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“The Checkup with Dr. David Agus,” a six-episode docuseries featuring notable names in entertainment as they sit down with the doctor for intimate conversations about their personal health struggles, will premiere on Paramount+, with the first three episodes will debuting on the platform Tuesday, Dec. 6. The final three episodes will follow on Monday, Dec. 12.

Guests for the docuseries include Ashton Kutcher, Oprah Winfrey, Maria Shriver, Howie Mandel, Amy Schumer, Nick Cannon, Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin. Each guest goes into personal detail about life-threatening diseases, women’s health issues such as reproductive health, the loss of a child and more.

The series is produced by Skydance Television and See It Now Studios. Agus serves as executive producer alongside Amy Coleman and David Ellison and Dana Goldberg for Skydance Television. For See It Now Studios, Susan Zirinsky and Terence Wrong are executive producers, Aysu Saliba is the supervising producer and Adam Goldfried is the executive director.

Cartoon Network’s Adults Swim has ordered second seasons for two popular series from international animation studio Titmouse: Christy Karacas’ sci-fi comedy “Ballmastrz: 9009” and Andrew Koehler and Benjamin Martian’s fantasy series “Tigtone.”

According to Koehler, now an executive producer on “Tigtone” – along with Martin and “Workaholics” alum Blake Anderson, “‘Tigtone’ is doing what legends do best: continuing! If he were real, he’d be beyond excited for his shiny new second season.”

The series, which participated in the TV competition at last month’s Annecy Festival, is a fantasy series based on its quest-addicted hero, Tigtone. Poking fun at the fantasy genre and tropes from the video games, table-top games, films and series spawned from it, Tigtone hacks and slashes his way from one adventure to the next with little to no regard for his surroundings or the damage he causes to it along the way.

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Michael Ahr Dave Vitagliano Sep 28, 2018

For September's late edition of G! News, we cover the latest film, TV, and gaming news, plus Christy Karacas of Ballmastrz 9009.

G! News, our Den of Geek podcast, continues with the first half of September 2018. Twice a month, the hosts pull some of the more discussable topics from the recent goings-on in movies, television, comics, and gaming to add their own commentary while directing listeners to where they can read more about the entertainment news they talk about.

In this edition of the podcast, with fall in full swing, we tackle another set of movie, TV, and gaming news items! We start off with a look at some of the most anticipated movies of 2019 (and not just the big Marvel and Disney properties). Then we explore the list of the six different actors who have played the Joker in various Batman incarnations over the years.

Adult Swim has something new planned for this spring. Today, the network announced their upcoming TV show Ballmastrz: 9009 will premiere in April.From Christy Karacas, the animated series "follows washed up superstar and notorious party gal Gaz Digzy, who after a spiral of destructive antics is demoted to the worst team in The Game: The Leptons. Her only way back to the top is to somehow lead these pathetic misfits to victory."Read More…...

Give the people what they want! Adult Swim has handed a series order to Ballmastrz 9009, a 15-minute toon that originally was piloted in 2015. It will premiere at midnight April 8, with back-to-back new episodes air on Sundays. Created by Christy Karacas (Suerjail) and produced by Titmouse, Ballmastrz 9009 is set in the titular year when The Game has made sure there were no more wars — especially, as the trailer below notes, “those suck-ass rad wars.” It centers on Gaz…...

Ben 10

Cartoon Network has ordered a new animated series based on the global hit "Ben 10" that previously spawned four series spinoffs and three TV movies. The franchise will expand to four shows with the 2016 debut of the newest animated series.

The new show will re-introduce ten-year-old Ben Tennyson and feature new and fan-favorite aliens from the initial series. The franchise has become a global brand with toys, video games and more generating an estimated $4.5 billion in global retail sales to date. [Source: The Live Feed]

The Three Stooges

Cake, Titmouse and C3 are teaming for an animated TV series based on "The Three Stooges". "Supernal" creator Christy Karacas will direct the pilot. The aim for the show is for top helmers to offer their own spin on the iconic characters .

Titmouse will produce 52 segments that will be 11 minutes in length, featuring the classic physical, visual slapstick humor for which the Stooges are known.

