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Stop Motion Casts a Spell on SpongeBob
How the talented team at Screen Novelties brought a familiar 2D toon to 3D life in It’s a SpongeBob Christmas! special. You can call it the Rankin-Bass legacy—the reason we tend to enjoy our classic animated holiday programming spiced with a touch of stop-motion magic. It’s only natural that kids [...]
Wooding’s Kid Glove Brings ‘Viking Kong’ to MIPCOM
Entertainment industry veteran Brenda Wooding will launch Kid Glove, her new boutique production, distribution and rights management company at MIPCOM this year. The first project under the new shingle is Viking Kong, an animated comedy for 6-11 year olds. The new Kid Glove is organized into three divisions. Kid Glove [...]
CN Greenlights ‘Steven Universe,’ ‘Uncle Grandpa’ Series
Cartoon Network has given the green light to two new animated comedy series: Steven Universe and Uncle Grandpa. Created by Adventure Time writer and storyboard artist Rebecca Sugar, Steven Universe is a coming-of-age story told from the perspective of the youngest member of a team of magical Guardians of the [...]
Nickelodeon Greenlights New Animated Series
Nickelodeon has greenlit over a dozen new live-action, animation and TV movie projects that will begin production this fall and into 2013. Among the new projects on tap are the CG-animated series Monsters vs. Aliens and 2D-series Sanjay & Craig which are based at Nickelodeon’s Animation Studio in Burbank, Calif. [...]
Cartoon Network HD Launches in Indonesia
Turner has launched Cartoon Network HD in Indonesia on leading national cable platform First Media this week. This is part of a regional rollout plan for CN that kicked off in the Philippines in January. The new channel complements Turner’s existing portfolio of news and entertainment channels currently available in [...]
Disney’s ‘Randy Cunningham’ Goes into Production
Disney TV’s London-based studio has commissioned Ireland’s Boulder Media and L.A.’s Titmouse to produce a new animated comedy titled Randy Cunningham: Ninth Grade Ninja. Set to premiere on Disney XD in the fall of 2012 and to air in more than 129 countries worldwide, the 52 x 11-minute series follows the fast-paced [...]
Noah Z. Jones Reveals Secrets of ‘Fish Hooks’
Animated People: Noah Z. Jones, Creator, Disney Channel’s Fish Hooks We recently had the good fortune of catching up with the talented and super nice Noah Z. Jones, the creator of Disney Channel’s hit animated series Fish Hooks. The colorful show, which will begin its second season on Friday (Nov. [...]
Disney Swims with Season 2 of ‘Fish Hooks’ in Nov.
Disney Channel will premiere the second season of its hit animated show Fish Hooks on Friday, Nov. 4. At 9:30 p.m. Created by Noah Z. Jones, the series has been one of TV’s top-rated series among kids 6-11 and tweens 9-14 since its debuted in September 2010. Season two will continue [...]
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...
