Americas only viewer influenced, music television network, fuse, will premiere EMPIRE SQUARE, the networks convention-shattering cartoon series dubbed by the U.K. press as the British South Park. The six, half-hour episodes, created exclusively for fuse, will debut at 10:30 pm as part of fuses new titillating fuseday tuesday programming block.
The series was co-created by Dave Rowntree, drummer for mega-selling British superstars BLUR, and music industry insiders Ant Cauchi and Lloyd Salmons. The pixilated, retro animation style is designed to be reminiscent of Sega Consoles of the 1980s as the show combines bizarre storylines with biting social satire.
The series, which focuses on three foul-mouthed stars Rabbit, Hooks and the Tourettes suffering, wanna-be-rockstar Richie takes place in the fictional location of Empire Square. With a taste for bizarre get rich quick schemes and ever-elusive music superstardom, this trio of lovably anti-social, wholly-demented animated characters offers their biting, social commentary right into viewers living rooms.
The premiere episode finds Richie and sidekick Rabbit on the quest for cyber-love online with Richie getting involved with a mail-order bride from overseas.
The 6x30 EMPIRE SQUARE series will air on Tuesdays on DirecTV 339/EchoStar 158; cable subscribers check local listings.
Fuse (www.fuse.tv) features music videos, exclusive artist interviews, live concerts, series and specials. fuse reflects the rapidly changing interests and attitudes of its 12-34 audience by uniting the media platforms at the center of their communication and entertainment TV, Web, mobile technologies and interactive gaming, as well as by incorporating their opinions and suggestions into the networks on-air and online programming.
