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Viewers will not be returning to the world of Daria after all. Plans for a spin-off and film featuring Daria's best friend, Jodie, have been cancelled.

Daria, an animated MTV series that is a spin-off of Beavis and Butt-Head, ran for five seasons on MTV between 1997 and 2002. in the show, Daria Morgendorffer (Tracy Grandstaff) is an intelligent and cynical high school student. One of her friends is Jodie Landon (Jessica Cydnee Jackson), one of the few competent students at the school.

Created by Grace Edwards, Jodie was first conceived as a Daria & Jodie spin-off series. Comedy Central ordered the Jodie series in 2020, but the project was changed to a movie in 2022.

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MTV Studios’ upcoming “Daria” spinoff “Jodie,” led by “Black-ish” star Tracee Ellis Ross, has landed at sister Viacom network Comedy Central.

Created by “Insecure” alum Grace Edwards, who also serves as head writer, the animated comedy centers on Jodie Landon, Daria’s friend at the fictional Lawndale High. “Jodie” picks up with her character graduating from college and entering a complicated world.

Ross voices the title character and serves as an executive producer on the series, which is produced by MTV Studios.

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Here’s Viacom’s description of the series:

What “Daria” did for showing how inane high school was for Gen X, “Jodie” will do for exploring the trials and tribulations of a first job for a new generation. The series will satirize workplace culture, Gen Z struggles, the artifice of social media and more.

It might be a sick, sad world, but at least we have a new series to look forward to: Jodie, the upcoming spinoff of MTV's cult favorite Daria. Back at the cusp of the early aughts, Daria centered itself on an unlikely titular heroine: a cynical, bespectacled high schooler with a sense of humor drier than the desert. Few understood Daria Morgendorffer besides her Bff Jane Lane, but Jodie Landon came pretty close. And now, Jodie's getting her very own show, which means she'll be the first black female character to lead an adult animated series in almost 20 years.

Who Is Jodie?

The well-loved vice president of Lawndale's student council, Jodie is as intelligent as Daria but more even-keeled and socially adept. Her drive could be equated to that of Paris Geller from Gilmore Girls, though she's a lot more amicable. Besides student council, her ambitious list of extracurriculars...