Mike Judge has not created a new animated series since 1997. I guess 10-plus years is long enough because he's entered a deal with ABC to create a new series called The Goode Family.The series has a 13 episode order and is being produced by indie studio Media Rights Capital. It is the result of an independent deal between the studio and the writers so it's not affected by the WGA Strike.
Judge is best known for MTV's Beavis and Butthead cartoons. He also created King of the Hill for Fox. According to the article, The Goode Family "centers around a do-gooder family that tries to do the right thing in all facets of life".
While I'm not a die-hard Judge fan, I have enjoyed his previous works as well as his movie Office Space (and I even got a chuckle or two out of Idiocracy). I hope ABC treats this show better than Clerks, its last attempt at an adult animated series.
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2-08-2008 @ 12:17PM
sitruc said...
I thought most animated shows did not go with the WGA anyways.
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2-08-2008 @ 5:40PM
Brent McKee said...
Most don't. There are some producers that are able to use non-union writers but most of the people who write for animation are represented by the Cartoonist Guild (actually an IATSE local) because at the time the guild was set up animation was mostly done without scripts through the storyboard technique. That's no longer the case today and although there hasn't been a scientific poll it's believed that most animation writers would like to be part of the WGA, in part but not only because the WGA writers get residuals while residuals earned by IATSE members get plowed into the union pension and health plan for all members.
2-09-2008 @ 2:26AM
sitruc said...
Thanks for the informative reply, Brent.