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For those who can’t get enough “Star Wars,” but aren’t all caught up on the latest installments, Cartoon Network may have just the thing. The network plans to premiere “Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Decoded” on May 1. The second colon in the title indicates that the series has been enhanced with on-screen...
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Will the kids advertising market be affected by the recession, which has rocked ad sales on most other broadcast and cable networks? It depends who you ask. Kids Programming Recession Woes Not Kid Stuff . . . More » Disney Finds Its Movers . . . More » The kids networks say the key categories that drive...
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Cartoon Network announced it’s making a move into live-action programming, with six reality projects and two scripted shows in development. At its presentation to advertisers and media buyers Wednesday morning in New York, the Turner-owned kids channel also said it is working on seven new animated series...
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Cartoon Network said it made a deal with the National Basketball Association to develop long- and short-form basketball content over a variety of platforms. Cartoon is part of Turner Broadcasting, which has been televising NBA games for 25 years. For fall 2009, when the next NBA season tips off, Cartoon...
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Turner Broadcasting’s Adult Swim, the late-night program block on Cartoon Network, will be expanding by a hour beginning in January. Adult Swim will start at 10 p.m. and run through 6 a.m. under the new schedule. It now appears from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. As part of its new schedule, Adult Swim has acquired...
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The debut Cartoon Network’s “Star Wars: The Clone Wars” was the most-watched series premiere in the cable channel’s history. The Friday premiere was the top-rated children’s show in its timeslot among kids 6 to 11, kids 2 to 11, tweens 9 to 14, teens 12-17 and total viewers, based on overnight data from...
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As Yoda would put it: In the premiere of Cartoon Network’s “Star Wars: The Clone Wars,” limited will commercials be. The animated series from George Lucas launches this week, and EA Games and 20th Century Fox will be the lone sponsors. EA will be offering viewers a code to help them play its new game...
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Imaginary friends, talking animals and war are some of the topics behind the juried Emmy Award winners announced today by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Character designer Ben Balistreri from Cartoon Network’s “Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends” and animator Teresa Drilling from CBS...
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Cartoon Network said it has started production on a live-action Scooby-Doo movie that will appear on the kids cable network in fall 2009. “Scooby-Doo: In the Beginning” takes place before the 2002 and 2004 live-action theatrical Scooby-Doo films. It explains how the gang gets together for the first time...
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Cartoon Network has secured the rights to three comic book series to develop as part of its slate of original films. “Firebreather,” from creator Phil Hester, tells the story of a teenager whose father is a fire-breathing dragon. “Mice Templar,” from the book by Mike Avond Oeming and Bryan Glass, concerns...