Andy Samberg is making a Comedy Central cartoon about how cool archaeologists are
Mitra Jouhari, Tim Robinson, Dale Soules, Guz Khan, Tim Meadows, and Melissa Fumero will star in the series

Andy Samberg is getting a bunch of his old friends together for Digman!, a show that—despite the title—is not about digital monsters that digivolve into champions. The animated series is actually set in a world where archaeologists are treated like “the coolest people on the planet,” with the creators (Samberg and Neil Campbell, who you may know as Maxwell Keeper, The Time Keeper) saying in a press release that it’s all about reflecting their “childhood dreams” of thinking that archaeologists are “badass, adventure-seeking rock stars.” That’s a hyper-specific kind of wish-fulfillment for Samberg and Campbell, because we’re not sure if “archaeologists are cool” is a universal assumption, but the people involved here have earned a chance to nerd out on archaeology. You’d do the same if somebody gave you a TV show.