4Kids details fall lineup
By Staff -- Playthings, 7/25/2006 9:02:00 AM
NEW YORK—Children’s programmer 4Kids Entertainment this week announced the finalized roster for the fifth season of its Saturday-morning block on Fox, 4Kids TV.
Four news series will join the lineup:
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fast Forward, a TMNT series set 99 years in the future. It debuts on July 29.
• Viva Piñata, a CGI-animated comedy series in which piñata animals live on their own island. It begins on Sept. 9.
• Yu-Gi-Oh! Capsule Monsters, a new version of the Yu-Gi-Oh! series in which Yugi and his friends find themselves in a deserted forest that’s home to a portal to another dimension, one full of Capsule Monsters. It starts on Sept. 9.
• Chaotic, based on a trading card game to be released in 2007 in which players battle and trade cards online. The series finds the property’s characters transported to a place called Perim where they can transform themselves into Chaotic Creatures. It launches on Sept. 30.
On Aug. 7, 4Kids will launch a video-on-demand network, 4Kids TV VOD Channel, on Comcast On Demand. It will offer 10 hours of shows culled from 4Kids’ library, new episodes updated every two weeks. It will include never-before-seen episodes, exclusive premieres, sneak peeks and encore presentations of 4Kids series, the company says, starting with five never-before-seen episodes of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and a preview episode of Yu-Gi-Oh! Capsule Monsters.
