Adult Swim: Smiling Friends Renewed For Seasons Four And FIve; Primal Slated For 2026 Return

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Adult Swim has announced that Smiling Friends will get a two season renewal for seasons four and five ahead of the show’s season three premiere which is expected to hit this fall and will include a Christmas episode. Meanwhile, Genndry Tartakovsky’s Primal is expected to return sometime in 2026. All of this was announced at the Annecy festival with more news expected to hit about the future of the network that just had a number of layoffs announced this week and is expected to be part of a split Warner Bros. Discovery action that will see a number of the Warner companies be a part of two separate conglomerates, one to focus on the cable networks, the other, production(like WB Animation which just upped Adam Galen to VP, Development) and streaming. More as it develops.

Smiling Friends Inc. is a small company whose main purpose is to bring happiness and make people smile. The series follows the day-to-day lives and misadventures of its representatives, the lazy, cynical Charlie, and the cheerful, optimistic Pim, as they try to cheer up and comfort the troubled people who call their company’s hotline. They receive seemingly simple requests but the jobs turn out to be more complicated than they seem, making it difficult to bring happiness to the world.

“Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal” is the Emmy® Award-winning series that follows the tale of a caveman at the dawn of evolution as he forms an unlikely friendship with an almost extinct dinosaur. Filled with suspense, heartbreak, excitement, love and fear, all without a single word of dialogue, the series is a painting come to life, relying solely on music and graphic imagery to tell the story of two unlikely allies as they navigate through a treacherous world. After bonding over unfortunate tragedies, they seem to become each other’s only hope of survival against a common enemy. Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal is created by Genndy Tartakovsky (“Dexter’s Laboratory,” “Samurai Jack,” “Star Wars: Clone Wars,” “Sym-Bionic Titan”) with art direction from Scott Wills (“The Ren & Stimpy Show,” “Samurai Jack”) and music composition from Tyler Bates (“Guardians of the Galaxy,” “Samurai Jack”) and Joanne Higginbottom (“Samurai Jack,” “Salem”), and sound effects design from Joel Valentine (“Big City Greens,” “Samurai Jack”).

[h/t: THR ]