Film & TV / NewsFilm & TV / NewsTracee Ellis Ross is playing Jodie in the Daria spin-off show we all needThe Blackish star will be playing Jodie in an upcoming revival of the MTV Studios cult classicShareLink copied ✔️June 17, 2019June 17, 2019TextAlex Standen While MTV Studios is no longer working on its original plan to do a Daria spin-off about alt icon and teen hero Daria Morgendorffer and her friend Jodie Landon, the studio has confirmed that it’s making a show that will exclusively focus on Jodie herself. Oh, and did we mention she’s being played by actor Tracee Ellis Ross? Taking place in the years following the character’s time at Lawndale High, the series will follow Jodie as she navigates her first job after college, and in typical Gen Z fashion, she’s working in tech. The show will mark the first black female main character in an animated adult series in nearly 20 years and promises to cover “everything from gentrification to sex to tech to call-out culture”. And if you need any more reason to be excited, it will be written by Insecure writer Grace Nkenge Edwards, who will also be co-producing the show alongside Ellis Ross. “Being able to give voice to fresh, feminist and unexplored stories of young women excites me. Jodie will spin off from the cult classic Daria, and with the brilliant, sweet and sarcastic black-girl magic that is Jodie Landon, we will feature a diverse cast, comprised mainly of unapologetically smart and ambitious young female characters who are vulnerable and flawed and interesting and funny,” said Ellis Ross in a press release. Originally conceived as a spin-off of adult cartoon series Beavis and Butthead, 90s cult classic Daria ran between 1997 and 2002. Jodie will be the first in a series of spin-offs from the Daria universe. While there's no production schedule or release date available yet, you can watch a retro Jodie Landon call out a mansplaining schoolboy below: Expand your creative community and connect with 15,000 creatives from around the world.READ MOREGetting to the bottom of the Heated Rivalry discourseMarty Supreme and the cost of ‘dreaming big’Ben Whishaw on the power of Peter Hujar’s photography: ‘It feels alive’Atropia: An absurdist love story set in a mock Iraqi military villageMeet the new generation of British actors reshaping Hollywood Sentimental Value is a raw study of generational traumaJosh Safdie on Marty Supreme: ‘One dream has to end for another to begin’Animalia: An eerie feminist sci-fi about aliens invading MoroccoThe 20 best films of 2025, rankedWhy Kahlil Joseph’s debut feature film is a must-seeJay Kelly is Noah Baumbach’s surreal, star-studded take on fameWatch: Owen Cooper on Adolescence, Jake Gyllenhaal and Wuthering Heights