The Boondocks (2020 TV series)


The Boondocks is an upcoming American adult animated sitcom created by Aaron McGruder and loosely based upon the comic strip of the same name. It will be the second television series based on the comic, following the 2005 TV series that aired on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim programming block for four seasons between 2005 and 2014. The series will premiere in Fall 2020 on HBO Max.

Premise

The show begins with a black family, the Freemans, settling into the fictional, friendly and overall white suburb of Woodcrest and follows them as they fight the regime of Uncle Ruckus, who rules over the community government. The perspective offered by this mixture of cultures, lifestyles, social classes, stereotypes, viewpoints, and racialized identities provides for much of the series' satire, comedy, and conflict.

Development

The original Boondocks television series premiered on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim on November 6, 2005 and ran for four seasons and 55 episodes until its conclusion on June 23, 2014. During its first season, McGruder put the strip on a 6-month hiatus beginning in March 2006. He did not return to the strip the following November, and the strip's syndicate, Universal Press Syndicate, announced that it had been canceled. McGruder was not involved in the show's fourth season. Adult Swim stated, "a mutually agreeable production schedule could not be determined."
On February 6, 2019, McGruder revived the comic strip on Instagram, with the help of former supervising director Seung Eun Kim. A series of one-shots were posted to Charlamagne tha God's Instagram page. On May 29, 2019, Grandad voice actor John Witherspoon announced on Joe Rogan's 1305th episode of The Joe Rogan Experience that the series would return. Witherspoon would later pass away on October 29, 2019. At Annecy 2019, on June 12, 2019, Sony Pictures Animation announced it would be producing a "reimagining" of The Boondocks to be co-produced with Sony Pictures Television.
On September 18, 2019, it was announced that the reboot had been picked up with a two-season order for WarnerMedia's upcoming streaming service HBO Max. The series will premiere in fall 2020, with a 50-minute special. Each season is set to consist of twelve episodes.