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Adult Swim Severs Ties With Justin Roiland After Domestic Abuse Charges

“Rick and Morty” will continue with Dan Harmon as sole showrunner, and with new actors voicing the titular pair.

Look who’s purging now—Adult Swim. The cable channel announced Tuesday that it had cut ties with Justin Roiland, co-creator of Rick and Morty, after news broke that the 42-year-old had been charged with two counts of felony domestic abuse in California. “Adult Swim has ended its association with Justin Roiland,” the official Rick and Morty Twitter account said in a statement retweeted by Adult Swim. “Rick and Morty will continue. The talented and dedicated crew are hard at work on Season 7.” Roiland’s voice roles, which include the titular pair, are set to be re-cast, a spokesperson for parent company Warners Bros. Discovery told NBC News. Though Roiland will continue to be credited as co-creator, his longtime creative partner Dan Harmon will now carry on as the series’ sole showrunner, sources told The Hollywood Reporter. Later on Tuesday, development studio Squanch Games released a statement saying that Roiland, its founder and chief executive, had tendered his resignation last Monday, four days after NBC News first reported his domestic violence charges.