Career
He is a graduate of Asbury University, where he majored in media communications. Merrill joined Cartoon Network within several months of its inception (in 1992), coming over from sister company Cable News Network. He started working in programming, and in 1993 he and then head of programming Mike Lazzo helped put together the first animated late-night talk show, He voiced Space Ghost in the first of two unaired pilots for the show. In April 1994, (SGC2C for short) premiered on Cartoon Network.
The concept of SGC2C was that 1960s Hanna-Barbera cartoon superhero Space Ghost had retired from being a superhero and was hosting his own talk show, in which he interviewed with real celebrity guests, with his old arch enemies Zorak and Moltar as band leader and director
To date, the show has had over 90 episodes aired on television, and was one of the motivating forces behind the creation of the Adult Swim programming bracket started in 2001. He helped produce and write for the show for years, and voiced "Council of Doom" members Brak and Lokar, who would appear on the show periodically, mostly Brak.
In 1995 a spin-off from SGC2C,, premiered on Turner Broadcasting System (but later moved to Cartoon Network in 1996), with Andy once again writing and producing the show (along with a few other crew members that also worked on ) and voicing the character of Brak. The three main characters on were Space Ghost, Zorak and Brak, and it was basically a show of skits and songs put together from the same limited animation used on SGC2C. Originally the skits and songs were just used as filler for showing old Hanna-Barbera, Looney Tunes, Merrie Melodies and Popeye cartoons, until the skits and songs became more popular and Brak developed more of a personality and grew popular with fans.
The show eventually just became made up fully of skits and songs.
In 2000 two Sonny and Cher-style variety show specials premiered on Cartoon Network, titled Brak Presents the Brak Show Starring Brak. The show featured new animation, and new songs with celebrity guests and fellow Space Ghost villain Zorak. However, the specials were met with mixed reviews from fans.
In the early hours of December 21, 2000, a new sitcom parody cartoon premiered, titled "Leave lieutenant to Brak", which was actually the pilot episode for the future Adult Swim show The Brak Show, which premiered on Adult Swim in 2001 and ran for three seasons.
