MTV Entertainment Studios announced today that it’s continuing to ramp up its robust animation slate with the exciting addition of Everybody Still Hates Chris, a reimagined animated version of superstar Chris Rock’s popular award-winning family show Everybody Hates Chris. The new series, which is also inspired by the beloved comic’s teenage years, has a straight-to-series order.
Executive produced by Rock and alongside Sanjay Shah (King of the Hill, South Park, Central Park), who will act as showrunner, Ali LeRoi, Michael Rotenberg and Dave Becky, produced by, CBS Studios and 3 Arts Entertainment, the new half-hour animated series Everybody Still Hates Chris, will feature Rock narrating stories inspired by his experiences growing up as a skinny nerd in a large working class family in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, during the late 1980s.