Machinima Gets Writers from The Simpsons, Family Guy, and Futurama

A bunch of different writers from some of our favorite television series of all time have joined forces with Machinima.com to write 15 episodic comedy pilots. The Machinima Comedy Lab pilots will air on the website, but when… we don’t know yet because they have not announced a release date.

According to the press release, writers from The Simpsons, Saturday Night Live, Family Guy and Futurama (among others) and Bill Oakley from The Simpsons seems pretty excited about it.
“Machinima.com lets us put our work in front of an audience that already knows and loves our style of writing and is embracing new forms of digital entertainment,” said Bill Oakley, an Emmy-winning writer and past showrunner of The Simpsons. “We get to do what we love the most”write and create fun content while Machinima.com handles all the production, marketing and distribution.”

Here are just some of the writers we can expect pilots from:

• Chris Cluess: Mad TV, The Simpsons, Beggars and Choosers, Cheers, SCTV
• Bill Freiberger: Drawn Together, The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, The Simpsons
• Eric Horsted: Boondocks, Knights of Prosperity, Futurama, Home Improvement, Coach
• Ken Keeler: Futurama, The Simpsons, Wings, The Naked Truth, The Critic, The Late Show
• Stacie Lipp: King of Queens, Roseanne, Married With Children
• Christina Lynch: Wildfire, The Dead Zone, Unhappily Ever After
• Peggy Nicoll: WordGirl, Daria
• Bill Oakley: Mission Hill, The Simpsons, Futurama
• Max Pross & Tom Gammill: The Simpsons, Seinfeld, Monk, The Critic, Saturday Night Live, The Late Show
• Mike Rowe: Family Guy, Futurama, Comedy Central Roasts, The Jaime Kennedy Experiment
• Loren Segan: Wildfire, The Dead Zone, Spyder Games
• Patric M. Verrone: Futurama, Muppets Tonight!, The Simpsons, The Critic, Pinky and the Brain
• Maiya Williams: Mad TV, The PJs, The Wayans Bros., The Fresh Prince of Bel Air

“As an emerging entertainment network, we’re dedicated to bringing aboard top creative talent,” said Allen DeBevoise, Machinima.com chairman and chief executive officer. “Machinima.com provides these writers with a new, evolving medium in which to reach the highly desired 18 to 34 male audience, showcase creativity and develop episodic pilots for multiple platforms.”

If any of the episodes are anything like the Machinima used in “Make Love Not Warcraft”, we are in for a treat.

Check back with us as more information and a schedule becomes available.