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In April 2016, as part of New Form's third batch of pilots, the production company teamed up with Olan Rogers for an animated project called Final Space, which ultimately landed a development deal from TBS.

Now, the partnership that yielded that success story is back in business. Rogers, whose channel has close to one million subscribers, has released The Lion's Blaze, another animated pilot created alongside New Form.

The Lion's Blaze follows a group of friends who have been stuck inside a video game for 15 years. In the pilot (spoiler alert!), one member of the group dies, and his companions vow to collect the remaining pieces of the titular plot device in order to win the day.

Rogers' work would not be out of place on Adult Swim, and a press release invoked that network's most beloved show, Rick & Morty, in its attempt to sell The Lion's Blaze to fans of adult animation.

New Form, the studio known for working on long-form projects led by online video stars, is shifting its focus somewhat. As first shared by The Hollywood Reporter, New Form will focus on producing programs to sell to other platforms at the expense of the content it releases on its personal social channels. As a result, the company has laid off several of its employees.

Much of New Form’s work has been spread across “incubator” series, which consist of several pilots released at once on YouTube. From those batches, New Form sells individual projects to distributors like YouTube Red, Go90, and Vimeo. The studio also recently picked up its first TV deal when it sold Olan Rogers’ Final Space to TBS.

New Form supported those projects will smaller videos it released on platforms like Facebook and YouTube; for example, the studio recently shared a blog from VidCon. Those clips seem...

New Form Digital has released its upcoming slate of pilots from its most recent incubator series, featuring both traditional and web-based stars. The digital studio’s incubator series (now in its fourth run) acts as a showcase for up and coming creators mentored and developed through the program. Pilots that have been sold in the past have included Streamy Award winners “Oscar’s Hotel for Fantastical Creatures” and “Anna Akana’s Miss 2059”, YouTube Red’s “Single By 30,” “I Ship It,” and the Conan O’Brien produced animated series “Final Space.”

The newest wave of this incubator series includes content from web series stars such as Manon Matthews, Eric Ochoa, Alexa Losey and television stars Melissa Fumero (“Brooklyn Nine-Nine”) and Lisa Kudrow, who in 2015 signed an exclusive deal with New Form through her production company Is or Isn’t Entertainment.

New Form has a recent track record for including...

Bad boys, bad boys: TBS has picked up 10 episodes of Louis C.K. and Albert Brooks’ new animated comedy “The Cops,” which had previously been set up at FX.

Louis C.K. and Brooks will voice the show’s lead characters, “Lou” and “Al,” two Los Angeles patrolmen “trying their best to protect and serve, sometimes failing at both. Ride with them as they patrol one of the biggest cities in the world, then go home with them and be glad you’re not married to either.”

The show will premiere in 2018; the two will also executive produce along with Greg Daniels, Dino Stamatopoulos, Dave Becky and Howard Klein.

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FX Productions will continue to produce the show, along with Turner’s Studio T and Louis C.K.’s Pig Newton.

“We have made the bold decision to put Louis C.K.,...

TBS has revealed a first peek for “Final Space,” its new animated TBS series from Conan O’Brien’s production company and creator Olan Rogers. Watch below.

Produced by Conan O’Brien’s Conaco and New Form, “Final Space” is a “serialized intergalactic space saga about an astronaut named Gary and his adorable, planet-destroying friend, Mooncake,” per TBS’ synopsis. The show will chronicle their adventures as they go on a quest to unlock the mystery of “Final Space,” the place where the entire universe ends.

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Rogers and creative partner David Sacks will write the episodes, executive-producing them along with O’Brien, David Kissinger, Larry Sullivan and Jeff Ross of Conaco and Kathleen Grace, Melissa Schneider and Matt Hoklotubbe of New Form.

Rogers first created a seven-minute pilot for “Final Space” as part of New Form’s Incubator 3 Series,...

Turner is taking on the final frontier. TBS has ordered the animated Final Space TV show to series. Indie actor, comedian, and film-maker, Olan Rogers, created the "interstellar comedy." Watch preview, after the jump.Rogers and writing partner, David Sacks, will write all of the episodes. The pair will also executive produce with Conan O'Brien, David Kissinger, Larry Sullivan and Jeff Ross of Conaco and Kathleen Grace, Melissa Schneider and Matt Hoklotubbe of New Form.Read More…...

TBS is set to premiere an animated series titled Final Space from YouTube star and indie filmmaker Olan Rogers as well as Conan O’Brien’s Conaco production firm. New Form Digital and Turner’s branded content studio, Studio T, are also helping to develop the series, Deadline reports, which will bow in 2018.

The serialized space saga is about an astronaut and his friend, Mooncake, who has the ability to destroy planets, as they seek to unlock a place in space where the universe ends. Final Space is co-written by Rogers -- whose YouTube channel counts roughly 900,000 subscribers and who also serves on the board of Hank Green’s recently-launched Internet Creators Guild -- and his creative partner David Sacks.

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Exclusive: TBS’ continues its push in animation with a series greenlight for Final Space, an interstellar animated comedy from indie filmmaker/actor/comedian Olan Rogers, Conan O’Brien’s Conaco, and New Form in association with Turner’s Studio T, for premiere in 2018. (You can watch a preview above) Co-written by Rogers and David Sacks (Pig Goat Banana Cricket), Final Space is a serialized intergalactic space saga about an astronaut named Gary and his adorable…...