Final Space
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| Genre | Adventure Sci-Fi Comedy |
| Created by | Olan Rogers |
| Written by | Olan Rogers David Sacks |
| Voices of | Olan Rogers |
| Composer(s) | Jake Sidwell Shelby Merry |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
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Conaco Studio T New Form Digital |
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| Original network | TBS |
| Original release | 2018 |
Final Space is an American animated science fiction television series created by indie internet filmmaker Olan Rogers with David Sacks serving as showrunner and will be broadcast on TBS in Early 2018. The series involves an astronaut named Gary Space and his alien friend, Mooncake, and focuses on their adventures as they try to solve the mystery of “Final Space”.
The intergalactic escape follows an astronaut named Gary and his planet-destroying sidekick called Mooncake. Together, the two embark on serialized journeys through space in order to unlock the mystery of where the universe actually ends and if it actually does exist.
The Idea for the show originated back in Mid-2010. Olan Rogers released a video named Gary Space through his personal YouTube channel, as part of a planned ten-part animated web-series. The project soon went into limbo three episodes in, Rogers eventually explained on Facebook that both him and the artist for the series, Dan Brown, became busy at that time, but were in talks of continuing. On April 30, 2013, when updating people on other projects in the works, he revealed that the series was being rebooted and was producing a season of episodes to release all at the same time. Over two years later, Rogers revealed that a new short for the reboot for Gary Space was planned to be pitched to Cartoon Network and premiering the episode at Buffer Festival if nothing came from the pitch.
In early 2016, he announced that project was now under the new name Final Space and revealed screenshots of the short through a vlog on his YouTube channel; he also spoke in a vlog about his experiences with New Form for their in making the pilot Incubator 3 Series, and mentioning that the company was looking to get it sold as a series as well as pitching more ideas for them including another short name The Lion's Blaze. The pilot for Final Space was posted on Rogers’ YouTube channel, now gaining +580k views. Soon the video caught the attention of Conan O’Brien, whom then invited him to Los Angeles to pitch Final Space to TBS as a full series and also joined production as an executive producer alongside Rogers and 3rd Rock from the Sun writer and producer David Sacks. Other members of O'Brien's company, Conaco (David Kissinger, Larry Sullivan and Jeff Ross), and members of New Form whom executive produced the pilot short (Kathleen Grace, Melissa Schneider and Matt Hoklotubbe) joined as executive producers as well. To balance out Rogers' inexperience in the industry, Conaco brought in Sacks to also serve as the showrunner for the series. After two weeks of working with Sacks and Jake Sidwell (co-composer of the series alongside Shelby Merry) on the pitch, Rogers then pitched the show to TBS; as well as Comedy Central, Fox, FX, YouTube, and Fullscreen; all six companies wanted the series and resulted in a bidding war between the studios over the series, with TBS then acquiring the series.
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