TORONTO — Corus Entertainment’s Adult Swim specialty channel will debut a new “coming-of-all-ages comedy series about death, family, and accidental resurrection” on Sunday, Sept. 19 at midnight ET/PT, Corus announced today.
The new series Teenage Euthanasia is set in inland Florida and follows the owners of Tender Endings funeral home, the Fantasy family, which consists of Grandma Baba (voiced by Bebe Neuwirth), her adult children Uncle Pete and Trophy (voiced by Tim Robinson and Maria Bamford), and Trophy’s teenage daughter, Euthanasia “Annie” (voiced by Jo Firestone).
“Back when Trophy was a teen herself, she ran away from home after giving birth to Annie, leaving her newborn to be raised by Baba and Uncle Pete. Now, fifteen years later, Trophy returns to Tender Endings…as a corpse, for burial. When a bolt of lightning strikes Baba’s homemade embalming fluid and one of Annie’s tears, Trophy comes back from the dead. As a resurrected woman, Trophy has a variety of quasi-useful death powers. But more importantly, she has a second chance at unplanned parenthood,” reads a synopsis in a press release.
The half-hour animated series is co-created by American writer and producer Alissa Nutting (Made for Love) and Emmy-nominated producer Alyson Levy (The Shivering Truth). The series is produced by New York-based production company PFFR and is animated by Augenblick Studios.
Executive producers for Teenage Euthanasia include Lisa Thomas, Vernon Chatman and John Lee, with Scott Adsit serving as co-executive producer.
Image courtesy of Corus Entertainment.
