Increasing its grownup animation choices as soon as once more, Hulu has ordered Standing By, a brand new animated collection from Schitt’s Creek co-creator Dan Levy and story editor Ally Pankiw.
Particulars:
- The brand new collection shall be produced by twentieth Tv Animation and Fox-owned animation studio Bento Field Leisure. Danielle Uhlarik (government producer of Photo voltaic Opposites) will function showrunner and government producer alongside co-creators Pankiw and Levy.
- Logline: Standing By is a “satirical look into the lives of a bunch of eternally certain, disgruntled guardian angels and the teachings they’ll finally study from not solely the dysfunctional people they’re in command of defending, but in addition one another.”
- In keeping with the co-creators: “Standing By is concerning the hilarity, embarrassment, and melodrama of on a regular basis life as noticed by a workforce of judgmental, gossip-starved guardian angels. We’re very excited to deliver this world to life with the assistance of Hulu, twentieth Tv Animation, and Bento Field Leisure. To not point out an insanely good solid of actors.
- Early voice casting consists of Levy, David Tennant, Natalie Palamides, Glenn Shut, Poppy Liu, and Samira Wiley.
- twentieth Tv Animation and Hulu have a robust working relationship, with the latter producing a number of streaming collection for the platform together with Photo voltaic Opposites, Futurama, and Koala Man. Hulu is likely one of the platforms that’s most closely investing in grownup animation, and simply this yr appointed Kelci Parker to the newly-created function of vp of animation.