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Little Demon is an animated series for adults created by Darcy Fowler, Seth Kirschner and Kieran Valla, with a plot quite different.

Little Demon, the new animated series for adults, is gaining a lot of attention and praise. The show follows the story of a teenage girl, Luz, who discovers she is a witch. With the help of her best friend, Eda, and a small demon, King, she must learn to control her powers before they become too dangerous. Little Demon is a unique series that combines comedy, horror, and fantasy elements to create a captivating and entertaining story. It’s no wonder why viewers are drawn to this show.

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13 years after being impregnated by Satan, a reluctant mother, Laura, and her Antichrist daughter, Chrissy, attempt to live an ordinary life in Delaware, but are constantly thwarted by monstrous forces, including Satan, who yearns for custody of his daughter’s soul.

After viewing the premiere episode and catching up with the cast and crew of Fxx’s “Little Demon” during their panel at San Diego Comic Con we felt the series was both entertaining and smartly written. The animated series focuses on what happens with Satan’s daughter, Chrissy, voiced by Lucy DeVito, who happens to be the antichrist hits puberty. Her mom Laura, voiced by Aubrey Plaza, desires for her daughter to have an everyday normal living in Delaware, but her father Satan, voiced by Danny DeVito has other plans for her soul.

The show made it’s official premiere on Fxx, as well as, on Hulu, back on August 25th and continues to churn out solid ratings week after week. Despite the praise from fans and critics, certain Christian groups are taking issue with the series angered that a Disney-owned animated series would explore a demonic topic. During their...

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In the premiere of Fxx’s animated comedy Little Demon, Chrissy Feinberg (Lucy DeVito) discovers she’s the spawn of Satan. Literally: Her human mom, Laura (Aubrey Plaza), fucked the Devil (Danny DeVito, Lucy DeVito’s real-life dad) 13 years ago, and Chrissy was the result. Now her dad’s finally tracked them down, and as Chrissy warily lets him into her life, she finds herself increasingly torn between the ordinary teen girl life she thought she wanted and the apocalyptic dreams her father’s offering her — all the while trying to figure out who she really is as her own person.

It’s a tension echoed, with some corresponding awkwardness, in the show itself. In the first three half-hour episodes sent to critics, Little Demon can be wobbly in balancing its impish sense of humor and squishy sense of heart, its otherworldly shenanigans and its more grounded emotions.

If the road to hell is paved with good intentions, then good intentions are also sending “Little Demon” to TV’s fiery pit of no return. Over its first three episodes, the adult animated sitcom created and written by Darcy Fowler, Seth Kirschner, and Kieran Valla is high on crude jokes — with nudity, bloodshed, and cringe comedy aplenty — but low on ingenuity, taking a novel premise and steering it toward conventionality. In a crowded landscape of TV-ma animation (unless you’re working for HBO Max), simply talking the filthy talk isn’t enough, and the DeVito family’s fictional foray into hell needs more pep in its step if it’s going to avoid damnation.

Lucy DeVito (daughter of Danny) voices Chrissy, the eponymous spawn of a wine-carrying, cardigan-wearing Satan, played by Danny DeVito (father of Lucy) — only Chrissy doesn’t know her father is a fallen angel; she thinks...

To get the easy joke out of the way quickly, Fxx’s upcoming adult animated series “Little Demon” gives new meaning to the phrase “the ex from Hell.” In fact, “Little Demon” is a very to-the-point title, as the series revolves around the aftermath of 13-year-old Chrissy (voiced by Lucy DeVito) — an otherwise unremarkable seventh-grade girl, with no friends other than her single mother — finding out that she just so happens to be the Antichrist and more remarkable than she could ever imagine. More importantly, she learns that her mother, Laura (Aubrey Plaza), has lied to her whole life, and that the father she’s always believed to be dead is actually Satan (Danny DeVito) himself. And now he wants to be a part of her life. The series follows Chrissy’s new normal, caught in the middle of a custody battle that is also ultimately a battle for her soul.

There are currently a handful of horror movies playing in theaters, including Nope, Beast, and Orphan: First Kill, and another brand new one is being added to the mix this week.

