>>152596677Okay, so for context: It's 2019 and production on the original run of The Amazing World of Gumball had just ended at the request of Gumball's own creator Ben Bocquelet. Cartoon Network Studios Europe (now called Hanna-Barbera Europe, that at the time had produced no show but Gumball) is looking for a replacement.They settle for this show called Elliot From Earth, from Gumball writer Guillaume Cassuto. Mic Graves, who was basically the second-in-command in the production of Gumball, is hired to oversee the production.The problem comes when Mic Graves quickly notices that Cassuto is, well, a complete hack. The scripts come in and they are garbage. And not just that, but he was outright copy-pasting old/unused Gumball scripts, just changing the names. Basic stuff like "why are the characters doing in space?" had no answer. When Graves airs his grievances about the show to CN executives, they first tell him it's fine because the show is "Gumball in space".Eventually Graves manages to sway CN executives to take a tougher stance on Cassuto and they order him to improve his scripts. Cassuto refuses to change anything and also starts approving everything on first pass. CN gets tired of Cassuto and fires him less than 3 months into production and tasks Mic Graves and Tony Hull (who was also en editor on Gumball and was aware the show they were making was terrible) to take over as showrunners to try and salvage the show. In the end, CN dumped the show in like a week and the show's episode order got cut from 20 to 16 episodes.
>>152596677Did Inside Job go through development hell or was that just /co/ rumours?
>>152596677The show is quite weird, it has a solid "pilot" and becomes Gumball in space after that.
>>152596680Wasn't there was a french anon with a similar premise posting here on /co/?
>>152597128Denver the dinosaur?
>>152596680That explains why I haven't heard of this.
>>152597173I came in here expecting to have a good time reading about trash, and now I'm going to have that fucking song stuck in my head for at least a week. How dare you.
>>152596763Just rumors as far as we know, mainly because the one season amounted to 18 episodes instead of the usual 20 one would expect. What we DO know went through development hell is Alex Hirsch's own Netflix project, though. It's been a decade, yet the man still fails to stay under budget or meet deadlines. I do feel bad for the guy, but it's admittedly kinda sus that he wasn't able to deliver anything in the time that Kid Cosmic, City of Ghosts, Maya and the Three, Centaurworld, and Battle Kitty were able to. At some point, Hirsch is gonna have to do a some reflecting and realize HE'S the only veteran showrunner in that space who struggles with these issues.
