Longtime followers of grownup swim and particularly The Boondocks had been dealt a tough blow earlier within the week. The a lot publicized revival for the beloved animated sequence, introduced for HBO Max , has been canned.

The information broke a couple of days in the past courtesy of Cedric Yarborough, voice actor for Tom Dubois, in an interview for the Geekset Podcast. “Right now, the show is not coming back,” mentioned Yarborough. “We’ve been wanting to do the show, and Sony decided that they’re gonna pull the plug.” Details on the Boondocks’ return up so far had been extraordinarily scarce, with the preliminary pitch being that youngsters Huey and Riley Freeman (each voiced by Regina King) and their grandfather Robert (the late John Witherspoon) would see their suburban metropolis of Woodcrest be slowly taken over by Uncle Ruckus (Gary Anthony Williams) and his “bizarre” neo-fascist regime.

At the second, a cause for the cancellation hasn’t been given. Back in 2019, HBO Max ordered a pair of “reimagined seasons” for the sequence, supposed to start out with a 50-minute particular in 2020 that by no means got here to life. At the time, creator Aaron McGruder was excited to return to his beloved world, acknowledging how the unusual occasions we reside in would make for some nice satire. “It’s crazy how different the times we live in are now—both politically and culturally…There’s a lot to say, and it should be fun.”

Later within the video, Yarborough gave effusive reward to McGruder’s scripts, calling them “so damn funny,” and revealed that recording had already begun. As far as whether or not or not destiny will intervene and the sequence will return, he was within the center about its probabilities. “Hopefully, we’ll be able to revisit it. If we don’t, then that’s what that is.”

Back in its heyday, The Boondocks was top-of-the-line animated reveals that grownup animation on tv, and the primary three seasons had been one among many nice cartoons that helped Adult Swim develop into the powerhouse that it’s. It’s a rattling disgrace that the present received’t be coming again: outdoors of its stellar voice forged, it had nice animation and writing coming from McGruder’s, Rodney Barnes, and Angela Nissel’s extraordinarily distinct voices. It stays extraordinarily humorous to this present day, whether or not it’s the Freemans making an attempt to flee one among Robert’s extremely dangerous blind dates or Tom being helpless as his spouse Sarah gushes over Usher (might not be me, sir).

The unique, four-season run of The Boondocks is accessible on HBO Max. Like Yarborough mentioned to shut out the video: “What we do have and what’s out there is evergreen. That’s out there forever, and those people will always be able to check those out.”

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