Former Daily Show host Jon Stewart is returning to television with an animated series, HBO announced this weekend. The series might be ready to air as early as September, but could debut later in the fall.
“The idea is it will be an animated parody of a cable news network with an Onion-like portal,” HBO programming president Casey Bloys told the Television Critics Association on Saturday.
While the show will be presented in a standard TV series format, HBO will roll out short-form content throughout its digital platforms. It’s not clear yet if the TV series will be a compilation of the short-form content produced for other platforms or if it’ll be something entirely different.
