Comedian George Lopez, star of ABC’s The George Lopez Show, is dipping his tentacles into the animation biz with a series titled Eddie & The Squid. According to Daily Variety, Lopez will exec produce the show for Delfino Ent., a film and TV distribution company which recently set up an animation division to produce the pilot episode.
Eddie & The Squid is a half-hour comedy chronicling the adventres of two young Latino brothers voiced by Efren Ramirez (Napoleon Dynamite) and veteran toon voicer Carlos Alazraqui (Camp Lazlo, The Life & Times of Juniper Lee), who also stars in Comedy Central’s Reno 911! A spokesperson for Delfino told Variety the studio has developed a new technology that allows it to produce a hand-drawn episode in as little as eight weeks.
Series creator Brett Merhar is developing the show with Delfino principal Don Ashley and The Goerge Lopez Show exec producer Rick Nyholm. Delfino hopes Fox will add the series to its Sunday ‘Animation Domination’ lineup, which currently includes The Simpsons, King of the Hill, American Dad and Family Guy.
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