This week is a bit of a quiet one all around on the horror front, but with the Halloween season fast approaching, we promise you this is merely the quiet before the spooky storm…

Here’s all the new horror arriving August 22 – August 28, 2022!

First up, we may be a couple months away from Halloween but a new indie horror movie titled The Day After Halloween kicks off the season on VOD this Tuesday, August 23rd.

The film is being billed as “The Hangover meets horror.”

Directed by Chad Ostrom, and written by Danny Schluck, “this frighteningly fun genre treat sees two lifelong buddies forced to unravel the circumstances that led to a corpse in their bathtub in the wake of a Halloween party.

Growing up is never easy. It's been especially tricky for 13-year-old Chrissy (Lucy DeVito). She's never been able to put down roots and establish friends, as she's constantly on the move from place to place. Chrissy has never met her father who died when she was young, and her mom, Laura (Aubrey Plaza), has them jumping from one remote locale to the other. On her first day at yet another new school, Chrissy is feeling optimistic, having struck up a conversation, and friendship, with a sweet young boy named Bennigan (Eugene Cordero). If only Chrissy could stay long enough in her new surroundings, things might finally calm down.

The only problem for Chrissy is that this is "Little Demon," a fantastic and utterly bonkers show that never stops raising the stakes and the feeling of bloody, cacophonic delirium. Within moments of the first episode, Chrissy is bullied by some boys in the bathroom,...

Exclusive: Weird NJ is coming to the small screen. Sony Pictures Television has acquired the rights to Mark Moran and Mark Sceurman’s Weird NJ magazines and broader Weird U.S franchise for development as a live-action horror-comedy series. The project hails from Little Demon co-creator Kieran Valla and NJ native and filmmaker David Kaufmann and Vertigo Entertainment.

First published in 1993, Weird NJ is a beloved travel guide to the places you won’t find on a tourist map. By focusing on locations and stories that are weird, odd or unique — all told by local New Jerseyans — Moran and Sceurman have become the keepers of New Jersey’s most interesting folklore and untold history. They most recently published their 58th issue.

The show will be based on the well-known Weird NJ magazines about an estranged family that is forced by destiny to protect New Jersey from evil, they must temper...

No show that chronicles life as the devil’s spawn should be G-rated, amiright? That’s one of the unique characteristics of Little Demon, FX’s upcoming animated show about a mother named Laura (voiced by Aubrey Plaza) whose antichrist daughter Chrissy (Lucy DeVito) is quite literally the daughter of Satan (Danny DeVito).

Among other shenanigans, the comedy from creators Darcy Fowler, Seth Kirschner and Kieran Valla drops some potty language and shows Laura nude — with no pixillation.

“We are going to keep going for it, until we are told no,” Kirschner told reporters today during FX’s Television Critics Tour panel. “We cut a bunch of stuff out, oddly enough.”

“It’s not something to be pixillated,” adds Fowler. “What’s exciting about it, what it says about the character of Laura is that she’s a total badass. She’s Sarah Connor meets Emma Peel meets John Wick.

Here's a show that seems appropriate for the darkest timeline that we seem to be living in. In the new Fxx animated series "Little Demon," Satan has impregnated a human woman. She wants them to live a normal life in Delaware, but Satan wants to hang out with his kid. That actually sounds pretty funny, especially once you find out who's doing the voices. Aubrey Plaza, Danny DeVito, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Shannon, and even the legendary Mel Brooks, according to Deadline's reporting from the show's San Diego Comic-Con panel. 

The series comes to us from Darcy Fowler, Seth Kirschner, and Kieran Valla, and will...

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Fxx’s Little Demon will host a Twins reunion between Danny DeVito and Arnold Schwarzenegger. The news was announced during the animated series’ Sdcc panel on Friday.

“Yes, I did. I got to be there when he recorded,” series’ executive producer and star DeVito, who plays the devil himself, confirmed during the presentation. “He’s wonderful in Little Demon; he’s very strong. We’re good buddies, we’re very, very close. We’re thrilled he will be part of our show. Sometimes you gotta lean on your friends to appear in your shows.”

