The Simpsons veteran Tim Long has been tapped to co-write and showrun Bloom County, an animated series based on Berkeley Breathed’s 1980s comic strip, which has been in development at Fox.Long will co-write the TV adaptation with Breathed who drew a Bloom Country-themed artwork to announce the hire. (above) The two are executive producing.Bloom County centers on a collapsed lawyer, a lobotomized cat and an overly-carbonated penguin immigrant living in the world’s last boarding house in the world’s most forgotten place deep in the dandelion wilds of FlyWayThe@%!#OVER country.Fox Entertainment, its animation studio, Bento Box Entertainment, Miramax, Spyglass Media Group and Project X Entertainment produce the project.Bloom County first appeared in student newspaper The Daily Texan before becoming nationally syndicated in the Washington Post.
It ran between 1980-1989, and Breathed brought it back on Facebook in 2015.Long has been a writer-producer on Fox’s animated stalwart The Simpsons for more than two decades, sharing in 14 Emmy nominations and five wins.
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