![]() Hosted by animated is the universe’s real news – give or take a few intergalactic translation errors. Alien News Desk is set in an extra-terrestrial newsroom that covers up-to-the-minute news and commentary about the universe’s most baffling species – the inscrutable Humans of Planet Earth. In addition to current SNL cast member Gardner and former star Forte voicing the two leads, SNL boss Lorne Michaels executive produces alongside SNL producer Erik Kenward as well as SNL: Weekend Update head writer Dennis McNicholas, who serves as showrunner. Alien News Desk has a strong Saturday Night Live pedigree. He is reportedly developing a MacGruber television show for NBC. The show, which will debut in early 2019, marks Syfy’s first original late-night animated series. More recently, Forte starred in the Quibi comedy series Flipped and had a voice role on SYFY’s Alien News Desk. This suggests to me that possibly behind-the-scenes there were logistical challenges that most likely permeated in the actual production of the show, ergo, Alien News Desk will probably have a quick exit back to orbit.Exclusive: Syfy has given a 12-episode order to Alien News Desk, a weekly half-hour topical animated series starring Will Forte and Heidi Gardner. Includes audience growth rate, affinity and television ratings (market multiple) based on demand data. The show was created by Chris Prynoski, head of Titmouse studios, but produced by Bento Box Animation. Alien News Desk South Africa tv ratings and audience insights for Syfy's Adult Comedy series based on ZA demand data from Parrot Analytics for television executives. Creatively, there are a lot of problems as well and the production behind it is odd as well. ![]() Clearly, there was no marketing planned out not only for the lead out to the show but also in its delivery to eventually air it. With Futurama likely headed to FXX in the future following the Disney-FOX deal and then for the network to actually move this show to Saturday Nights at the same time in which Adult Swim likes to air it’s strong Toonami lineup, the network has failed miserably in it’s quest to try and launch an original animated series. With Alien News Desk we get a sprinkling of this, but it’s not all that consistent like a real news show would be, so there’s a lot of missed opportunity where we could’ve maybe seen more from the multiple aliens’ universes.Īll in all, this is Syfy’s way of both capitalizing on their syndicated run of Futurama and possibly getting some Rick and Morty audience. ![]() Real newscasts have your hosts and then they have this one for the traffic, this one for the weather, this one for the local cooking scene. Track Alien News Desk new episodes, see when is the next episode air date, series schedule. ![]() A lot of Trump jokes and stuff you’d hear on Our Cartoon President. Even with strong vocal support from the show’s stars Will Forte (Drexx) and Heidi Gardner (Tuva), there’s only so much one can take from just two voices for the majority of the episodes before one is subjected to boredom. Jokes about American politics, pop culture, and other hot topics usually follow a skewed commentary with an extraterrestrial purview.įor the most part, a lot of the jokes are somewhat similar to a bunch of jokes you’ve heard before from say Family Guy and the American political humor is all over late-night and really there’s not a lot of derivation here. As a result, some of your typical comedy fair comes about as it pertains to the good old United States of America. Aliens news desk hosts Drexx Drudlarr and Tuva Van Void comment on events happening on Planet Earth to an audience of what, I’m assuming, are other alien species who want a 30-minute show about one civilized planet with commentary mostly geared towards the United States or “Oosa”. In the meantime, let’s dig into Syfy network’s latest failed effort in launching a new animated series for adults… Alien News Desk. We’re going to do that article another day. The days of PR departments making sure at least a billboard gets posted so as to let people know that the new series is premiering are long gone, instead of hoping that any decent social campaigns will be the sole reason in which a series could take off. Trying to launch a new animated series on a cable television network that isn’t Adult Swim is becoming increasingly difficult.
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