MTV Entertainment Cancels Daria Spin-Off “Jodie”
Four years after the project was announced, MTV Entertainment has opted not to move forward with Daria spin-off animated film, Jodie. The Tracee Ellis Ross-starrer was originally ordered as a series before being turned into an animated film that would focus on Jodie Landon who graduates college and kicks off a career in tech in the big city.
A MTV Spokesperson tells Deadline in a statement:
We have loved working with Tracee, Grace and the whole team on creating a film that is full of joy and genre-bending fun with an inclusive, diverse, and incredible cast. We are fully supportive of them finding a home elsewhere and look forward to partnering with them in the future.
It should be noted that MTV Entertainment parent company ViacomCBS has been fielding offers for an acquisition for the better part of 2024 thus far with potential suitors being Byron Allen, Skydance, WB Discovery, and others being named as potential merger/acquisition targets. Moreover, the original animation being released on streamer Paramount+, specifically the adult animation category, has been paltry to kick off 2024 and doesn’t look to be getting any better anytime soon, especially with this bullshit announcement.
Do we know if Hulu will be the only entity to have the dub, or if it will be on other platforms, too? The show in general is definitely going to be on multiple platforms.