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Posts from category "Television"
First Teen TV Network Launched
Launched today, Varsity TV (VTV) lays claim to being “the world’s first and only teen TV network.” Featuring animated projects and other programming targeted specifically at the teen market, the new broadcast entity aims to bridge the youth-programming gap between Nickelodeon and MTV. The 24-hour network was co-founded by Joe [...]
Channelzero Gets Fupduck at NATPE
Channelzero, creator of late night animated properties for mature audiences, will take its “fowl” new comedy, The Fupduck Show, to NATPE 2003 in New Orleans. Described by series creator and producer Dave Warren as “Popeye meets The Sopranos,” The Fupduck Show is set in the seedy subculture of a topless [...]
Mainframe Ent. Races To NATPE
TV computer animation pioneer Mainframe Ent. Inc. (ReBoot) will be presenting two new animated projects at NATPE 2003. Alien Legion and Maxine 5 are the two most recent properties from the Vancouver-based company. Based on the cult comic book series created by Carl Potts with Alan Zelenetz, Alien Legion follows [...]
CINAR Sells Twin Sisters
CINAR Education Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of CINAR Corp., has sold substantially all assets of Twin Sisters Prods. for $1.5 million to an entity controlled by Twin Sisters founders Kim Mitzo Thompson and Karen Mitzo Hilderbrand. CINAR Corp. and CINAR Education simultaneously settled all outstanding litigation claims filed against them [...]
New Series Scoots To NATPE
Education Comic Inc. will debut its new animated series, Scooter McDoogal, at NATPE 2003 in New Orleans. The adventure show aimed at kids 6 -12 is based on a series of pop-up comic books endorsed by educators and schools around the world. Scooter McDoogal blends excitement and learning as the [...]
All-New Ninja Turtles Debuts Feb. 8
They crawled out of the sewer in the late ’80s to take the world by storm. Now The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are coming back with all-new adventures to air every Saturday morning only on the all-new FOX BOX beginning Saturday Feb. 8. The same team that transformed Peter Laird’s [...]
DigiArt Prod. Premieres Enviro-warrior at NATPE
Seoul, Korea-based computer animation studio DigiArt Production will debut its action-adventure series Seedian at NATPE 2003. The company will screen the first of 26 episodes of the sci-fi/fantasy property targeting kids 6 to 11. Seedian takes place on a faraway planet called the Green Star, where a long-lasting peace is [...]
Tech TV Unleashes Anime
While channel surfing, you may have come across a cable network known as Tech TV and dismissed it as programming for gearheads and pencil necks with pocket protectors. But with a growing list of cool shows including the original marionette classic Thunderbirds, the CG shorts showcase Eye Drops and the [...]
Disney Reorganizes
A number of developments have come about at The Walt Disney Co. in the past few days. In addition to former president of television animation David Stainton replacing Thomas Schumacher as president of Walt Disney feature animation, the House of Mouse has merged its television-animation unit with the Disney Channel [...]
Red Kite Loched and Loaded for Nessie Short
Red Kite studios is currently in production on The Loch Ness Kelpie, an animated short commissioned by BBC Alba and CCG for the Animated Tales of the World series by S4C. Directed by Iain Gardner, the film will combine traditional drawn animation with digital technology. Animators are being recruited. The [...]
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...
