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Matt Groening, the creator of The Simpsons and Futurama, has signed a 20-episode deal with Netflix for a new show, Disenchantment, that takes place in a medieval kingdom.
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Set in a crumbling medieval kingdom, Netflix will air Matt Groening's new show Disenchantment.
Like his previous hits, the series will be animated - although this time it's aimed at an adult audience and features a solo female lead: the boozing princess Bean, to be voiced by Broad City's Abbi Jacobson.
According to a statement from Netflix, there will be "ogres, sprites, harpies, imps, trolls, walruses and lots of human fools."
Dreamland is expected to be more "adult-oriented" than The Simpsons. Photo: AP
The voice-over cast also includes comedy stars Eric Andre and Nat Faxon; The Mighty Boosh's Noel Fielding, Matt Berry and Rich Fulcher; and The Simpsons veterans Maurice LaMarche and Tress MacNeille, as various characters in the "crumbling" kingdom of Dreamland.
Groening said in the statement that Disenchantment will be about "life and death, love and sex, and how to keep laughing in a world full of suffering and idiots, despite what the elders and wizards and other jerks tell you."
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Groening and Josh Weinstein - who worked on The Simpsons for seven seasons in the '90s - will executive produce. Bill Oakley, another longtime Simpsons collaborator, also announced on Twitter that he would be working on Disenchantment.
"The series will bear [Groening's] trademark animation style and biting wit, and we think it's a perfect fit for our many Netflix animation fans," said Cindy Holland, Netflix's Vice President for Original Content.