TELETOON Canada has ordered 13 half-hours of Atomic Betty from Breakthrough Films & Television. Developed in partnership with Atomic Cartoons and Phil Roman Entertainment, Atomic Betty follows the adventures of a little sweet and brainy little girl with an intergalactic superhero secret identity.

Atomic Betty is a joint venture between producers Ira Levy and Peter Williamson of Breakthrough Films and Television, Fresh Produce partners Kevin Gillis and Steven Hecht; producers/creators, Trevor Bentley, Rob Davies, Mauro Casalese and Olaf Miller of Atomic Cartoons; and six-time Emmy winner, Phil Roman of Phil Roman Ent. Kevin Gillis is producing for Breakthrough.

In addition to producing 13 more episodes of Mona the Vampire with Alphanim, CINAR will co-produce two new 26-episode animated series. The company will team with Alphanim and Happy Life on Creep School and again with Alphanim on Potatoes and Dragons.

Creep School is described as a spooky comedy revolving around four kids at an isolated boarding school right out of a Gothic horror tale. The series, conceived by Torbjörn Janson and Happy Life, the Swedish producer of 3 Friends & Jerry, will air on Canada’s TELETOON, France 3, and ZDF in Germany.

Created by Ian Riesenberg and Alphanim, Potatoes and Dragons has King Hugo and his potato knights combating a menacing dragon in a medieval village trapped in modern times. The series will be broadcast on TELETOON, France’s Canal J and France 3 and on ITV in the U.K.

CINAR is also the producer and distributor of the hit television series Caillou, Arthur, Zoboomafo and The Busy World of Richard Scarry.

For the Thanksgiving episode of The Bernie Mac Show, producers will reportedly include a stop motion animation segment featuring the show’s star in puppet form.

The news was leaked by the puppets’ fabricator, Kathi Zung, on www.stopmotionanimation.com. Zung and her crew at Zung Studios created the foam latex combatants on MTV’s stop motion blood fest Celebrity Death Match. The studio has recently relocated from New York City to Pennsylvania.

A behind-the-scenes look at Kathi’s "innocent little puppet lab" and the Bernie Mac puppets can be seen at www.geocities.com/zungstudio/puppetdungeon.html.

No other information on the holiday special has been released at this time.

The Hollywood Reporter brings word that Walt Disney International will air DIC’s Incredible Movie Toons on the Disney Channel in key overseas territories.

The four-year deal will see DIC’s 90-minute animated features broadcast in France, Germany, Italy, Southeast Asia, the U.K., Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Spain, Portugal, the Middle East and Scandinavia.

Already licensed to Nickelodeon, The 39 Incredible Movie Toons feature Dennis the Menace, Inspector Gadget, Madeline, Sabrina and other properties from the DIC library, as well as original stories and tales from classic literature.

Premiering Sundays this month on Nickelodeon are The Time Machine, The Lost World — Dinosaur Island and The Mark Of Zorro. Offerings for 2003 will include Annie, Thor, Black Beauty and The Wizard of Oz.

While most teens are fighting acne, the adolescents of DC Comics’ Teen Titans are battling interplanetary villains. Now they’re taking on TV in a new series coming to Cartoon Network in 2003 and later to Kids’ WB! The half hour animated actioner has Boy Wonder Robin leading fellow teen superheroes Cyborg, Beast Boy, Starfire and Raven in an intergalactic struggle for the fate of Earth.

Created by Marv Wolfman and George Perez, Teen Titans made its comic book debut in 1964 and soon grew into its own monthly comic book series that ran for seven years. The New Teen Titans followed in 1980 and became DC’s most popular comic book of the decade that followed. The revamped version dealt more with the teenage angst aspect and serves as the basis for the new series.

Warner Bros. Animation is producing under the guidance of Emmy Award winner Glen Murakami.

Also from Warner Bros. Animation is the return of Daffy Duck as Duck Dodgers. Cartoon Network will premiere the all-new, half-hour action/comedy animated series in 2004.

Daffy and his sidekick, Porky Pig, will once again venture into the 24^th century as they attempt to protect planet Earth from Marvin the Martian and other enemies. Each episode of Duck Dodgers will feature two 11-minute cartoons.

Duck Dodgers is created, written and directed by Spike Brandt and Tony Cervone with Paul Dini and Tom Minton serving as producers and writers.