I just heard the news today.... They've been working on the Boondocks Adult Cartoon relaunch since 2019, I think. And the rebooted cartoon series was to run for 24 episodes, with the lead characters of Granddad, Huey and Riley moving to a new city in Maryland, where Uncle Ruckus rises to power and pretty much f##ks everything up with his neo-fascist ideologies [far-right dictatorship, in which people are not allowed to oppose the government's rule].
The guy who broke the news in a vlog / podcast was the talented black voice actor named Cedric Yarbrough [the voice of Tom Dubois and Stankmeaner. Plus he was one of the cops on the Comedy Central show Reno911].
And Cedric mentioned Sony [producers] as being behind the pulling of the plug, as opposed to mentioning HBOMax [distributors]... yet some news outlets are claiming it was HBOMax that dropped the forthcoming show... And there are no reports on if any episode was animated at all, while animation usually comes after the voice recording stage.
Anyway, Sony gave no reason for the cancellation, which was done quietly. My guess is, the new show by Aaron McGruder [the African American guy, who created the original comic strip] was too edgy for the Sony Animation executives to swallow, after they saw the scripts... maybe it was even edgier than the original hit cartoon [circa 2005] that aired during the late-night slots on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim, which had a lot of adult / crude humor - humor that made fun of African Americans and other diverse people.
Anyone who knows Aaron will tell you that he's very outspoken, and he boldly used the N-word on CNN years ago, when talking about his show, without shame. He's a black guy, true to his roots. And Aaron never hides his opinions on political or social commentary, which he shoved to the forefront as part of the daily life issues that black people face, in his original cartoon series, back in 2005. In the original episodes of Season 1 and 2, Aaron would also make fun of people like Oprah, Tyler Perry, Bill Cosby, Martin Luther King jr., and certain rappers, etc. And some of that stuff was just freakin' hilarious.
But a lot has happened socially since 2005. Social media has given a microphone to the wise and the foolish. And there are those critics who believe that Aaron's stuff was just too "politically right-winged".
What do I think about it?
Frankly, I don't. I chose to let that man do his thing. It was his brand of comedy / social commentary. So if I liked the episode, then I'd watch and enjoy it. And If I didn't like the displayed themes, then I'd switch it off after the first 5 minutes. That's what cool adults do, instead of bitching online ;)
Honestly, there's a place for The Boondocks style of humor, in adult oriented cartoon shows... but if certain themes and other things shown in the forthcoming reboot were deemed as being "too sensitive" for this era, then Sony Animation probably didn't want to go there, even though the show was to air on HBO Max.
That's all for now, folks. You can watch the video with the news [about 2 minutes long] over HERE