Tag: Tom and Jerry
Boomerang Wings to Malaysia’s HyppTV
Turner Broadcasting's Boomerang has launched in Malaysia on HyppTV, with a two month free preview available as of August 1. Available in both English...
Turner Taps WB Animation to Fill Revamped Boomerang Pipeline
Turner Broadcasting and Warner Bros. announced a global agreement to strengthen the pipeline of original content being developed for the recently rebranded Boomerang.
The agreement...
Refreshed Boomerang Returns to Asia
Turner Broadcasting's kids channel Boomerang will relaunch in several key territories in Asia starting January 1, 2015 -- complete with a new look and...
Which Witch is Which?
Halloween season seems to be the perfect time to bring up one a cartoon character who had one of the most remarkable careers of...
Turner Rebrands Boomerang
Turner Broadcasting has announced it will be re-launching its kids brand Boomerang as a worldwide, all-animation, youth-targeted network, featuring a line-up up classic and...
The Early Hanna-Barbera, a la Benedict
San Diego Comic Con is once more upon us, offering a virtual Roman coliseum packed with all things pop culture. For baby boomer toonheads,...
Global News Bytes
+ The U.K.'s Novel Entertainment is once again participating in ITV's Text Santa charity campaign, this year with its lovable troublemaker Horrid Henry. Activities...
Buhaj Upped to GM/Senior VP at Disney XD
Longtime Disney XD development exec Marc Buhaj has been promoted to Disney XD's VP of programming and general manager. The news was announced today...
Boomerang Offers Terrific Classic Christmas Marathon
You know you can always rely on Boomerang, Cartoon Network's all-cartoon-classics network, to provide us with some of our seasonal favorites during this time...
Cartoon Network Reveals Special Holiday Lineup
While many haven't even made their Thanksgiving plans, Cartoon Network has unveiled its special holiday programming for the month of December. Here's a brief...
The Best Western You’ve Never Seen
I've written before about the increasingly thin barriers between animation and live-action filmmaking, barriers that are becoming more transparent with time (check out Guillermo...
The Shrinking Vocal Middle Class
One hears about the shrinking middle class all the time on the news, though a similar phenomenon is going on in the animation biz:...
Jerry Eisenberg’s Flying Hippo
Like all professional toonheads, I’m sometimes asked to identify my favorite cartoon character. More specifically, those who know I tend to specialize in the...
‘Ralph’ Ready to Rock for Home Video Release
Wreck-It Ralph is ready to fix up your home video collection.
The hit Disney animated feature leads this week's homevid releases, arriving in multiple formats...
Nick Announces Kids’ Choice Nominees
Nickelodeon has revealed the nominees for the 2013 Kids' Choice Awards, taking place March 23, airing live on the channel (and online at nick.com/KCA13)...
Someone Up There Likes Us
Unlike the biz as a whole, animation has long been a field in which people don’t specialize. Finding an artist whose skill set includes...
Warner Shutters Straight-to-Vid Division
Warner Bros. has closed Warner Premiere, its straight-to-video division. The Hollywood Reporter says the studio cited the declining DVD market and its current transition...
Under the Table with J.B. and Friz
Most cartoon historians are aware that the fluid that fueled the medium during its Golden Age was not ink or paint, but alcohol. Among...
The Most Shocking Cartoon Ever Made!
If the Annie Awards ever decided to create a category for Outstanding Achievement in Horrifyingly Bad Taste in Animation, 1989’s Quiet Please would be...
Animation Block Party Spotlight: Doug Crane
Animation Block Party (www.animationblock.com) is the premier animation festival of the East Coast. In this interview series, the founder of ABP, Casey Safron will...
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