CBS is partnering with DIC Entertainment, a brand management company, to launch a new kids programming block that will be titled "CBS' Secret Saturday Morning Slumber Party." The block will premiere this fall, as CBS moves in a new direction, abandoning its carriage of sister cable network Nickelodeon's Nick Jr. programming block which has been airing on CBS on Saturday mornings for several years. Gone will be current Nick Jr. shows like LazyTown, Go, Diego, Go!, Dora the Explorer, The Backyarigans, Little Bill and Blue's Clues. Replacing them in the new block will be shows from DIC's content libarary.
- 1/19/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
IDT Entertainment Sales has sold Yankee Irving, a family-oriented, CG-animated feature, to more than 25 territories, including the bulk of the Eastern European market, Portugal and Thailand. In a separate development, IDT also said that it has licensed all animation rights to the Hellboy property from Revolution Studios. Yankee Irving, originally to have been directed by the late Christopher Reeve, is being co-directed by Colin Brady and Daniel St. Pierre and features a voice cast headed by Rob Reiner, Whoopi Goldberg, Brian Dennehy, William H. Macy, Mandy Patinkin, Dana Reeve, Robert Wagner, Richard Kind, Raven-Symone and New York Yankees manager Joe Torre. Jake T. Austin (Go Diego Go!) voices the title character.
- 11/8/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Yankee Irving, a computer-animated feature Christopher Reeve was directing from his home at the time of his death in October 2004, has added a deep bench of voice talent to the cast. Rob Reiner, Whoopi Goldberg, Brian Dennehy, William H. Macy, Mandy Patinkin, Dana Reeve, Robert Wagner, Richard Kind, Raven Symone and New York Yankees manager Joe Torre have joined the voice cast of IDT Entertainment's first independently produced CG-animated feature film. Jake Syzmanski, star of the upcoming Nick Jr. series Go, Diego Go, voices the title character. Yankee Irving is an animated adventure about a boy who travels across the country on a mission to return Babe Ruth's bat before the deciding game of the 1932 World Series.
- 8/24/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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