Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim runs a-fowl this weekend with Sunday night’s premiere of Robot Chicken, a new stop-motion animated comedy series created by actor/producer Seth Green and Mathew Senreich. The show uses action figures and other toys to take hilarious pop shots at pop culture staples such as Star Trek, MTV’s The Real World, and Fox’s American Idol.
Debuting Feb. 20 at 11:30, the 15-minute show is written largely by Green and Senreich, and features the voices of Scarlett Johansson, Burt Reynolds, Ryan Seacrest Mark Hamill, Seth McFarlane and Macauley Culkin, to name a few. Green, who provides the voice of Chris Griffin on Fox’s Family Guy, also voices characters in this irreverent program consisting of a series of short vignettes.
Green and Senreich struck up a friendship over their shared love of action figures and created a series of six animated shorts for Sony’s Screenblast website (www.screenblast.com). They then created a pilot which Cartoon network Snatched up. Robot Chicken’s stop-motion animation is directed by Seamus Walsh and Chris Finnegan of Screen Novelties in Los Angeles.
Robot Chicken will air regularly at 11:30 p.m. ET/PT on Cartoon Network.
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