EXCLUSIVE: Peacock has canceled In the Know, its first foray into adult animation that combined stop-motion animation and live-action interviews. The freshman series was from Mike Judge (Beavis and Butt-Head, Silicon Valley), Zach Woods (Silicon Valley, The Office) and Brandon Gardner.
The public radio parody chronicled the making of NPR’s fictional “third most popular host” Lauren Caspian’s radio program, on which he conducts in-depth interviews with guests, including Kaia Gerber, Ken Burns, Finn Wolfhard, Norah Jones, Mike Tyson, Hugh Laurie, Jorge Masvisdal and more.
The voiceover cast included Woods, Judge, Caitlin Reilly, Charlie Bushnell, J. Smith Cameron and Carl Tart. The six-episode season premiered January 25, 2024, two years after Peacock announced that it was following other streamers like Netflix and Paramount+ by making the move into adult animation.
“In the Know will capture the conversations so many of us have in our daily lives in a heightened, hilarious way” said Lisa Katz, President Scripted Content, NBCUniversal Television and Streaming, in 2022 “We’re excited to be working with the very best in the business in Mike, Greg, Zach and Brandon, and our partners at Universal Television.”
Woods and Gardner served as co-showrunners and executive produced. Judge, Daniels and Dustin Davis executive produced for Bandera Entertainment, along with Alexander Bulkley and Corey Campodonico for Shadowmachine.
In the Know came from Universal Television and Bandera Entertainment, the production company set up by Judge and Greg Daniels.
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