Did you grow up with 1980s cartoons? I'm talking about the ones that were basically created by toy companies as a cash grab with very little regard to story, art, or taste. Now, as someone who was not even considered until the mid-1990s, I lucked out and missed all the horrors of the saccharine Saturday […]
Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland's Rick and Morty has had an interesting Emmys run this year, Obviously, the biggest news is that the Adult Swim series made it two years in a row when it comes to winning the award for Outstanding Animated Program. Then came the animated duo's guest appearance during the Emmy Awards […]
Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland's Rick and Morty had its moment in the sun Friday night, making it two years in a row that the Adult Swim series walked away with Emmy award for Outstanding Animated Program at the virtual Creative Arts Emmys 2020 awards ceremony. Directed by Jacob Hair and written by Jeff Loveness […]
On Friday night, Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland's Rick and Morty made it two years in a row, scoring another win for Outstanding Animated Program at the virtual Creative Arts Emmys 2020 awards ceremony. Following up last year's score for "Pickle Rick," this year saw "The Vat of Acid Episode" walk away with the prize. Directed […]
Looks like that's two-for-two for Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland's Rick and Morty, scoring a win for Outstanding Animated Program at the virtual Creative Arts Emmys 2020 awards ceremony on Friday night. Following up on last year's award-winning "Pickle Rick," this year saw "The Vat of Acid Episode" walk away with the gold. Directed by Jacob Hair […]
In honor of Batman Day, fans of the Caped Crusader are letting their freak cowls fly in celebration- and they have a ton of ways to celebrate considering how prevalent the Dark Knight's been for generations. From comic books and television series to adventures on the big screen and pretty much every other medium you […]
With two specials down and two specials still to go, HBO Max and Pendleton Ward are offering viewers a special sneak preview of the Marceline and Princess Bubblegum-focused adventure that will literally be music to your ears. This Friday, the streaming service and Cartoon Network will release the "BMO Mixtape" to compliment the big-little hero's […]
Spear and Fang's journey together has only just begun, with Adult Swim announcing on Tuesday that critically-acclaimed animated series Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal will premiere five new episodes starting Sunday, October 4th at 11:30 pm ET/PT. Genndy Tartakovsky's (Adult Swim's Samurai Jack) creative vision was recently renewed for a second season of ten new episodes, with […]
Welcome back to another edition of BCTV's Sunday Slices, where I take a look at the past week in Bleeding Cool's television/streaming coverage to offer my thoughts on what went down, what's going down, and what's about to take off in the not-too-distant future. Once again, my thoughts/opinions are my own and do not necessarily […]
So after 7 season, 81 episodes, and 16+ years, series creator Jackson Publick made it official earlier this week: The Venture Bros. had been canceled by Adult Swim. Except we're not sure anyone told Adult Swim. Though Publick revealed that he was notified of the decision "a few months ago" by Cartoon Network's late-night animation […]
Leave it to Adult Swim's The Venture Bros. to take the news that viewers wouldn't think was that big of a surprise and add a bit of confusion to it. On Monday, series creator Jackson Publick (aka Christopher McCulloch) tweeted that the series had been canceled by the late-night animation block on Adult Swim after […]
Welcome back to another edition of BCTV Sunday Slices, where I take a look back at the week in Bleeding Cool's broadcast, cable, and streaming coverage to offer a little "extra perspective"- a nice way of saying that I'm getting to shoot my mouth off on a bunch of things that tickled the back of […]
We're sorry to interrupt your re-re-rewatch of the first three episodes of Amazon Prime's The Boys, but it's rare when we get the opportunity to talk about not one but two of our favorite shows in the same article without it seeming like a blatant attempt at clickbait. But when series showrunner and executive producer […]
Fans of the beloved SEGA game franchise "Shenmue" are still buzzing about the news that dropped at Virtual Crunchyroll Expo, the first-ever digital edition of Crunchyroll's annual anime convention. The anime streaming service announced on Friday that it is partnering with Adult Swim on Shenmue, a 13-episode original anime series set to stream outside of […]
Move over, Hulk Hogan's Rock and Wrestling! WWE star Rey Mysterio may have lost an eye to Seth Rollins, but at least he has a new career to look forward to being a cartoon star. Mysterio will star in a new animated series about himself fighting evil for Cartoon Network Latin America, according to a […]
While we still have a couple of more weeks to go before the 2020 Creative Arts Emmy Awards, Adult Swim's Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal, FXX/FX on Hulu's Archer, NBC's Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt's HITRECORD can count themselves "winners" already. On Tuesday, the Television Academy announced juried award winners, with juried categories different from the […]
During a time of social upheaval in this nation, the fight against police brutality, racial injustice, and societal inequities in the U.S. has gone from national to global- and now it's gone universal. Viewers of Adult Swim's late-night block of anime programming got more than they expected Saturday night when Toonami host and our resident […]
In honor of the late Chadwick Boseman (Black Panther, Da 5 Bloods), who passed away after a four-year battle with cancer at the age of 43, I'm going to put our regular BCTV Sunday Slices intro on ice for the week. Instead, we'll kick things off with some words from Boseman himself: "I don't know […]
Pin collecting has been a little hobby for the past couple of years. I mean, it is a little portable piece of art that now most artists I love also offer. However, being in lockdown seems to have made my collection grow and now I am finding myself having to debate which pins have to […]
Welcome to a post-DC FanDome edition of BCTV Sunday Slices, after a week of some really big announcements but a little soft when it comes to news. That said, "a little soft" still covers a wide range of topics. This weekend, we sing the praises of Lovecraft Country, like the feeling of having Archer back, […]
