Adult Swim Keeps Smile On With 2-Season 'Smiling Friends' Pickup Announced At Annecy
Fourth and fifth seasons of Charlie and Pim are on the way, joining the the third which premieres this fall
You’ve seen the announcements from Warner Bros.’s family animation studios, Warner Bros. Animation, Cartoon Network Studios and Hanna-Barbera Studios Europe at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, but Adult Swim won’t have its time until Thursday. At least most of Adult Swim. Their hit show Smiling Friends, which was announced to be renewed for a third season last year, had its own panel Wednesday with co-creators Michael Cusack and Zack Hadel on hand with Adult Swim Vice President of development Cameron Tang to announce that seasons four and five are currently in production.
Season 3 is set to premiere this fall, something that was first found in a Corus blurb that revealed that Regular Show’s continuation will air on Adult Swim Canada (domestic home TBA). The panel had an exclusive first look at that upcoming third season. The co-creators voice co-workers Charlie (Hadel) and Pim (Cusack) as they to bring positivity into others’ lives. “It means you don’t have to make the same episode that the engine of the show relies on, which is the smiling friends go out and help a depressed character,” Cusack says describing what this pickup brings to the mindset of the work. “Just like the shows we love and grew up with, the best part is now we can make a whole episode about a secondary character and zoom in on them more and explore the town.”
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Cusack further elaborated what characters in particular could benefit from such “There’s so many. Of course, Mr. Frog is always someone it’s fun to go back to. His spirit really is the spirit of the insanity of the show. Secondary characters can be tough because you don’t want to bring back people that they have already helped because we feel like that might be running out of ideas, in a sense. But there are some repeat character that can come back, like DJ Spit.” He then teased the season’s Christmas special “focuses on a character that needs more attention, so that will be a fun one.” He adds about what’s to come: “As always, it’s fun to play with new formats, new mediums of animation, so we’ve done that a few times. The first episode [of season three] has a fun character that plays with the medium a lot. That’s got a guest voice of someone we really like, too.”
With five seasons already being an impressive run secured, both creators have already started to think about an endpoint “It won’t go and go and go,” Cusack emphasizes. “We want it to be like a nice little box set, and we’ve talked about potential seasons that we’d want to stop at, for sure, and it depends on the day. Sometimes we’ll wake up and be like, ‘You know what? Three seasons could be enough.’ But then the next day, we’re like, ‘No, actually, another number sounds better.’ So we always go back and forth, but we are pretty staunch on it not going on forever.”
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Source: The Hollywood Reporter
Obviously the restructuring of Warner Brothers- Discovery doesn't seem to be affecting them.