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Cartoon Network, the world's first animation network that served as a home for golden-age animation favorites, new creator-guided series in the late-90s, and introduced anime and adult animated comedy to unsuspecting viewers, died this Monday at the age of 13 after a series of illnesses and self-inflicted injuries. They will be missed.

A No-Prize to the guy who can find the two errors in this statement from a recent press release from The WB. Reinterpreting the Superman mythology from its roots, SMALLVILLE was developed for television by Alfred Gough & Miles Millar (“Shanghai Noon,” “Spiderman 2”), based on the DC Comics characters. Gough and Millar serve as executive producers, along with Greg Beeman, Ken Horton, Mike Tollin, Brian Robbins and Joe Davola. The series is produced by Tollin/Robbins Productions, Millar/Gough Ink and Warner Bros. Television Production Inc. SUPERMAN was created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster.

The "PCTKB" Award is a dubious bi-monthly honor I'm going to bestow on an individual, group, or network that either says something that is a jab at another individual, group, or network for doing something that they're doing themselves (thus the name "PCTKB" or "Pot Calling The Kettle Black"). The very first PCTKB goes to Sarah Lane and G4 for the comments said on the 1/12/06 episode of Attack of the Show. Here's the comments verbatium: "The A&E Network is busy producing a brand-new reality series set to star KISS demonoid Gene Simmons. This begs the question, 'What the hell does the name A&E stand for anymore?' It ain't Art, and it sure as hell ain't Entertainment." Yeah, G4: Video Game Television, which used to be known as G4techTV and currently airs Street Fury, Fastlane, The Man Show, and Star Trek: The Next Generation in light of getting rid of all technology-driven series and slowly dissolving video-game ...

What a great end to a great day. Just picked up on the wires that BBC's newest Doctor Who will finally arrive in the US this March on a network that's just now getting back into the sci-fi frame of mind: SCI FI Channel announced Jan. 12 that it will air the first season of the BBC's hit SF series Doctor Who, starting in March. The 13 episodes, starring Christopher Eccleston as the Doctor and Billie Piper as Rose Tyler, will air as part of SCI FI Fridays at 9 p.m. ET/PT. The series, from head writer and executive producer Russell T. Davies, ran originally in the United Kingdom last year and was one of the network's biggest hits ever. An update of the classic Doctor Who show, the series continues in the U.K. with an upcoming second season that will star David Tennant as the Doctor. "The Doctor's made all sorts of journeys in time and space, but this is one of his most exciting yet!" Davies said in a statement. "I'm a huge fan of the SCI FI Channel, ...

Back in October 2005, DirecTV dropped G4's sibling network OLN from their lineup, and Dish Network and many other cable operators (with the exception of Comcast who owns the networks) are thinking of doing the same thing? They're doing this because OLN went off script and decided they wanted to be less of an outdoor life network and more of an Entertainment and Sports Programming Network like that big sports channel, whazzitsname. You know, like the one that airs Pardon The Interruption and SportsCenter, catchy sound signature. TSN, I believe. While OLN has devolved into an ESPN clone, I am reminded of other moments when networks have self-destructed. Some abandoned their original missions while others completely strayed away from what works for them. You could almost pinpoint when the network completely went off the deep end (for example, in MTV's case, it was the premiere of the second season of The Real World, which meant that they had a cheap, unscripted show they could...

Please bring the 2005 Doctor Who to the United States. Begging for a US broadcast of a British series is hardly the way I wanted to begin 2006, but you know, it's something that's been on my mind for a while now. I know that the first season of the totally updated revamp of the classic BBC series (I remember watching the episodes of Doctor Who with the Fourth Doctor, and subconsciously, I based my Sage The Warpmaster character after this incarnation of the Doctor [currently, in the second season of the series, which just premiere a couple of weeks ago, the Tenth Doctor has emerged]) is coming to DVD in North America next month, but that shouldn't be an excuse not to air the series on US television at all. Neither should the (by American standards) short first season. From what I've seen of clips from the new show, it completely rocks and is becoming one of the finest science-fiction series made in the 21st century. From read and heard, my eyes were not deceiving me. Gre...