Just as the way we consume movies has changed in recent years with the advances in smartphone and tablet technologies, the way filmmakers make films has changed as well. In this day and age, companies are developing software and hardware to make life on-set easier for those wielding cameras. With that in mind, the folks at Microsoft have produced an online documentary series about how filmmakers are utilizing their technology in creating art. We’re excited to partner with them to debut the first episode, which you can watch just after the jump. The first episode, which premieres today right here on Film School Rejects, profiles filmmaker Chayse Irvin. Chayse’s recent films include the documentary Spirit in the Stone and Blacktino, a feature film that premiered at SXSW. The episode follows Chayse to various spots in New York City, where he talks about the capabilities of his Surface Pro to capture content for both creative and...

“You’re late.” “For?” “For role-playing fetish night.”

Superjail! (2007-) has somehow made itself to a third season and humanity continues to suffer. If Christy Karacas’s endless montage of stupid violence has an audience, it is almost certainly heavily medicated. In fact, illicit drug use may go some way to explain both the audience and the content of the show. The many and varied ways in which the inmates of Superjail are slaughtered would be impressive if the boundless imagination weren’t spent on mayhem. Fever dream is an overused term, but if it ever applies, it applies to Superjail! The tiniest thread of a story ties an episode together less so than the last image of any sequence (which is usually an inmate’s face being ripped off).

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The 2013 San Diego Comic-Con is at hand, and with it come a ton of big name movies and TV shows putting their best foot forward for the fans in attendance.

From primetime television series to cable favorites, web series to returning classics, television will dominate the San Diego Convention Center this year. Take a look at the complete movie schedule below and make sure to plan accordingly; there are plenty of tough choices. The complete list of movie panels can be found here.

Wednesday, July 17 (Preview Night)

Warner Bros. Television pilot screenings: Ballroom 20, 6-10 p.m. "Almost Human," "The Originals, "The Tomorrow People," "The 100."

Thursday, July 18

"Intelligence": Ballroom 20, 10-11 a.m. Josh Holloway, Marg Helgenberger, Meghan Ory, Michael Seitzman, Rene Echevarria and Tripp Vinson attending. Pilot will be screened.

"Battlestar Galactica" 35th Anniversary: Room Cf, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Richard Hatch, Michael Nankin, Dr. Kevin Grazier, Michael Angeli,...

Comic-Con is releasing its daily schedules over this long holiday weekend and the schedule for Saturday, July 20 has just come out. The day features panels on TV favorites like How I Met Your Mother (at the Con for the first time!), True Blood, and The Vampire Diaries as well as upcoming shows like Dracula and The Originals, and much more. Many of the major film panels are Saturday, including a look at the upcoming Hunger Games: Catching Fire, the Marvel panel, which will feature the Thor and Captain America sequels, and WB and Legendary’s panel featuring Godzilla, and Gravity.

While it’s not typically in our purview, Adult Swim features many talents familiar to the genre fan club, and from the sound of it, they have a lot going on at the Con this year. Read on for the details!

This year at San Diego Comic-Con, Adult Swim will be bringing even more entertainment, celebrities and one-of-a-kind fan experiences to their adoring fans. Adult Swim programming panels run from Thursday to Saturday, featuring creators, producers and actors from fan favorites The Venture Bros., Childrens Hospital, Ntsf:sd:suv::, Robot Chicken, Aqua TV Show Show, Squidbillies, The Eric Andre Show, The Heart, She Holler, China, Il, and sneak peeks of several new and upcoming series such as Rick and Morty, Hot Package, King Star King, and Mr. Pickles. Adult Swim stars on hand will include Rob Corddry, Paul Scheer, Jackson Publick, Doc Hammer, Seth Green, Patton Oswalt, Amy Sedaris, Eric Andre,...

Yes even Adult Swim joined the upfronts fray last week, and has now announced its forthcoming programming for 2012-2013. Back for more of what they do best are favorites Robot Chicken, Ntsf:sd:suv, and Children’s Hospital, along with newcomer Newsreaders, an animated Harold and Kumar, and the return of Toonami.

Adult Swim Announces Largest Programming Schedule Ever for 2012-13 Basic Cable’s #1 Network In Total Day With Adults 18-34 and 18-49 Offers Up 9 New Series/Specials, 8 Pilots and 10 Returning Series. Childrens Hospital Spin-off Newsreaders and Animated Harold & Kumar Make The List, Fan Favorite Toonami Returns to Saturday Nights

Adult Swim, basic cable’s #1 network with young adults for seven consecutive years, sets out to “control” the night by announcing a slate of new and returning programming at its annual Upfront presentation in New York City. Hours before their annual event featuring a scheduled performance by Grammy Award-winning rap artist T.I.,...

