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I just saw that Fox is getting a Napoleon Dynamite animated tv show and thought it was brilliant. Although I most likely won’t be a fan of the show, I think it’s a good move.

The franchise is built off an already successful product: the movie, which made around $70 million since it’s release. Bring something with a cult following into the mainstream? No brainer. It will be on Sunday between other shows on Fox’s Animation Domination block. And it’s lead in? The Simpsons and Family Guy. Fox obviously likes what they see, moving American Dad of the schedule momentarily to let viewers see Dynamite.

Jared Hess and Jerusha Hess, the co-creators/executive producters of the show along with Mike Scully - a longtime producer of The Simpsons will be the creative guys behind the show - showing experience from Futurama, various MTV Films projects, and Seinfeld. It looks like they have a rare team that knows what their audience expects from characters, but they aren’t so jaded to take situational humor to a new aspect. Freakin smart.

Fox is sort of a dying network. Other networks have picked up both both America’s Most Wanted and Futurama, after viewers complained that Fox decided to drop them over monetary issues. The network has previously stated that the current season of The Simpsons will be the last - also due to monetary issues.