Liberals who used to get their satirical “news” from Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show may soon again rejoice. After leaving the show last summer and signing a four-year deal with HBO, Variety reports Stewart could be back as early as September in what HBO president Casey Bloys describes as, “an animated parody of a cable news network,” taking on U.S. politics and media.
Speaking to the Television Critics Association’s summer press tour, HBO offered a few details on the project. It will consist of short-form and longer-form content that will appear on both HBO’s online digital platforms and television.
Bloys explained “it will be simple animation… but it does allow him to respond fairly quickly to what’s going on in the day’s news…He wants to get material out on a daily basis. The idea is that it’s an animated parody of a cable news network in an Onion-like portal. It will be his voice, in his actual voice, and his tone.”
Stewart will be working with Otoy, a 3D graphics firm which was bought back in April will allow Stewart to create this animated series. Deadline reports that “CBS’s Late Show with Stephen Colbert, which Stewart executive produces, has been using a similar technique, most recently with an animated Hillary Clinton this week.”
Stewart’s program will run on HBO’s digital channels, while half-hour compilations are also expected to run on HBO’s channels in the US. Though it was supposed to have had an early 2016 release, many are hopeful that the show will be out in time for the presidential election – because liberals have been at a loss without Stewart and need someone to tell them what to think during the election season.
