*The upcoming cartoon series “Everybody Still Hates Chris” is set to premiere on Comedy Central next month.
As we reported earlier, Chris Rock is bringing his childhood back to TV with an animated revival of his 2000s sitcom “Everybody Hates Chris.” The new series will feature Rock as the narrator, reprising his role from the original show. The animated version will also include returning stars Terry Crews and Tichina Arnold, who played Chris’ parents.
The half-hour show will focus on stories inspired by Rock’s experiences growing up in a working-class family in Brooklyn during the late 1980s. New cast members include Tim Johnson Jr., Ozioma Akagha, Terrence Little Gardenhigh, and Gunnar Sizemore.
Comedy Central announced Monday that the series will premiere September 25 at 10 pm ET/PT, Vibe reports.
“I’m very excited to introduce the world to another funny side of my childhood,” Rock said in a statement.
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EUR’s Chris Richburg reported that Johnson will play 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,” per Variety.
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.”
Gardenhigh is the 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.”
Sizemore will play Greg, Chris’s only friend at school “who is girl-obsessed, status-conscious and raised by a single dad.”
“A reimagining of this groundbreaking, critically acclaimed series has been a source of creative discussions at our studio for a long time,” said George Cheeks, president and CEO of CBS.
“It’s exciting to join forces with 3 Arts and the comedic genius of Chris Rock as he expands on his vision of the original show in this innovative new format. This also marks another significant in-house collaboration for CBS with Chris McCarthy and our valued partners at MTV Entertainment Studios as we jointly support this marquee series for Paramount+ and Comedy Central.”
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