Beavis And Butt-Head renewed, moving from streaming to Comedy Central
The show's third season, out next year, will debut on Comedy Central ahead of Paramount+
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Over the last few years, the barriers between the worlds of streaming and more traditional TV have steadily broken down, mostly as the needs of the old-school networks have required. Now we’re about to see what might be a genuinely new spin on this general permissiveness: A legacy TV series making the unexpected “regular TV to streaming back to regular TV” flip, with news breaking today that the Beavis & Butt-Head revival has been renewed for a third season, which will debut on Comedy Central.
As fans of Mike Judge’s MTV classic know, it recently came back in 2022, returning to TV—which is to say, streamer Paramount+—after an 11 year absence. (And that 2011 entry was also a revival project, picking up after the original show ended back in 1997.) The new seasons have picked up strong praise for retaining the core smart-stupid vibe of the show’s central duo, while still managing to update the series for the modern world.
As part of the transition to Comedy Central, the show’s latest movie adaptation, Beavis And Butt-Head Do The Universe, will arrive on Comedy Central on July 3, ahead of the debut of its second season on the cable channel. The third season will arrive some time in 2025, and will debut on Comedy Central first, before making its way over to the streaming airwaves.
Judge has been very busy of late, of course; he’s currently working on the King Of The Hill reboot that’s also supposed to be coming out in 2025, so that’s going to be a big year for ’90s animation nerds all-round, sounds like. Meanwhile, we assume Mikey Day and Ryan Gosling are spending today with their phones constantly blowing up with this news, because that is the hell they have now consigned themselves to.
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I bet those two would love the brand new SPR3 music video!
One hopes that companies finally realize that people rarely sign up to streaming to watch one thing, so you’re better off putting stuff on TV/in Theaters first to make money off of them, before offloading them to streaming where you’re just trying to keep the new stuff dripping in enough to make people not cancel their subscription.Like most stuff on Paramount+ should have been on TV first.
It still kind of baffles me that they didn’t go that route with any of the Star Trek shows. I get that they want to try to drive subscriptions to P+ and the best way to do that is with exclusive content, but something to remind old people and folks who only watch broadcast or cable TV (a pretty darn big group of people) that Star Trek is still an ongoing concern would seem to make sense.I know they advertised those shows on CBS proper, but having a show actually airing there turns it from vague awareness to something they can actually watch.Strange New Worlds seems like it would have been the most appropriate candidate given that it’s the closest in spirit and execution to the Trek shows from days of yore that people remember.
Holy shit! They’re actually putting new content on Comedy Central again?!?!
RIP Venture Bros.
Heh, I didn’t even think of that, but I think you’re right…other than when the Daily Show is airing new episodes, literally everything else on Comedy Central is reruns of South Park, The Office and maybe some other things (Futurama maybe?).
I think they had like a 6 episode SP season a year or so ago but that’s about it. Damn shame what they’ve done to that channel because it had some great shows. Nathan For You, Review, Another Period, Detroiters, Drunk History, Workaholics, they use to have good first run stuff on frequently
Oh yeah, duh, they still do have new South Park episodes too but between the Paramount+ South Park “exclusive events” and with how short the Comedy Central seasons are, must have slipped my mind, heh. Yeah, that channel has gone to shit.
It’s incredible to me that I grew up watching Beavis and Butthead to love it again years later on Paramount Plus, only to have it end up on comedy Central where my other favorite show South Park came from. These shows raised me and I’m so effing ecstatic they are still around and still funny. Mike, Matt, Trey, thank you so much for the comedy and freedom. And also, thanks for Casa Bonita, it was amazing!
Great news. I did watch the first season of this B&B revival after doing a free trial of Paramount+ to watch some of those South Park specials, but I didn’t see season 2 yet. I’m not gonna start paying for Paramount+ when it has little else of interest to me.
They’re remastering (all?) the old B&BH episodes on Par+ too, including the music videos. Good times.
Wow, they got licenses for all of those? I figured that would be a big issue.
I think they need to stick with “Old” and “Smart” Beavis & Butthead, as well just music videos and the occasional MTV show.