Category: Television (Page 59 of 66)

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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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.

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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.

The Simpsons’ 20th season will begin airing this Fall, but there’s one problem — the voice talent hasn’t signed new contracts yet.

Because of this, production on the 20th season was put on hold and will result in a shorter season — probably 20 episodes instead of the regular 22.

According to Varierty, the key cast members — Dan Castellaneta (Homer), Julie Kavner (Marge), Nancy Cartwright (Bart), Yeardley Smith (Lisa), Hank Azaria (Moe) and Harry Shearer (Mr. Burns) are believed to make around $360,000 an episode. A new deal could raise the deal to $500,000 per episode.

However, an insider said it could all be resolved as soon as this week. Let’s keep our fingers crossed that they settle this ASAP and FOX gives them the money they deserve. When you think about, their pay is quite small compared to the billions of dollars that The Simpsons franchise is worth.

THE SIMPSONS RIDE is officially open at Universal Studios Hollywood, California and Universal Orlando Resort in Florida.

Guests are swept into Krustyland, a theme park created by the show’s cash hungry clown. Meanwhile, maniacal Sideshow Bob has escaped from prison and has taken control of the park to get his revenge on Krusty and the Simpson family. Hand-picked by Krusty to be the first to ride his newest attraction, you are thrust into the middle of the action.

The attraction is larger than life — from the 32-foot-tall Krusty the Clown at the entrance (guests walk through Krusty’s mouth on his extended tongue) to the giant wrap-around cinematic experience created for this great new adventure. Guests soar through Krustyland and Springfield on a ride that features the world’s first ever cork screw that’s animated.

“For 20 years I’ve been dreaming about this, and here it is — a wild, thrilling SIMPSONS RIDE put together by a huge number of talented artists and amusement-park maniacs,” Groening said.

Check out a preview clip for the upcoming Family Guy spin-off, The Cleveland Show.

Comedy Central is set to air the South Park IMAGINATIONLAND trilogy as a feature-length, director’s cut film, complete with previously unaired footage created especially for the movie. The movie will air at 10 p.m. (ET) on Sunday, July 27.

IMAGINATIONLAND tells the story of Stan and Kyle trying to stop the United States Army from nuking Imaginationland while Butters leads the resistance from inside everyone’s wildest dreams. Meanwhile, a wronged Cartman is out to get Kyle down on his knees to pay his dues. Al Gore and Mel Gibson also make an appearance.