‘Everybody Hates Chris’ is getting an animated revival – drops new teaser ahead of release this week

24 September, 2024

The cast of 'Everybody Hates Chris'

Everybody Hates Chris is getting an animated revival, which is set to air this week.

The original show, which was inspired by Chris Rock‘s childhood, was first aired in 2005 and ran for four seasons.

Now, a new animated series entitled Everybody Still Hates Chris is set to premiere on Comedy Central in the US tomorrow (September 25). A trailer for the show has also dropped (watch below).

A release date in the UK for the series is yet to be announced.

The show will star Rock along with Terry Crews and Tichina Arnold who play Chris’ (Tim Johnson Jr.) mother and father in the show, respectively. Other stars expected to feature include Tisha Campbell, Bell Biv DeVoe, Ayo Edebiri, Sally Jessy Raphael, Busta Rhymes and Sam Richardson.

According to Entertainment Weekly, the new show will begin where Everybody Hates Chris‘ finale ended.

The first episode will see Chris failing his G.E.D. and eating with his family at a diner after receiving the unfortunate news.

Upon revealing to his parents that he did not pass his classes, his mother Rochelle knocks him into animation, with the rest of the series being captured in 2D.

It comes after the original star of Everybody Hates Chris, Tyler James Williams, previously spoke about a reboot in 2020.

“As far as a reunion goes, we’ve talked about it several times,” he said at the time. “[Co-creator] Ali [LeRoi], Chris, and myself have kind of kicked around different ideas at different periods of time as to what could happen.

“I think in, I want to say 2019, we got close. We got close. And then it just kind of… People keep getting other jobs and it gets harder to get done. Maybe one day. You know what I mean? Maybe one day we will.”

Williams added: “Hopefully one day we get a chance to do that and kind of expand on that story. But I think what gets difficult in that is we want to maintain the legacy of making this a completely relatable show.

“And as we get into talking [Chris Rock’s] older years of life, the trajectory of the story gets a little less relatable of ‘Now it’s specifically a comic in Hollywood,’ and that kind of thing. So I think that’s the struggle that we all run up against.”

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