Adult Swim greenlights Harvey Birdman spinoff with Paget Brewster
The Hollywood Reporter has brought word that Adult Swim will keep the Harvey Birdman franchise alive with a series order of the spinoff Birdgirl starring Paget Brewster reprising her role from the parent show.
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The series, created and executive produced by original series creators Michael Ouweleen and Erik Richter, will follow Judy Ken Sebben (aka Birdgirl) as she struggles to find a way to balance her work and superhero lives after being named CEO of the world’s largest and most nonsensical corporation, Sebben & Sebben. With her assembled Birdteam, they attempt to bring the company into the modern times by day and by midafternoon they must help defuse a lot of bad situations, many of which they might have caused.
The original Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law, itself a spinoff of the Hanna-Barbera cartoon, ran for four seasons and 39 episodes from 2005-07 in the early days of Adult Swim and received rave reviews from critics and audiences and helped the still burgeoning network establish a tone for its original series. Brewster recurred on the series, appearing in nine episodes, and now that her long-running CBS police procedural Criminal Minds is coming to an end, her starring role could help carry the series into multiple seasons.
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Ouweleen and Richter will executive produce Birdgirl with Christina Miller through their banner ME Productions, while Susan Shipsky will produce the series and Rich Ferguson-Hull, who helmed 24 of the original series’ run, will direct the spinoff.
