Italy’s View Conference...
Italy’s popular computer graphics conference View has announced its 2013...
Posts from category "Television"
Boogiepop Phantom Creeps to Anime Network
The hit anime thriller Boogiepop Phantom, produced for U.S. distribution by The Right Stuf Int’l, has been licensed for broadcast on Anime Network. The 24-hr content provider is currently available as a video-on-demand feature on digital cable in select markets. In the series, a string of serial killings and mysterious [...]
Comedy Central on House Arrest
Comedy Central is taking animation to the mike by mixing it with stand-up comedy. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the cabler today launches a series of animated interstitials that will showcase the comic stylings of Dennis Leary, Janeane Garofalo, Jay Mohr, Jeffrey Ross, Dane Cook, Greg Fitzsimmons and Patrice O’Neal. [...]
Fox TV Signs Clone High Creators
Twentieth Century Fox Television has closed a two-year, seven-figure deal with Phil Lord and Chris Miller, the writing/producing team behind MTV’s animated comedy Clone High U.S.A, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The duo, who previously penned sitcoms for NBC and The WB, will develop both live-action and animated fare in [...]
Nick Throws Sleepover
Nickelodeon wants animation fans to spend the night with its It’s Sleepover Jam on Saturday, May 17 (8 p.m.-2 a.m. ET/PT). The Kraft-sponsored slumber party will be broadcast live from Nickelodeon Animation Studio in Burbank, Calif. The cast of the hit sketch comedy series All That will host special sleepover [...]
Kids’ WB! Goes Mega in May
As part of its month-long Mega-May promotion, Kids’ WB! will offer viewers a special sneak-peek of the all-new adventure series Teen Titans on the morning of Saturday, May 3. The series, coming to Kids’ WB!’s 2003-04 season, is produced by Warner Bros. Animation and will be offered in conjunction with [...]
Restored Spider-Man Slings Web over U.K. TV
We brought you word last November that Buena Vista International Television (BVITV) was restoring Marvel’s 1967 Classic Spider-Man animated series. Now the distributor informs us that it has licensed the 52 recently polished half-hour episodes to Channel 4 for broadcast on terrestrial television. BVITV joined forces with Fox Kids Europe [...]
Mimi & Mr. Bobo Take to the Air in Spain
A new season of the animated series Mimi & Mr. Bobo will air on Spain’s RTVE beginning May 7. The comedy series launched on the channel in September 1999 and has been a ratings success. The latest installments are being managed by Icon Prods., the new production and distribution company [...]
Liberty Media Corp. Sells Corus Ent. Shares
Liberty Media Corp. has sold 7,125,000 Class B Non-Voting shares of Corus Ent. Inc. for approximately $100 million. As a result of the sale, Liberty no longer holds an investment in Corus Ent., which owns TV animation powerhouse Nelvana. Operating in the U.S., Europe, South America and Asia, Liberty Media [...]
Vinton Leaves Vinton
Will Vinton, chair and founder of award-wining claymation studio Vinton Studios, has been laid off after 27 years with the company. The move came less than six months after Nike co-founder Phil Knight was tapped as a majority shareholder and board member of the animation shop. Vinton, who is often [...]
Spin to Give Birth to Secret Agent Baby
A new animated baby will soon be beating up powerful super-villains all over the world, thanks to a new partnership formed by Foothill Entertainment, Spin Entertainment and Studio Z Productions. The new toon series Secret Agent Baby will be exposing the adventures of a two-year-old genius that leads a double [...]
Amazon’s LoveFilm and...
LoveFilm and Disney have signed a new pact which allows the Amazon subscriber...
CN All About ‘Adventure...
Cartoon Network Enterprises is riding the runaway Adventure Time train...
