FOX has renewed its Joel McHale-led comedy series “Animal Control” for a second season. The follows a group of municipal animal control officers who work better with the creatures they handle than other humans.
The show has pulled in only modest on-air ratings, averaging a shade above 2.2 million viewers per episode in Live+7. However, it more than doubles that total when streaming and other multi-platform viewing is factored in – bumping its cross-platform audience to 4.7 million viewers per episode.
Michael Rowland, Vella Lovell, Ravi Patel and Grace Palmer co-star in the series, which is FOX’s first wholly-owned live-action comedy and marks the first live-action comedy renewal for 2023-24.
The network recently cancelled “Call Me Kat” after three seasons, and the fate of “Welcome to Flatch” is up in the air. The network also has seven animated series planned for next season – four returnees and three newcomers.
Also scoring a renewal today is “Digman!, the Andy Samberg-led animated adult comedy series at Comedy Central. The order comes ahead of the first season finale tonight.
The half-hour series is set in a world where archaeologists are massive celebrities and the coolest people on the planet, with Samberg starring as Rip Digman. Mitra Jouhari, Tim Robinson, Dale Soules, Guz Khan, Melissa Fumero and Tim Meadows also lend their voices.
Source: TV Line
