‘Tuca & Bertie’ Renewed at Adult Swim

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Animated comedy with Tiffany Haddish and Ali Wong had first season at Netflix

Tuca & Bertie on Adult Swim
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Adult Swim has ordered season three of animated comedy Tuca & Bertie. Ali Wong and Tiffany Haddish star in the series. 

Adult Swim grabbed the critically-acclaimed show for season two after it was cancelled at Netflix. The season started in June. 

Lisa Hanawalt created Tuca & Bertie, about a pair of best-friend birds. Haddish voices toucan Tuca and Wong portrays song thrush Bertie. 

Steven Yeun is also in the cast. 

Hanawalt, Haddish, Wong, Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Noel Bright and Steven A. Cohen executive produce Tuca & Bertie. 

The series is produced by Michael Eisner's The Tornante Company and the animation is done at ShadowMachine.

Michael Malone
Michael Malone

Michael Malone is content director at B+C and Multichannel News. He joined B+C in 2005 and has covered network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television, including writing the "Local News Close-Up" market profiles. He also hosted the podcasts "Busted Pilot" and "Series Business." His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The L.A. Times, The Boston Globe and New York magazine.