Animated Comedy DUNCANVILLE, Featuring the Voice of Amy Poehler, Returns with All-New Episodes, Beginning Sunday, May 1

Animated comedy DUNCANVILLE returns with all-new episodes, beginning Sunday, May 1. From Emmy Award winners Amy Poehler, Julie Thacker Scully and Mike Scully comes Season Three of DUNCANVILLE, an animated family comedy centered around a 15-year-old boy (voiced by Poehler), his family and friends.

In the Season Three premiere, Duncan and his friends (Rashida Jones, Yassir Lester, Zach Cherry, Betsy Sodaro) visit a Twitch star’s private island, only to end up hunted in a viral event for charity. Wiz Khalifa returns for another season as Duncan’s teacher, Mr. Mitch. Duncan’s family consists of mom Annie (also voiced by Poehler), his dad, Jack (Emmy winner Ty Burrell), 12-year-old sister Kimberly (Riki Lindhome), and five-year-old Jing (Joy Osmanski). Other Season Three stories include Duncan finding a knife and becoming the school’s alpha; Jack getting jealous of Annie’s “work husband”; Mr. Mitch is offered a promotion to Vice Principal, if he can pass a drug test; Duncan is traumatized when he accidentally sees his mom naked; Annie helps reform her no-good brother, Stan (returning guest star Jason Schwartzman), until he starts dating Annie’s much older neighbor; and Duncan and Mia’s first kiss.

DUNCANVILLE is produced by 20th Television Animation; Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group; and FOX Entertainment. Mike Scully, Julie Thacker Scully and Amy Poehler co-created and executive-produce the series with executive producer Dave Becky. The series is animated by Bento Box Entertainment.

Our Take

Interesting that Duncanville would join up with the ongoing Animation Domination lineup and not continue on with the AniDom Monday schedule that is expected to return later this year with new episodes of Housebroken (which we’re hearing is readying a season three pick up happening sooner than later).  This could spell an early demise for the FOX original series because the franchise features a few more production companies and the upcoming AniDom Monday lineup is expected to feature Housebroken and Krapopolis, two animated franchises that FOX Entertainment solely produces and owns all distribution rights to, aka more profitable. In terms of quality, today, Duncanville is by far the funniest of the network’s newest crop of animated comedies and does well on Hulu.

We also have learned that May 1st will feature original premieres for the rest of FOX’s AniDom lineup including The Simpsons, Bob’s Burgers, Family Guy, and The Great North.