Syfy to Flank “Alien News Desk”

Anyone else find it ironic that Syfy Wire has yet to break this story?

Syfy has ordered to series a new adult animated series called Alien News Desk with Will Forte (as “Drexx”) and Heidi Gardner (as “Tuva”) for 12 episodes that will debut in early 2019. The series was originally pitched to MTV, but moved over to Syfy in what will be the network’s first push into this space in quite some time (the network had an animated series at the early part of the naughties called Tripping in the Rift that had gone for a couple of seasons).  Bento Box Entertainment will be producers for the series.

This one will be similar to Our Cartoon President in that the aliens (voiced by Forte and Gardner) will be reporting about all the crazy shit that happens on Earth in a topical format and those events that are happening will be fairly recent set amongst original storylines. A bunch of SNL people are on board as producers along with old pal Scott Gairdner of Moonbeam City fame. The series will premiere in 2019 @ 11pm after Futurama, we just don’t know when the series will kick off.

[h/t: Deadline]