whotony

https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/blo...ed-1235182440/

“Ack! Bill the Cat, Opus and the rest of Berkeley Breathed’s “Bloom County” universe are heading to Fox. The comic strip, created and written by Berkeley Breathed, is being developed as an animated series at Fox, through its animation studio, Bento Box Entertainment, as well as Miramax, Spyglass Media Group and Project X Entertainment.

Just like the strip, the TV version of “Bloom County” will center “on a collapsed lawyer, a lobotomized cat and a penguin in briefs and fruit headwear living in the world’s last boarding house in the world’s most forgotten place deep in the dandelion wilds of FlyWayWayOver country. To wit, today’s America at a glance.”

whotony

The Cow

I thought "A Wish for Wings That Work" he did a while ago was good, but I'm skeptical that this one might be too heavily politicized for my TV show taste. We'll see.

Big fan, though, will definitely check it out.

fujishig

Too heavily politicized? I'm not even sure what you have left if you take the politics out of Bloom County.

I still have my VHS and DVD of a wish for wings that work though.

The Cow

It's fine in panel daily strips that stretch out, but I dunno about 20 minutes of animation. I'm not saying take it out, I'm just worried it will be too much.

Josh-da-man

Yeah, it's basically Doonesbury with funny animals: A mix of political commentary, pop culture satire, and interpersonal relationships.

ytrez

It's been a long while since I read Bloom County but I don't recall it's politics being a fit for Fox.

fujishig

Hasn't Fox the network always been kind of separated from Fox News and the like? I mean you could say the same about the leanings of pretty much all of their adult animated series as well.

milo bloom

Yeah, Fox TV has always been more willing to see "both sides". Think about how many times The Simpson's took a jab at Fox news.

The whole point of Bloom County has always been skewering current culture, including politics. They had a recurring character called Senator Bedfellow for pete's sake. And every four years he would run Bill the Cat (regardless of whether he happened to be alive at time) as a presidential candidate.

As one might imagine, I'm pretty stoked to see this news. I'm not sure it will have the legs of a Family Guy or anything, but I'd love to see a few dozen episodes of some good pop culture satire.

jpcamb

this seems two decades too late.

Eric F

Being it’s on Fox it will get cancelled before the whole first season is out.

mwbmis

That's what confused me. The comic strip ended in 1989. I mean I know he picked it up again in 2015, but this doesn't really seem to be striking while the iron is hot. We had an Opus mural on the wall of my residence hall. That was in 1990.

bluetoast

I follow the comic updates on Instagram and was born well after the strip originally premiered. So I’m in that limbo state where it’s still very much relevant to me and no one else I know.

fujishig

Just give us a Calvin and Hobbes cameo (or heck, Watterson, sell out a little and give me a cartoon or a sequel series or something)

whotony

I Wonder what’s going on with this

Count Dooku

tweet @mrtimlong and ask him

whotony

Why?
I looked at his Twitter but don’t see a connection

The Cow

https://collider.com/bloom-county-an...g-writing-fox/

whotony

Oh!

Jason

They'll love it!