Category: Television

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA exec producer David Eick and writer Laeta Kalogridis have been tapped to bring THE BIONIC WOMAN back to NBC for a new generation, VARIETY reports. Eick and Kalogridis are set to exec produce the new version.

The original series, which starred Lindsay Wagner as the mechanically enhanced tennis pro turned superhero, started as a spinoff of THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN on ABC, but moved to NBC in 1977 for its third and final season.

Cape Town-based Strika Ent. debuted its first Flash-animated series, SUPA STRIKAS, at this years MIPCOM Jr.

The animated series is based on Strikas most popular comic, SUPA STRIKAS. The comic follows the ups and downs of an African soccer team. The comic is a huge success with 1.5 million copies distributed every month to eight African countries and South America.

Strika Animation completed 13x1 Flash animated episodes that were broadcast in South Africa and in the rest of Africa.

Based on the bestselling book series from Kay Thompson and illustrated by Hilary Knight, ELOISE will make its debut an animated TV series on Starz Kids & Family Sunday, Oct. 8, 2006, at 6:00 pm (ET/PT). ELOISE consists of a 13x22 series of episodes and several one-hour specials.

Due to the success of its first two episodes, HEROES has been picked up for a full season by NBC, according to THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER. The new drama averaged 13.5 million viewers and a 5.7 rating/14 share for adults 18-49. This put it as the #1 new series among that demographic.

Airing on Mondays at 9:00 pm, the show chronicles the lives of ordinary people around the world, who begin to discover that they have superhuman abilities.

G4 has tapped writer/director/actor Adam de la Pena, creator/co-star of Comedy Central's I'M WITH BUSEY, to create an animated pilot, which follows 1980s videogame programmers, according to THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER.

The as-yet-untitled project specifically chronicles two videogame programmers as their lives descend into chaos after a wild Texas businessman, who knows nothing about games, buys their company.

De la Pena's L.A.-based firm, Monkey Wrangler Prods. will produce the show.

The Fremantle Corp. has acquired the new combined 2D and 3D animated production, FRIENDS AND HEROES. The distribution company will showcase the animated series at MIPCOM along with a substantial list of previously announced programming. This series will also be made available at MIPCOM Jr.

Comedy Centrals FREAK SHOW, an animated half-hour narrative featuring a band of freak show performers who also happen to be second-rate superheroes, debuts on Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2006, at 10:30 pm. The seven-episode series is based on an idea by David Cross (ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT, MR. SHOW) and H. Jon Benjamin (DR. KATZ: PROFESSIONAL THERAPIST, HOME MOVIES). Encore presentations to air Wednesday at 12:30 am, Friday at 12:30 am and Saturday, Sunday and Tuesday at midnight.

Nickelodeon Germany and Jetix Netherlands just acquired CARL SQUARED (52x30), Portfolios tween targeted animated series.

CARL SQUARED takes traditional television further by integrating an interactive component with online gaming and character blogs.