Category: Television

The new SPIDER-MAN series coming to the Kids' WB! on The CW is now officially titled, THE SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN, it was announced today (June 18, 2007) by Kids' WB! vp/gm Betsy McGowen.

"The use of the SPECTACULAR title is an homage to Marvel's wildly popular series of SPIDER-MAN comics, and is very reflective of the enthusiasm and high regard we have for the production," McGowen said. "This promises to be a stand-out animated series that will perfectly complement both Sony Ent.'s box office-shattering films and the amped-up action on Kids' WB! every Saturday."

Nicktoons will unveil 13 new episodes of THE SECRET SHOW beginning Sunday, July 1, 2007, at 8:00 pm, and in conjunction will debut a new tie-in online game called, SUMMER MARATHON MISSION. Viewers also will get the opportunity to catch up on the first season of the show with a four-hour marathon from 4-8:00 pm. New episodes of the series will air subsequent Sundays at 8:00 pm, with encores Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 pm.

A new season of CLASS OF 3000, the Cartoon Network original series from creators and exec producers Andre "3000" Benjamin (OutKast) and Tom Lynch (Romeo!), starts Thursday, June 7, 2007, at 7:00 pm, following a six-and-a-half-hour marathon of the series' first season. Benjamin stars as the voice of superstar Sunny Bridges, a music teacher at a prestigious performing arts school, and will continue to write a new song for each episode.

Amberwood Ent. announced today (June 5, 2007) that YTV, a division of Corus Ent., has ordered ROLLBOTS, a 3D animated action-comedy series for kids 6-11.

The 26x30 series rolls into full production this month and has been partially funded by YTV and the Canadian Television Fund.

ROLLBOTS is based on an original idea by Michael Milligan about perfectly round robots that roll at extreme speeds on rollercoaster type tracks through Flip City, a community that contains 11 different tribes of rollbots.

The American version of CREATURE COMFORTS, the hit British television series, premieres tonight, (June 4, 2007) at 8:00-8:30 pm on the CBS. Based on the original Academy Award-winning short film of the same name created by Nick Park and Aardman Animations Ltd., the stop-motion animated series employs a unique format that culls excerpts from real person interviews in the U.S. and places them in the mouths of a wide variety of animated animals to produce humorous, charming and insightful commentaries on everyday life.

"My cell phone plays the Berlin Philharmonic orchestra," brags Rat Man. It rings, and sure enough, in marches the orchestra to play a short allegro non troppo. Looking a little like Calvin in his "Stupendous Man" outfit, the dim-witted not-so-superhero is the protagonist of a much anticipated TV series (52x13), co-produced by public TV network RAI and Florence-based Stranimani, that will start airing Saturday mornings on RAI, it was announced during a press conference in Rome.

JUSTICE LEAGUE UNLIMITED comes to Boomerang with the world's greatest superheroes, led by Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and the Green Lantern, as they enlist some help from their friends to take a more aggressive approach to thwarting alien invasions, criminal threats and global conspiracies. The 30-minute action-adventure series, produced by Bruce Timm, James Tucker, Linda Steiner and Dwayne McDuffie at Warner Bros. Animation, will premiere on Boomerang starting Sunday, June 3, 2007, at 11:00 pm (ET).