The Boondocks (TV series)
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| Created by | Aaron McGruder |
| Based on |
The Boondocks by Aaron McGruder |
| Written by |
Aaron McGruder (Season 1–3) Rodney Barnes Yamara Taylor (Season 1–2) Andre Brooks Jason Van Veen Angela Nissel (Season 4) |
| Directed by |
Seung Eun Kim (Season 1–2) Anthony Bell (Season 1) Joe Horne (Season 1) Kalvin Lee (Season 1) Sean Song (Season 1) Dan Fausett (Season 2) Sung Dae Kang (Season 3) Sung Hoon Kim (Season 3) Young Chan Kim (Season 3) Hea Young Jung (Season 4) Dae Woo Lee (Season 4) Kwang Il Han (Season 4) Andrea Romano (Voices) |
| Voices of |
Regina King John Witherspoon Cedric Yarbrough Gary Anthony Williams Jill Talley Gabby Soleil (Season 1–3) |
| Theme music composer | Asheru |
| Composer(s) | Metaphor the Great Jabril Battle Jonathan Jackson |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 4 |
| No. of episodes | 55 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Aaron McGruder (Season 1–3) Reginald Hudlin (Season 1–2) Rodney Barnes Brian J. Cowan Carl Jones |
| Producer(s) | Ayub Dahir Kim Brian Ash |
| Running time | 22 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Rebel Base Productions Adelaide Productions Sony Pictures Television |
| Distributor | Sony Pictures Television |
| Release | |
| Original network |
Adult Swim Teletoon (episodes 29 & 30) |
| Picture format | 480i 16:9 SDTV (2005–08) 1080i 16:9 HDTV (2010–14) |
| Original release | November 6, 2005 – June 23, 2014 |
| External links | |
| Website | |
The Boondocks is an American adult animated sitcom on Cartoon Network's late-night programming block, Adult Swim. Created by Aaron McGruder, based upon his comic strip of the same name, the series premiered on November 6, 2005. The show begins with a black family, the Freemans, settling into the fictional, peaceful, and mostly white suburb of Woodcrest. The perspective offered by this mixture of cultures, lifestyles, social classes, stereotypes, viewpoints and racial(ized) identities provides for much of the series' satire, comedy, and conflict.
The Boondocks ended on June 23, 2014, with a total of 55 episodes over the course of the show's four seasons. The fourth and final season was produced without any involvement from McGruder. The series also airs in syndication outside the United States and has been released on various DVD sets and other forms of home media.
The Boondocks began as a comic strip on Hitlist.com, one of the first online music websites. The strip later found its way into The Source magazine. Following these runs, McGruder began simultaneously pitching The Boondocks both as a syndicated comic strip and an animated television series. The former goal was met first, and The Boondocks debuted in newspapers in April 1999.
In the meantime, development on a The Boondocks TV series continued. McGruder and film producer/director Reginald Hudlin (President of Entertainment for BET from 2005–08) created a Boondocks pilot for the Fox Network, but found great difficulty in making the series acceptable for network television. Hudlin left the project after the Fox deal fell through, although McGruder and Sony Television are contractually bound to continue to credit him as an executive producer.Mike Lazzo, president of Adult Swim and executive producer for Aqua Teen Hunger Force and Space Ghost Coast to Coast, stumbled across the pilot and declared it "too networky". He then ordered a 15-episode season and told McGruder to "just tell stories".
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