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Cartoon Network develops live-action Ben 10 flick

Posted on June 16, 2011 by Ethan Minovitz


Ben 10

Car­toon Net­work has signed an agree­ment with acclaimed pro­ducer Joel Sil­ver and Sil­ver Pic­tures to develop a live-action motion pic­ture for its glob­ally suc­cess­ful ani­mated action-adventure prop­erty, Ben 10, Stu­art Sny­der, pres­i­dent and chief oper­at­ing offi­cer of Turner Broad­cast­ing Sys­tem Inc.‘s Ani­ma­tion, Young Adults and Kids Media divi­sion, announced Tues­day.
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CN bringing more “Johnny Test” this summer

Posted on May 27, 2011 by Ethan Minovitz


Johnny Test

Return­ing with all-new episodes, Johnny Test fea­tures the intre­pid Johnny, his genet­i­cally altered super-dog Dukey and his super genius twin sis­ters. Whether it’s a ques­tion­able sci­ence exper­i­ment or things blow­ing up, as long as Dukey can come along, Johnny gives it a go.

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Adult Swim announces programming slate for 2011-12

Posted on May 20, 2011 by Paul Anderson


Adult Swim

Adult Swim cel­e­brated a new slate of pro­gram­ming for the 2011-12 sea­son Wednes­day night dur­ing its star-studded annual Upfront event in New York City.

New orig­i­nal series and spe­cials include:

The Ven­ture Bros. Spe­cial — From the Ladle to the Grave: The Story of Shal­low Gravy
Tight Bros
Black Dyna­mite
Return­ing series:

Aqua Unit Patrol Squad 1
Mary Shelley’s Franken­hole
Met­alo­ca­lypse
Mongo Wrestling Alliance
Robot Chicken
Squid­bil­lies
Super­jail!

Pilots cur­rently in devel­op­ment include:

The Dum­miez; Nick Can­non project
Unti­tled project with Major Lazer
Unti­tled project with Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All
Rolling with Dad; 30-minute ani­mated sit­com cre­ated by Seth Grahame-Smith and David Katzen­berg
Unti­tled project by Dan Har­mon and Justin Roiland

Return­ing acquisitions:

Amer­i­can Dad!
Bleach
Fam­ily Guy
Full Metal Alchemist: Broth­er­hood
King of the Hill

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Pilot (2010) — Regular Show Cartoon

Posted on May 9, 2011 by DaveK


Pilot (2010) - Regular Show Cartoon

Their every­day pur­suits often lead to things spi­ral­ing out of con­trol and into the sur­real: they open por­tals to other dimen­sions, sum­mon demons via an ‘80s arcade game and acci­den­tally use chore­o­graphed dance moves to send co-workers to the moon. All in a typ­i­cal day’s work on Reg­u­lar Show.

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“Almost Naked Animals” ready for exposure on CN

Posted on April 19, 2011 by Paul Anderson

Almost Naked Animals

Multi-award-winning pro­duc­tion and dis­tri­b­u­tion com­pany 9 Story Enter­tain­ment has signed an agree­ment with Car­toon Net­work for the United States broad­cast of its pro­pri­etary ani­mated com­edy series Almost Naked Ani­mals, 9 Story pres­i­dent and CEO Vince Com­misso announced Monday.

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“Superjail!” gets released, returns to Adult Swim

Posted on April 17, 2011 by Paul Anderson

Superjail!

The hit series Super­jail! is get­ting slammed back in gen­eral pop­u­la­tion for a sec­ond sea­son of destruc­tion pre­mier­ing at mid­night (ET/PT) Sun­day, April 3 on Adult Swim.

Dou­ble the insan­ity. Dou­ble the crazy. Dou­ble the pain of being kicked in the guts really hard. Sea­son 2 makes Sea­son 1 — which had a body count in the tens of thou­sands — look like Steel Magnolias.

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Cartoon Network Green Lights 13 New Shows

Posted on April 13, 2011 by Paul Anderson

Cartoon Network

Car­toon Net­work described its plans for build­ing new global fran­chises Wednes­day as it unveiled a broad slate of new con­tent for 2011 at its annual Adver­tis­ing Upfront presentation.

Newly announced shows are:

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Justice League, Ben 10 writer Dwayne McDuffie Dies

Posted on February 23, 2011 by Big Cartoon DataBase

Ben 10Dwayne McDuffie, a lead­ing comic book writer who later wrote sev­eral ani­mated super­hero fea­tures and TV series, died Tuesday.

His age and place of death were not imme­di­ately avail­able. He died from com­pli­ca­tions from a sur­gi­cal pro­ce­dure per­formed Mon­day evening, the Comic Book Resources site said.

Last year, Mania.com, a sci­ence fiction-fantasy site, put McDuffie in sev­enth place on its list of “10 Most Influ­en­tial African Amer­i­cans In Sci Fi.”

More at Big Car­toon Forum.

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