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Solar Opposites’ Mike McMahan is darting from one job to another as he continues production on his upcoming series, Star Trek: Lower Decks which is slated to premiere sometime later this year only on CBS All Access. In a new interview with GamesRadar,  one of the show’s stars. Tawny Newsome, had this to say about the upcoming series.

“What won’t I get sued for? It is a comedy for sure,” she says. “Yeah, it’s a half-hour. It’s totally animated… It’s so funny. But the thing about Star Trek is, at the core of Star Trek there is so much hope and optimism – like optimism as a species – and personal pride and hope in it. So there are more earnest, hopeful moments, I think, in Lower Decks that grounds a lot of the comedy.

The first season of Star Trek: Lower Decks is expected to be released in 2020 and will consist of 10 episodes. Star Trek: Lower Decks focuses on “the support crew serving on one of Starfleet’s least important ships” in the year 2380. Tawny voices an ensign aboard the U.S.S. Cerritos. Newsome recently described the character as irreverent and someone who does not follow the rules, though she is actually “very good at all things Starfleet, she just doesn’t care” and has been demoted several times. Newsome added that Mariner “just wants to ride her skateboard and eat her piece of pizza in peace, man”

Speaking of Mike McMahan, his former series, Rick and Morty is in the news after having completed it’s fourth season earlier in the week. The Adult Swim series may have seen a decent sized drop in the ratings, but it’s digital sales had a nice bounce back on the DEG charts after not even showing up on the sales reports ending in the week ending 5/24. For the week ending 5/30, Rick and Morty was placed no. 16 on the top 20 charts with other adult animated fare like Justice League Dark: Apokolips War (no. 11)continuing it’s streak of being on the list for the last several weeks now.

Hopefully, all of this good news in adult animation, especially with the aforementioned DC Comics property, will bode well for a potential season three order for DC Universe’s Harley Quinn, however, according to showrunner Patrick Schumacker, the series hasn’t been renewed yet. At first he posted a silly plot idea for the show’s third season premiere episode, but also revealed that, as of now, an official third season of the franchise has not been renewed yet.

Well, I think Harley Season 3* will open with Gothamites on a Zoom screaming obscenities at Commissioner Gordon and his fellow cops.

*If we get a season 3.

— Patrick Schumacker (@PMSchumacker) June 3, 2020

Harley Quinn has a new episode streaming today on DC Universe called “Dye Hard”, in it, alone on Christmas Eve, Harley reconnects with a now-sane Joker and heads to Wayne Tower, where their dinner is interrupted by an escaped Riddler and ParaDemons.