Hell Park, California

Hell Park, California is an American adult animated sitcom produced by Firebasket Concepts, Firebasket Studios and Typewriter Productions. It is the first Firebasket-produced show to not air on the Firebasket Network since Survival of the Dead.

The show is about the shenanigans and the everyday life of being in Hell Park, a 100% legal amusement and water park in South California.

Cast

 * David Gasman
 * Gillian Jacobs
 * Jennifer Hale
 * Keith David
 * Bryce Pappenbrook
 * Awkwafina (Season One through Four)
 * Apphia Yu (Season Five onwards)
 * John DiMaggio
 * Phil LaMarr
 * Taye Diggs

Production
Production of the series started in late 2018, with Isaac Bennett and Emma Kelly producing the show. Firebasket Concepts ordered six episodes for the first season to air in the fall of 2019, with an additional two episodes ordered in April of 2019.

Head of original productions at Firebasket Concepts, Hayden James, has stated that a second season is in pre-production to air in the mid Spring of 2020, this was later said as a second part of the first season. He then spoke in December that two additional seasons were ordered by Firebasket and Vision, to air in Q3 2020 and Q1 2021.

In the fall of 2020, it was announced that Firebasket Concepts and Typewriter Productions have ordered 24 more episodes, split into two more seasons. The first season under this deal will be broadcast in the fall of 2021, and the second season will be broadcast in the summer of 2022.

Following the success of the series, Firebasket Concepts would begin producing more content for Vision. In 2021, they started producing a Firebasket/Vision hour long block that would feature programming produced by Firebasket Concepts and Typewriter Productions. Bennett and Kelly would leave after the fifth season finished production, so they can focus production on the other Firebasket/Vision show, Coachella and the Toxic Sorority Sisters, based on a line in a skit. Replacing the two as showrunners is Stephen Irons, one of the senior writers who wrote 25 of the 56 episodes. Aiden Pearce then jumped in the Senior Writer role, and Rebecca Duran left the project to work on Coachella.

Under his leadership, Irons would pitch a 18 episode season layout for season six, with trying to gain additional seasons up to eight greenlit. Episodes became more episodic with a loose continuity, with only a few episodes really showing any plot advancements. Irons stated that this is because they were gaining more of an audience with more one off episodic episodes than actual plot episodes.

Writing
Writing for the series was Bennett and Kelly, with assistance from Rebecca Duran and Aiden Pearce.

Animation
Animation took place in house at Firebasket Concepts, as well as overseas at Rough Draft Studios and SurgeKorea Animation. Other Firebasket-based Asian animation studios worked on the show for support and in-between animation.

Storyboards and some key animation also took place at Firebasket Studios in Stamford. The animation team is directed and supervised by Cameron Wood and Alvaro Pate. Pate would leave the project to work on Coachella, and Wood will be promoted to Senior Director of Hell Park.

Post production
Post production cleanup took place at Typewriter Productions West, which also finished some animation frames in time for broadcast. Voice over for the show is produced in Los Angeles and New York by NYAV Post, with additional voice overs at Typewriter Productions West.

Marketing
A teaser trailer was shown at Vision's SDCC panel, which was later released online. Promos started to air on Vision in mid August of 2019. A billboard was also made, the first billboard produced by Vision since City of Bright Lights, and the first billboard produced by FB Advertising. The billboard was shown from late July to early October in Los Angeles, New York, Atlanta, Boston, Las Vegas, and some rural parts of the USA.

Broadcast
It is set to be aired on Vision in fall 2019 in the United States, Canada, and Nordic regions. As well as Beta Cartoon and Kingson in other parts of the world.