Did you know you could watch 5 minute versions of your favorite shows via The Minisode Network? No? Well, now you know! And what’s best is you can watch 5 minute versions of classic cartoons such as Voltron. Below is an example of a minisode.
To check out the rest of the Voltron minisodes head over to the Minisode Network channel on Youtube.
The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences on Saturday awarded the 2007-2008 Creative Arts Primetime Emmys for programs and individual achievements at the 60th Annual Emmy Awards presentation at the NOKIA Theatre L.A. LIVE in Los Angeles.
Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming One Hour Or More)
IMAGINATIONLAND (SOUTH PARK)
Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming Less Than One Hour)
THE SIMPSONS — “Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind”
Outstanding Individual Achievement In Animation
Ben Balistreri — Character Design — Cartoon Network
FOSTER’S HOME FOR IMAGINARY FRIENDS
“Mondo Coco”
Teresa Drilling — Animator — CBS
CREATURE COMFORTS AMERICA
“Self Image, Winging It, Art”
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MTV Networks International (MTVNI) today announced it will launch the first international high definition service dedicated to music and kids, MTVNHD (MTV Networks High Definition), featuring high definition cartoons and music programming. The 24-hour English-language channel will premiere on Monday, September 15, 2008 and will be available in Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Poland and Sweden. Over 300 hours of programming has been commissioned over two years.
MTVNI intends to extend the MTVNHD service to France, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, U.K., Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela by the end of 2008.
Music content will include a variety of series such as MTV Unplugged and VH1 Storytellers as well as live music events including Isle of MTV, Roskilde, the MTV Video Music Awards and the MTV Europe Music Awards. In addition, a Nickelodeon programming block will air Saturday and Sunday mornings, featuring SpongeBob Squarepants, Avatar, and Jimmy Neutron.
The Jim Henson Company is currently working on their latest show, “Sid the Science Kid” which is powered by all-new, innovative 3D technology. Check out the video below, it’s quite interesting.
Spike TV’s AFRO SAMURAI is set to return with an original movie premiering on the network in January 2009. AFRO SAMURAI: RESURRECTION will star Samuel L. Jackson and Lucy Liu.
AFRO SAMURAI: RESURRECTION is based on the original art and storytelling of manga artist Takashi Okazaki, of a black samurai’s quest for revenge and justice for his murdered father. Liu will give voice to Sio, a beautiful and sadistic mastermind plotting to destroy Afro.
A trailer can be seen at Afrosamurai.com
A sequel to ROBOT CHICKEN: STAR WARS has been greenlit, days after the show earned an Emmy nomination for Best Animated Series. The episode is scheduled to air on November 16.
Most of the voice cast is back, including Carrie Fisher and Billy Dee Williams, who will reprise their roles of Princess Leia and Lando Calrissian. Seth MacFarlane will voice various characters including Emperor Palpatine.
The sequel will focus on the bounty hunters and their stories.
Nickelodeon’s Avatar: The Last Airbender’s series finale scored the series’ highest ratings ever, earning the number-one ratings spot with kids and tweens.
Ratings highlights include:
– The finale, “Sozin’s Comet,” was the number-one telecast on broadcast and basic cable television for the week of 7/14/08-7/22/08, averaging 5.6 million total viewers.
– All of the week’s new Avatar episodes, including the Saturday finale, reached 19.0 million total viewers combined.
– On average, the week-long Avatar premieres earned a 7.6/1.7 million T9-14; a 7.3/1.5 million K6-11; and 4.6 million total viewers.
– The new Avatar online Game of the Week on nick.com, RISE OF THE PHOENIX KING, generated almost 815,000 game plays and in just three days, became the number-two online game for the week.
– During the week of premiere episodes, Avatar became the number-one message board on Nick.com.
The series has inspired the 2010 live-action movie directed by M. Night Shyamalan. Avatar’s creators, Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, will serve as executive producers.
During a recent interview, Seth MacFarlane revealed that a Family Guy movie is in the works. Along with that juicy bit of news, he also spoke about The Cleveland Show, a Family Guy spin-off show.
The 250th episode of King of the Hill is set to air in May 2009. The show’s 13th season will premiere Sunday, September 28 on FOX.
The 250th episode, “Serves Me Right for Giving General George S. Patton the Bathroom Key,” takes place a year after the death of Hank’s father, Cotton Hill. In the episode, Cotton’s widow, Didi , delivers Hank a box full of his father’s prized possessions including one last crazy Cotton request to have his ashes flushed down a toilet located in an old bar and once used by General George S. Patton. When Hank enlists Bill and Dale’s help in his “flushing Cotton” mission, the guys’ bickering gets them kicked out of the bar. When Hank snaps, his friends come together to help him fulfill his father’s final wish.
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Check out a video preview of the upcoming animated TV show, Iron Man: Armored Adventures, scheduled to premiere in 2009.
I still don’t know how I feel about this Family Guy spin-off… I predict the bear family next door will steal the show.
During an interview with Collider, it was confirmed that Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg as currently writing an episode of The Simpsons.
Here’s what Seth Rogen had to say:
“We called The Simpsons and asked if we could write an episode. Evan actually met James L Brooks at a party and James said he really liked Superbad, so we thought there’s our in. Maybe we could ask to write a Simpsons.
We went in and pitched them like 5 ideas and surprisingly they hadn’t done some of them. And…yeah…we all sort of settled on one during the meting and then we went out and wrote an outline and they gave us notes on it. Then we re-wrote the outline.”
According to Variety, The Simpsons cast have signed on to a four-year deal which ups their salaries to about $400,000 an episode, up from the mid 300,000 range.
The deal means Dan Castellaneta (Homer), Julie Kavner (Marge), Nancy Cartwright (Bart), Yeardley Smith (Lisa), Hank Azaria (Moe) and Harry Shearer (Mr. Burns) went back to work this morning.
Also, as part of his deal, Dan Castellaneta will be consulting producer on the series and serve as a writer as well as voicing Homer.
Because of the late start, only 20 of the usual 22 episodes will be produced.
Check out this documentary profile on Nick Park and Aardman Animation, first broadcast November 2006.
Part 1 of 5:
THE VENTURE BROS., the hit Adult Swim series from creator Jackson Publick III, returns with its third season on Sunday, June 1 at 11:30 p.m. When the second season left off, the wedding of The Monarch to Dr. Girlfriend brought together arch enemies and friends alike, until the ceremony was crashed by The Phantom Limb, who was determined to have Dr. Girlfriend all to himself. What has happened to everyone in the aftermath?
The third season of THE VENTURE BROS. promises to explain how The Monarch came to be a supervillian and how he met his wife, Dr. Girlfriend. Also in store are more of Dr. Venture’s fruitless attempts to get money for Venture Industries while avoiding the evil doings of familiar villains like The Phantom Limb and Sergeant Hatred.
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