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With negotiations set to begin Tuesday for a new Animation Guild contract, more than 2,600 industry figures have signed a petition calling for pay equity for color stylists, the animation industry’s only predominantly female craft, whose artists set the look, lighting and palette of cartoons.

The 3,500-member Animation Guild, Iatse Local 839, hasn’t struck the industry since 1983, but leaders told their members recently that a strike this time around “is always a possibility, if not a probability.” The guild’s talks are separate from the recently concluded negotiations for a new film and TV contract covering some 43,000 members of Iatse’s 13 West Coast studio locals.

The petition, organized by the Animation Guild’s Color Stylist Committee, is yet another sign of the growing movement for gender pay equity in Hollywood’s historically female-majority crafts. As reported here exclusively last week, more than 3,300 industry figures have signed another petition calling...

Time is not on our side, especially in the era of “peak TV.” Perhaps this is why networks are hopping onto the time travel bandwagon. At this year’s network upfront presentations in May, four of the five broadcast networks plugged shows that revolved around a time travel element at their core.

Taking journeys through the fourth dimension is a concept that has appeared in fiction since the late 19th century, popularized by H.G. Wells’ novel “The Time Machine.” The continued appeal of time travel boils down to wish fulfillment: the desire to visit other eras like a tourist, the yearning to relive or change the past, the curiosity about the future and the ability to squeeze more experiences into our ephemeral lives.

Although Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan disagree on whether time travel will someday be possible based on our apparent lack of visitors from the future, that hasn...

Neil deGrasse Tyson gets pretty animated when he starts talking about science. Now, he’s literally getting animated – on Disney Xd’s quirky new ‘toon “Future-Worm.”

Tyson – or “Ndt,” as he’s cheekily referred to on the show – plays a version of himself, America’s best-known astrophysicist. The “Cosmos” host recurs in several episodes of the series.

Read More: Watch: Neil deGrasse Tyson Explaining the End of ‘Interstellar’ Might Make Your Brain Explode

“Future-Worm” centers on 12-year-old Danny Douglas, who has invented a time machine (inside a lunch box) and befriends a hip, talking worm from the future. Together, they go on countless adventures. Tyson occasionally shows up to give Danny advice.

Ryan Quincy (“South Park”) created the series, which premieres August 1 on Disney Xd. Andy Milonakis, James Adomian, Jessica Dicicco, Melanie Lynskey, Corey Burton and Quincy provide voices.

Read More: Exclusive Preview: Disney’s ‘Future-Worm’

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Disney Xd is headed to the past, the present, and the future. This week, the network announced their new animated series Future-Worm! premieres in August.

From Ryan Quincy, the comedy adventure follows "an optimistic 12-year-old who creates a time machine lunch box, and then meets and befriends a fearless worm from the future."

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Disney Xd has set an August 1 premiere date for its new animated comedy adventure series Future-Worm!, and announced several guest stars including Neil deGrasse Tyson, Selma Blair, Jeff Ross, Jack McBrayer, Chelsea Peretti, Bill Nye and Jonathan Frakes. Created and executive-produced by Emmy-winning director Ryan Quincy (South Park), Future-Worm! centers on Danny, played by Andy Milonakis, an optimistic 12-year-old who creates a time machine lunch box, and then meets and…...

The Disney Channel announced that they are developing a TV special based on their Haunted Mansion Disney Parks attraction. The news comes just one week after director Guillermo del Toro said he may not direct the feature adaptation Haunted Mansion 3D. Take a look at the official announcement from Disney, which also includes details about other Disney Channel pilots that are in production, then read on for more details.

Disney Television Animation is in development on Haunted Mansion, a special for Disney Channel and Disney Xd inspired by the popular Disney Parks attraction. Legendary horror genre artist and children's book illustrator Gris Grimly (Gris Grimly's Wicked Nursery Rhymes) is attached to executive produce and art direct with Scott Peterson executive producing, story editing and writing and Joshua Pruett consulting producing and writing, both of Phineas and Ferb.

The television animation studio continues to add to its deep roster of...

