Comedy Central has increased the size of its Motherload on comedycentral.com with the addition of 11 new original broadband shows, including six animated entries. Among the new toons is the Drawn Together spin-off Judge Fudge, Comedy Central’s first web series developed around a character from one of its on-air shows.
From the minds of Drawn Together creators Matt Silverstein and Dave Jeser, Judge Fudge finds the title character taking the law into his own after his partner is killed in an explosion. When he goes undercover to bust the Colombians responsible, he finds that his corrupt Police Captain orchestrated the whole thing to try and kill the Judge himself.
Comedy Central has opened its own monster house with Monsters, an animated series involving four recognizable horror icons who all live in the same castle. Somewhat similar in theme, but certainly not tone, to Sony Animation’s upcoming animated feature, Hotel Transylvania, the series explores how the monsters deal with the real world and how the real world deals with them. The web toon is written by Paul Rodenburg.
Written, directed and animated by Ken McIntyre, Super Special Dog follows the adventures of a very unique canine superhero, while Window Seat proves that air travel has gone to the dogs. Created by Radical Axis, the animation company behind such series as Adult Swim’s Aqua Teen Hunger Force and Comedy Central’s Freak Show, Window Seat revolves around a put-upon business traveler and the various weirdos who sit next to him on the plane.
Tom Goes to the Mayor creators Tim Heidecker & Eric Wareheim take their talents online with Stephen & Steven, an animated show about Siamese twins who are attached at the groin and obsessed with Internet dating. The pair also have a new series titled Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! premiering on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim on Feb. 11.
Finally, Awesome Friends finds a superhero dog-and-cat team trying to save the world before they kill each other or get evicted for not paying the rent. Created and animated by Wade Randolph, the series was the first winner of Comedy Central’s Test Pilots, an online contest designed to discover new talent and develop shows for the web.
Comedy Central has committed to producing six episodes of each new animated show for inclusion on its broadband channel, which launched in November of last year. The recent additions bring the total number of original series offered on comedycentral.com to 25.
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