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Paramount+ is removing Nickelodeon titles from its library, including some big properties like Doug, Blue’s Room, and Big Time Rush.

December has seen Doug being taken off the streamer. The animated series premiered in 1991 on Nickelodeon and ran for four seasons. Doug was one of the earliest titles of the “Nicktoons” in the 1990s, which would later include shows like Rugrats, The Ren & Stimpy Show, Rocko’s Modern Life, Aaahh!! Real Monsters, Hey Arnold! and more.

Other titles purged from Paramount+ include My Life As A Teenage Robot and shows based on DreamWorks Animation films like Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness and The Penguins of Madagascar.

AwesomenessTV, Breadwinners, Game Shakers, House of Anubis, Let’s Just Play: Go Healthy Challenge, Welcome to the Wayne, Wonder Pets, and Zoofari were also removed from Paramount+.

More recently, Paramount+ users have reported other titles being taken off the streamer like Alvinnn!!! and the Chipmunks,...

One girl can make a difference. But can you imagine how much more of a difference she can make with a dinosaur on her side? Well, a tyrannosaurus rex may not be ideal for every situation, but Lunella Lafayette is happy to have Devil Dinosaur with her as she fights crime in the Lower East Side of New York City in the upcoming Disney Channel series "Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur."

Based on the 2015 Marvel comic series by Brandon Montclare, Amy Reeder, and Natacha Bustos, which was a sequel to Jack Kirby's "Moon Boy and Devil Dinosaur" from 1978, the animated series will follow the 13-year-old super-genius as she transports the T-rex through a time vortex to the present to help her take on the villains of the modern day. And though the project has been in development for some time at this point, the recent D23 Expo has finally...

Animation luminary Fred Seibert’s FredFilms will team up with Chinese content production firm DeZerlin Entertainment for an incubator projected called “Hot Pot! Cartoons,” which hopes to bring emerging Chinese talent and content out to the global market.

In the project, FredFilms’ U.S.-based development and production team and Qingdao-headquartered DeZerlin will supervise up-and-coming Chinese creators to develop animated shorts for global distribution.

“Often what’s happening with Western animation producers is we’re looking to get a toehold into the China market because it’s so large. And that’s fine, but it always makes me go, ‘Ok, well, what’s going on there that we can bring here, rather than vice versa,’” Seibert told Variety.

The serial entrepreneur has been taking an incubator approach to animation for almost 30 years, focusing on cultivating seven-or-so-minute shorts that can then go on to spin off into major series. As president of Hanna-Barbera in the 1990s,...

It’s no surprise that director/animator Genndy Tartakovsky has become the cinematic leader of 2D TV animation. Going against the grain of the great dialogue-driven, comedic animation that dominates TV, Tartakovsky has instead offered bold visual storytelling that borrows heavily from movies and comics. Indeed, with both his Emmy-winning “Samurai Jack” and current Adult Swim series, “Primal,” the Russian émigré has achieved a masterful minimalism that is rare for TV. He has not only displayed stunningly graphic action, but also expressive silence. “As my career has been progressing, I feel that my timing has become slower and slower because I want to get to that level where you’re really looking at something,” Tartakovsky said. “Genndy has always been one of my animation heroes,” said director Jorge Gutierrez, who is currently developing the fantasy/adventure series, “Maya and the Three,” for Netflix. “He’s also an incredible role model...

There has been much debate about whether Nickelodeon has been copied by other studios, such as Disney and Cartoon Network, or if they just provided inspiration for very similar shows. For instance, is “Too Loud” copying “The Loud House?” What about “Puppy Dog Pals” and “Paw Patrol?” Is “Robotboy,” a copy of “My Life as a Teenage Robot?” And then there’s “Rocko’s Modern Life” and “The Amazing World of Gumball.” Can you guess which shows copied “Spongebob Squarepants,” “Fairly OddParents,” and “Team Umizoomi?” The answers may surprise you.

Sunday July 15th is the last day of Comic-Con 2012, and most of us will be completely worn out looking like Spider-Man in the image above. Chances are he's asleep under that mask. Sunday has always been a cool down day for us, we kind of just try to relax a little bit more and enjoy it. That doesn't mean their isn't anything to see or do though!

We've got a Fringe screening and Q&A, Doctor Who, Buffy the Vampire Slayer 20th Anniversary, Sons of Anarchy, the annual Buffy the Vampire Slayer musical screening, and more! I've always wanted to go the Buffy musical sing-a-long, but am usually trying to leave San Diego before it starts.

Just a little reminder, we will be having our annual GeekTyrant meet up this year to meet our readers, which is something we always enjoy doing! That will take place on Wednesday night, and...

The organizers of San Diego Comic-Con have released the official schedule of events for Sunday, July 15 which you can now view below.

San Diego Comic-Con – Sunday, July 15

10:00-11:00 Comic-Con How-to: Publishing Industry: From Manuscript to Industry — So you have the desire to write a book and get it published, but what does that really mean? Agents, editors, publishers, reviewers, self-publishing, traditional publishing, print on demand, ebooks, foreign language-the list goes on. What does it mean to “write for profit,” and what are the pitfalls to watch out for? Award-winning author Maxwell Alexander Drake gives you some insights into the real world that is the Publishing Industry. Warning: this seminar is not for the weak of spirit. Room 2

10:00-11:00 Spotlight on Jason Shiga — Comic-Con special guest Jason Shiga is best known for his interactive comics, including Meanwhile and Knock Knock. He will present a career retrospective detailing...

