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New Adult Swim animated series explores death and family

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...