Check out the second of six Emmy campaign videos in which Family Guy mocks the other nominees in the Best Comedy category. Their second target is HBO’s Flight of the Conchords.
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FOX recently declined to air an abortion episode of Family Guy (originally scheduled to air in the upcoming season) due to the sensitive subject matter. It will, however, be included on the DVD box-set. Seth MacFarlane, creator of Family Guy, decided to then perform the episode live, complete with orchestral backing. The complete live table read will also be included on the DVD. Below you can view two preview clips, along with an interview with MacFarlane.
Check out the first of six Emmy campaign videos in which Family Guy mocks the other nominees in the Best Comedy category. Their first target is NBC’s The Office.
Chowder creator C. H. Greenblatt has confirmed that Carton Network has canceled the show, currently in post-production of its third season. Greenblatt jokes on his blog, “I haven’t had a break like this in a long, long time. Now I can relax and do all sorts of fun things like finish Final Fantasy XII since I need something to quell my occasional World of Warcraft tremors.”
Don’t count Greenblatt out though, as he’s got new show ideas already in development: “Chowder has opened up a lot of awesome possibilities for me, and creatively I’m feeling more inspired than ever. There are some new ideas I’m working on that will hopefully find a good home somewhere in the next year.”
Lastly, Greenblatt addresses Chowder’s future: “We’re still finishing up lots of good episodes. I think you’ll see that we hit a really good groove third season. My biggest worry before we were cancelled was what would happen to the crew, but luckily, a large chunk of them got hired over at Disney on a new project.”
Via Daily Cartoonist
FOX has revealed the list of celebrities that will make an appearance in the upcoming 21st season of the show that keeps on tickin’, The Simpsons, airing Sundays at 8:00PM.
Celebrities include Seth Rogen, Jonah Hill, Anne Hathaway, Jackie Mason, Neve Campbell and Eartha Kitt. Additional starts include Coldplay’s Chris Martin, Sarah Silverman, Eli Manning and Peyton Manning, Bob Costas, Chuck Liddell and Angela Bassett.
Also, beginning Monday, November 9 and continuing through Sunday, November 15, fans can watch FOX to find Simpsons tributes and clues featured in primetime programming and in on-air promos. Participating series in the week-long tribute include House, Lie to Me, So You Think You Can Dance, Bones, Fringe, Brothers, ‘Til Death, and Dollhouse. Viewers who spot Simpsons clues can log on to FOX.com for an opportunity to win daily prizes and to enter to win an ultimate grand prize.
Futurama fans everywhere can breathe a sigh of relief as FOX confirms that all five Futurama cast members have signed on to voice the upcoming Comedy Central revival of the show.
A couple of weeks ago, FOX had gone as far as to put out casting calls for a replacement cast. Naturally this angered fans, who voiced their concerns on reddit, digg, Facebook, Twitter, and other social networks.
But fans can sleep well at night, knowing that John DiMaggio, Billy West, Katey Sagal, Maurice LaMarche and Tress MacNeille will lend their voices to the 26 new episodes set to air on Comedy Central in mid-2010.
Nickelodeon and fashion design brand Nooka have partnered to create a line of limited-edition, high-end wristwatches inspired by SpongeBob SquarePants. In honor of SpongeBob’s 10th anniversary celebration this year, Nooka has created two limited-edition timepieces featuring graphics and colors inspired by the show.
The unique designs of the pieces utilize two brand-new Nooka styles – the ZUB ZENH (horizontal bars) 20 mm in Yellow and the ZENV (vertical bars) Aluminum in Night. The collection, available for both men and women, will be available at retailers in July, The watches will retail at $170 and $275, respectively.
In addition, SpongeBob’s Greatest Hits, released July 14th, is a brand-new full-length album featuring 17 tracks of original music from the past 10 years of the hit animated series, as well as new hits like “We’ve Got Scurvy,” an original song performed by P!nk, and a remix of the SpongeBob SquarePants theme song performed by Cee-Lo Green of Gnarls Barkley. Also included as a holiday bonus track is the aptly titled “Don’t Be a Jerk (It’s Christmas),” a new song, co-written by Tom Kenny, the voice of SpongeBob, and Andy Paley.
A photo of the watch and a CD track listing are after the break.
Seth MacFarlane has something to be happy about today as his show, Family Guy, has been nominated in the Best Comedy category for the 61st annual Emmys. This is the first time in 50 years that an animated series has been nominated in that category. Family Guy will go up against Entourage, Flight of the Conchords, How I Met Your Mother, The Office, 30 Rock and Weeds.
In the Outstanding Animated Program (for programming less than one hour), the nominees are:
American Dad’s “Sixteen-Hundred Candles”
Robot Chicken’s “Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II”
South Park’s “Margaritaville”
The Simpsons’ “Gone Maggie Gone.”
