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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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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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Cartoon Network To Cross Canadian Bounds

Cartoon Network Studios

If you thought it was about time Car­toon Net­work and [Adult Swim] should hit the air­waves north of the bor­der, your wait is over. Tele­toon and Turner have announced that they would be bring­ing the Car­toon Net­work to Cana­di­ans begin­ning July 4th.

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Boomerang To Celebrate Earth Day with Captain Planet

Captain Planet And The Planeteers

In obser­vance of Earth Day, Boomerang called upon the Cap­tain Planet Foun­da­tion — ded­i­cated to give the next gen­er­a­tion of envi­ron­men­tal stew­ards an active under­stand­ing and love for the nat­ural world in which they live — to hand-pick 28 episodes to be pre­sented in a 14-hour Cap­tain Planet marathon Sun­day, April 22.

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Nick To Debut Skateboard Series April 27


Wild Grinders

Pro­fes­sional skate­boarder and entre­pre­neur Rob Dyrdek (star of MTV’s Rob & Big, Fan­tasy Fac­tory and Ridicu­lous­ness) brings a car­toon com­edy, set against the excit­ing back­drop of the sport of skate­board­ing, to Nick­toons with the new series, Wild Grinders, pre­mier­ing Fri­day, April 27, at 7:00 p.m.

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IFC heading “Out There” for 2012–13 season

Out There

At IFC’s first-ever Upfront event in New York, the net­work unveiled its 2012–13 orig­i­nal pro­gram­ming lineup, which includes a new scripted com­edy, the ani­mated series Out There.

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Jeff Foxworthy, friends voice CMT’s Bounty Hunters

Bounty Hunters

CMT has picked up the network’s first-ever ani­mated project, Jayson Dins­more, exec­u­tive vice-president of pro­gram­ming and devel­op­ment, announced Wednes­day dur­ing the network’s annual upfront presentation.

Exec­u­tive pro­duc­ers Jeff Fox­wor­thy, Bill Eng­vall and Larry the Cable Guy will voice char­ac­ters on the series Bounty Hunters, sched­uled to debut on CMT in 2013.

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Cartoon Network marks its 20th with new shows

Cartoon Network Studios

Hav­ing its best first quar­ter with kids in prime in five years (up 28% vs. 2011) and show­ing the most gains com­pared to the com­pe­ti­tion in the kids space, the network’s after­noon Upfront pre­sen­ta­tion held at New York’s Rose­land Ball­room paid trib­ute to the past and present with a full orches­tra play­ing clas­sic Car­toon Net­work TV theme songs and live per­for­mances from the cre­ative tal­ent behind the hit ani­mated com­edy series Adven­ture Time and Reg­u­lar Show.

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Disney’s 2012–13 Schedule Presented to Advertisers

Walt Disney Television Animation

Disney’s 2012–13 cre­ative con­tent for its kid-driven, fam­ily inclu­sive TV chan­nels, high­lighted by fresh ways to tell great new Dis­ney sto­ries, will be pre­sented to sponsors/advertisers this week in New York by Gary Marsh, pres­i­dent and chief cre­ative offi­cer of Dis­ney Chan­nels Worldwide.

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Hallmark to start production on “Jingle & Bell”


Jingle & Bell

Pro­duc­tion will soon com­mence on Jin­gle & Bell, a Hall­mark Chan­nel orig­i­nal ani­mated spe­cial, which will pre­miere on the net­work this hol­i­day season.

Jin­gle & Bel is the sec­ond story and ani­mated spe­cial to star one of Hallmark’s most lov­able char­ac­ters, Jin­gle the Husky Pup. The Hall­mark Chan­nel orig­i­nal ani­mated spe­cial Jin­gle All the Way was a rat­ings suc­cess for the net­work.
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Nickelodeon plans more than 650 new episodes

Nickelodeon

Nick­elodeon, at its annual upfront pre­sen­ta­tion held Wednes­day at Jazz at Lin­coln Cen­ter in New York, unveiled plans for an unprece­dented 650 new episodes — the top-ranked network’s most ever — of both brand-new con­tent and return­ing hits, as well announc­ing pre­miere details for the highly antic­i­pated ani­mated series The Leg­end of Korra, a stop-motion Sponge­Bob SquarePants Christ­mas spe­cial, and an orig­i­nal ani­mated series based on the Rav­ing Rab­bids video games.

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Angry Birds Short To Sail Into Nick

Angry Birds Space

An all-new exclu­sive Angry Birds short film, “Angry Birds Space” lands on Nick­elodeon and Nick­toons on Wednes­day, March 21, at 7:00 p.m. on Nicktoons.

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NickToons to Premiere Monsuno


Monsuno

Nick­toons launches Mon­suno, a half-hour action-adventure series debut­ing with two back-to-back episodes on Thurs­day, Feb. 23, at 8:00 p.m. In the 52-episode series, the fate of the world lies in the hands of a group of heroic kids who wres­tle with the power to com­mand and bat­tle crea­tures called Mon­suno.
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Cartoon Network, Adult Swim coming to Canada


Cartoon Network Studios

Tele­toon Canada Inc. and Turner Broad­cast­ing Sys­tem, Inc. announced Thurs­day a part­ner­ship that will bring Car­toon Net­work and Adult Swim to Cana­dian tele­vi­sion later this year.
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Green Lantern: The Animated Series” arrives on CN


Green Lantern: The Animated Series

Green Lantern, a DC Comics main­stay for more than 70 years, will be seen in an entirely new way when Warner Bros. Animation’s Green Lantern: The Ani­mated Series – from world-renowned pro­ducer, artist and ani­ma­tor Bruce Timm (Bat­man: The Ani­mated Series, Jus­tice League) — comes to Car­toon Net­work in a one-hour spe­cial event.

Fans in the United States can watch a sneak peek of the com­plete first scene from the series at the Green Lantern: The Ani­mated Series web­page at BCDB .
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