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\n\tWarner Bros. Animation, hugely energetic this yr at Annecy, unveiled Friday at Annecy a brand new \u201cDark Shadows\u201d animated series,\u00a0 confirming the studio\u2019s push in adult animation into other genres beyond adult comedy.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tReimagining the Sixties cult TV series, the show is in very early development stages, with Lisa Holdsworth, creator of Channel 4\u2019s \u201cDreamers\u201d and a author on Sky\u2019s \u201cDiscovery of Witches\u201d and BBC\u2019s \u201cCall the Midwife,\u201d set as executive producer and showrunner. Cathy Curtis, Tracy Curtis, Eric Homan, Kevin Kolde and Fred Seibert function executive producers.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tThe announcement was made Friday at a WBA adult animation showcase at Annecy\u2019s Mifa Market hosted by Shaleen Desai, senior VP, creative affairs, and Peter Girardi, executive VP, alternative programming at Warner Bros. Animation.<\/p>\n
\n\tBowing 1967, the supernatural family saga gained an enormous teen following after the introduction of member of the family Barnabas Collins, a vampire played by Jonathan Frid, becoming ABC\u2019s\u00a0 highest-rating daytime series and spawning multiple spin-offs including a Tom Burton\u2019s 2012 movie starring Johnny Depp and Michelle Pfeiffer.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe new edition is in development. It still stays to be seen what way Warner Bros. Animation will take the brand new series.\u00a0WBA used the adult animation session so as to add more granularity to a few of its \u2013 and indeed Annecy\u2019s \u2013 biggest announcements made this week on the French animation festival.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tThese took in a series development greenlight on \u201cAbsolute Batman,\u201d adapting the favored comic book, and a\u00a0 series greenlight on DC\u2019s first anime series \u201cJoker: Laugh Riot\u201d \u2013 plus series development on \u201cKrypto,\u201d enrolling a few of DC\u2019s biggest super heroes and super villains across, as WPA noted, a wide selection of styles, tones and stories for audiences of all ages.<\/em><\/p>\n \n\tAnnounced Wednesday at Annecy, these major plays for Warner Bros. Animation and DC, followed on the world premiere of \u201cBatman: Knightfall,\u201d the primary instalement of a planned animated feature trilogy.<\/p>\n \n\tConsidered one of the largest comic book events of the Nineties, starring Anson Mount and Michael Mando and unveiling a Robin we\u2019ve barely seen in film before, it played to thunderous applause at Annecy on Tuesday Variety<\/em> noted.<\/p>\n \n\tAt its Friday adult animation showcase, Warner Bros. Animation and Hanna-Barbera studios also revealed first images of the Gerry Anderson-inspired puppet TV series \u201cHit Squad,\u201d with extensive footage shown to an enthusiastic crowd.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cWe\u2019re truly joyful to bring this brand recent series, written by Gerry Anderson within the late Seventies, to the screen,\u201d said Giraldi. \u201dWith upgrades on the puppetry, and a mix of CG and practical effects, \u2018Hit Squad\u2019 blends motion with dark humor, brought forth by each Hanna-Barbera Europe and Warner Bros. Animation teams.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tCircling back to their recent Adult Swim family show \u201cKeeping Up With the Joneses,\u201d the WBA duo described the upcoming series as a part of \u201can emphasis on original stories, with character-based comedy bringing the \u2018family comedy show\u2019 genre to our long-time partners and friends at Adult Swim.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tConsidered one of the fastest growing divisions at Warner Bros. Animation with titles reminiscent of \u201cHarley Quinn,\u201d \u201dKiteman\u201d and more, adult animation teams has been pushing the boundaries of each WBA and DC Studios legacy IPs while opening as much as recent animated narratives. \u201cWe don\u2019t have a house style,\u201d added Girardi. \u201cAs an alternative, we let the show dictate that.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tTo prove the purpose, the duo shared previously revealed early development images of the upcoming \u201cAbsolute Batman\u201d series, which got the Bonlieu on its feet during Wednesday\u2019s DC Studios showcase.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tAn excellent truer testament to this approach is unquestionably \u201cGet Jiro,\u201d a project seven years within the making which has been one in all Annecy\u2019s most-awaited projects for a very long time. Following up on its 2025 work-in-progress session, the duo treated attendees on Friday on the Voli\u00e8re, Mifa\u2019s biggest venue, with a screening of the series\u2019 first episode, unveiling the post-apocalyptic setting of this cuisine-revenge driven half-hour show.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tAnimation fans were in for a really tasty treat, because the episode introduced villains and set the tone for the brutal show adapted from the best-selling Vertigo series by the late Anthony Bourdain, co-created with Joel Rose.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tJohn Hopewell contributed to this text.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Warner Bros. Animation, hugely energetic this yr at Annecy, unveiled Friday at Annecy a brand new \u201cDark Shadows\u201d animated series,\u00a0 confirming the studio\u2019s push in adult animation into other genres beyond adult comedy.\u00a0 Reimagining the Sixties cult TV series, the show is in very early development stages, with Lisa Holdsworth, creator of Channel 4\u2019s \u201cDreamers\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":357329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20669],"tags":[616,5163,2434,53260,5800,619,888,3175,5362],"class_list":["post-357328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hollywood","tag-bros","tag-dark","tag-hit","tag-jiro","tag-shadows","tag-squad","tag-teases","tag-unveils","tag-warner"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t