Tuca and Bertie has been cancelled once more

Grownup Swim has cancelled Tuca and Bertie after three seasons, which marks the second time the animated sequence has fallen beneath the axe.

Tuca and Bertie facilities round Tuca Toucan (Tiffany Haddish) and Roberta “Bertie” Songthrush (Ali Wong), two buddies who dwell collectively and information one another via life’s ups and downs. Tuca and Bertie initially debuted on Netflix, however the streaming service cancelled the sequence after only one season. Fortunately, Grownup Swim got here to the rescue and ordered two extra seasons. Creator Lisa Hanawalt took to Twitter to thank followers of the sequence and expressed her hope that she’ll get to complete the story someday.

“To all our followers – we love you and might’t thanks sufficient in your assist through the years,” Lisa Hanawalt wrote. “Please by no means cease making bizarre fan artwork (and dressing up because the characters for Halloween!), it brings me limitless pleasure. Working with Grownup Swim was creatively fulfilling, our execs had been all good and considerate, and I’m grateful that we received the house to make all these wild and heartfelt episodes about issues that matter to me very a lot.” Hanawalt added that she’s “so pleased with the work achieved by all my proficient coworkers and collaborators on this present. Please watch the top credit and be aware of all these names within the solid and crew. I’m additionally very glad we had been in a position to be lined by The Animation Guild and the Writers Guild of America.  I hope any present creators who’ve the leverage to combat for unionizing their productions will proceed to take action.”

Though the story of Tuca and Bertie could have come to a detailed ahead of Lisa Hanawalt anticipated, she stated that she nonetheless has “a ravishing and bizarre ending to T&B in thoughts, hopefully sometime we’ll get the prospect to complete this story. Within the meantime, I’m not achieved creating. I’ve witnessed so many individuals connecting with this present on a profound stage, and I intend to maintain telling tales like this, it doesn’t matter what.“