Check out this super cool piece of art from Carlos Ramos, inspired by The Shining. Ramos has worked on Dexter's Labratory, ChalkZone, My Life As A Teenage Robot, The X's and Ni Hao Kai-Lan as a storyboard artist and writer.

In July his Stanley Kubrick-inspired art was on exhibit, but until now it was not available at an affordable price. Limited edition prints of Ramos’ “Overlook" are being released by The Copro Gallery. Check out the image and info about how to get your hands on the prints below:

The Copro Gallery is offering two different options:

26″ x 26″ giclee on archival rag paper – signed and numbered edition of 30 –$200 domestic shipped in large tube. Shipped flat for $15.00 extra – International shipped in tube $20.00 extra 24″ x 24″ giclee on wood varnished – sides hand painted black – edition of 10 signed and numbered on back – $400. International add $50. See photo below:...

Burbank-born artist Carlos Ramos (storyboard artist and writer on Dexter's Labratory, ChalkZone, My Life as a Teenage Robot, The X's, and Ni Hao Kai-lan) is presenting a solo exhibition of his Stanley Kubrick-inspired artwork at the Copro Gallery from July 10th until August 3rd. 11 years after the death of Stanley Kubrick, Ramos pays homage to the man who wrote and directed such films as A Clockwork Orange, Dr. Strangelove, The Shining and 2001: A Space Odyssey by transforming the galley into a retrospective space with graphic pieces celebrating the greatest and most respected filmmaker in history. Ramos faces his longtime obsession with Kubrick by painting interpretations of his films including the white-on-white habitations of 2001 to the Native American carpet patterns of The Shining to the matching white Droog uniforms in A Clockwork Orange. The emptiness and humanity of Stanley Kubrick's subjects and characters and unique spacial design come...

Frederator Studios has signed a multi-year deal with Sony Pictures Animation to develop animated feature films, according to Cynopsis.

Founder Fred Seibert, formerly President of Hanna-Barbera Productions, launched the Frederator animation studio in 1998 and has developed animated properties including The Fairly OddParents, Dexter's Laboratory, My Life as a Teenage Robot, The Powerpuff Girls and Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!  Frederator is currently in production on Fanboy & Chum Chum, the CG animated series launches this fall on Nickelodeon, and Adventure Time at Cartoon Network set for May 2010.  Additionally, Frederator is developing a feature film based on the animated series Samurai Jack at Paramount Pictures with Bad Robot Productions.  Seibert was also the original creative director of MTV: Music Television and later toiled for Nickelodeon and helped create Nick-at-Nite. 

Sony Pictures Animation's newest movie, Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs, opens nationwide this Friday.

Fred Seibert and his Frederator Studios inks a multi-year deal with Sony Pictures Animation to develop animated feature films. Seibert, formerly President of Hanna-Barbera Productions, launched the Frederator animation studio in 1998 and has developed animated properties including The Fairly OddParents, Dexter's Laboratory, My Life as a Teenage Robot, The Powerpuff Girls and Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! Frederator is currently in production on Fanboy & Chum Chum, the CG animated series launches this fall on Nickelodeon, and Adventure Time at Cartoon Network set for May 2010. Additionally, Frederator is developing a feature film based on the animated series Samurai Jack at Paramount Picture with Bad Robot Productions. Seibert also launched Next New Networks and served as the original creative director of MTV: Music Television and later toiled for Nickelodeon and helped create Nick-at-Nite. Sony Pictures Animation's, which recently inked a development first look deal with The Gotham Group, newest kid/family aimed movie, Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs,...

Nickelodeon is close to greenlighting a 13-episode order for a series starring Jamie Lynn Spears, little sister to pop superstar Britney Spears. Dan Schneider (The Amanda Show) will executive produce the live-action comedy, which is set at a boarding school. The untitled series is expected to join Nick's primetime lineup at an unspecified time next year with Spears, who already serves as a cast member on the Nick sketch comedy series All That. Nickelodeon declined comment. In other Nick news, the network announced additional episode orders for four returning series -- The Fairly OddParents (30 episodes), The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius (10), ChalkZone (10), My Life as a Teenage Robot (13) -- and the new Rugrats spinoff All Grown Up (22). Spears is repped by CAA.

Nickelodeon is close to greenlighting a 13-episode order for a series starring Jamie Lynn Spears, little sister to pop superstar Britney Spears. Dan Schneider (The Amanda Show) will executive produce the live-action comedy, which is set at a boarding school. The untitled series is expected to join Nick's primetime lineup at an unspecified time next year with Spears, who already serves as a cast member on the Nick sketch comedy series All That. Nickelodeon declined comment. In other Nick news, the network announced additional episode orders for four returning series -- The Fairly OddParents (30 episodes), The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius (10), ChalkZone (10), My Life as a Teenage Robot (13) -- and the new Rugrats spinoff All Grown Up (22). Spears is repped by CAA.

NEW YORK -- Nickelodeon will add five new series to its schedule, the cable network said Wednesday at its upfront presentation at Manhattan's Roseland Ballroom. The programs range from an update of the Rugrats franchise to a live-action vehicle for father-son rappers Master P and Lil' Romeo. With an annual programming budget of upwards of $120 million, the top-rated kids network is looking to put more distance between itself and also-rans like Cartoon Network. "We haven't seen any of the erosion at all that most of our competitors felt," Nick senior vp ad sales Jim Perry said. The network unveiled a trio of new primetime animated series, including All Grown Up, a Rugrats spinoff that reimagines the characters as adolescents; My Life as a Teenage Robot, which chronicles the title character's attempts to balance saving the planet with high school; and Danny Phantom, about a boy who turns into a half ghost, unbeknownst to his ghost-hunting father.