Following tonight’s Season premiere of South Park, Comedy Central will debut its first new animated series since the 2004 launch of Drawn Together. Created by actors David Cross (Arrested Development, Mr. Show) and H. Jon Benjamin (Dr. Katz: Professional Therapist, Home Movies), Freak Show promises to offer up more of the kind of edgy humor Comedy Central fans have come to expect.
Freak Show is a half-hour toon that follows a band of sideshow performers who also happen to be second-rate superheroes secretly employed by the United States government. When the Freak Squad is not busy undertaking low-priority missions for the Pentagon, they retreat to their alternate lives as performers in America’s last independently-owned traveling freak show, Bob and Helen Hartsdale’s Funtyme Freak Show.
Comedy Central has initially ordered seven episodes of the series, which Cross and Benjamin exec produce and provide voices for. Lou Wallach and Dan Powell serve as execs in charge of production for the network. Animation production is being handled by Radical Axis, which produces [adult swim] favorites Aqua Teen Hunger Force and Squidbillies.
Freak Show premieres tonight, Oct. 4, at 10:30 p.m./ 9:30 p.m. central. Comedy Central will then kick off the third season of the animated reality show spoof Drawn Together on Thursday, Oct. 5, at 10:30 p.m./ 9:30 p.m. central.
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