In the Outstanding Animated Program (for programming one hour or more), the nominees are:
Afro Samurai: Resurrection
Destination Imagination (Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends)
In the Outstanding Special Class – Short-format Animated Programs, the nominees are:
Phineas and Ferb’s “The Monster Of Phineas-N-Ferbenstein”
SpongeBob SquarePants’ “Dear Vikings”
In the Outstanding Voice-Over Performance, the nominees are:
Ron Rifkin, as Narrator for American Masters’ “Jerome Robbins: Something To Dance About”
Seth MacFarlane, as Peter Griffin for Family Guy’s “I Dream of Jesus”
Seth Green, as Anakin Skywalker (among others) for Robot Chicken’s “Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II,”
Hank Azaria, as Moe Syzlak for The Simpsons’ “Eeny Teeny Maya, Moe,”
Harry Shearer, as Mr. Burns (among others) for The Simpsons’ “The Burns And The Bees”
Dan Castellaneta, as Homer Simpson for The Simpsons’ “Father Knows Worst”
Also, The Simpsons received a nomination for Outstanding Music Composition For A Series (Original Dramatic Score) for the “Gone Maggie Gone” episode as well.
Via VFX World
Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Morgan Spurlock (“Super Size Me,” “30 Days”) is set to produce and direct The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special in 3-D on Ice airing Thursday, January 14 on FOX. The documentary special will be the conclusion to the “Best. 20 Years. Ever.,” a year-long global celebration of The Simpsons that launched in January 2009 and culminates on the 20th anniversary of the series’ debut.
In The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special in 3-D on Ice, Spurlock will examine the cultural phenomenon of the show in his distinctive and innovative style. The special will document how the world sees The Simpsons and how the Simpson family has seen the world for two decades.
“When they first called me about this, I thought it was a prank and I hung up,” said Spurlock. “And then my agent called back and said, ‘No, no, this is for real,’ at which point I fainted. Then when I woke up, I called everyone I knew because it was the coolest thing I could ever get to do in my career.”
FX announced today that it has ordered six episodes of Archer (working title), a new half-hour animated comedy series that will launch this fall.
Archer is an animated half-hour comedy set at ISIS, an international spy agency, where global crises are merely opportunities for its highly trained employees to confuse, undermine, betray and royally screw each other. The series features the voices of Jon Benjamin as suave master spy “Sterling Archer,” whose less-than-masculine code name is “Duchess”; Jessica Walter as his domineering mother and boss, “Malory”; Aisha Tyler as his ex-girlfriend, “Agent Lana Kane”; Chris Parnell as ISIS comptroller and Lana’s new love interest, “Cyril Figgis”; and Judy Greer as Malorys lovesick secretary, “Cheryl.”
The Simpsons are back with The Complete Twelfth Season, arriving on DVD August 18th from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. The longest running animated series in television history, the latest DVD collection features all 21 episodes from the 2000-01 season including Bart’s boy band odyssey in “New Kids on the Blecch†featuring N’Sync and a less-than-ordinary day for Homer, Bart and Lisa in “Trilogy of Error.†The season also features many other guest stars including Drew Barrymore, Edward Norton, Justin Timberlake, Stephen King, Andre Agassi, Pete Sampras, Roger Daltry and many more.
All episodes are compiled on four discs (full frame, aspect ratio 1.33:1). Each episode is presented with English 5.1 Dolby Surround, Spanish and French Stereo and English, French and Spanish subtitles. Check out the cover art along with a breakdown of each disc, after the break.
Cartoon Network’s newest animated series “Total Drama Action” premiered Thursday night as the most-watched program of the day on all television-broadcast and cable-among kids 6-11, kids 9-14 and boys 2-11, 6-11 and 9-14, according to Nielsen Media Research.
Below are comparisons of Total Drama Action’s premiere versus Total Drama Island’s 2008 premiere:
– Kids 2-11 delivery (1,714,000) increased by 81%, and ratings (4.2) by 75%
– Boys 2-11 delivery (1,144,000) increased by 103%, and ratings (5.5) by 104%
– Kids 6-11 delivery (1,347,000) increased by 85%, and ratings (5.5) by 83%
– Boys 6-11 delivery (946,000) increased by 101%, and ratings (7.6) by 100%
– Kids 9-14 delivery (1,163,000) and ratings (4.8) both increased by 140%
– Boys 9-14 delivery (859,000) increased by174%, and ratings (6.9) by 176%
Via AWN
Nickelodeon’s “The Penguins of Madagascar” averaged 3.7 million total viewers and ranked as the week’s top kids’ show on all of basic cable with the repeat performance of “The Hidden/Kingdom Come”. The Penguins Saturday morning airing of “Little Zoo Coupe/All Choked Up” ranked as the number-one telecast for the week with kids 2-11 on broadcast and cable TV.
The show also ranked as the number-one animated series among total viewers for the month of May. Quarter to date, the show is the number-two animated show with kids, only behind SpongeBob SquarePants, and the number-one animated show with total viewers.
Via AWN
Sunday, September 27 is the day to mark on your calendar if you’re a fan of FOX’s Sunday Animation Domination block of programming. Premiering at 8:00PM is The Simpsons, followed by the series premiere of Family Guy spinoff, The Cleveland Show. At 9:00PM we get Family Guy, followed by American Dad.
Good news, everyone! The Hollywood Reporter reports that Comedy Central has ordered 26 all-new episodes of one of the greatest animated shows of all time, Futurama. Now that Comedy Central has aired all the original episodes, along with the four DVD movies, they are hungry for more! The unusual number of episodes, 26, suggests that Comedy Central will air two, thirteen-episode seasons. The original cast and core writing team are expected to return. The show is currently scheduled to return mid-2010.
