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The first look at Season 4 of Rick and Morty came out. Far out, as fans of the strange series have discovered. “Ominous Beeping Sound” was unveiled today at Comic-Con, spotlighting the efforts of an alien to thwart efforts to get to the mothership. Spoiler alert: He almost succeeds. The animated science fiction sitcom…

An episode of the long-awaited fourth season of Adult Swim’s Rick and Morty will get an exclusive, never-before-seen screening at the second annual Adult Swim Festival in November. The two-day event in Los Angeles runs Friday, Nov. 15-Saturday, Nov. 16, with the Rick and Morty screening set for Day 2. Adult Swim had…

Rick and Morty, which wrapped its third season in October 2017, received a massive 70-episode renewal one year ago, and we now know when it will return. Adult Swim announced at the WarnerMedia upfront presentation today in New York City that the hit adult animated sci-fi comedy will launch its fourth season in…

Adult Swim has ordered Primal, a half-hour animated series from Samurai Jack and Dexter’s Laboratory creator Genndy Tartakovsky, for premiere this fall. Primal features a caveman at the dawn of evolution. A dinosaur on the brink of extinction. Bonded by tragedy, this unlikely friendship becomes the only hope of…

Look! Up in the sky! It’s Birdgirl, Adult Swim’s new toon series starring Paget Brewster that’s a spinoff from its Harvey Birdman franchise. The WarnerMedia network today announced the half-hour comedy created and executive produced by ME Productions. Here’s how its nest is feathered: After being named CEO of the…

A year after ordering the pilot, Adult Swim has picked up to series Three Busy Debras, a quarter-hour live-action comedy series from Amy Poehler’s Paper Kite Productions. The series’ first season will go into production later this year. Created, written by and starring Sandy Honig (Isn't it Romantic), Mitra Jouhari (Hi…

Two of WarnerMedia’s closely aligned assets, Adult Swim and Crunchyroll, are deepening their ties with an expanded distribution deal and a new partnership for programming. The partnership makes Crunchyroll a premiere content partner for Toonami, the anime programming block that airs Saturday nights on Adult Swim. The…

Rick and Morty is to debut on free-to-air television in the UK for the first time after Channel 4 snapped up the rights to Turner's animated comedy. The British broadcaster will launch the fourth season of show on C4 with the first three seasons airing on youth-skewing network E4 from February as part of a deal that…

Blade Runner – Black Lotus, an animated series inspired by the Oscar-winning movie Blade Runner 2049, is coming to Adult Swim. Alcon Television Group, a division of Alcon Entertainment, has teamed with WarnerMedia’s Adult Swim and Crunchyroll to produce and distribute the new anime series. Blade Runner – Black Lotus…

Adult Swim has ordered two new original animated comedy series with very different styles, The Shivering Truth and Tigtone. Created and written by Vernon Chatman, The Shivering Truth is described as a delicately crafted, surreal anthology comedy, a miniature propulsive omnibus clusterbomb of painfully riotous…

Rick and Morty co-creator Dan Harmon and Adult Swim on Monday night issued statements about the disturbing video that surfaced over the weekend. It featured a skit from a 2009 Harmon pilot called Daryl, a spoof of Showtime’s serial killer drama Dexter, in which he simulates raping a baby doll. "In 2009, I made a…

Filmmaker Jon Schnepp,, a key writer and director for Adult Swim’s Metalocalypse, has died from complications following a stroke last week. He was 51 and passed yesterday, according to his fiance. Metalocalypse aired from 2006 through 2012. The program centered on a melodic death metal band, Dethklok, using their…