It was also revealed that the legendary Mel Brooks will lend his voice as well as Will Jackson Harper, Pamela Adlon, Rhea Perlman, Shangela, Patrick Wilson, Dave Bautista, June Diane Raphael, Toks Olagundoye, Lamorne Morris, and Sam Richardson.

Created by Darcy Fowler, Seth Kirschner, and Kieran Valla, in Little Demon, 13 years after being impregnated by the...

Disney-owned networks, studios and streamers will host 18 panels at Comic-Con later this month in San Diego.

Among the offerings: the return of Mayans M.C. in Hall H, a sneak peek of the upcoming Disney+ original series National Treasure: Edge of History and a panel for The Rookie spinoff featuring Nathan Fillion and Niecy Nash-Betts.

Here’s the lineup:

Thursday, July 21:

10:45-11:45 a.m. – Nathan Fillion And Niecy Nash-betts Present ABC’S The Rookie And The Rookie: Feds. Ballroom 20

1:30-2:30 p.m. – Abbott Elementary. Star and executive producer Quinta Brunson, and stars Tyler James Williams, Janelle James, Chris Perfetti, Lisa Ann Walter, William Stanford Davis and Sheryl Lee Ralph join executive producers Justin Halpern and Patrick Schumacker for a Live virtual panel. Indigo Ballroom

2:15-3:15 p.m. – National Treasure: Edge Of History – The cast and executive producers will share an exclusive behind-the-scenes look...

Danny DeVito is set to star alongside Aubrey Plaza as evil incarnate in Fxx’s “Little Demon,” an upcoming animated horror sitcom.

Variety reported on Tuesday that the duo are among the show’s voice cast, which will also include Lucy DeVito, Danny’s daughter and a fellow actor.

Per Fxx’s logline, the show follows a reluctant mother (Plaza) 13 years after being impregnated by Devil (Danny DeVito). She and her Antichrist daughter (Lucy DeVito) attempt to live an ordinary life in Delaware, but are constantly thwarted by monstrous forces, including Satan, who yearns for custody of his daughter’s soul.

Reports of the half-hour “Little Demon” series first surfaced in April 2020, shortly before production on the show began.

The series is created by Darcy Fowler, Seth Kirschner and Kieran Valla, who all serve as writers. “Rick & Morty” co-creator Dan Harmon will executive produce alongside Fowler, Kirschner, Valla, Plaza,...

Fxx has picked up to series Little Demon, a half-hour animated comedy pilot starring Danny DeVito, his daughter Lucy DeVito and Aubrey Plaza. It comes from Danny DeVito’s Jersey Films 2nd Avenue, ShadowMachine and FX Productions, with Rick & Morty co-creator Dan Harmon executive producing. Little Demon joins animated comedy series Archer and Cake on Fxx and FX on Hulu.

Created by Darcy Fowler, Seth Kirschner and Kieran Valla, in Little Demon, 13 years after being impregnated by the Devil (Danny DeVito), a reluctant mother (Plaza) and her Antichrist daughter (Lucy DeVito) attempt to live an ordinary life in Delaware, but are constantly thwarted by monstrous forces, including Satan, who yearns for custody of his daughter’s soul.

“Little Demon is a hilarious new animated horror comedy featuring Danny DeVito, Aubrey Plaza, Lucy DeVito and a host of other great talent,” said Nick Grad, President, Original Programming, FX Entertainment. “Creators Darcy Fowler,...

Aubrey Plaza, Danny DeVito and Lucy DeVito, his daughter and fellow actor, are among the voice cast of “Little Demon,” an upcoming animated horror sitcom on Fxx.

Per the logline, the show follows a reluctant mother (Plaza) 13 years after being impregnated by Devil (Danny DeVito). She and her Antichrist daughter (Lucy DeVito) attempt to live an ordinary life in Delaware, but are constantly thwarted by monstrous forces, including Satan, who yearns for custody of his daughter’s soul.

“Little Demon” is set to premiere first on Fxx and then will be available to stream the following day on FX on Hulu.

