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Captain Planet is getting his own live-action movie debut — which means we're getting a blue, mostly-shirtless superhero who sports a bright red caplet, hot pants, boots and a green mullet. SOLD. More »
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Space royalty, giant robots, alien teens going to high school...these are all standard trappings of science fiction television. But previous shows that mined these scifi conventions lack one big thing that Sym-Bionic Titan has: the animated panache of Genndy Tartakovsky. More »
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Here's the trailer that die-hard Venturites saw at Comic-Con, and it's full of, well, the effing crazy: boy zombies, ass webs, Brock Samson masturbation marathons, and genital formal wear. Sweet Fancy Moses, the Sept. 12th premiere can't come soon enough. More »
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We're definitely jazzed about the prospect of a Blue Beetle TV series, but history gives reason to tamp down our optimism for a second-tier DC hero show. In 2006, this rad Plastic Man TV pilot was rejected by Cartoon Network. More »
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Warner Bros. Animation is teaming with the Japanese animation house behind Batman: Gotham Knights and The Animatrix to dust off ol' Lion-O and his refugee clan from Thundera for a new Cartoon Network series. More »
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Check out the Cartoon Network's first ever live-action show, about a prison school. Plus DC comics' brand new animation Young Justice, a show that should've been called Bender's Wonder Years, and the number one show you should avoid while high. More »
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Get ready for the next big kids' TV show-turned-phenomenon... Or, at least, that's what Cartoon Network are hoping for from Hero: 108, a new cartoon arriving next month complete with multimedia spin-offs. Be very afraid. More »
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Neil Patrick Harris is up to his old singing supervillainy, this time as the Music Meister on Batman: The Brave and the Bold. Listen to his first nefarious number, where he forces the show's heroes and villains to sing along. More »
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Tom Root, Mathew Senreich and Seth Green are out to corrupt your Voltron memories with Titan Maximum, their new series about a squad of pilots who must battle a former member of their giant robot team — with sex jokes. More »
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In the trailer for the fourth season of The Venture Bros., bizarre clips and familiar characters whiz by at breakneck speed. We break it down shot-by-shot and try to glean what's next for Rusty and the team. More »
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While other shows may be ending with explosive finales, our favorite cartoon Batman: The Brave And The Bold returns tonight with a story of inappropriate crushes and jailbreaks. We have a clip to whet appetites. More »
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Is Cartoon Network about to head the way of the Sci Fi Channel? More than half of the shows for next season aren't cartoons... but that doesn't mean that they won't be awesome. More »
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Marvel's superheroes are continuing their takeover bid of your media and your soul with the announcement that Marvel Super Hero Squad, a new cartoon based at kids, has been picked up by Cartoon Network. More »
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Geek icon Wil Wheaton has finally transcended his Wesley Crusher roots... by teaming up with Batman. Wheaton plays the silver-age Blue Beetle in this week's Brave and The Bold, and we couldn't be happier. More »
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The spirit of Bob Haney lives on with tonight's premiere of Batman: The Brave And The Bold on Cartoon Network at 8pm. The new show teams up a happier, gentler Batman than we've seen for awhile with a host of lesser-known DC Comics superheroes, including Green Arrow, Aquaman and Plastic Man, starting tonight with the Blue Beetle. From what we've seen of the show so far, it looks like it's going to be a pitched somewhere between the 1960s Adam West show and the Bruce Timm Justice League Unlimited series - which is to say, exactly the kind of Batman that I've been waiting years to see more of. We'll have a review of the premiere tomorrow for you. More »
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Star Wars may have taken place a long time ago and a galaxy far, far away, but the first two episodes of The Clone Wars managed to take us back to the feelings of possibility, excitement and, yes, mild embarrassment over the corny jokes, more successfully than you may have expected for an hour nonetheless. It may not have been "your new favorite show," as Cartoon Network's trailers boasted, but it was definitely better than Knight Rider, and that's got to count for something, right? More »
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The new Clone Wars series begins tonight on Cartoon Network at 9pm — but if you have a social life, there's more than just TiVo waiting to help you get your latest dose of Jedi juice. (Including Master Plo Koon and some clones under siege, as seen in this newly released promo image.) In fact, Lucasfilm and Warner Bros are going all out in an attempt to make sure that, if you have access to the internet, there's almost no way you can miss the new animated version of George Lucas' vision. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5058455&view=rss&microfeed=true Cartoon Network may have killed off their Toonami programming strand, but that doesn't mean that the network has abandoned anime entirely, according to an unnamed Bandai employee at last weekend's New York Anime Fest. Talking to Newsarama, the Bandai source is quoted as saying “There is no way Cartoon Network is giving up Naruto or Pokemon any time soon... We also want people to make sure Code Geass is not cancelled and will be back on a more convenient time slot in the near future." Maybe CN is ready to just admit that anime is as much a cartoon as American animation? [Newsarama] More »
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The future of law enforcement is psychedelic, robotic and violent... according to new Adult Swim show Superjail, at least. The new series has its official premiere tonight at 11:45 (even though two episodes have already appeared as special previews), and as this clip shows, you can expect something that mixes no-nonsense crimefighting (and entirely misguided attempts at community policing) with a visual style reminiscent of Beavis and Butthead. Welcome to your new favorite show, people. More »
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It's not just big budget summer blockbusters anymore; now cable television is looking to the world of comics for material. Cartoon Network announced today that it's adapting three indie comics into made-for-TV movies, making sure that the adults of the future will have fond memories of warrior mice, teenage dragons and time-traveling families to look back on in years to come. More »
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Cartoon Network are taking another opportunity to miss the point of their name by planning a second live-action TV movie based upon their successful Ben 10 franchise, following on from last year's record-breakingly successful Ben 10: Race Against Time movie. Unlike the first movie, however, this sequel will introduce a scary new component: teenagers. More »
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One big lucky man lives every nerd's dream by getting sucked into the internet and being forced to live out his days among pop culture, YouTube videos and glorious scifi references. Fat Guy Stuck In Internet is the latest addition to Cartoon Network's Adult Swim block, and it premieres this week. The show will spoof everything from Star Wars and The Goonies to The Matrix. Fat Guy started when creators John Gemberling (who plays the main character) and Curtis Gwinn (plays an internet bounty hunter) decided to create their own series of shorts for Channel 102 called "Gemberling." The show airs 12:15 am next Monday morning. More »
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The greatest new DC Comics character of recent years, the new Blue Beetle, looks like he'll be turning up on the Cartoon Network this fall, as part of yet another Batman cartoon. The Brave and the Bold will team Batman with Jaime Reyes' Beetle, plus Green Arrow, Green Lantern and Aquaman. The Cartoon Network's upfront presentation to advertisers also included a few tidbits about the new Star Wars: Clone Wars animated show. More »
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If you've been wondering what to do with yourself between now and the end of the year, you might think about tuning in to the Cartoon Network, where you can watch every single episode of Futurama starting at 11pm tonight, and running until 11:30pm December 31st. If you've got a massive hard drive attached to your DVR, this is your chance to load it up with the hijinx that have been going on over at Planet Express and save yourself the DVD costs. More »
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The Cartoon Network had its biggest ratings in the channel's history last week when it aired the live-action Ben 10: Race Against Time made for television movie. The show, about a 10-year-old kid who can transform into 10 different aliens using a device called the Omnitrix, pulled in almost four million viewers. It dominated both network and cable TV. More »
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