{"id":2301728,"date":"2026-02-26T19:57:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T19:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2301728"},"modified":"2026-02-26T19:57:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T19:57:21","slug":"smiling-friends-shocks-fans-as-burnt-out-creators-end-show-after-season-3-despite-previous-renewal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/smiling-friends-shocks-fans-as-burnt-out-creators-end-show-after-season-3-despite-previous-renewal\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Smiling Friends\u2019 Shocks Fans as \u201cBurnt Out\u201d Creators End Show After Season 3 Despite Previous Renewal"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Smiling Friends<\/a> fans have fewer reasons to smile as the Adult Swim<\/a> show comes to an abrupt end.<\/p>\n

Michael Cusack<\/a> and Zach Hadel<\/a> co-created the project that debuted in 2022 and centers on co-workers Charlie (voiced by Hadel) and Pim (Cusack) attempting to bring positivity into the lives of others. Although The Hollywood Reporter<\/a> exclusively reported in June that the animated series had been picked up for two additional seasons, Cusack and Hadel announced late Wednesday that they had decided to end it with season three.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is not a bit,\u201d Hadel explained in a recording posted to Adult Swim\u2019s social media. \u201cThis is not a joke. Michael and I are here to announce that Smiling Friends<\/a> will be ending after season three is done.\u201d<\/p>\n

Added Cusack, \u201cTo be perfectly honest, after we finished season three, Zach and I just both had the same feeling where we felt pretty burnt…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Smiling Friends fans have fewer reasons to smile as the Adult Swim show comes to an abrupt end. Michael Cusack and Zach Hadel co-created the project that debuted in 2022 and centers on co-workers Charlie (voiced by Hadel) and Pim (Cusack) attempting to bring positivity into the lives of others. Although The Hollywood Reporter exclusively […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2301729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2301728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/\u2018Smiling-Friends-Shocks-Fans-as-Burnt-Out-Creators-End-Show.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2301728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2301728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2301728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2301730,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2301728\/revisions\/2301730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2301729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2301728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2301728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2301728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}