Comedy Central Is Pretty Much An Adult Animation Channel Now And I Am Here For It

 

 

Comedy Central has been cleaning house of their live-action series the last few weeks and I couldn’t be happier than a pig in shit because I haven’t watched a live-action show on Comedy Central since The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. 

Recent cancellations on Comedy Central have included the likes of Awkwafina is Nora From Queens, Corporate, Detroiters, Tosh.0, and Drunk History. In it’s stead joining existing series The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, South Park, and Crank Yankers comes a slew of adult animation pickups that should have fans stoked for the foreseeable future. This includes Jodie, Beavis and Butt-Head, and The Ren & Stimpy Show. Moreover, the network has ordered pilots for both Clone High and Malltown, and is contemplating in taking online series like Blark & Son and Loafy off of digital platforms and green-lighting them for half-hour pilots.

It actually wouldn’t surprise me if Comedy Central parent network ViacomCBS were to move The Daily Show to the Paramount Network in an effort for the primetime cabler to compete with TBS’ Conan a bit more effectively, but until then, it’s a swimming pool of mostly adult animation originals to go along with syndicated series like The Cleveland Show, Futurama, and others. That said, with The Office becoming a Peacock acquisition in 2021 and COZI TV already going nuts with marathons of both The Office and Parks and Recreation, don’t be surprised if Comedy Central continues to go through it’s back catalog for marathons of programming.

In a recent article from Deadline, we learned that live-action sitcoms are in low demand right now because they are expensive and aren’t even profitable until syndication takes hold. Cable networks aren’t as big of buyers anymore, instead preferring to use their internal catalogs to fill up all-day schedules ala the aforementioned Universal-owned COZI TV. Comedy Central already does this with South Park, and could very well look to other ViacomCBS classics to continue to fill up future schedules with multiple seasons of Beavis and Butt-Head, Daria, and Liquid Television which is as strong of a back catalog as anyone is going to have in television. Not to mention with the recent merger of ViacomCBS, it wouldn’t be a radical idea to see series from CBS All Access and Showtime make it’s way over to the cable net.

Animated sitcoms are still hot as hell in syndication with Disney dotting The Simpsons, Family Guy, Bob’s Burgers, and other series along their own cable networks as well as others, WarnerMedia and ViacomCBS are chomping at the bit to get in on some of that action. ViacomCBS could be well-positioned to turn Comedy Central back into a destination network for the first time in decades. Having said all that…

Where the hell is the announcement for the new season premiere of South Park? Can anyone imagine a time where it has taken this long to get a friggin’ premiere date? GET ON IT, COMEDY CENTRAL!