Plaza will executive produce along with the DeVitos for Jersey Films 2nd Avenue. The new animated half-hour horror sitcom is created and written by Darcy Fowler, Seth Kirschner and Kieran Valla. Fowler, Kirschner, Valla, Dan Harmon, Jersey Films 2nd Avenue’s Jake DeVito and ShadowMachine will executive produce. Steve...

Cast also includes the father-daughter duo Danny and Lucy DeVito

Fxx has picked up the animated horror-comedy series “Little Demon,” the cable network announced Tuesday.

Created and written by Darcy Fowler, Seth Kirschner and Kieran Valla, the series centers on a reluctant mother who was impregnated by the devil 13 years ago and is now attempting to live an ordinary life in Delaware with her Antichrist daughter. However, she’s constantly thwarted by monstrous forces, including Satan, who yearns for custody of his daughter’s soul.

Danny DeVito will lend his voice to the series as the devil, with Aubrey Plaza voicing the mother. DeVito’s real-life daughter, Lucy DeVito, will voice their daughter.

In addition to starring, Plaza will also serve as an executive producer along with Fowler, Kirschner and Valla. Additional executive producers on the series include Dan Harmon; Jake, Lucy and Danny DeVito of Jersey Films 2nd Avenue; and Monica Mitchell,...

Exclusive: NCIS: Los Angeles co-star Eric Christian Olsen’s Cloud Nine Productions (Woke) has set up two series projects for development at CBS and one at Hulu.

At CBS, the company has in the works drama First Lady, from writers Jessica Grasl and Corinne Brinkerhoff, and comedy Dadholes, from The Neighborhood co-exec producer Brian Keith Etheridge. Both hail from CBS Studios through Cloud Nine’s deal there.

In early development at Hulu is comedy Fruit Man, from Daniel Koren, who is set to star, and Kieran Valla (Totally Killer).

In First Lady, written by Grasl and Brinkerhoff from a story by Grasl, determined to reclaim her life, the beloved First Lady of the United States does the unthinkable – she divorces her husband while he’s still in office and uses her prominence to become an advocate for truth and...

FX has reportedly greenlit “Little Demon,” a half-hour animated comedy series that will star Danny DeVito, his daughter Lucy DeVito, and Aubrey Plaza.

Deadline reports that production on the series, which hails from the elder DeVito’s Jersey Films 2nd Avenue, ShadowMachine and FX Productions, is expected to begin next week. Per Deadline, the synopsis reads: 13 years after being impregnated by the Devil (Danny DeVito), a reluctant mother (Plaza) and her Antichrist daughter (Lucy DeVito) attempt to live an ordinary life in Delaware, but are constantly thwarted by monstrous forces, including Satan, who yearns for custody of his daughter’s soul.

Danny DeVito and Aubrey Plaza are teaming up for a satanic sounding new project.

The duo are among the voice cast attached to a new animated series titled “Little Demon” which has received a pilot order at FX, Variety has confirmed.

“Little Demon” hails from Plaza’s longtime collaborators Darcy Fowler, Seth Kirschner and Kieran Valla. It follows a reluctant mother (Plaza) who, 13 years after being impregnated by the Devil (DeVito), is attempting to live an ordinary life in Delaware with her daughter. However, she is constantly thwarted by monstrous forces, including Satan, who yearns for custody of his daughter’s soul.

Plaza’s Antichrist offspring will be voiced by DeVito’s daughter Lucy DeVito.

“Community” and “Rick and Morty” creator Dan Harmon is on board as an executive producer, alongside Fowler, Kirschner, Valla, and Plaza. Danny (who is of course one of the stars of FX’s historic comedy...

Exclusive: FX Networks has given a formal pilot green light to Little Demon, I have learned. The half-hour animated comedy stars Danny DeVito, his daughter Lucy DeVito and Aubrey Plaza. It comes from the Danny DeVito’s Jersey Films 2nd Avenue, ShadowMachine and FX Productions, with Rick & Morty co-creator Dan Harmon executive producing. I hear production is slated to begin next week

Created by Darcy Fowler, Seth Kirschner and Kieran Valla, in Little Demon, 13 years after being impregnated by the Devil (Danny DeVito), a reluctant mother (Plaza) and her Antichrist daughter (Lucy DeVito) attempt to live an ordinary life in Delaware, but are constantly thwarted by monstrous forces, including Satan, who yearns for custody of his daughter’s soul.

