Category: Television

In what the IFC (Independent Film Channel) calls a deranged hour of programming, the channel launched three new animates series on Aug. 19, 2005 at 10:00 pm, in its Film Fanatic Fridays block. The series include HOPELESS PICTURES, GREG THE BUNNY and THE FESTIVAL. The block repeats at 1:00 am and on Tuesdays at 10:00 pm and 1:00 am.

On Aug. 12 IFC previewed the three original series on the network's Web site as a free service, streamed without download. Every episode will be available online on a weekly basis.

Beginning Saturday, Aug. 20, 2995, Kids' WB! will add a double-dose of POKÉMON ADVANCED CHALLENGE at 10:30 am ET/9:30am PT, to give viewers an hour-block of anime adventures.

The weekday lineup is as follows:3:00 pm: POKÉMON3:30 pm: JACKIE CHAN ADVENTURES4:00 pm: XIAOLIN SHOWDOWN4:30 pm: XIAOLIN SHOWDOWN

The revised Saturday morning schedule, beginning Saturday, August 20, is as follows (all times Eastern, Pacific time is one hour earlier):8:00 am: THE BATMAN8:30 am: THE BATMAN

Cartoon Network UK has bought the first season of DA BOOM CREW, a European production from the Berliner Film Companie, slated for its U.K. premiere on Sept. 5, 2005, at 5:00 pm.

Now airing on Kids WB! In the U.S., the sci-fi comedy/adventure follows four young friends who create their own action-packed intergalactic videogame, but when a freak power surge opens up an electrical vortex, they get sucked into a parallel world exactly like their game.

BEN 10 is a new sci-fi action/adventure series set to debut on Cartoon Network in May 2006, featuring Ben Tennyson, a seemingly normal 10-year-old boy who, with a flick of his wrist, can transform into any one of 10 alien beings with amazing superpowers, like the powerful Four Arms or the slime-spitting Stinkfly. Cartoon Network Studios in Burbank, California, is producing 26 half-hour episodes of the series, created by Man Of Action (Joe Casey, Joe Kelly, Duncan Rouleau, Steve Seagle).

Turner Classic Movies is expanding its classic cartoon franchise, Cartoon Alley, from once a month to once a week, to air every Saturday morning at 11:30 am, beginning Sept. 3, 2005. Cartoon Alley, hosted by TCMs weekend daytime host, Ben Mankiewicz, is a half-hour programming block featuring three classic cartoons themed around a particular subject.

Celador International is developing and will launch at MIPCOM Junior a brand new pre-school animated comedy, (NOT SO) SCARY MONSTERS. Targeted at kids 2-5, this new 39x7 series will be licensed and distributed globally by Celador Intl. The company is working in partnership with the brand creators, The Monster Factory, to license (NOT SO) SCARY MONSTERS consumer products and interactive media worldwide.