'Rick and Morty' Gets Season 7 Premiere Date On Adult Swim
'Rick and Morty' Gets Season 7 Premiere Date On Adult Swim
Still no word on who's replacing Justin Roiland
The march toward 100 years continues for Adult Swim juggernaut Rick and Morty. The network has announced that the show’s 7th season will premiere on October 15, maintaining its Sunday 11 PM timeslot.
“It’s happening,” Adult Swim president Michael Ouweleen said in a statement. “Thanks to the talent of the entire show team, we can all enjoy 10 new episodes that yet again raise the bar for comedy and animation. This season proves that the geniuses at work on Rick and Morty are just getting started.” The reveal came after being promised upon the release of a Rick vs. Rick Prime recap music video on August 15.
The network also released this logline for the season: “Rick and Morty are back and sounding more like themselves than ever! It’s season seven, and the possibilities are endless: what’s up with Jerry? EVIL Summer?! And will they ever go back to the high school?! Maybe not! But let’s find out! There’s probably less piss than last season. Rick and Morty, 100 years! Or at least until season 10!” Gotta love the sarcastic self-awareness to the fact that the duo have been recast in the wake of the network cutting ties with creator Justin Roiland following domestic violence charges. Unfortunately, this announcement doesn’t come with revealing those soundalike replacements, but does get Rick holding lasagna and a poster parodying Bad Boys. And apparently “Analyze Piss” has become season six’s “Rickdependence Spray”.
Indeed, once the 10-episode season lengths were settled, it turned the show’s 70 episode renewal in 2018, after season 3 had aired, into a 7-season order (there were considerations to grow the season length to 14 once upon a time). That makes this the fourth season of that order. It’s likely that with nearer to two months until premiere, the replacements for Rick and Morty will be revealed closer to it, with its own announcement and the first instance of hearing them will likely be a season trailer release. It could even be together, but there will definitely be something before that October 15 date.
Last month at San Diego Comic-Con, executive producer Steve Levy said they were “closing in on the end of our process of the recast.” He would add, “It’s gonna be great. I am thoroughly impressed with everything that’s going on, including all the work on season seven.” and confirm “It’s soundalikes. The characters are the same characters — no change.”
Source: TVLine