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The 90s animated sitcom Daria has found a new life at Comedy Central. MTV Studios announced today that Jodie has been picked up by the network, adding to its growing collection of adult animated series.
Tracee Ellis Ross will star in Jodie, a Daria spinoff series about Jodie Landon, Daria Morgendorffer’s friend from Lawndale High. The series was originally announced back in 2018, but just landed Ross as its lead last year and finally secured a home two years after it was first taken out to market, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Jodie will take place a few years outside of Lawndale High, with Jodie (voiced by Ross) fresh out of college and trying to navigate to post-grad world as she enters her first job in tech. The animated series will satirize Gen Z struggles, workplace culture, social media illusions and more. Jodie will also highlight personal and professional issues unique to young Black women in today’s culture.
“I am thrilled to bring this project to life with MTV, both as executive producer and by voicing Jodie’s character,” Ross said in a statement last year. “Being able to give voice to fresh, feminist and unexplored stories of young women excites me.”
The original Daria series ran from 1997-2002 on MTV and was originally conceived as a Beavis and Butt-Head spinoff. The new Daria series announced in 2018 initially planned to bring back Daria as a lead character, and was tentatively named Daria and Jodie. The series was shortened to Jodie last year when Ross was cast in the lead role. MTV Studios hopes to create a “Daria universe,” with Jodie being the first of multiple TV series and films.
Jodie comes from creator and writer Grace Edwards, who has worked on Insecure, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and Comedy Central’s Inside Amy Schumer. Ross serves an executive producer on the project.
MTV Studios has not announced a premiere date for Jodie yet, so there’s still plenty of time to binge Daria before the series drops on Comedy Central.
