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Get a Sneak Peek of Nickelodeon’s “Harvey Beaks”

March 28, 2015 Kellie Freeze

Tonight, After the Kids’ Choice Awards, Nickelodeon is offering a sneak peek of its newest animated series, Harvey Beaks. The first look should air at 9:30-ish ET/PT, right about the time Nick is mopping up the slime from the KCAs. The series about the adventures of a sweet bird and his mischievous friends comes from the mind of creator and executive producer C.H. Greenblatt (Chowder). In the series, which normally airs on Sundays, Harvey has never gotten into trouble, and his best friends twins Fee and Foo have never caused anything but trouble. Chaos and hilarity ensues. I’ve been charmed […]

Get Doggone Wild With New Nickelodeon PAW Patrol Episodes And A Special Featuring Cesar Millan!

March 3, 2015 Kellie Freeze

Nickelodeon’s morning preschool block is about to get a log more slobbery! A week-long celebration features new episodes of TV’s top-rated preschool series, PAW Patrol, vignettes of real puppies playing, exploring and learning at “Puppy Preschool” and the premiere of Mutt & Stuff, a live-action special from producers Sid and Marty Krofft staring Calvin Millan and featuring his dad, Dog Whisperer, Cesar Millan. Check out a few details of some of the paw-somely cute episodes this week. Wednesday, March 4, 1:00 p.m.– PAW Patrol “Pups’ Adventures in Babysitting”/ “Pups Save the Fireworks”— Mayor Goodway calls on the PAW Patrol to rescue her twin niece and […]

Disney XD to revive “DuckTales”

February 25, 2015 Jeff Pfeiffer

People of a certain generation probably fondly remember the late ’80s-early ’90s animated Disney series DuckTales, which followed Scrooge McDuck and his curious, mischief-making grandnephews Huey, Dewey and Louie, along with Donald Duck, on worldwide adventures. It ran from 1987-90, and inspired a theatrical animated film DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp in 1990. Well, that generation will have a new version of the series to show to its own children, as Disney XD announced today that an all-new DuckTales animated series has been ordered for launch in 2017. A Disney XD release said that the new series will again feature the adventures […]

Adventure Time miniseries, Powerpuff Girls reboot among Cartoon Network’s upfront slate

February 19, 2015 Jeff Pfeiffer

Cartoon Network released its programming slate for the 2015-16 upfront season, and among the highlights are an Adventure Time miniseries and a reboot of The Powerpuff Girls. In the special Adventure Time miniseries, Finn and Jake face a new threat to Ooo when Princess Bubblegum’s experiment unleashes ghosts from Marceline’s past. There was no indication yet when this will air. The Powerpuff Girls is slated for a 2016 launch, and is a reboot of one of Cartoon Network’s most enduring series, which debuted in 1998, centering on “three sugar-coated superheroes — Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup — whose mission in life alternates between going to school, fighting crime, winning […]

New on Sprout: “Ruff-Ruff, Tweet and Dave,” Interactive Fun for Preschoolers

February 13, 2015 Kellie Freeze

Sprout has a new treat for your little Valentine with its newest original series for preschoolers, Ruff-Ruff, Tweet and Dave. The series premieres Feb. 14, and chronicles the animated adventures of three lovable best friends: Ruff-Ruff a lovable, instinctive pup, Tweet, a cautious, thoughtful bird, and Dave, an imaginative, quirky panda. In each episode, as the trio takes a spin in their spin-again magic top, and they are led on their adventures by Hatty the Hamster, a curious guide/ringleader who joins the fun, “with a song in my heart and a hat full of questions!” Whenever the trio encounters a […]

TCA: Charlie Day on Green Man, canned wine and LEGO SPACESHIPS!

January 18, 2015 Ryan Berenz

At the FX Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour for It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Charlie Day and I had an in-depth interview about subjects of the utmost importance. 1. Were you aware that canned wine is now apparently a thing? Charlie Day: [Laughs] Really!? When I was in high school, there was this kid, and I bumped into him and he was one of the cool kids. And I didn’t smoke, but he was a smoker, and I noticed he was hiding a cigarette in his Coca-Cola can so he could walk around the school and smoke a cigarette. […]

“Archer” redecorates for Season 6 on FX

January 8, 2015 Ryan Berenz

Big changes are in store for Sterling Archer (voice of H. Jon Benjamin) as animated spy comedy Archer returns for Season 6 on FX Thursday, Jan. 8, at 10pm ET/PT. Season 5 dropped two big bombs on Archer, as Malory (voice of Jessica Walter) was discovered to be working for the CIA and Archer was discovered to be the father of Lana’s (voice of Aisha Tyler) baby. The International Secret Intelligence Service (ISIS) name will get thrown out this season due to the agency’s office redecoration and some unfortunate real-world events. In the Season 6 premiere, “The Holdout,” Archer must […]

ABC presents “Happy New Year, Charlie Brown” “Rudolph’s Shiny New Year” Dec. 29

December 27, 2014 Lori Acken

To get you primed to ring in 2015, ABC will present two animated New Year’s favorites (and a bonus Charlie Brown special) back-to-back on Dec. 29. First in the lineup is the 1986 Peanuts special Happy New Year, Charlie Brown in which our intrepid, yellow-shirted hero wonders if he should forgo the gang’s New Year’s Eve festivities to finish Tolstoy’s War and Peace before school resumes. Toting the tome with him from Lucy’s pre-party dance class to Marcie’s and Peppermint Patty’s New Year’s Eve bash in hopes of combining business and pleasure, Charlie finds himself distracted by dreams of welcoming […]

Disney Celebrates 20 Years on Broadway

December 13, 2014 Kellie Freeze

I love to sit in a darkened theater, eagerly anticipating the rising of the curtain, with my eyes wide and my ears piqued as I wait to be transported to another world. Movies are great, but there is nothing as viscerally entertaining as live theater. And for me, the apogee of entertainment is the Broadway musical. Disney grants unprecedented access to its Broadway best, when Jesse Tyler Ferguson hosts Backstage With Disney on Broadway: Celebrating 20 Years. The special, airing on Sunday, Dec. 14 at 7pm ET takes viewers behind the scenes with the Broadway casts of The Lion King, […]

“Elf: Buddy’s Musical Christmas” sings loud for all to hear

December 10, 2014 Jeff Pfeiffer

The 2003 film Elf, starring Will Ferrell, has become a holiday classic for many people. So much so that it was also turned into a hit Broadway musical. The story now has a third incarnation, an hourlong NBC special called Elf: Buddy’s Musical Christmas (Tuesday, Dec. 16, at 8pm ET/PT) which is based on the film and the stage production. Following in the mold of past holiday TV classics, notably several of the Rankin/Bass productions, this special will be presented in stop-motion animation, and will feature nine songs. It promises an all-new retelling of Buddy the Elf’s absurd yet heartwarming […]