IFC, which has been transforming itself from a network known for indie film to one that's embraced alternative comedy, has announced a development slate that includes pilot orders for scripted projects from Riki Lindhome and Kate Micucci of the very funny folk-comedy duo Garfunkel and Oates, Steve Conrad ("The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," "The Promotion") and Fallon writers Michael Blieden and Eric Ledgin. Also in works for 2014 consideration are eight scripts in development, from Matt Besser, Chris Gethard and Tom Scharpling, Megan Mullally and others, including one from a New York Television Festival deal-winner. IFC's currently airing Ryan Quincy's animated coming-of-age series "Out There," and will premiere Marc Maron scripted comedy "Maron" on May 3rd. Pilot orders: Timms Industrial Piping (working title) A scripted comedy set in the fictional town of Timms Valley, Wisconsin, where the lives and livelihoods of its citizens are intertwined with the fate of the.

Growing up is hard enough, but for the pubescent characters on IFC's animated coming-of-age series, it's downright Out There. Creator and executive producer Ryan Quincy (South Park) partnered with King of the Hill alums Tony Gama-Lobo and Rebecca May for the show, which chronicles the misadventures of small-town misfits Chad Stevens (Quincy) and Chris Novak (Justin Roiland) as they navigate high school, parents and being social outcasts (the Season 1 finale airs April 19). Fred Armisen, Megan Mullally and Linda Cardellini also provide voices. Quincy explains why we should travel Out There....

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Watch a new video from IFC's Out There where creator Ryan Quincy talks about "buritto ready!" and catch 2 clips from last Friday's episode! Out There is created, written by and executive produced by Quincy, who is the Emmy®-award winning animation director and producer of the much-beloved South Park. Other guest stars throughout the season include Pamela Adlon, Fred Armisen, Selma Blair, Linda Cardellini, Jemaine Clement, John Dimaggio, Megan Mullally, Nick Offerman, Ellen Page, Stephen Root, Jason Schwartzman and Sarah Silverman.

Watch a new video from IFC's Out There where creator Ryan Quincy talks about "buritto ready!" and catch 2 clips from last Friday's episode! Out There is created, written by and executive produced by Quincy, who is the Emmy®-award winning animation director and producer of the much-beloved South Park. Other guest stars throughout the season include Pamela Adlon, Fred Armisen, Selma Blair, Linda Cardellini, Jemaine Clement, John Dimaggio, Megan Mullally, Nick Offerman, Ellen Page, Stephen Root, Jason Schwartzman and Sarah Silverman.

IFC’s new animated series “Out There” will be premiering tomorrow, Feb. 22. The 10-episode animated series is written and executive produced by the award-winning animation director and producer from “South Park” and revolves around the trials of puberty among social and political craziness: “’Out There’ is created, written by and executive produced by Ryan Quincy, two-time Emmy-winning animation director and producer of South Park. The ten episode series chronicles the socially awkward Chad Stevens and his best friend, Chris Novak. Living in the small town of Holford in the middle of nowhere, the boys wander the surreal, bleak landscape waiting out their last few years of high school and discovering [ Read More ]

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"Out There," the new series starting on IFC on Friday, February 22nd, is the creation of former "South Park" animation director Ryan Quincy. Aside from also being animated, it has little in common with the Trey Parker and Matt Stone series -- "Out There" is more in the vein of "Freaks and Geeks," a coming of age tale about a socially awkward trio of friends growing up in a small town who happen to be furry monster type things. The tonal similarity to the Paul Feig show is helped along by the presence of Linda Cardinelli voicing Sharla, the crush of protagonist Chad (Quincy). "Portlandia" co-creator Fred Armisen, Megan Mullally ("Will & Grace"), Pamela Adlon ("Louie"), John Dimaggio ("Futurama"), Kate Micucci ("Raising Hope") and Justin Roiland ("Fish Hooks") round out the cast. IFC's made a full episode -- "A Chris By Any Other Name" --...

Fred Armisen, Megan Mullally and Linda Cardinelli have joined the voice cast for the new IFC animated series Out There, premiering Feb. 22. The cable channel also announced that Ryan Quincy -- the show's creator and a two-time, Emmy-winning animation director and producer of South Park -- will voice the main character, Chad Stevens. Rounding out the chorus of voices: Pamela Adlon (Louie, King of the Hill); John Dimaggio (Futurama); Kate Micucci (Raising Hope, Bored to Death); and Justin Roiland (Fish Hooks). Photos: Best TV Comedies of 2012 Out There takes place in the small town of Holford and follows the

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