Draft:Breaking Bear

Breaking Bear is an upcoming adult animated comedy television series created by Julien Nitzberg that is set to premiere on Fox's ad-supported streaming service Tubi. The series is produced by Cartel Entertainment, To the Stars Media and 9 Story Media Group. This is the second adult-oriented project by 9 Story Media Group after Fugget About It.

Julien Nitzberg serves as an executive producer and showrunner, along with Tom DeLonge, Jeff Holland, Stan Spry, Eric Scott Woods and Bradford Bricken.

The series will consist of eight episodes. The running time of the series will be 22 minutes long.

Plot
Breaking Bear follows the escapades of a trio of bear siblings who are forced to enter the criminal world of drug selling. The bears decided as they need to start to sell them in order to raise money to save them home after the gas companies starts fracking next to the cave. They soon enlist other forest animals, they will pit them against oil companies, the Russian mafia, local Hell's angels, and polar bears who hate everything that isn't white.

Development
On August 15, 2022, it was announced that Tubi has given a green light to Breaking Bear, a new adult animated comedy series created by Julien Nitzberg, who previously served as a director on the documentary, The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia, and he is a writer and consulting producer on the Cinemax animated original series Mike Judge Presents: Tales from the Tour Bus. Nitzberg serves as an executive producer and showrunner, along with Tom DeLonge, Jeff Holland, Stan Spry, Eric Scott Woods and Bradford Bricken, which are the executive producers of the show.

Currently in pre-production, the series comes from Cartel Entertainment and Tom DeLonge's To the Stars Media. The series is a parody of various mobster dramas, and it is described as Yogi Bear meets The Sopranos.

In February 2024, 9 Story Media Group announced that it will take over production on the series.