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Tubi Greenlights Adult Animated Comedy “Breaking Bear”
The series follows the escapades of three bear siblings who decide they have to start selling drugs in order to raise money and save their home after gas companies start fracking next to their cave.
[via press release from Tubi]
TUBI GREENLIGHTS ADULT ANIMATED COMEDY “BREAKING BEAR”

Wildly Original Series to be Executive Produced by Blink-182 Frontman Tom DeLonge and Cartel Entertainment

SAN FRANCISCO, August 15, 2022 – Tubi (www.tubi.tv) today announced that it has greenlit the adult animated series, BREAKING BEAR. Created by Julien Nitzberg (“The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia”) and produced by Cartel Entertainment (“Creepshow,” “Twelve Forever,” and “Day of the Dead”) and Tom DeLonge’s To The Stars Media (“Monsters of California,” “Unidentified”), BREAKING BEAR parodies the tropes of mobster dramas, comically combining elements of Yogi Bear with “The Sopranos.”

BREAKING BEAR follows the escapades of three bear siblings who decide they have to start selling drugs in order to raise money and save their home after gas companies start fracking next to their cave. The bears soon enlist other forest animals in a scheme that will pit them against oil companies, The Russian Mafia, local Hell’s Angels and polar bears who hate anything that isn’t white.

“When The Cartel pitched a series with cartoon animals as mobsters, I knew it was an offer I couldn’t refuse,” said Adam Lewinson, Chief Content Officer, Tubi. “This is the perfect project to expand our adult animation offering after the stellar success of THE FREAK BROTHERS, cementing Tubi as a destination for adult humor.”

Tubi continues to expand its robust adult animation collection, with both library and original animated content for the platform. In May, three new made-for-Tubi movies from FOX’s Emmy Award-winning animation house, Bento Box Entertainment, were announced as Tubi Originals, including: PASTACOLYPSE, from “Aqua Teen Hunger Force” co-creator Matthew Maiellaro; MILLENNIAL HUNTER, from comedian and actor Sam Taggart; and BIG BRUH, from writer, stand-up comic and DUNCANVILLE co-producer Jerron Horton. Tubi’s adult animation offering also includes library titles such as “Mike Tyson Mysteries,” “The PJs,” “SuperMansion,” “Brickleberry,””Kevin Smith: Smodimations,” “Alien News Desk,” “Nerdland” and more, in addition to the original series THE FREAK BROTHERS, which stars Woody Harrelson, John Goodman, Pete Davidson and Tiffany Haddish.

BREAKING BEAR is executive produced by Tom DeLonge (“Poet Anderson: The Dream Walker”), Stan Spry (“Creepshow,” “Day of the Dead”), Jeff Holland (“Creepshow,” “Day of the Dead”), Bradford Bricken (“Twelve Forever”), and Eric Woods (“Creepshow,” “Harland Manor”). Julien Nitzberg also serves as an executive producer and showrunner.

Julien Nitzberg is best known as the producer and director of the documentary feature “The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia” (produced by Johnny Knoxville and Jeff Tremaine). In the world of theater, Nitzberg wrote and directed the controversial comic operetta “The Beastly Bombing or A Terrible Tale of Terrorists Tamed By The Tangles Of True Love,” winner of the LA Weekly Theater Critics Musical of the Year Award, and most recently the acclaimed musical “For the Love of a Glove: An Unauthorized Musical Fable About the Life of Michael Jackson As Told By His Glove,” which will open in 2023 in Los Angeles with Stacey Sher attached to produce. Nitzberg was a producer and writer on Cinemax’s animated series “Mike Judge Presents Tales From the Tour Bus.” He has also written scripts for HBO, Showtime, Amazon FIlms, TNT, USA, IFC, Paramount Studios, CBS Studios and NBC.

Tom DeLonge is an award-winning producer, director, author, researcher, multi-platinum recording artist and entrepreneur, originally known for his songwriting and vocals as Blink-182’s front man. Today, DeLonge dedicates his time to his entertainment and media company, To The Stars Media, as well as his band Angels & Airwaves. During his diverse career, DeLonge has written, directed and produced feature films, animated shorts, episodic series and music videos, including the animated short “Poet Anderson: The Dream Walker,” which won best animation at the Toronto International Short Film Festival and the feature film “Monsters of California,” which will premiere later this year.

Tom DeLonge is represented by APA and Julien Nitzberg is represented by APA, Authentic Talent & Literary Management and Jackoway, Tyerman et al.

About Tubi

Tubi, a division of FOX Entertainment, is an ad-supported video-on-demand service with more than 40,000 movies and TV shows in the U.S., including a growing library of Tubi Originals, 150+ local and live news, sports and entertainment channels, and 400+ entertainment partners, featuring content from every major Hollywood studio. Tubi gives fans of film, television, news and sports an easy way to discover new content that is completely free.

Tubi is available in the U.S. on Android and iOS mobile devices, Amazon Echo Show, Google Nest Hub Max, Comcast Xfinity X1, Cox Contour, and on connected television devices such as Amazon Fire TV, Vizio TVs, LG TVs, Sony TVs, Samsung TVs, Roku, Apple TV, Chromecast, Android TV, PlayStation 4 & 5, Xbox One & Series X|S, and soon on Hisense TVs globally. Consumers can also watch Tubi content on the web at www.tubi.tv.

About Cartel Entertainment

Founded in 2011 by partners Stan Spry, Eric Woods and Jeff Holland, Cartel is a feature film and television production, distribution, financing and management company representing top-tier showrunners, show creators, writers, directors, producers and production companies in film, TV and new media. Cartel has also produced more than 150 movie and television productions since inception, including the hit series Creepshow for Shudder/AMC, the animated series Twelve Forever for Netflix, and Syfy series Day of the Dead. Cartel previously produced the series Ties That Bind for Up TV, and A Place in the Sun for Discovery as well as several recent feature films, including Christmas With the Campbells, Monsters of California, Switched for Christmas, Jeepers Creepers 3, Christmas Connection, Love at the Shore, Sun Sand and Romance, Love at First Glance, and Wrong Nanny, to name a few. In 2013, Cartel purchased and renovated Tamarind Lithography Studios, which is their Los Angeles headquarters, as well as a full-service production and post-production complex. Cartel also has offices in London, England, Las Vegas, USA and Winnipeg, Canada.

About To The Stars Media

About To The Stars Media, Inc. To The Stars Media (TTSM) is a wholly owned subsidiary of To The Stars Inc. (TTS), a public benefit corporation based in San Diego, California. TTS was founded in 2017 by Tom DeLonge from Blink-182, former senior CIA officer Jim Semivan and physicist Dr Hal Puthoff. The company strives to be a revolutionary collaboration between academia, industry and pop culture to advance society’s imagination, curiosity and understanding of scientific phenomena and other mysteries of the universe. To The Stars Media creates award-winning content across music, tv, film, books and merchandise that is informed by the vast knowledge and experience of its own scientific advisory board that come from prestigious government agencies and academic institutions. The company became internationally recognized when it obtained the first official US Government military evidence of unidentified aerial phenomenon that it released in a front page expose with the New York Times in connection with the research for its book series, Sekret Machines. Other original To The Stars Media franchises include “Poet Anderson: The Dream Walker,” winner of IPBA’s ‘Best Teen Fiction’ and ‘Best Animated Short’ at Toronto International Short Film Festival, “The Lonely Astronaut on Christmas Eve,” “Cathedrals of Glass” and “Monsters of California.” www.ToTheStars.Media