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Chorion To Produce Two Literary-based Kids Shows

Chorion plans to produce two new animated television series based on the work of international best-selling childrens authors Roger Hargreaves and Enid Blyton. The London-based rights holder is looking for experienced animation companies to animate the properties.

These include a new animated series based on Roger Hargreaves MR. MEN and LITTLE MISS books and an animated series based on childrens characters created by Blyton

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Spider-Man 2 TV Rights Sold For $50M

FOX Network and its FX cable channel have paid Sony Pictures TV $50 million for the broadcast/cable rights for SPIDER-MAN 2, reports VARIETY. As part of a 10-year agreement, FOX receives three runs of the movie during the first three years, starting December 2006. In 2010, Sony will have the rights to sell the film to other broadcast networks to share rights with FX for the last seven years of the contract. The original SPIDER-MAN flicks took in $60+ million from FOX and Turner's TBS/TNT.

Disney Headline News

Toon Disney Presents 3-Day Spider-Man Marathon

Toon Disney celebrates the addition of the legendary 1995 animated series SPIDER-MAN into its popular JETIX action-adventure programming block with a JETIX Web-Slingin Marathon July 2 through July 4, 2004 from 7-11:00 pm. Timed around the highly anticipated- theatrical release of SPIDER-MAN 2, the broadcast includes fan favorite episodes of SPIDER-MAN such as "The Sting of the Scorpion," "Enter The Green Goblin" and "Kraven the Hunter."

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Entertainment Rights Gets Paws on Clifford’s Puppy Days Rights

Entertainment Rights (ER) has secured U.K. merchandising, licensing and home entertainment rights to CLIFFORDS PUPPY DAYS, a new fully animated series produced by Scholastic Ent., which will launch on the BBCs CBeebies channel.

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National Geographic Channel Premieres Spider Power

On the eve of the premiere of the SPIDER-MAN 2 movie, National Geographic Channel will air SPIDER POWER at 8:00 pm on June 25, 2004, an extraordinary look at the evolution of one of the most successful hunters on the planet. This one-hour special uses spectacular macrophotography and stylized CGI bring to bring viewers within attack range of some of the worlds most ingenious predators and their super powers.

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Boomerang Presents 24-Hour Looney Tunes in Hollywood Marathon

Cartoon Network's Boomerang, a commercial-free network devoted exclusively to classic cartoons, will present Looney Tunes in Hollywood, a 24-hour tribute showcasing every Warner Bros. short that featured a celebrity caricature, starting at 8:00 am on June 25, 2004.

Warner Bros.' immortal Looney Tunes, produced by legendary animators Tex Avery, Chuck Jones and others at the fabled "termite terrace" on the studio lot, earned a riotous reputation for parodying popular movies of the day by creating hilarious caricatures of well-known actors and actresses.

Disney Headline News

Toon Disney Expands JETIX Block On Weekends, Adds Spider-Man

Toon Disney expands its action/adventure evening block, JETIX, to four hours on Saturdays and Sundays, 7:00-11:00 pm, starting June 26, 2004, coinciding with the Toon Disney premiere of the 1990s animated series SPIDER-MAN.

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BKN Issues Stock to Do Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves Series

BKN International A.G. has completed development and will soon begin production of the ALI BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES: THE LOST SCIMITAR OF ARABIA series. BKN is currently in negotiations with a media company in the Middle East to co-produce and distribute this program.

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Cosby’s Primetime Animated Gift to Fathers

Three decades ago he delighted families with FAT ALBERT AND THE COSBY KIDS. More recently he won a Daytime for Outstanding Childrens Animated Program for LITTLE BILL on Nick. Now a beloved American humorist icon Bill Cosby takes his special brand of family comedy to primetime in FATHERHOOD, debuting June 20, 2004 at 9:00 pm on Nick at Nite. The series, based on his bestselling book of the same name is Nick at Nite first original animated series. The series movies to its regular timeslot June 29 at 9:00 pm and repeats on Saturdays at 10:00 pm.

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Monster Distributes Finds Religious Programming Sells

Monster Distributes Ltd. recently completed deals with ITV in the U.K. and Kika in Germany to broadcast KIDS TEN COMMANDMENTS. The series, which Monster picked up at NATPE, ahs a few minor deals and is ready for a big launch at MIPCOM, reports Andrew Fitzpatrick, chairman of Monster Distributes.

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Buffy Toon Still in the Works

The animated BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER series is getting a pilot, reports TV GUIDE. The live-action series' stars Alyson Hannigan, Nicholas Brendon and Anthony Stewart Head will voice their respective characters, but title character Buffy, played by Sarah Michelle Gellar, will be replaced with Giselle Loren, the videogame voice of Buffy. Fox and creator Joss Whedon's Mutant Enemy will be showcasing the pilot for potential distributors next month.

