Age of The Nerd
Late last fall, SYFY quietly launched the new 90-minute, late-night adult animation block — and it’s continuing to grow! The genre-focused block airs Saturdays at midnight with all original interstitial micro-content. The animation block titled “TZGZ” will expand with three new series and two upcoming pilots.
The 3 new adult-angled animated series coming to the lineup are Wild Life, which was previously a 15-minute pilot; Dr. Havoc’s Diary, an acquired six-minute-long, 30-episode series; and Hell Den, which is getting a full second season of six 15-minute episodes created just for TZGZ. Details on those shows can be found below!
HELL DEN (Season 2)
Straight to series order (6×15 min episodes)
After an Uber-Apocalypse wipes out civilization, only one person miraculously survives: 12-year-old Andrew. With the last working TV and VCR in existence, he invites a motley group of apocalyptic creatures into his house to watch weird cartoons and old movies. Hell Den combines original animation of our characters with old live-action and animated clips re-dubbed by the Dr. God troupe in this new, unique, and very warped twist on sketch comedy.
CAST: Series regulars Sean Cowhig, Neil Garguilo, Brian James O’Connell, David Park, and Justin Ware; guest stars Matthew Lillard, Katie Leclerc, Maria Bamford, Kevin Heffernan
WILD LIFE
Greenlit to series from pilot (Pilot + 5×15 min episodes, 6 episodes total)
TZGZ’s first internally developed pilot greenlit to series
A show about animal friends just trying to stay alive after the apocalypse. Together, they come up with elaborate schemes to entertain themselves and pretty much just keep from going insane.
CAST: Natalie Palamides, Baron Vaughn, Reggie Watts, John Paul Reynolds, Claudia O’Doherty, SkittLeZ Ortiz
DR. HAVOC’S DIARY
30 x 6-min eps
A mid-level supervillain having a mid-life crisis battles secret agents, superheroes and his wife.
PILOTS:
PLUTONIANS (working title)
Pilot order (15 min episodes)
The Interplanetary Federation has conferred and it’s official: Pluto is no longer a planet. The Plutonians are now determined to rebrand their image and prove themselves to the other planetary beings of the solar system – with the exception of Earth, who are notorious bullies and can’t find out about alien life.
PSYCHO PSALMS
Pilot order (15 min episodes)
Psycho Psalms is a stop motion dark comedy following 1940s D-List cartoon character Timecrow and his misfit costars, as they attempt to navigate our postmodern internet hellscape after being yanked through a portal to our present day. These offbeat characters will take you to a dark place, but they won’t leave you there.
