Everybody Hates Chris has spawned an animated followup, with Comedy Central announcing details on the adult animated series Everybody Still Hates Chris. The new series features returning Everybody Hates Chris stars Chris Rock, Terry Crews, and Tichina Arnold. The original series ran for four seasons on UPN, and the animated version is targeting a premiere on Comedy Central later this year.
“I’m very excited to introduce the world to another funny side of my childhood,” said Chris Rock.
The half-hour animated comedy also features Tim Johnson Jr., Ozioma Akagha, Terrence Little Gardenhigh, and Gunnar Sizemore. Central Park‘s Sanjay Shah is the showrunner and executive produces along with Chris Rock of Chris Rock Enterprises, Ali LeRoi, and 3 Arts Entertainment’s Michael Rotenberg and Dave Becky. Additional executive producers include Titmouse’s Chris Prynoski, Shannon Prynoski, Antonio Canobbio and Ben Kalina.
“I wanted this job to get free tickets to a Chris Rock stand-up show, but we ended up making something we’re proud of that is true to the original series we all loved,” said Shah.
The animated series is produced by CBS’s Eye Animation Productions, Chris Rock Enterprises, and 3 Arts Entertainment. Titmouse is serving as the animation studio.
Comedy Central released the following description of the animated series:
Everybody Still Hates Chris will feature Chris Rock as Adult Chris, narrating stories inspired by his experience growing up as a skinny nerd in a large working-class family in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, during the late 1980s. Terry Crews will voice Julius, Chris’ father, who is a gentle giant with a relentless work ethic – and cheap. He grew up dirt poor, so he knows the cost of everything down to the penny. He works two jobs to support the family, and on his days off, he takes on a third job.
Tichina Arnold will voice Rochelle, Chris’ mother who is smart, strong-willed, and has a nurturing spirit, but she can also be hot-headed, especially when it comes to her kids. She tolerates zero nonsense, so she quits more jobs in a month than most people do in a lifetime. Tim Johnson Jr. will voice Young Chris, a nerd who wants to be cool but he’s outshined by his younger brother, tortured by his little sister, and foiled by his cheapskate dad. Ozioma Akagha will voice Tonya, Chris’ feisty baby sister, with the face of an angel and the heart of a demon, who gets along with her middle brother Drew but leaps at any chance to get Chris in trouble.
Terrence Little Gardenhigh will voice Drew, the golden child of the family who is the epitome of Black Excellence: handsome, athletic, a ladies man, taller and cooler than his older brother Chris. Gunnar Sizemore will voice Greg, Chris’s only friend at school who is girl-obsessed, status-conscious, and raised by a single dad.
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