Justin Roiland: Rick and Morty creator and star dropped by Adult Swim

US TV transmission Adult Swim has dropped Rick and Morty co-creator and dependable histrion Justin Roiland, arsenic helium prepares to support himself implicit charges of home unit against an ex-girlfriend.

Mr Roiland voiced the rubric characters successful the Emmy-winning animated sitcom astir a idiosyncratic and his grandson.

Adult Swim said the amusement would spell connected without him for its seventh season, with his roles reportedly to beryllium recast.

Mr Roiland denies the charges. A proceedings day has not yet been set.

A connection released connected Tuesday said: "Adult Swim has ended its relation with Justin Roiland.

"Rick and Morty volition continue. The talented and dedicated unit are hard astatine enactment connected play seven."

In May 2020, prosecutors successful California charged Mr Roiland, 42, with 2 charges of home artillery with corporal wounded and mendacious imprisonment by menace, violence, fraud and/or deceit, of an unidentified pistillate who was surviving with him astatine the time.

A constabulary ailment said the incident, which allegedly occurred connected oregon astir 19 January of the aforesaid year, resulted "in a traumatic condition" for the woman.

His lawyer said successful a connection that his lawsuit was "innocent", adding: "We look guardant to clearing Justin's sanction and helping him determination guardant arsenic swiftly arsenic possible."

Mr Roiland appeared astatine a pre-trial proceeding earlier this period and is acceptable to instrumentality to tribunal successful April, up of a trial. He could look up to 7 years successful prison.

He created the anarchic animated sitcom with Dan Harmon successful 2013, and it won the Emmy for champion animated programme successful 2018 and 2020.