Nick trying a cartoon Cosby series

Nickelodeon, which already airs reruns of “The Cosby Show” in its Nick at Nite programming block, said Monday it will boost its Bill Cosby quotient with an animated series based on the comedian’s 1986 book “Fatherhood.”

The series, to premiere on Nick at Nite in December, will feature the voice of David Alan Grier as the lead character, a high school teacher who is also a husband and father of three. Cosby will be one of the executive producers, as he is for the Nickelodeon cartoon series “Little Bill.”