Press releases and news articles that have been archived after this website was launched.
- Kids’ WB Relaunched As Multiplatform Brand
April 28, 2008 | The Warner Bros. Television Group continues its multi-destination digital entertainment strategy with the launch of KidsWB.com, a premium, ad-supported destination built around youth-oriented, immersive entertainment which unites the Studio’s libraries of animated characters and programming, including Warner Bros. Animation, Looney Tunes, Hanna-Barbera and DC Comics.
- Cartoon Network Upfront 2008
April 3, 2008 | At the Cartoon Network Upfront presentation held today in New York, the network announced its programming line-up for 2008. On the heels of February’s announcement that Star Wars: The Clone Wars will come to Cartoon Network as a series in the fall, George Lucas, the creator and steward of the Star Wars brand, attended the Upfront event to provide additional details on this highly anticipated offering. Building on the unprecedented success of last fall’s live-action movie Ben 10: Race Against Time—the highest-rated telecast in Cartoon Network history—and the standout new series Chowder, the network announced a two-pronged, 360 degree programming strategy that speaks to its success in developing and acquiring first-rate brands. This approach incorporates a Sunday night movie franchise, two new nights of original programming, the launch of The Cartoonstitute—an unprecedented, swift development program for animated pilots—and a continued commitment to healthy living through its GET ANIMATED initiative.
- Nickelodeon Upfront 2008
March 13, 2008 | via Nickelodeon press release: Nickelodeon Downloads Its New Directions, New Content to Advertising Community in 2008 Upfront Presentation Nick Announces Gym Teacher: The Movie — Original Primetime TV Movie; One 4 All — Music-Based Live-Action Comedy Series; Returning Hit Series Pick-Ups; and a Brand-New, Multi-platform Pro-Social Environmental Campaign — The Big Green HelpUpfront Event Highlighted […]
- Nickelodeon Picks-Up Returning Animated Hits
March 13, 2008 | Nickelodeon announced today that it has green-lit 86 all-new episodes of Nicktoon favorites, including the network's top three ranked animated series SpongeBob SquarePants, The Fairly OddParents and Back at the Barnyard and the preschool favorite The Backyardigans.
- Boomerang Features “The Great Gazoo” for St. Patrick’s Day
March 7, 2008 | Boomerang, Cartoon Network’s 24-hour commercial-free sister network, is spreading the luck of the Irish on St. Patrick’s Day by featuring the gloriously all-green character from outer-space, The Great Gazoo of The Flintstones.
- “Dink, the Little Dinosaur” Joins Boomerang
March 7, 2008 | Boomerang introduces its audiences to an adventuresome little brontosaurus, DINK, THE LITTLE DINOSAUR, beginning Monday, March 10.
- Nickelodeon Goes Down Under for a Splash of Magic in the Television Movie and Series Premiere of H2O: Just Add Water
March 4, 2008 | Nickelodeon Goes Down Under for a Splash of Magic in the Television Movie and Series Premiere of H2O Live-Action Mermaid Adventures Swim Ashore with Hour-Long Movie Premiere Friday, March 14, at 8:00 p.m. (ET/PT), Followed by Series Premiere Sunday, March 16, at 8:30 p.m. (ET/PT) NEW YORK, March 4 – Pool parties will never be […]
- Cartoon Network Schedules “Chop Socky Chooks” Premiere
February 20, 2008 | Chuckie Chan, KO Joe and Chick P are the mysterious Chop Socky Chooks, Kung Fu Chickens who live and work in the impossibly vast shopping mall, Wasabi World.
- “Star Wars: The Clone Wars” Comes to Cartoon Network and TNT in Fall 2008
February 12, 2008 | After months of speculation throughout the television industry, Turner Broadcasting has landed the broadcast rights to the highly-sought-after CG-animated series, STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS, from creator George Lucas.
- Cartoon Network Announces “Ben 10: Alien Force” for Spring Debut
January 31, 2008 | Ben 10: Alien Force begins the next chapter in the continuing Ben 10 saga five years later when 15-year-old Ben Tennyson chooses to once again put on the OMNITRIX and discovers that it has reconfigured his DNA and can now transform him into 10 brand new aliens.
