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Nemo to Make Cable Debut on STARZ
Premium cable outlet STARZ! will air the exclusive TV premiere of the Academy Award-nominated animated feature Finding Nemo from Pixar Animation Studios and Walt Disney Pictures. The CG blockbuster will make its boob tube bow on May 22 at 9 p.m. (ET/PT). To promote the event, the cabler is launching [...]
Basketball All-Stars Get Static Shock
Warner Bros. Animation’s superhero toon, Static Shock, is making heroes of hoops stars Karl Malone, Yao Ming, Tracy McGrady and Steve Nash in an upcoming episode set to air Saturday, February 28 at 8:30 a.m. ET/7:30 a.m. PT on Kids’ WB! In the episode, “Hoop Squad,” a visit to Los [...]
Idol’s Cowell Hits Comic Note for The Simpsons
Sunday’s new episode of Fox’s primetime animated series The Simpsons will feature the voice and animated likeness of American Idol judge Simon Cowell. The TV personality everybody loves to hate will parody himself as a tough school admissions committee member who grills Maggie and judges her qualifications. A clip of [...]
Clone Wars to Reveal Episode III Villain
The upcoming third episode in the Star Wars saga promises to deliver the birth of Darth Vader, and it will also give rise to an all-new baddie. The villainous General Grievous takes the field for the dark side, and Cartoon Network will offer a first look when it continues its [...]
Peppa Pig Goes to Market, Makes Int’l Sales
Contender Entertainment Group (CEG) says its new preschool animated series, Peppa Pig, has sold in seven key international territories in less than four months. In addition, the show has been snapped up by broadcaster Five for a U.K. premiere on May 31 and Nick Jr. for broadcast in the U.K. [...]
Comedy Central Nets Odd Toon
The home of South Park is looking forward to spending some time in the apartment of a laid-off dot-commer. Daily Variety reports that cable outlet Comedy Central has ordered eight episodes of Odd Todd, based on a series of five-minute webtoons created by Todd Rosenberg. Rosenberg, a former business development [...]
Nelvana, Nick, Penguin, Fisher Price in Miss Spider’s Parlor
Having spun good numbers for Nickelodeon in March with the CG-animated special Miss Spider’s Sunny Patch Kids, Callaway Arts & Entertainment is expanding its eight-legged property, created by David Kirk, to series TV and seizing various licensing opportunities. Canadian CG house Nelvana, which animated the Nick special, will co-produce a [...]
Cartoon Saloon, Telescreen Smell Success in Skunk
After shopping its property, Skunk, at Cartoon Forum 2003, Cartoon Saloon has secured a production partner in Telescreen. The two companies are teaming up to produce the 26×30 series about a skunk who must become a Kung Fu master to protect his home and friends. The series is based upon [...]
Web Babe Margolis Drawn to TV
One of the most downloaded women on the Internet hopes to be one of the most watched stars on TV, even if her famous assets will be rendered in ink and paint. Cindy Margolis will be the star of a new animated TV series in development at Gang of Seven [...]
Toon Disney Launches Jetix, Live Card Game
Toon Disney debuts its new action/adventure block, Jetix, this Saturday, Feb. 14. Coinciding with the kick-off is the launch of Jetix Cards Live, the world’s first trading card game that is played concurrently on TV and online. Jetix Cards Live can be played at www.jetix.tv and on ABC Family and [...]
BinWeevils Appoints Henwood...
U.K.-based digital social world BinWeevils, for kids 6-12, has appointed media...
Blue Sky’s...
Epic, the new animated adventure from director Chris Wedge and his gifted team...
