Matt Groening’s first fantasy-cartoon series finally has release date, screens

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Simpsons creator Matt Groening's next animated series will arrive on Netflix on August 17, the streaming service confirmed via Twitter on Wednesday. Netflix also took the opportunity to reveal a few preview screens of the fantasy-obsessed series, which-as we expected-looks like Tolkien through a bug-eyed, Simpsons/Futurama filter.

The series' title, Disenchantment, along with its cast and concept, were announced last summer. Groening has been joined by longtime Simpsons showrunner Josh Weinstein and a remarkable number of Futurama animators and voice actors to build a new elves-and-castles-and-dragons cartoon series. Disenchantment's three primary voice actors, meanwhile, are relative newcomers to the Groening animation universe, with Abbi Jacobson (Broad City) voicing the princess Bean, Nat Faxon as the shrimpy elf named, er, Elfo, and Eric Andre as a trickster demon named Luci.

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