Fuse renews "Sugar and Toys" Saturday morning adult sketch program
Fuse Media, a multi-platform entertainment multimedia brand serving a multi-cultural audience of the Millennium and Gen Z, today unveiled a new programming program enhanced by original and revamped series. The slate of the originals - which encompasses many returning series and several concepts that originated with digital before making it to linear TV - leans into musical culture to create an expanding collection of engaging, empowering and unifying programming.
Among these is Fuse's first (and continuously successful) foray into adult animation, Sugar and toys, which has been renewed for a second season. The mixture of Saturday morning cartoons, the social commentary and the parody of the culture of music has left its mark by speaking directly to the most relevant trends and issues for a thousand-year-old audience.
The new and returning content is complemented by Fuse Media's recently announced social responsibility Be Changecall-to-action initiative, which was launched on March 30. Its first iteration, Be Change: Be Home, is a series of an-air interstitials, graphics, digital and social media messaging aimed to keep Fuse's audience informed, active, and mentally stimulated while practicing social distancing. Additional content will be released in the coming months to educate, inform and empower this audience to influence change on a variety of issues, many of which are also addressed in the award-winning and award-winning documentary series Fuse Docs.
Additionally, building on the 2019 Fuse Multicultural Insider report, which provided insight into inclusion and a modern look at the multicultural relationship between brands and consumers, for 2020 Fuse will release a sequel titled Empowerment. Beyond representation and inclusion. This year's study - once again commissioned by Fuse with NRG - explores what the new definition of empowerment is for Millennial and Gen Z young audiences and what their expectations are for brands and content partners they are trying to be. consider yourself a trusted partner. For example, the soon to be released survey showed that entertainment is the # 2 form of content enhancement, with music being the # 1 form of delivery.
Sugar and toys (Season 2, 6x30) - Creators Carl Jones and Brian Ash (producers, Black dynamite e The Boondocks) are back in the new season of Fuse's Sunday night adult animation series. Sugar and toys brings a wild new twist to Saturday morning cartoons that we all grew up with - but far less innocent. Adult comedy, social commentary, and music culture parody bring the cartoon party down, talking directly about the trends and issues most relevant to a young audience, and booked by multi-platinum guest rapper and actor KYLE (Netflix's The After Party, www.superduperkyle.com). It is produced by Aengus James, Colin King Miller, Jordan Allen-Dutton, Jones and Ash, with Kyle Harvey as executive co-producer and produced by This is Just a Test and 245 Enterprises.
New original series:
Bust open (5 x 30 ′) - A series of games on the popular unboxing genre in which talents try to guess each other on prices to win streetwear items.
Genius X fuse (10 x 30 '; premiered March 18) - The world's largest collection of song lyrics and musical knowledge hits linear TV for the first time, hosted by Rob Markman.
The Ming dynasty (6 x 15 '; premieres May 3) - Single-camera sitcom about aspiring rappers Whyte Wine (Calwyn Shurgold) and Young Riesling (Antony Hall) whose mission to make it to Toronto is cut short by a return to the Alberta countryside to manage the Riesling family restaurant.
Gourmet fight (10 x 30 ′) - Chef Dariany Santana and a celebrity guest talk about the guest artist's journey and the meals that comforted them through the toughest days of their struggle - and recreate them with the most expensive ingredients on the market.
Unleashed (WT; 10 x 30 ′) - Presenter Jimmy O. Yang (Crazy Rich Asians, Silicon Valley) brings his adorable pug, Toffee, to bring pop culture icons and their four-legged friends on comic adventures in Los Angeles dog places.
Return series:
The Big Boy neighborhood (Recently extended for 130 more episodes)
Merged Docs (Season 4)
Fuse films (Season 2) - Go back to China (premieres May 16), written and directed by Emily Ting and starring Anna Akana, Richard Ng, Lynn Chen, Kelly Ju and Kendy Cheung, is a humorous and heartfelt portrait of a family business and of generational and cultural clashes.
Made from scratch (Season 2, 10 x 30 ′)
That white shit (Season 2, 10 x 30 ′)
Digital series:
I like, Share, Tell me (previews April 17) - Latin-Dominican-American comedians Dee Nasty and Sasha Merci host this new series of bold, yet hilarious talks, exploring the issues facing the Latinx community.
Skip the line - This human trivia show takes place in line with the latest and greatest drops in streetwear, giving the hype beasts a chance to win the best gear around.
Hype Market - Each episode will focus on items to buy, sell, trade, and sit-on via a series of information segments focused on investing, depreciation and authentication.
