FALL ’12 ANIMATED TV PREVIEW!

 

Robot Chicken

Network: Adult Swim

Airs Sunday Nights @ Midnight

Premiers 9/9/12

Robot Chicken premiered with a DC Comics inspired cross over for its 100th episode but from the looks of things Seth Green and Matt Seinreich haven’t stopped there. During the course of its sixth season Robot Chicken will get voice talent help from Elizabeth Banks, Sarah Chalke, Kat Dennings, Sam Elliott, Ben Foster, Whoopi Goldberg, Lucas Grabeel, Megan Hilty, Gillian Jacobs, Robert Kirkman, Zachary Levi, J.B. Smoove, Liev Schreiber, Jon Stewart(!!), Patrick Stewart, Stanly Tucci, Olivia Wilde, and Alex Winter.

Check out the review for the first episode here.

 

Brickleberry

Network: Comedy Central

Airs Tuesday Nights @ 10:30 pm EST

Premiers 9/25/12

The new raunchy animated series set to premier on Comedy Central centered around a national park on the brink of closing unless if a new park ranger is able to pick up the spirits of her co-workers to help pull them through.  Executive producer Daniel Tosh (Tosh.0) voices a junk-food eating bear named Malloy, while David Herman (Office Space), Tom Kenny (SpongeBob SquarePants) and Jerry Minor (Anchorman) fill out the cast.

Check out our interview with the creators of Brickleberry here!

 

South Park

Network: Comedy Central

Airs Wednesday Nights @ 10:0 pm EST

Premiers 9/26/12

South Park is half way through its 16th Season and so far its been the best animated series in 2012 and while being full tilt into an election year could we see the creators of South Park pull another “About Last Night’ episode during the season finale which is(ironically enough) November 7th?? Who the hell knows, as already this season we’ve seen run ins with the TSA, the dangers of zip-lining, and internet memes featuring kitty cats.

 

The Simpsons

Network: FOX

Airs Sunday Nights @ 8:00 pm EST

Premiers 9/30/12

After 24 seasons, The Simpsons are still truckin’, and with a SLEW of announced guest stars for the season featuring the likes of Patton Oswalt, Zooey Deschanel, and Steve Carrell its going to be a good one!! Now that all the hoopla surrounding Matt Groening’s Hollywood Walk of Fame Induction, the much-maligned 500th episode, and all of the contractual bull-shit is in the past, this will be a good test to see if the series is able to start to fade off into the open sunset with its head held high.

 

Bobs Burgers

Network: FOX

Airs Sunday Nights @ 8:30 pm EST

Premiers 9/30/12

No Allen Gregory, No Napoleon Dynamite. Nope, there is no competition for Bob’s Burgers at the 8:30 pm EST on FOX and rightfully so as the show is really one of the best of 2012 so far and season number three looks pretty stout with guest appearances coming from Zach Galifianakis, Kevin Kline, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Jeffrey Tambour, and more. The Emmy nominated series Bobs Burgers is set to open its doors this September.

 

Family Guy

Network: FOX

Airs Sunday Nights @ 9:00 pm EST

Premiers 9/30/12

Johnny Depp is set to reprise his role as Edward Scissorhands but that’s not all. Family Guy has a TON of guest stars lined up including J.J. Abrams, Mark Burnett and Dick Wolf, plus Jon Hamm, Ryan Reynolds, Kellan Lutz and Elizabeth Banks. Family Guy is on our list of the best animated series of 2012 so far, can it stay form??

 

American Dad

Network: FOX

Airs Sunday Nights @ 9:30 pm EST

Premiers 9/30/12

Patrick Stewart’s still here, and he will be joined by Danny Glover, Alison Brie, Charlie Day, Nathan Fillion, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Rupert Grint as well as Jon Hamm as part of American Dad’s 8th season.  When the show wants to be its really very good, but overall season 7 saw a lot of mediocrity and it will be interesting to see if American Dad can pick up the pace.

 

The Cleveland Show

Network: FOX

Airs Sunday Nights @ 7:30 pm EST

Premiers 10/7/12

The Cleveland Show is set to debut its fourth season albeit a couple weeks AFTER the premiers of all the other Animation Domination shows. That said the show is set to hit this season up with a number of guest stars including a bunch of music stars like ?uestlove, Bruno Mars, Nicki Minaj, and will.i.am. Other guest stars include Sofia Vergara (Modern Family), Nick Offerman, Krysten Ritter, George Clinton, and the return of Bryan Cranston(Breaking Bad).