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FX is ramping up its animation business with a pilot order for a comedy from Danny DeVito and Rick and Morty co-creator Dan Harmon.

The Disney-owned cabler has given the greenlight to Little Demon, which will star DeVito (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia), his daughter Lucy DeVito and Aubrey Plaza (Parks and Recreation, FX's Legion). Darcy Fowler, Seth Kirschner and Kieran Valla created the show, which has been in development for several months, and Harmon will be an executive producer.

Little Demon centers on a reluctant mother (Plaza) who 13 years earlier was impregnated by Satan (Danny DeVito). She and her Antichrist ...

TBS has opted not to go forward with Nightmare Time, its comedy horror anthology pilot from Parks and Recreation alum Aubrey Plaza. Written by Plaza, Darcy Fowler, Kieran Valla, and Seth Kirschner, Nightmare Time was set in Aubrey Plaza's Nightmare Clinic, where celebrity guests check in to overcome recurring nightmares. Every episode was to feature two insane nightmares, inspired by the horrors of modern society and uses tropes and touchstones of the horror genre to…...

2016-10-14T09:26:43-07:00Aubrey Plaza Horror Series Gets Pilot at TBS

There's a good chance that Aubrey Plaza's Nightmare Time will be more funny than scary, but the in-development pilot is being categorized as a horror anthology series. TBS has given the go-ahead to a pilot for the proposed series, which will be created by and star Plaza and will feature other celebrity guests.

The premise of the series concerns Plaza's fictional "Nightmare Clinic," where celebrities go to get help with their recurring nightmares. The show will apparently use fictional technology to allow viewers to see into the celebrities' dreams as they undergo treatment. The plan, it seems, is for each episode to explore two different nightmares inside the heads of guests on each episode.

Plaza will produce, write and star in the pilot, and the episode will also be co-written by Darcy Fowler, Kieran Valla,...

TBS has given a pilot order to Nightmare Time, a comedy horror anthology from Parks and Recreation alum Aubrey Plaza. Written by Plaza, Darcy Fowler, Kieran Valla, and Seth Kirschner, Nightmare Time is set in Aubrey Plaza’s Nightmare Clinic, where celebrity guests check in to overcome recurring nightmares. According to the logline: Every episode features two insane nightmares, inspired by the horrors of modern society and uses tropes and touchstones of the horror genre to…...

Aubrey Plaza‘s latest TV venture sounds like a total nightmare.

The Parks and Rec alum will exec-produce and play herself in Nightmare Time, a scripted half-hour horror-comedy pilot for TBS that boasts the kookiest of loglines:

Set in Aubrey Plaza’s Nightmare Clinic, celebrity guests check in to overcome recurring nightmares. Thanks to advanced technology, we’re able to peer into their restless minds, and witness their nightmares in real time. But what is ‘real’ anyway? Maybe it’s all just a nightmare in Aubrey’s mind. One endless nightmare that could eventually destroy her and the entire world.

Keep up with the always-hopping film festival world with our weekly Film Festival Roundup column.

– Exclusive: The 6th Annual Lower East Side Film Festival and their 2016 panel of judges, including Ethan Hawke, Cindy Tolan, Steve Farneth and Raul Castillo have announced their winners. Check them out below.

Best Feature Film – “Americana” – By Zachary Shedd

Best Live Action Short Film – “Killer” – By Matt Kazman

Best Animated Short Film – “The Mega Plush: Episode I” – By Matt Burniston

Best Music Video – The Knocks’ “Collect My Love” – By Austin Peters, Music by The Knocks, featuring Alex Newell

Best Documentary Short Film – “Erosion” – By Brandon Bloch, Tim Sessler and Brandon Bray

The Advocacy Award Presented by Here TV – “Video” – By Randy Yang

The Lesff Neighborhood Award – “Streit’s: Matzo and the American Dream” – By Michael Levine

Best of Fest, The Lesff Prix D’Or – “Art of the Prank” – By Andrea Marini

Audience Award...

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