Category: Television (Page 56 of 60)

… except not in cartoon form.

Captain Planet will star in a new line of T-shirts for the holiday season. A full line of the T-shirts for men, women and children featuring Captain America will launch at high-end specialty boutiques and department stores in October.

Created by Ted Turner in 1990, Captain Planet was used as a tool to teach children about potential environmental hazards. It can be seen in syndication weekdays on Boomerang, Turner’s 24-hour cable network devoted to classic cartoons. Also, the network will feature a 12-hour marathon in April in celebration of Earth Day 2008.

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According to The Hollywood Reporter, 20th Century Fox TV is in development on three new animated series. The first is a retooled version of the 2003 live-action comedy The Pitts, created by Simpsons vet Mike Scully. The second, Relative Insanity, will be exec produced by Jack Black. The third, Mothballs, is from Drawn Together creators Matt Silverstein and Dave Jeser.

The Pitts originally aired in March 2003 for only four weeks, and followed the misadventures of the world’s most unlucky family.

Insanity follows a twenty-something man who can never seem to get his life in order, thanks to his crazy family.

Mothballs is set in a nursing home run by the dysfunctional family the Westings, as the patriarch must put his estranged father in the rules-oriented facility.

Seth MacFarlane, Family Guy composer Walter Murphy, Fuzzy Door Productions and Cartoon Network have been sued by Bourne, company that holds the copyright to the song “When You Wish Upon a Star”. Bourne alleges that the show violated its copyright to the song in the episode “When You Wish Upon a Weinstein,” which features character Peter Griffin singing a song titled “I Need a Jew” in the style of When You Wish Upon a Star.

We’ll keep you updated if Family Guy will have to fork over some cash. I highly doubt it though.

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4Kids announced today that it has partnered with The CW Network to program its Saturday morning kids block for five years beginning with the 2008-2009 broadcast season. 4Kids will be supplying five hours of children’s programming per week to The CW Network for the block, which is broadcast on The CW on Saturday mornings between 7:00 am and 12:00 noon. 4Kids will also sell the national commercial advertising in The CW Network’s kids block.

Under the terms of the deal, The CW and 4Kids will share in national ad revenue from the block, with the network’s share of revenue to be applied against a guarantee to be paid by 4Kids to The CW.

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Aardman International have announced its forthcoming Wallace and Gromit film, TROUBLE AT’ MILL, a half-hour special made for TV which will be shown on BBC One in Fall 2008.

Nick Park of Aardman said, “I love making films for the cinema, but the production of Chicken Run and Curse of the Were-Rabbit were virtually back to back and each film took five years to complete. TROUBLE AT’ MILL will be so much quicker to make and I can’t wait to get back into production.”

In TROUBLE AT’ MILL, Wallace and Gromit have a brand new baking business with all the gadgets you’d come to expect from a Wallace and Gromit short. Although business is booming, Gromit is concerned by the news that 12 local bakers have gone missing this year. But Wallace isn’t worried, because he’s in love with local beauty Piella Bakewell. It’s up to Gromit, with Wallace’s life in danger, to solve the murder mystery.

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The Shonen Jump DEATH NOTE anime series has been licensed to Adult Swim for domestic broadcast beginning Saturday, October 20 at midnight.

The mystery, inspired by a 12-volume manga, follows the adventures of Light Yagami, a student with great prospects who is bored out of his mind. All of that changes when he finds the Death Note, a strange notebook dropped by a Shinigami death god named Ryuk. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and now Light has vowed to use the power of the Death Note to rid the world of evil. But when criminals mysteriously begin dropping dead, the authorities send the legendary detective L to track down the killer. With L hot on his heels, will Light lose sight of his noble goal — or his life?

Volume 1 of DEATH NOTE, containing four episodes, will be released on DVD on November 20.

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As you may or may not know, The Simpsons makes reference to A LOT of films such as The Shining and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. Joey Devilla has compiled 66 of those references complete with screenshots. Check out all 66 references here.

This past Sunday the season premieres of The Simpsons and Family Guy aired and millions of you tuned in. Family Guy came in 11th place with 10.81 million viewers while The Simpsons came in 15th place with 9.55 million viewers. It’s great to see some animated shows in the top 20! Below is the full list of the top 20 shows for last week:

1. NFL Football: Dallas at Chicago, NBC, 19.05 million viewers.
2. “Survivor: China,” CBS, 15.35 million viewers.
3. “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,” CBS, 14.07 million viewers.
4. “Sunday Night NFL Pre-Kick,” NBC, 13.86 million viewers.
5. “Cold Case,” CBS, 12.75 million viewers.
6. “Deal Or No Deal” (Monday), NBC, 11.72 million viewers.
7. “Shark,” CBS, 11.42 million viewers.
8. “60 Minutes,” CBS, 11.37 million viewers.
9. “Without a Trace,” CBS, 11.28 million viewers.
10. “Two And a Half Men,” CBS, 10.84 million viewers.
11. “Family Guy,” Fox, 10.81 million viewers.
12. “Football Night in America, Part 3,” NBC, 10.29 million viewers.
13. “Deal Or No Deal” (Wednesday), NBC, 9.86 million viewers.
14. “CSI: Miami,” CBS, 9.65 million viewers.
15. “The Simpsons,” Fox, 9.55 million viewers.
16. “The OT,” Fox, 9.5 million viewers.
17. “Back to You,” Fox, 9.48 million viewers.
18. “Kid Nation – Special,” CBS, 9.38 million viewers.
19. “CSI: NY,” CBS, 9.18 million viewers.
20. “Desperate Housewives,” ABC, 9.02 million viewers.

Peter Hannan, creator of Nickelodeon’s Catdog, has signed a deal with Cartoon Network to turn his book series — Wally, King of Flurb — into an animated TV show. Hannan is in the process of writing and illustrating the series.

Can’t wait to see what Mr. Hannan has up his sleeve. If Catdog is any indication, we’re in for a real treat!

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Cartoon Network has completed production on Ben 10: Race Against Time, a live-action made-for-TV movie based on the animated series. Alex Winter, of Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, directed the movie which will air in November. Graham Phillips stars as Ben Tennyson, a boy who is able to transform himself into a variety of super aliens.

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LATV will air THE HOMIES HIP-HOP SHOW, a stop-motion one-hour animated series, on Thursday, September 13. The show will then air on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 9:00 pm PT. Each show will consist of 8 to 10 sketches mixed in with music videos.

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South Park and Camp Lazlo came out victorious at this year’s Creative Arts Primetime Emmys which aired on Saturday, September 8th.

Camp Lazo won Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming One Hour or More)
South Park won Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming Less Than One Hour) for its hilarious World of Warcraft episode, “Make Love, Not Warcraft”.

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The Barnyard movie is getting its TV show titled Back at the Barnyard, premiering this fall on Nickelodeon on Saturday, September 29 at 9:00 pm and on Nicktoons Network the following day at 9:00 pm. The regular airtime will be Saturdays at 10:30 am on Nickelodeon.

The series picks up a few years after the movie, chronicling what happens with the animals when the farmer’s back is turned. The series centers around a cow named Otis, who has recently become the patriarch of the farm.

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