'Beavis and Butt-Head' Revival Moves To Comedy Central For Season 3

 

If we had a nickel for every Paramount+ original adult animated series that moved premieres to Comedy Central, we’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot but hey that’s the news. Mike Judge’s Beavis and Butt-Head revival, which has aired its first two seasons as an original of the streamer, is heading that way for its third season, which is already deep in production but won’t premiere until next year. And it’s starting by giving the critically acclaimed film that launched the revival, the Paramount+-original film Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe on Wednesday, July 3 at 10 p.m. ET/PT

Still, the rebuilding network has some catch up to do. The linear premiere of the film heralds the revival’s second season’s own starting the following Wednesday, July 10 in the same timeslot. This is actually a return to Comedy Central for the show as its actual home, as both revival seasons were originally ordered together in 2020, with the promise of spinoffs and specials that have not come to be, alongside the series-turned-movie Jodie, which was a spinoff of the Beavis and Butt-Head spinoff Daria, had the studio now scrapped it. The The Ren and Stimpy Show revival that was ordered around the same time has been produced but yet to air, while the John Mulaney & the Sack Lunch Bunch follow-ups have not materialized at all and likely never will. It moved to Paramount+ to bolster the service’s offerings and pair with Do the Universe.

Created and voiced by writer, producer and director Mike Judge, it all originated on MTV’s animation showcase Liquid Television, with his 1992 short film Frog Baseball. The original full Beavis and Butt-Head ran for seven seasons from March 8, 1993, to November 28, 1997, with its first movie, Beavis and Butt-Head Do America. The first revival was only for a single eighth season in 2011 on MTV. Both seasons of this run have been 10 episodes, executive produced by Judge, Lew Morton and Michael Rotenberg, and Chris Prynoski, Shannon Prynoski, Ben Kalina, and Antonio Canobbio. 

As alluded to, Beavis and Butt-Head is not the first Paramount+-original animated series to forego that status and move to Comedy Central, the first was Tooning Out the News, later canceled after its only season as a cable original. While none of what the Beavis and Butt-Head revival was ordered in proximity of has surfaced, the network is still building an animation slate around South Park, with Digman! renewed for a second season and an adaptation of the Golden Axe video game franchise from Mike McMahan of Star Trek: Lower Decks has been greenlit.

Source: Animation Magazine

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