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Cartoon Network Sets Pet Alien Loose

New CGI Series to Premiere Sunday Jan. 23, at 10 a.m. (ET, PT)

Look at the world through the eyes of aliens in the new CGI comedy series, Pet Alien, premiering on Cartoon Network on Sunday, Jan. 23, at 10 a.m. (ET, PT).  The new series follows the adventures of aliens who leave outer space and land in the seaside town of DeSpray Bay to experience Earth life firsthand.

Tommy, a rather normal video-game playing, taffy-eating 12-year-old, gets some help in every aspect of his complicated pre-adolescent Earth life from his alien friends: Dinko, Gumpers, Flip, Swanky and Scruffy, who take up residence in Tommy’s lighthouse hideway.  In their efforts to make Tommy’s complicated Earth life easier, the aliens do everything they can to help their new roommate but their well-intentioned efforts only succeed in turning Tommy’s life inside out and upside down.

The following is the Pet Alien schedule for January:

• Sunday, Jan. 23: “I was a Teenage Bearded Boy” – To make Tommy more cool at school, the aliens give him a green beard.  Now he’s too popular for his own good and everyone wants a bushy green beard.  “Escape from Detention X” – Fearing that Tommy’s after-school detention is too harsh, the aliens hatch a plan to break him out of his “educational prison.”
• Sunday, Jan. 30:  “The Amazing Atomic Tommy” – The aliens think that Tommy has super-powers and are determined to prove it by putting him in rather precarious situations.  “The Crater of Doom” – It’s school picture day and Tommy has a big pimple on his forehead.  The aliens try to help but make it much, much worse.

Cartoon Network has acquired 26 episodes of Pet Alien.  Cartoon Network partnered with distributor Taffy Entertainment to acquire the new Mike Young Productions (MYP) animated series.  Based on a property created by Jeff Muncy of John Doze Studios, Pet Alien is co-produced by Antefilm/TF1 France; Crest, India; and Telegael, Ireland.  Pet Alien also will premiere on Cartoon Network Europe in the first quarter (as announced in August ’04) and throughout 2005 on all other international Cartoon Network services, including Cartoon Network Latin America, Cartoon Network Asia/Pacific and Cartoon Network Japan.

Cartoon Network, currently seen in 87.3 million U.S. homes and 160 countries around the world, is Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.’s 24-hour, ad-supported cable service offering the best in animated entertainment.  Drawing from the world’s largest cartoon library, Cartoon Network showcases unique original ventures such as Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends, Codename: Kids Next Door, Teen Titans, The Powerpuff Girls, Dexter’s Laboratory, Samurai Jack, Ed, Edd n Eddy and other Cartoon Cartoons.  Cartoon Network also features Adult Swim, a late-night block of animation for grown-ups.  Since its launch in 1992, Cartoon Network has remained one of ad-supported cable’s highest-rated networks.  Cartoon Network’s Web site is located at http://CartoonNetwork.com (AOL Keyword: Cartoon Network).

Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., a Time Warner company, is a major producer of news and entertainment product around the world and the leading provider of programming for the basic cable industry.