Actor James Urbaniak, who provides of the voice of Dr. Venture on Adult Swim’s hit The Venture Bros. discusses the “emotionally vulnerable” super-scientist, playing Robert Crumb in American Splendor, and making the jump to YouTube.
What’s that, you say? February is when television networks get a little lazy, because everything is in midseason and moving along quietly apart from the Superbowl? Hardly; here are five shows that you might want to tune into as they make their (re)appearances this month.
At New York Comic Con, The Venture Bros. co-creators Jackson Publick and Doc Hammer discussed the fifth season, their Liam Neeson movie pitch, Publick’s secret addiction to Entourage, and Hammer’s desire to write “the greatest Doctor Strange movie ever made.”
Robot Chicken co-creator Matthew Senreich what it’s like to work with Seth Green, which sketches got them in trouble, and how he’d like the hit series to end.
An all-star panel that included Seth Green, Geoff Johns and Macaulay Culkin gave a glimpse behind the scenes of Robot Chicken, announced a DC Comics episode, and explained why Frank Oz didn’t voice Yoda in the show’s Star Wars special.
The cast and crew of The Heart, She Holler, including Patton Oswalt and Kristen Schaal, discuss the upcoming Adult Swim miniseries described as “Falcon Crest with rickets.”
Seth Green, Geoff Johns and Kevin Shinick will team up to lovingly skewer DC Comics’ superheroes in a Robot Chicken special that will air sometime in 2012.
Jackson Publick, Doc Hammer and James Urbaniak premiered the official Shallow Gravy music video for “Jacket,” and took questions from fans at The Venture Bros. presentation at Comic-Con International.
The Venture Bros. creator Jackson Publick announced he’s struck a deal with Adult Swim for two more seasons of the animated series, including a long-form special. What’s more, he and Doc Hammer have officially begun work on Season 5.
If Adult Swim’s Children’s Hospital doesn’t fulfill your mainstream television drama parody need every week, don’t worry; the channel has just greenlit a new spin-off from the series based on a mock promo for a “12 hour season finale event.” Is the world ready for NTSF:SD:SUV?
Adult Swim has released 24 images from the upcoming Season 4.5 of The Venture Bros., the cult-hit comedy-adventure series by Jackson Publick, Doc Hammer & Co. The eight-episode run begins at 11:30 p.m. EST/PST on Sept. 12 with “The Diving Bell Vs. The Butter-glider.”
At Comic-Con International, the animators and artists behind such cult-hit series as “Aqua Teen Hunger Force” and “Squidbillies” talked about the 10th anniversary of Radical Axis Studios, looked back at their body of work, and offered a peek at what lies ahead.
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