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Ranada Shepard Talks the Re-Imagined ‘Good Times’ Animated Series

The showrunner and executive producer of Netflix’s controversial, all-new adult animated show, based on the ground-breaking 1974 CBS sitcom, discusses how her upbringing and identity as an adopted Cuban child to Black parents on Chicago’s south side informs her creative decision-making and inspires the show’s loud animation style and edgy comedy.

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Are More Cuts Coming? Headline News

Judge and Daniels’ ‘Bad Crimes’ Cancelled Mid-Production at Netflix

The Nicole Byer and Lauren Lapkus led series, which follows two FBI agents traveling the country solving gruesome crimes, has become another casualty of the streamer’s animation leadership changeup.

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Animated Series Gets Split in Two Headline News

Netflix Divides Animated Series Leadership in Wake of Mike Moon’s Departure

Former HBO Max SVP Billy Wee joins the streamer as Director of Adult Animation Comedy Series, while Jermaine Turner is promoted to Director of Adult Animation Action Series; Maggie Malone joins as VP of Animation Film, reporting to recently named VP Karen Toliver.

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Netflix Animation Lays Off 30

The streamer continues its animated film business overhaul that began when Karen Toliver and Traci Balthazor took over the animation film production group this past July.

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Mike Moon Resigns as Netflix Head of Adult Animation

The streamer has begun its search to replace the former Disney Television Animation exec, who oversaw the streamer’s ever-expanding adult animation slate and its production facility, Vine Studios.

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Meow! Headline News

Netflix Reveals ‘Exploding Kittens’ Mobile Game and Animated Series

Inspired by the popular card game, ‘Exploding Kittens - The Game’ will debut in May followed by the adult episodic comedy in 2023; in the series, God and the Devil are sent to Earth in the bodies of chunky house cats.

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A New Take on Masked Orgy Etiquette Headline News

Netflix Reveals Shion Takeuchi and Alex Hirsch's ‘Inside Job’

From the ‘Gravity Falls’ writer and creator/executive producer comes the first adult animated series created in-house by Netflix Animation Studios; show delves into the daily grind of creating conspiracies for the ‘shadow government.’

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Maury and Connie Get Their Own Show! Headline News

‘Big Mouth’ Spin-off ‘Human Resources’ Underway at Netflix

In another Annecy 2021 reveal, the streamer announces an even edgier and ‘adult-ier’ series about the Hormone Monster, Depression Kitties, and other creatures from the highly-acclaimed series that help humans as they journey through life.

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Cast Announced for Netflix’s ‘The House’ Stop-Motion Dark Comedy

Helena Bonham-Carter and Miranda Richardson among the stars boarding Nexus Studios’ anthology series about a house and the surreal tales surrounding three generations of families who lived there.

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Netflix and Creative Duo Roger Black and Waco O’Guin Tie the Knot

New multi-year creative partnership kicks off with the commission of a new animated sci-fi series ‘Farzar;’ long-time team previously created Comedy Central’s ‘Brickleberry’ and Netflix’s ‘Paradise PD.’

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Even More Good Times Headline News

Norman Lear’s Animated ‘Good Times’ Greenlit at Netflix

‘Black Dynamite’s Carl Jones will serve as creator, executive producer and showrunner on new series; other executive producers include Seth MacFarlane and Stephen Curry.

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Netflix Greenlights Animated ‘Captain Fall’ from ‘Norsemen’ Creators

New comedy from Jon Iver Helgaker and Jonas Torgersen will follow a naïve ship captain unknowingly involved in smuggling.

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Netflix Greenlights Stop-Motion ‘The House’ from Nexus Studios

Emma de Swaef & Marc James Roles, Niki Lindroth von Bahr and Paloma Baeza will each direct a chapter in dark comedy about a house and three generations of families who lived in it.

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Sony Pictures Animation Headline News

Sony Pictures Animation Announces 2017 & 2018 Slate

Projects include ‘Emojimovie: Express Yourself,’ faith-based film ‘The Star,’ ‘Hotel Transylvania 3,’ animated ‘Spider-Man’ and ‘Ghostbusters’ animated TV series.