Another popular podcast is heading down the animated series development pipeline, as Hulu has landed a deal to develop Bad Friends, from comedians and co-hosts Andrew Santino and Bobby Lee. The Disney-owned streamer won out amid a bustle of interested adult toon outlets, according to Deadline.
Based on the top-performing improv comedy podcast of the same name, the Bad Friends animated series will center on the relationship between Andrew, a fiery lightning bug, and Bobby, a shy roly-poly, as they carefully buzz and scuttle through the trials of adolescence as misfit high schoolers.
The adaptation is created by Lee (MADtv, New Words with Bobby Lee; voice actor on Inside Job, Nature Cat), Santino (Here’s the Rub, Punk’d; voice actor, Royal Crackers, Ten Year Old Tom), Nick Kreiss and Andres Salaff, written by Kreiss and Santino, and executive produced by Lee, Santino, Kreiss, Trevor Engelson (Underground) and Doug Banker (Five All in the Fifth), with Salaff as co-EP. The project is being developed out of 20th Television Animation.
Hulu debuted its “Animayhem” brand last summer, and is home to animated originals (including Solar Opposites, Marvel’s Hit-Monkey and the resurrected Futurama, renewed for two more seasons) as well as FOX/FX toons (Family Guy, Bob’s Burgers, Archer) and both original and acquired anime series (Undead Unluck, Sandland). Last month, the platform ordered a presentation for original animated adult comedy Journey to the Center of the Internet, also in the works at 20th Television Animation.
[Source: Deadline]
