Paramount + renews the second season of "Tooning Out the News"

Paramount +, has announced the renewal of its original daily satire animated series, Tooning Out the News, which returns for a second season as Stephen Colbert presents Tooning Out the News Thursday 4 March, with a half-hour special to celebrate and to coincide with the launch of the newly renamed service. The second season will continue on Monday, March 8 with new segments available for daily streaming, culminating in a full weekly episode, exclusively on Paramount +.

Recently nominated for a Critics' Choice Award for Best Cartoon Series, Stephen Colbert presents Tooning Out the News features a cast of animated characters, led by host James Smartwood, who flash on top news and interview real-world guests. The series is produced by Colbert and Chris Licht of CBS ' The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and Showtime's RJ Fried and Tim Luecke Our cartoon president. The series is produced by CBS Studios.

“We are thrilled to collaborate again with the talented creative team behind it Stephen Colbert presents Tooning Out the NewsSaid Julie McNamara, Executive Vice President and Head of Programming, Paramount +. “They overcame every obstacle that 2020 had placed upon them and day after day they offered an extremely intelligent, creative and entertaining program that gave our audience some relief from the cycle of 'regular' news. We're cautiously optimistic about what's in store for 2021, but no matter what, we're eager to know what the series' mostly informative segments and characters will have to say about it. ”

“We are so excited for the second season of Tooning Out the News, which will present even more incisive questions, relentless egomania, Freudian projection, shameless brand integration, tasteful nudity, unrepentant slander and outspoken lies, ”Colbert said.

The first season covered the numerous breaking news of 2020 and conducted incisive interviews with a number of special guests, including high-ranking politicians, well-known entertainers and esteemed journalists, namely Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Chasten Buttigieg, Rep. Jamaal Bowman, Rep. Pramila Jayapal, Alyssa Milano, Charlamagne Tha God, Symone Sanders, Alan Dershowitz, Rep. Ted Lieu and Matt Schlapp among others.

In addition to Big News, Hot Take, Inside the Hill and Virtue Signal, the second season welcomes a number of new analysts and two new segmentsTooning Out the News universe:

• “The factory with Tory Hughes” | Veteran host and self-described "good Republican" Tory Hughes fights for the center-right value of politely making matters worse alongside an elite group of Washington termites.
• "Smart Talk Tonight" In this prestigious newsmagazine series, Tooning Out the NewsThe stable of highly respected animated presenters who will soon fall out of favor sit in front of real journalists in a real studio for intimate personal interviews.

Season 1 of Tooning Out the News is available to stream on CBS All Access, which is renovating and expanding as Paramount + on March 4 in the US, followed by Australia, Latin America and the Nordic countries.