'Archer' Season 11: Release date, plot, cast, trailer and all you need to know about the hit animated show's new installment
After ten very weird seasons on air, the FX comedy series ‘Archer’ is returning for Season 11. The show started as a cross between ‘The Office’ and ‘James Bond’ but has since evolved into a genre-hopping comedy that constantly reinvents itself.
Here’s everything you need to know about the upcoming season:
Release date
'Archer' Season 11 will premiere on September 16 on FXX and will be made available the next day on #FXonHulu.
Plot
The ‘Archer’ panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2019 announced that the show’s titular character, international secret agent Sterling Archer, would finally be waking up from his coma in the new season. The last few seasons have all taken place inside Archer’s mind. Season 11 will finally reveal what happened in the three years that Archer spent in his coma and explore how the characters have changed in the time since.
Cast
H Jon Benjamin
Sterling Archer is voiced by American actor, voice actor, and comedian H John Benjamin. He has done a lot of popular roles including Bob Belcher in ‘Bob's Burgers’; Carl Graves in ‘Family Guy’; Ben in ‘Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist’; and Satan in ‘Lucy, the Daughter of the Devil’. Benjamin is joined in the cast by Aisha Tyler as Lana Kane, Amber Nash as Pam Poovey, Lucky Yates as Dr. Krieger, Judy Greer as Cheryl/Carol Tunt, Chris Parnell as Cyril Figgis, Adam Reed as Ray Gillette, and Jessica Walter as Malory Archer.
Creator
Adam Reed
Reed is an American voice actor, animator, writer, producer, and television director. Reed created, writes, and voice acts on the show. Alongside frequent collaborator Matt Thompson, he also voice-acted, wrote, directed and produced the television series ‘Sealab 2021’ and ‘Frisky Dingo’.
News
The renewal of the series was confirmed during SDCC 2019. The show tweeted about the announcement saying, "No, you aren’t dreaming. Seriously, you aren’t. #ArcherFXX is coming back for season 11 and he’s wide awake. " - @archerfxx
In an interview with EW, the creators revealed that three years have passed since Archer fell into a coma and that things are going to be very different once he wakes up in the new season.
"We’re definitely back to doing spy missions," co-creator and executive producer Matt Thompson revealed. "But the roles and people’s personalities have changed. What’s also different is Archer is physically and mentally not what he was. He’s been in a bed for three years. His muscles have atrophied to the point where he can’t even walk that well."
The creators also revealed that Archer would now be equipped with a “tacti-cane”, a cane loaded with cool gadgets that should in theory help Archer make up for the decline in his physical ability.
Trailer
A trailer for the upcoming season was released during Comic-Con@Home 2020. The clip teases Archer's return and shows how everyone else has moved on without him. The company is back in the spy game and everyone seems to have gotten a lot better in Archer's absence. Never fear, Archer's back and he's going to take things back to the way they were, whether they like it or not.
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