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Tom Ellis has signed up for a lead voice role in Exploding Kittens, an animated comedy series based on the popular card game.
The Lucifer and Miranda favorite will be joined in the adult-oriented cartoon series by Lucy Liu, Abraham Lim, Ally Maki, Mark Proksch and Sasheer Zamata, Netflix announced. A synopsis for the series teases: "The eternal conflict between Heaven and Hell reaches epic proportions when both God and the Devil are sent to Earth – in the bodies of chunky house cats."
Exploding Kittens definitely comes with pedigree. It counts King of the Hill co-creators Mike Judge and Greg Daniels among its executive producers and The Muppets producer Shane Kosakowski as a showrunner. 
The animated series will premiere in 2023, after a new Exploding Kittens mobile game that is also in the works at Netflix. In the meantime, Ellis fans can look out for him in Washington Black, an upcoming Hulu miniseries based on Esi Edugyan's novel of the same name. His co-stars in that one include Sterling K. Brown and Killing Eve/A Discovery of Witches alum Edward Bluemel.
Are you feline – sorry, feeling – excited for Exploding Kittens?