20th Television Animation News: Duncanville Returns This Sunday, Futurama, And More

 

Futurama is slated to return in 2023 for Hulu, however, controversy arose when the renewal was first announced when John DiMaggio’s #Bendergate campaign hit demanding more money for his role as the popular “Bender”. Those negotiations subsided and now in a new report from Slash Film, John says that despite all his troubles, he didn’t even get a raise,

“People are like, ‘I’m so glad you got more money!’” DiMaggio said according to Slashfilm, “I didn’t get more money. But what I did get was a lot of respect, and a lot of head nods from people who are like, ‘Yo bro, I see you and thank you’”.

DiMaggio would say getting more money from Hulu and Disney is like getting blood from a stone and that the producers of Futurama had the idea of continuing the Bender character with weekly guest-stars. John opted against fighting a losing battle and opted to continue on as Bender for the upcoming Futurama revival.


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Production workers for the three biggest animated franchises in 20th Television Animation’s catalog, The Simpsons, Family Guy, and American Dad! have filed to join The Animation Guild. 20th Television Animation is not ready to recognize the unit that includes production managers, production supervisors, production coordinators, writers assistants, production assistants, associate producers, office assistants, IT supervisors, and others.

With negotiations between TAG and AMPTP at a tentative agreement for a new deal for animation, the move follows similar efforts from series like Clone High, Solar Opposites, Rick and Morty, Titmouse, and others.

Our Take

The Simpsons, Family Guy, and American Dad are all renewed and expected to return Fall 2022, however, the future of these franchises are in question after the upcoming seasons as FOX has not announced the renewal of the first two named series. American Dad has been renewed for seasons 20 and 201, however, that was before the WB Discovery merger and the announcement from David Zaslav that scripted development at TNT and TBS will no longer be a thing.


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Duncanville has only six more episodes in what will be it’s final season run on FOX’s Animation Domination, and over the next two weeks we’re getting back-to-back episodes which kick off at 9 pm ET/PT, check your local listings. We’ve got exclusive clips that you can see below with synopses.

Annie makes a stand against Teen Zone after she feels gouged by their prices at Jing’s birthday party, and the kids face the repercussions. Meanwhile, Duncan struggles with a traumatizing experience in a wind tunnel ride at the party in the all-new “Annie v. Fun” episode of DUNCANVILLE airing Sunday, June 5 (9:00-9:30 PM ET/PT) on FOX. Bebe Neuwirth Guest-Voices

Duncan sees Annie naked and visits a hypnotist to erase the memories. Meanwhile, Jack starts feeling like a big shot when he begins throwing big deck parties in the all-new “Throw Momma From The Brain” episode of DUNCANVILLE airing Sunday, June 5 (9:30-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX.

Synopsis:

From Emmy Award winners Amy Poehler, Julie Thacker Scully and Mike Scully, comes DUNCANVILLE, an animated family comedy centered around a spectacularly average 15-year-old boy, his family and friends. In the series, DUNCAN (Poehler) can see adulthood on the horizon: money, freedom, cars, girls…but the reality is more like: always being broke, driving with your mom sitting shotgun and babysitting your little sister.

Duncan’s mom, ANNIE (Poehler), a parking enforcement officer who dreams of someday being a detective, lives in perpetual fear that her teenage son is one bad decision away from ruining his life and will do anything to stop him from doing so. Duncan’s father, JACK (Emmy Award winner Ty Burrell), husband to Annie, is a classic-rock-obsessed plumber who’s determined to be a better dad than the one he had. He’s constantly posting wonderful things about his family on Facebook and annoyed that his kids won’t friend him.

Duncan’s 12-year-old sister, KIMBERLY (Riki Lindhome), is awkward, emotional and can hold grudges forever, while waiting patiently for revenge. She’s all emotions all the time and nobody’s problems are bigger than hers. JING (Joy Osmanski), Duncan’s six-year-old sister, likes to shout “Watch me!” before executing the world’s slowest cartwheel.

Duncan hangs with his friend and class clown, BEX (Betsy Sodaro), his stylish and swaggy friend, YANGZI (Yassir Lester), and his reckless, unsupervised friend, WOLF (Zach Cherry). MIA (Emmy Award nominee Rashida Jones) is Duncan’s on-again, off-again crush, who never met a cause to which she wouldn’t dedicate her life, and MR. MITCH (Golden Globe nominee Wiz Khalifa), is their cool teacher/guidance counselor/occasional school nurse.

In the Season Three premiere, Duncan and his friends visit a Twitch star’s private island, only to end up hunted in a viral event for charity. 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.