Adult Swim cartoon show to star Tyson
and they don’t have a talent for it.
Q: You graduated from Harvard with a degree in English literature. At what point did the goal become to pursue a more musical path than that? Or was that already the goal?
A: Oh, that was already the goal. I was really super into music in high school, playing in five different orchestras my senior year, driving all over. I was crazy. But I did get into Harvard and I felt like that was pretty cool, so I wanted to go and felt like I had more to learn overall. And my musical experience there was really good. A lot of it, I had to create for myself. But I played chamber music with some great people, studied bass with an amazing teacher from the Boston Symphony, conducted the Bach Society Orchestra, which is a student-conducted orchestra at Harvard. So I started conducting in college. And I think maybe this multidisciplinary way of thinking I have now was influenced by being there and knowing a lot of people who were doing a lot of different cool things.
NEW YORK — Adult Swim says it’s turning Mike Tyson into a cartoon detective.
The network announced Friday a new animated series called “Mike Tyson Mysteries” that will feature the retired boxing champ.
On the show, a cartoon version of Tyson will solve wacky problems, assisted by a trusty associate: a foul-mouthed pet pigeon. The network said Tyson will voice the animated character, as well as make live-action appearances.
The show is targeted for next season, but no premiere date was specified.
Among other programming planned for its 2013-14 season, Adult Swim announced “Robot Chicken DC Comics Special II.” It’s a second spinoff of the cable network’s long-running stop-motion sketch-comedy series.