Digital Adult Animation Continues To Serve Well Both Netflix and Hulu

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Cartoons make tons of money.

Hulu has officially announced that it has 17 million subscribers and that the strength of the streaming service probably isn’t in the number of originals it has, but the fact that it has 75,000 TV episodes. The three biggest comedies for the service?

South Park, Family Guy, and Bob’s Burgers. 

Yep, you still think Disney-FOX is gonna fuck with Family Guy or Bob’s Burgers? They won’t. All three shows have new seasons in production for the foreseeable future.

Hulu’s rival Netflix is also getting ready to make some gains with adult animation. The biggest streaming company in the world announced that it has teamed up with Debmar-Mercury to make BoJack Horseman available for syndicated television in the United States. Debar-Mercury has made its name in doing the same with South Park, selling the longest running animated series on Comedy Central to TV stations all over the United States. BoJack Horseman is looking to do the same.

A humanoid horse, BoJack Horseman — lost in a sea of self-loathing and booze — decides it’s time for a comeback. Once the star of a ’90s sitcom, in which he was the adoptive father of three orphaned kids (two girls and a boy). The show was the hottest thing around, then suddenly, was canceled. Now 18 years later, BoJack wants to regain his dignity. With the aid of a human sidekick and a feline ex-girlfriend who is his agent, he sets out to make it happen. But Hollywood is vastly different from those days, and getting used to stuff like Twitter may take some time. This first animated series from Netflix — with plenty of references to sex, drugs and alcohol — is not for the little ones.
BoJack Horseman is in production for a fifth season to stream on Netflix later this year.

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