Wonkybot Entertainment announced today that legendary actress Sarah Douglas, best known for her iconic roles in Superman and Superman II, has joined the voice cast of its animated comedy series The Swines, created by writer/director Stewart St John.

Douglas will appear in a multi-episode arc beginning with the Season Two premiere, voicing a heightened animated version of herself known as Sarah Piglas, a glamorous, sharp-tongued figure whose arrival sends shockwaves through the show’s pig-pun-powered universe.

Season Two premieres Friday, April 24 on YouTube, following the debut of a teaser trailer featuring Sarah Douglas’s character reveal on March 25 and a full Season Two trailer on April 10.   Watch the teaser trailer here, below.

“I’ve been an enormous fan of the unbelievably talented Sarah Douglas since childhood,” said St John. “We’re beyond thrilled to have someone with her pedigree and remarkable range — from commanding dramatic roles to a wonderfully sharp comedic instinct — join us on the show. She’s recognized around the world, and over the years has also become a dear friend. Having her come play in our universe is an amazing gift.”

Douglas first cemented her pop-culture legacy as the chilling Kryptonian super-villain Ursa, opposite Christopher Reeve and Terence Stamp, before delivering memorable turns as Queen Taramis in Conan the Destroyer and Pamela Lynch on Falcon Crest. More recently she reached a new global audience through Netflix’s A Christmas Prince film franchise.

“I’m thrilled to be working with the creative minds at Wonkybot again,” Douglas said. “I previously voiced The Empress in the award-winning Tara Tremendous audio series, which went on to receive a Parents’ Choice Gold Award. What draws me to Stewart’s work is that it’s fearless — smart, irreverent, and deeply affectionate toward genre and pop culture. The Swines knows exactly what it is, and it isn’t trying to be anything else.”

The Swines is set in a fully realized pig-centric world where everything — names, places, traditions, and social hierarchies — is reimagined through swine-based logic and language. St John cites his early mentorship under animation legend Joe Barbera as a formative influence, drawing inspiration from the way The Flintstones committed fully to its stone-age worldbuilding.

“The Swines isn’t just a comedy, it’s a complete universe,” said St John. “Joe Barbera taught me that if you commit fully to a world, the humor becomes timeless. In our case, everything bends to pig logic. Language, culture, class — it all runs on snout rules.”

The series welcomes viewers into the melodramatic town of Oinkersfield, where every feud, secret, and scandal comes with an extra layer of sizzle. Equal parts soap comedy, family drama, and satirical small-town saga, The Swines follows a sprawling cast of scheming, lovable, and unapologetically larger-than-life characters.

Season One introduced audiences to ex–Swine Corps veteran Jack Swinefill, his free-spirited wife June, and their grown children — including estranged Hollywood son Sebastian St. Piggleton, who returns to his hometown to claim ten thousand acres of land left to him by his Grandmother Hamm. Unfortunately for Sebastian, the property sits adjacent to his blue collar family’s beloved Hog Heaven Ranch. News of his return — alongside his glamorous husband Rodd and their sharp-tongued business partner Marcus — quietly sets the stage for rivalries, schemes, and long-simmering family tensions across Oinkersfield, while separate storylines involving land disputes, casino misadventures, and a mysterious disappearance push the town’s chaos to new heights.

The first season culminated in a cliffhanger that left Sebastian, Rodd, and Marcus fleeing into the forests outside Oinkersfield after a counterfeit luxury watch enraged a pair of armed locals — setting the stage for Season Two to pick up moments later.

Into that chaos walks Sarah Piglas.

The Swines premiered on YouTube with a hybrid release model combining traditional episodic storytelling with a serialized narrative told through daily YouTube Shorts. Full episodes air in 16:9 format every other Friday at 5PM Pacific, while shorter clips expand the storyline across social platforms, an approach Wonkybot says allows the series to reach both long-form viewers and mobile-first audiences.

Season Two promises to push the show’s outrageous soap-opera energy even further, introducing new rivalries, escalating family power struggles, and a host of unexpected characters including Douglas’s mysterious Sarah Piglas.

ABOUT

Wonkybot Entertainment is an independent animation and storytelling studio founded by Stewart St John alongside partners Todd Fisher and Michael Plahuta. The company develops creator-owned intellectual property across animation, audio, publishing, and digital platforms, with projects including the award-winning Tara Tremendous franchise, the newly launched The Swines universe, and the family-focused Wonk.