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| Fall 2003 Highlights: YTV |
| Posted
on Tuesday, July 15, 2003 - 10:00 AM |
Highlights for the 2003-2004 season.
Currently airing 17 of the top 20 ranked kids shows in Canada, YTV will add more hot shows to the list with an exciting lineup that includes Jacob Two-Two, Mordecai Richler’s award-winning, best-selling book series, brought to life by the top animation studio Nelvana. In addition, YTV premieres the highly anticipated CGI animated series Spider-Man from Sony and Canada’s own Mainframe Entertainment. A new, Canadian live action teen series, Mental Block, joins the schedule providing a comic glimpse of what goes on inside an adolescent's mind, along with the animated action adventure series Martin Mystery, which follows a pair of teens investigating paranormal creatures from beyond. From Nickelodeon comes Rugrats: All Grown Up, a new, animated series featuring kids’ favourite ankle-biters, now diaper-less teens.
As family viewing continues to grow on YTV, the channel’s movie block, 3 Hairy Thumbs Up, expands this season with a new Saturday night film at 8 p.m., in addition to the existing Saturday and Sunday afternoon movie presentations. Viewers can expect to see more of the great films that families can enjoy together, such as It Takes Two, School Ties, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and Richie Rich.
NEW PROGRAMMING:
Jacob Two-Two
© 2003 Nelvana Limited. All rights reserved.
Based on renowned author Mordecai Richler’s award-winning book series,Nelvana's Jacob Two-Two is a stylish,animated adventure series featuring globe-trotting,freewheeling international spies, mysterious neighbours,revolting cafeteria food,treacherous teachers and one very spirited boy.The youngest of five children,Jacob is nicknamed Two-Two because he sometimes says things twice just to be heard!Small for his age,Jacob nonetheless has a big heart and a heaping helping of determination.
Spider-Man
©2003 Adelaide Productions, Inc. All rights reserved.
Spider-Man ®,the animated series,continues where the successful live action feature film (2002)of the same name left off.The series follows the adventures of superhero Peter Parker and his friends,Harry Osborne and Mary Jane Watson,during their first year of college at Empire State University.Parker must juggle academics, a job as a Web designer/photographer for the Daily Bugle and an on-again,off-again relationship with the love of his life,all while fighting to protect the world from super-villains.Neil Patrick Harris (Doogie Howser,MD), Ian Ziering (Beverly Hills 90210)and Lisa Loeb (folk-pop singer)show off their vocal talents in this new,thrilling computer-animated series.
Mental Block
Mitchelle Rothpan as Maynard, Justine Bradley as Skipper, Erik Knudsen as Donovan Mackay; Johnny Griffin as RJ, Jodie Lynn Resther as Sparks
Donovan Mackay needs help.His mom and dad seem to be going through a second adolescence, while he’s going through his first.His best friends,Ira and Shelley don’t even register on the ‘cool meter’at school.And his main crush,Chloë,is so far out of his league she doesn’t know he’s on the team.Luckily,Donovan has four teenagers living inside his head—Sparks,Maynard,Skipper and RJ.Their mission is to get Donovan through another adventurous and unpredictable day as a teenager in suburban Greenfield Park Junior High.
Martin Mystery
© 2003 Marathon Animation - M6 - Rai - Canal J – Mystery Animation Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Martin Mystery is a dripping goo-fest of slime,thrills and comedy, starring Martin and Diana—two mismatched teenagers with hilariously opposite personalities—on a mission to investigate the weirdest paranormal enigmas and the slimiest,most monstrous creatures from beyond.Hired by “The Centre”,an undercover bureau that specializes in mysterious phenomena and with the help of Java,a massive caveman lost in time,the twosome leap from their average school duties to eerie,slime-dripping caves and lairs to save the world from evil.
Rugrats:All Grown Up
©2002 Viacom International, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Ever wondered what kinds of outrageous characters the Rugrats would become as teenagers?The Rugrats spinoff,All Grown Up, explores the lives of all of your favourite Rugrats characters 10 years into the future.Angelica is still a nuisance but the one-time baby squad have learned how to negotiate and on occasion even outsmart the bossy 13-year-old.Tommy stays protective of his best pal and worrywart Chuckie,who now wears braces,and Dill talks but still throws things. Phil and Lil,the mischief-making twins,continue to try to establish their own individual styles.
Chalkzone
© 2003 Viacom International Inc. All rights reserved.
Rudy Tabootie’s a regular kid with a very special possession:a magic piece of chalk that lets him enter Chalkzone,a world beyond the chalk board.In Chalkzone,anything that’s ever been doodled and erased comes to life.If Rudy draws a horse, he’s got himself a ride—but if he draws a monster, he’s got a big problem.Luckily,with the help of his sidekick Snap and his best friend,Penny,Rudy’s a pro at drawing his way out of trouble whenever they’re on an adventure.And in Chalkzone, adventure takes on a whole new dimension.
Teen Titans
Based on the DC Comic characters,Teen Titans unite five teenage superheroes—Robin the Boy Wonder,Beast Boy,Cyborg,Raven and Starface—to protect Earth from a new generation of villains in a future marked by intergalactic strife and interplanetary battles.
Knights of the Zodiac
"© 2003 MASAMI KURUMADA/SHUEISHA, TOEI ANIMATION
Knights of the Zodiac is a dramatic, animated series rich with mythological stories and intricate plotlines,adapted from the Japanese series Saint Seiya.Goddess Athena and her bodyguards, the Bronze Knights,must endure a perilous journey through the 12 Zodiac houses to find the ‘formula’, which will save the Goddess and re-establish her Sanctuary’s rightful reign.
PREMIERING IN EARLY 2004:
Fries With That
Fries With That is about first jobs.More specifically it’s about a gang of teens who toil at a branch of Bulky’s,a fictional burger chain struggling to stay afloat in a market saturated with better-known
international fast food joints.Bulky’s is run almost exclusively by high school students but Pattie, Robyn, Tess and Alex have more important
things to concern themselves with besides flipping burgers:friends, dating,body image, school, parents, the in-crowd and out-crowd, fashion, sports, makeup and cars.The exception (there’s always an exception)is Ben,the assistant manager, who takes his job seriously—a little too seriously for rest of the burger gang.
Phunkee Zee
Phunkee Zee combines live action and game animation in a kids’sci-fi series that chronicles the adventures of an unlikely team of heroes who join forces in a quest to save the universe from evil.Led by the fearless alien operative, Zixx Phunkee Zee,Adam and Griff are two 12-year-old boys who use their game smarts to battle in the Keep—a third dimension labyrinth, which operates like a game.
Zixx grudgingly befriends the two boys and mentors Adam as he navigates the rough waters of creeping adolescence.It isn’t easy being tutored by a girl,especially when she’s an extraterrestrial, but in Adam's mixed-up life he'll take what he can get.Besides,Zixx just may know something about Adam’s missing mother and if her disappearance is connected to the game.
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