You may have heard a while back about Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All, the collective that includes artists such as Tyler the Creator, Earl Sweatshirt, and Frank Ocean, had a pilot greenlit by Adult Swim. Today, the network has some follow-up news.
The Odd Future pilot has been picked up for a full series, entitled Loiter Squad. The live action show will be in the usual Adult Swim show format (quarter hour/15-minute episodes), and will include sketches, pranks, man-on-the-street segments, and music from OFWGKTA.
The group has worked with Adult Swim talent in the past: they released a short starring NTSF:SD:SUV’s Paul Scheer earlier this year on Funny or Die. And they also are no strangers to comedy shorts or skits: they will occasionally post some on their blog.
The show is being produced by Johnny Knoxville, Jeff Tremaine, and Spike Jonze’s Dickhouse Entertainment, which was also behind a plethora of popular MTV series such as Jackass, Wildboyz, and Rob & Big. Adult Swim‘s Nick Weidenfeld will also produce.
This news comes soon after Tyler the Creator’s win for Best New Artist at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards. Tyler released his second album Goblin on XL Recordings earlier in the year, which included the single Yonkers, also nominated for a VMA. The group also has had their member Frank Ocean gain popularity with guest parts on albums such as Jay-Z and Kanye West’s collaborative album Watch The Throne and OF’s Hodgy Beats and Left Brain, known together as MellowHype, recently had their album BlackenedWhite rerelased by Fat Possum Records. The group will also be releasing a book in November entitled Golf Wang.
The show will hit the Adult Swim airwaves in 2012 (although if we know this network it could come a bit earlier or way, way, waaaay later) so be on the lookout for Odd Future to hit your TV.
Press release: http://www.adultswim.com/pr/odd-future/index.html
OFWGKTA website: http://oddfuture.com/