The New York Comic Con will soon be upon us. Here is our first bit of information we have recieved about the panels and signings from the Cartoon Network and Adult Swim. That means that shows like Robot Chicken, The Venture Bros., Eagleheart and much more.

Here is a description of the con from www.newyorkcomiccon.com:

New York Comic Con is the East Coast's biggest and most exciting popular culture convention. Our show floor plays host to the latest and greatest in comics, graphic novels, anime, manga, video games, toys, movies, and television. Our panels and autograph sessions give fans a chance to interact with their favorite creators. Our screening rooms feature sneak peeks at films and television shows months before they hit either big or small screens. And with dedicated professional hours, New York Comic Con is a market place, bringing together the major players in the entertainment industry.

Superjail

Stars the voices of: David Wain, Teddy Cohn, Richard Mathar, Christopher McCulloch, Christy Karacas | Created by Ben Gruber, Christy Karacas, Steve Warbrick

Housed on an island, in a volcano within a volcano, Superjail! is a psychedelic prison run by a megalomaniacal warden and his motley crew. The Warden is the whimsical heir to a hallucinatory correctional facilities empire where grotesque ultra-violence and ridiculous perversion rule the day.

Let’s get this out of the way first, Superjail! is one of the freakiest, bizarre, and downright weird animated shows I have ever seen. It’s like watching the result of a brain fart on screen… and comes across as the grotesque offspring of MTV’s Beavis and Butthead, prison drama Oz and classic Nickelodeon cartoon Ren & Stimpy. And I loved it!

Imagine the freakish close-ups seen in Ren & Stimpy taken to ridiculous extremes and then mixed with the stupid comedy stylings of Beavis and Butthead,...

The above clip comes from the Adult Swim series "Superjail!," created by Christy Karacas, Stephen Warbrick and Ben Gruber. If you like the late-night Cartoon Network block's wacky, offbeat brand of humor, then this is definitely for you. Of course, if you like that brand of humor, then you've certainly seen this by now. And you've probably been too busy watching to realize that the first season of "Superjail!" hit DVD this week! To celebrate the release, Warbrick and Karacas took some time out of their busy schedule to share their 10 favorite movie prison scenes, which you can find after the jump!

Best Prison Scenes – for MTV.com

From Steve Warbrick and Christy Karacas

Ranked in order from least favorite to most favorite. (Like a David Letterman Top 10 List)

10. "48 hrs": “Roxanne…you don’t have to put on the red light.”

9. "Watchmen": Rorschach melting a fellow inmate’s face off with boiling oil.

Superjail! creators Christy Karacas (Cartoon Sushi), and Stephen Warbrick (Beavis and Butthead, Celebrity Deathmatch) were turned loose, briefly, to answer our 20 Questions.

Superjail! creators Christy Karacas (Cartoon Sushi), and Stephen Warbrick (Beavis and Butthead, Celebrity Deathmatch) were turned loose, briefly, to answer PopMatters 20 Questions. Let’s hope they’re safely behind bars, again. Built in an active volcano, Superjail! is made up of dangerous criminals, fantastic creatures, and a prison warden who has gone bonkers over the years with his crazy mechanisms and irrational schemes. The infamous complex routinely has riots and murders, and while the criminals of…...

NEW YORK -- Adult Swim will launch three new series and a seventh late night of programming, beginning this year.

Two series -- "Fat Guy Stuck in Internet" and "Superjail" -- join the previously announced "Lucy, Daughter of the Devil" on the schedule for Cartoon Network's late-night programming block. "Stuck" is a live-action comedy about a computer programr who finds himself inside the Internet and chased by a bounty hunter. It's created by John Gemberling and Curtis Gwinn, and will debut in the fall. "Superjail" is about the universe's most violent prison that is run by Warden, shrouded in mystery. The series, created by Christy Karacas, Stephen Warbrick and Ben Gruber, will premiere next year.

"Lucy", set in San Francisco and created by Loren Bouchard, will debut in the summer, and the "Robot Chicken: Star Wars" special is set for June 17.

Picked up for additional seasons are "Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job," "Moral Orel" and "Assy McGee". Also returning for new seasons are "Frisky Dingo", "Robot Chicken", "The Boondocks", "Metalocalypse", "The Venture Bros.", "Squidbillies", "Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law" and "Aqua Teen Hunger Force". "Aqua Teen" will have new episodes in the fall and a fifth season in 2008.