Toon Headline News

Family Guy Ready for Primetime on TBS

TBS has added an hour block of FAMILY GUY to its summer primetime lineup. Starting July 7, 2004, the cable net will broadcast back-to-back episodes on Wednesdays from 8:00-9:00 pm. TBS previously aired the toon afternoons last summer. The toon will also continue to air on TBS' sister channel Cartoon Network, where its the highest rated programming the network's Adult Swim block. After being cancelled, the series surprise success on DVD has spurred Fox to renew the series for 22 new episodes, which will begin airing in 2005.

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TELETOON Plans Summer TV Cartoon Camp

From June 28 August 20, 2004, TELETOON will be hosting Camp TELETOON, the network's summer morning block of popular cartoons from 7:00 am -11:00 am, Monday through Friday. The lineup includes:

7:00 am: Totally Spies 7:30 am: Tom & Jerry 8:00 am: The Bugs Bunny & Tweety Show 8:30 am: Scooby Doo9:00 am: Codename: Kids Next Door 9:30 am: What's with Andy 10:00 am: My Dad the Rock Star 10:30 am: Cardcaptors

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Clone Wars II Coming to Cartoon Network

Due to the success of the first 20-chapter series, Lucasfilm Ltd. and Cartoon Network will present five 12-minute episodes of a new CLONE WARS mini-series beginning March 21, 2005. The new series serves as a close warmer for the theatrical release of STAR WARS: EPISODE III on May 19, 2005. Genndy Tartakovsky (SAMURAI JACK, DEXTER'S LABORATORY), who produced the first "micro-series," will serve as director, co-screenwriter and exec producer of the new mini-series.

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One Piece Added to 4Kids' FOX BOX

4Kids Ent. has announced it has added anime series ONE PIECE to its FOX BOX lineup for this fall. ONE PIECE, from Toei Animation Co. Ltd., is one of the most popular children's animated series in Japan and took 4Kids a year of negotiating to secure the rights.

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Riddick to Get TV Spin-Off

CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK director/writer David Twohy has announced he is writing a two-hour movie for The Sci Fi Channel that would follow the fate of the Kyra character from the upcoming PITCH BLACK sequel, reports SCI FI WIRE. The character was first introduced as a boyish young teen in PITCH BLACK, but has grown into a beautiful but ferocious fighter for CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK. The movie will serve as an end-around pilot for a potential series tentatively titled KYRA, THE LOST YEARS, which would show what happened when Kyra chose to find Riddick after the events of PITCH BLACK.

Animation Headline News

Raven Animation Signs Former Survivor Rob C.

Raven Animation Inc. announced that it has signed former CBS SURVIVOR Rob Cesternino (aka Rob C.) to a long-term contract to be the host of a new 3D reality videogame and television program called AMAZON CHALLENGE. Designed for teens and young adults, the series was created and copyrighted in 1989 by Joey and Bernadette DiFrancesco.

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CharacterShop Adds 3D Touch to Friends & Heroes

The CharacterShop is creating the 3D elements of 39-part TV series called FRIENDS & HEROES. The 2D and 3D animated series will feature three-minute 3D Bible stories within 2D cartoon style fictional adventure stories. The 2D portion of the project is being outsourced to South Korea. The BBC is set to air the series in the U.K. and The CharacterShop is close to a deal for the U.S.

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Cosgrove Believes Shelltown Is Eggs-Actly Right

British animation studio Cosgrove Hall is working with Shelltown Productions in Ireland on the animated series, SHELLTOWN, which follows the tales of three mischievous young eggs Splat, Cracker and Exactly who reside in a town where all the buildings and cars are egg shaped.

Warriors Headline News

g-NET Brings Nerdy Game Warriors to MTV

g-NET media has signed a deal with MTV to create an animated pilot using characters created for videogames, reports VARIETY. The story will contrast the nerdy real lives and game lives of videogame warriors. g-NET has a deal in place with a undisclosed videogame publisher.

Education Headline News

Corus Provides Programming For New Chinese ESL Training Project

Corus Ent. announced a new partnership with Shanghai Distance Education Group (SDEG), one of the largest developers of educational programming and content in Asia. As part of the agreement, the two companies will develop and exchange programming and will extend Corus' reach into the burgeoning Chinese marketplace.

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Int’l Broadcasters Renew New Teenage Mutant Turtles for Third Season

4Kids Entertainment, Inc. will continue the new TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES animated series, produced by Mike Young Prods., for a third season of new episodes (26) with TF1 (France), Media Set (Italy), and Fox Kids Europe and Latin America.

In addition, NINJA TURTLES already have renewals with GMTV (U.K.), VTM (Belgium), SIC TV (Portugal), Alter TV (Greece), Childrens Channel (Israel) and DTV (Turkey).

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