Currently in its second season, Comedy Central’s hit animated reality-show spoof, Drawn Together, has been picked up for a third run. The cable network has ordered the production of 14 new episodes to begin airing in the fourth quarter of 2006.
Drawn Together has eight completely different cartoon characters from various genres and styles thrown together in one house to have their lives taped for the viewing public. The housemates include Captain Hero, a not-so-moral do-gooder reminiscent of the Saturday-morning TV superheroes of the ’70s; Clara, a 20-year-old racist fairy-tale princess; Toot, a pudgy, black-and-white heartthrob from the ’20s; Foxxy Love, a sexy mystery-solving musician; Spanky Ham, a foul-mouthed Internet-download pig; Ling-Ling, an adorable Asian trading-card creature; Wooldoor-Sockbat, a SpongeBob SquarePants type; and Xandir, a gay adventurer inspired by the great video game warriors.
Animated by Rough Draft, the series is created and written by Matt Silverstein and Dave Jeser, who serve as exec producers. Silverstein and Jeser previously wrote for Comedy Central’s The Man Show and Fox’s Action and Andy Richter Controls the Universe. Zoe Friedman is the exec in charge of production for Comedy Central.
The entire first season of Drawn Together was recently released on home video as a two-disc set from Paramount Home Entertainment. All seven episodes are included, along with a number of special features that offer a glimpse into the making of the adult-aimed cartoon.
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