Netflix Announces 'Disenchantment,' New Matt Groening Show

After months of speculation, it’s official. Matt Groening, the award-winning cartoonist who boasts creations like “The Simpsons” and “Futurama” will develop a medieval-animated-adult-fantasy for Netflix called “Disenchantment.”

The series which could prove to be a nerd-fest was given a 20-episode pick up by the online streaming platform, Variety reported. “Broad City” star Abbi Jacobson will voice the main protagonist in what is Groening’s first series with a female lead. This would likely mean two seasons with 10 episodes each.

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The cast will feature other "Futurama" voice actors like John DiMaggio, Billy West, Maurice LaMarche, Tress MacNeille and David Herman, among others like Matt Berry, Jeny Batten, Rich Fulcher, Noel Fielding and Lucy Montgomery.

Groening’s brilliance in comedy is well acknowledged, having received a British Comedy Award for “Outstanding Contribution to Comedy,” and no less than 12 Emmy Awards, 10 for “The Simpsons” and 2 for “Futurama.”

The new series will center around a “hard-drinking” young princess “Bean” accompanied by a “feisty elf” and a “personal demon” as they go about their “misadventures” in the “crumbling medieval kingdom of Dreamland,” according to Deadline.

This will bring Groening’s comedic genius into a world of “ogres, sprites, harpies, imps, trolls, walruses, and lots of human fools.”

“Disenchantment will be about life and death, love and sex, and how to keep laughing in a world full of suffering and idiots, despite what the elders and wizards and other jerks tell you,” Groening said.

“Matt Groening’s brilliant work has resonated with generations around the world and we couldn’t be happier to work with him on Disenchantment,” Cindy Holland, Netflix’s vice president of original content, said, Variety reported.

"The series will bear [Groening’s] trademark animation style and biting wit, and we think it's a perfect fit for our many Netflix animation fans," she added.

One can only speculate as to how Groening will go about the show, now that he will be subject to lesser censorship, as Ars Technica points out.

The animation will be done by “Futurama” creators Rough Draft Studios.

Josh Weinstein who teamed up with Groening for “The Simpsons” and “Futurama,” will team up with him again. Weinstein and Groening will be executive producers for the Ululu Company, which is producing the series.

With 28 seasons so far, “The Simpsons” is the longest running American sitcom and the longest running American animated program. Centered in the fictional town of Springfield around a dysfunctional working class family, it has received widespread critical acclaim.

Homer’s catchphrase “D’oh” was adopted into the English language in 2001.

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“Futurama” ran for seven seasons, and centers around the 20th century Philip Fry who was cryogenically frozen in a lab accident. Re-awoken in the 31st century, Fry works for the interplanetary delivery company Planet Express.

The retro-futuristically themed show was conceived by Groening in the mid-1990s, while he was working on “The Simpsons.”

When “Futurama” was canceled, it had been drawing in about 6.4 million viewers on average.