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NBC’s ‘Community’ Goes 8-Bit
The stars of NBC’s live-action comedy Community have been through their share of quirky adventures—including stop-motion and anime inspired toon ones—but according to The Hollywood Reporter, they’ll be entering an all new flat dimension as 8-bit videogame characters. The episode titled “Digital Estate Planning,” set to air this Thursday at [...]
BBC Says Good-Bye to Children’s Blocks
The BBC Trust has confirmed that children’s programs will no longer be shown on BBC One and Two following the org’s digital switchover. Shows such as Horrible Histories and Blue Peter will move to CBBC and CBeebies for good. The move is part of BBC’s recent cost-cutting measures. BBC points [...]
Adult Swim Announces Hot, New Animated Slate
Cartoon Network’s late-night block Adult Swim has revealed its development slate, ahead of its upfront presentations on Wednesday. Deadline.com reports that projects includes seven greenlit animated and live-action pilots and an animated series based on the Harold & Kumar movies in development. Untitled Animated Harold & Kumar Project (In Development) – [...]
Imira’s Toons Take Over Latin America
Barcelona-based Imira Entertainment has sold over 200 hours of its animated shows to Latin America and Spanish-speaking U.S. networks. In pan-Latin America deals, Pay TV channel Yups has acquired Jonathan M. Shiff & ZDF Enterprises’ Scooter, Secret Agent (26X26′) and Shaftesbury’s Baxter (13X30′) for all territories excluding Argentina & Brazil [...]
Comedy Central Reveals ‘Futurama’ S7 Details
Good news, everyone! Season 7 of Matt Groening and David X. Cohen’s Emmy-winning sci-fi comedy series Futurama will kick off on Comedy Central with two new back-to-back episodes Wednesday, June 20 at 10 p.m. Fans can look forward to 13 new half-hour episodes this season, awesome guest stars and a [...]
Millimages’ ‘Louie’ Lands Multi-Territory Deal with Nick
European producer and distributor Millimages has secured a multi-territory deal with Nickelodeon for animated pre-school show Louie. Nickelodeon has picked up Pay TV rights to the show for Nick Jr. in Europe (excluding the U.K. and France), Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America and will air the show [...]
Future of Fox’s ‘Cleveland Show’ Looks Hazy
Fox-TV announced that it has renewed its Sunday animation regulars Seth MacFarlane’s Family Guy and American Dad. However, according to ew.com, the channel hasn’t made a firm commitment to bringing back Family Guy spinoff The Cleveland Show. MacFarlane’s original toon Family Guy will begin its 11th season this fall, while [...]
Nick Rolls Out Pre-K “All Star Week”
Nickelodeon will be offering plenty of temptation to stay indoors for preschooler fans next week as it rolls out five new episodes of its hit pre-k series Max & Ruby, Bubble Guppies, Dora the Explorer, Team Umizoomi and Mike the Knight during it’s special “All Star Week” running Monday, May [...]
‘City of Friends’ Launches New Interactive Initiatives
Norway’s CreaCon Group is enhancing its digital presence by launching a new interactive website for its animated preschool series City of Friends. Launching this month, www.cityoffriends.com was developed by digital agency Bionic Communications and offers fans of the hit television series the latest news and character-based games. The new, interactive English-language website [...]
Big Bad Boo’s ’1001 Nights’ Flies to New Territories
2012 is shaping up to be a good year for Vancouver-based indie animation house Big Bad Boo. The studio’s 2D animated series 1001 Nights will launch in over 1000 territories globally and in 15 languages in the near future. Broadcasters CBC Radio Canada and Teletoon have confirmed picking up the [...]
Dusty Fest Winners Announced
The School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York City (NYC) has announced the...
‘Rise of the...
As expected, DreamWorks Animation made an early splash at the Cannes Film...
