Geezil
03-31-2006, 09:08 AM
It’s “Out with the Rascals” at Cartoon Network.
Right Now!
Atlanta (Combined Dispatches) – Time Warner announced abruptly, in a move that likely will send waves of shock and awe through the community of animation fandom and professionals alike, a complete staff and program schedule restructuring at its Cartoon Network cable channel.
While many CN executive positions and some details of the network’s programming schedule to come are still in flux, a Time Warner spokesperson announced the following series set to debut within the next several months:
I’m Still Popeye, Dammit! A joint production of Time Warner and King Features Syndicate, this late-night half-hour will incorporate all the contents of the network’s earlier “Popeye Show,” plus the more controversial Fleischer and Famous Studios Popeye shorts never before shown in their entirety on CN. Host: Fred Grandenetti.
There’s Music in Your Shorts, a weekly hour highlighting the delightful musical scores contributed to many vintage cartoons by the likes of Carl Stalling, Scott Bradley, Darrell Calker, Gene Rodemich, Winston Sharples, Philip Scheib, and very occasionally, John Seely.
Tooning Out the World (incorporating “O Canada!”) will cherry-pick the widest array of internationally produced animated shorts from down the years and over your borders, for a half-hour each Saturday and Sunday night. Japan and the Former Soviet Union will not be denied—er, ignored—nor will Halas & Batchelor. Host: Björk.
Bosko’s Back, plus his front view and left & right profiles, will anchor this one-hour, all-B&W cartoon showcase from the Warner Bros., Paramount, Van Beuren, Columbia, Ub Iwerks, and Terrytoons archives, among others. (But, early word has it that Foxy will keep a very low profile here.)
Lastly, They’re All Silent (But We’re Almost Old Enough to Vote) will be a weekend half-hour of the finest, most lovingly restored silent cartoons from the early 1910s through the late 1920s. It’s also cannily calculated to prove that you don’t have to be seven or eight decades past 18 years of age to appreciate the original Felix the Cat, Farmer Al Falfa, Bobby Bumps, or Koko the Clown. Host: Tom Stathes.
:tweety:
Right Now!
Atlanta (Combined Dispatches) – Time Warner announced abruptly, in a move that likely will send waves of shock and awe through the community of animation fandom and professionals alike, a complete staff and program schedule restructuring at its Cartoon Network cable channel.
While many CN executive positions and some details of the network’s programming schedule to come are still in flux, a Time Warner spokesperson announced the following series set to debut within the next several months:
I’m Still Popeye, Dammit! A joint production of Time Warner and King Features Syndicate, this late-night half-hour will incorporate all the contents of the network’s earlier “Popeye Show,” plus the more controversial Fleischer and Famous Studios Popeye shorts never before shown in their entirety on CN. Host: Fred Grandenetti.
There’s Music in Your Shorts, a weekly hour highlighting the delightful musical scores contributed to many vintage cartoons by the likes of Carl Stalling, Scott Bradley, Darrell Calker, Gene Rodemich, Winston Sharples, Philip Scheib, and very occasionally, John Seely.
Tooning Out the World (incorporating “O Canada!”) will cherry-pick the widest array of internationally produced animated shorts from down the years and over your borders, for a half-hour each Saturday and Sunday night. Japan and the Former Soviet Union will not be denied—er, ignored—nor will Halas & Batchelor. Host: Björk.
Bosko’s Back, plus his front view and left & right profiles, will anchor this one-hour, all-B&W cartoon showcase from the Warner Bros., Paramount, Van Beuren, Columbia, Ub Iwerks, and Terrytoons archives, among others. (But, early word has it that Foxy will keep a very low profile here.)
Lastly, They’re All Silent (But We’re Almost Old Enough to Vote) will be a weekend half-hour of the finest, most lovingly restored silent cartoons from the early 1910s through the late 1920s. It’s also cannily calculated to prove that you don’t have to be seven or eight decades past 18 years of age to appreciate the original Felix the Cat, Farmer Al Falfa, Bobby Bumps, or Koko the Clown. Host: Tom Stathes.
:tweety: