sony Pictures Animation, it will be the second television series based on the comic, following the 2005–2014 TV series that aired on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim programming block for four seasons. The series will premiere on HBO Max.[2]

Premise[]

The show begins with a black family, the Freemans, settling into the fictional, friendly and overall white suburb of Woodcrest and follows them as they fight the regime of Uncle Ruckus, who rules over the community government.[3] The perspective offered by this mixture of cultures, lifestyles, social classes, stereotypes, viewpoints, and racialized identities provides for much of the series' satire, comedy, and conflict.

Development[]

The original Boondocks television series premiered on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim on November 6, 2005 and ran for four seasons and 55 episodes until its conclusion on June 23, 2014.[4][5] During its first season, McGruder put the strip on a 6-month hiatus beginning in March 2006. He did not return to the strip the following November, and the strip's syndicate, Universal Press Syndicate, announced that it had been canceled.[6] McGruder was not involved in the show's fourth season. Adult Swim stated, "a mutually agreeable production schedule could not be determined."[7]

On February 6, 2019, McGruder revived the comic strip on Instagram, with the help of former supervising director Seung Eun Kim. A series of one-shots were posted to Charlamagne tha God's Instagram page.[8] On May 29, 2019, voice actor John Witherspoon announced on Joe Rogan's 1305th episode of The Joe Rogan Experience that the series would return.[9][10] Witherspoon died on October 29, 2019, with producers questioning how the show will continue. At Annecy 2019, on June 12, 2019, Sony Pictures Animation announced it would be producing a "reimagining" of The Boondocks to be co-produced with Sony Pictures Television.[11][12]

On September 18, 2019, it was announced that the reboot had been picked up with a two-season order for WarnerMedia's upcoming streaming service HBO Max. It was also announced that McGruder would be returning as showrunner and will serve as executive producer along with Norm Aladjem for Mainstay Entertainment as well as Seung Kim and Meghann Collins Robertson. The series will premiere with a 50-minute special. Each season is set to consist of twelve episodes.[2][13][14][15]

References[]

  1. ^ Evershed, John (2020). Adult Animation Finally Breaking Free of its Comedy Shackles (PDF) (Report). High Concentrate, LLC in Squarespace. p. 26. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 3, 2020. Retrieved November 2, 2020.
  2. ^ a b @WarnerMedia (May 27, 2020). "#HBOMax is here!