PBS takes all three Children’s Animation Emmy noms


Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Emmy

PBS took the tri­fecta Wednes­day for Out­stand­ing Children’s Ani­ma­tion pro­gram when the National Acad­emy of Tele­vi­sion Arts & Sci­ences announced its nom­i­nees for the 39th Annual Day­time Enter­tain­ment Emmy Awards.

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Axe Cop” breaking into Saturday late-prime on FOX


Axe Cop

Ani­ma­tion Dom­i­na­tion HD, the new ani­ma­tion unit cre­ated by Fox Broad­cast­ing Com­pany, has acquired the rights to the hit comic phe­nom­e­non Axe Cop, Nick Wei­den­feld, head of Ani­ma­tion Dom­i­na­tion HD, announced Tuesday.

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In Dutch (1946) — Pluto Theatrical Cartoon Series

In Dutch

#CotD: Watch “In Dutch” as Pluto wakes up in Hol­land, and finds out he is really in, uh, Dutch.

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FOX gives moms a special gift on Sunday

Fox Animation Studios

In cel­e­bra­tion of Mother’s Day, the ani­mated kids of FOX Sun­days reveal what they’re get­ting their moms — Donna Tubbs, Marge Simp­son, Linda Belcher, Lois Grif­fin and Francine Smith.

Plus, FOX promises no regift­ing with all-new episodes of The Cleve­land Show, The Simp­sons, Bob’s Burg­ers, Fam­ily Guy and the sea­son finale of Amer­i­can Dad, air­ing from 7:30 to 10 p.m. ET/PT Sun­day, May 13.

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Third season of “LazyTown” goes into production

LazyTown

Award-winning children’s TV series Lazy­Town is back in pro­duc­tion for a third sea­son of brand new 13 half-hour shows fol­low­ing its acqui­si­tion by Turner Broad­cast­ing last September.

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Children’s author, illustrator Maurice Sendak dies

Maurice Sendak

Children’s author and illus­tra­tor Mau­rice Sendak, recip­i­ent of the Calde­cott Medal for Where the Wild Things Are, died Tues­day in Dan­bury, Con­necti­cut. The Ridge­field, Con­necti­cut res­i­dent was 83.

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Avatar (1994) — Batman: The Animated Series

Avatar

#CotD: From the sec­ond sea­son of Bat­man, “Avatar” had Ra’s Al Ghul face off against Bat­man and Talia.
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9 animation finalists for Student Oscars announced

Oscar Statuette, Academy Awards

For the first time ever, a film from Utah Val­ley Uni­ver­sity is a final­ist in the Ani­ma­tion cat­e­gory of the Acad­emy of Motion Pic­ture Arts and Sci­ences’ Stu­dent Acad­emy Awards competition.

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Buccaneer Bunny (1948) — Looney Tunes Cartoon Series

Buccaneer Bunny

#CotD: The first car­toon to pit Bugs Bunny against Yosemite Sam as a pirate was “Buc­ca­neer Bunny”.

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50 Days of Futurama


Futurama

Com­edy Cen­tral is tak­ing “Futu­rama” fans on a 50 day multi-platform jour­ney lead­ing up to the series’ sev­enth sea­son pre­miere on Wednes­day, June 20 at 10:00 p.m. The “Count­down To ‘Futu­rama’” launches on Face­book on Tues­day, May 1 and for 50 con­sec­u­tive days will pro­vide fans with exclu­sive con­tent includ­ing pre­view clips, char­ac­ter designs, episode stills, story boards and more each day. For the count­down kick-off, Com­edy Cen­tral will post a sneak peek clip from the sea­son pre­miere episode, “The Bots and the Bees.”

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