Abominable Pictures is an American creator-driven comedy production company that develops and produces content for television, web and film.
Output
Producer
Jonathan Stern founded Abominable in 2006 to produce the first season of internet cult-hit ''
Wainy Days'' with creator and frequent collaborator
David Wain. The success of ''Wainy Days'', which released its 40th episode in 2012, was followed by the web series ''Horrible People'' and ''Hot Sluts'', both created by
A.D. Miles, ''
Funny or Die Presents'' on
HBO
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, and ''
Childrens Hospital
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'', created by
Rob Corddry.
''Childrens Hospital'' became a television show on
Adult Swim
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, where it aired seven seasons and won two
Emmy
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awards.
Abominable has also produced three seasons of procedural-crime comedy ''
NTSF:SD:SUV::'', created by
Paul Scheer, and two seasons of ''You’re Whole'', created by
Michael Ian Black, both on Adult Swim as well as two seasons of ''
Newsreaders
''Newsreaders'' is an American television comedy that aired on Cartoon Network's late night programming block Adult Swim. ''Newsreaders'' is a spin-off of ''Childrens Hospital
''Childrens Hospital'' (originally titled ''Children's Hospita ...
'', a fake-newsmagazine spinoff of ''Childrens Hospital'' and the first season of ''
Garfunkel & Oates'' which aired on
IFC. Abominable has also produced a collection of parody infomercials for Adult Swim; the second and third sets are currently in post-production.
At the same time, Abominable has maintained an active web series slate, led by 3 seasons of the popular, Emmy-nominated Bachelor parody ''
Burning Love'' for both Yahoo and E!. Abominable recently premiered ''
The Hotwives of Orlando'' on Hulu to fantastic reviews. It is currently in post-production on the courtroom parody ''Beef'' for Paramount Digital. Abominable has a first-look deal with Fox for comedy projects on digital platforms.
Executive Producer Jonathan Stern's past projects as a producer include the pilot of ''
Louie'' on FX and feature films ''Oxygen'', ''Mexico City'', ''
Scotland, PA'', ''The Vagina Monologues'', ''Confess'', ''
Diggers
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'', and David Wain's ''
The Ten
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''.
Filmography
Films and television
Web
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Mass media companies established in 2006
Television production companies of the United States