Star Wars: The Clone Wars Comes August 10th

[Nexonius]

http://cartoon-network-news.newslib.com/story/9822-832/

TV Critics Tour: Lucas Brings ‘Clone Wars’ To Cartoon NetworkTwenty-Two Episode Animated Series Debuts in August By Linda Haugsted -- Multichannel News, 7/11/2008 12:59:00 PM

Beverly Hills, Calif.—Cartoon Network is promising Star Wars fans the equivalent of a new movie every week with its Clone Wars series, executive produced by George Lucas and debuting later this summer.

The 22-episode, high-definition animated series, set for an Aug. 10 debut, will follow the action launched in the theatrical film.

The network treated TV critics here to an experience fans would have killed for: an advance look at the first full episode on big screens with surround sound. (Spoiler alert: The episode features amazing color-saturated images of Yoda traveling to a rendezvous on a distant moon in an attempt to convince the aliens there to allow a Republic base on the planet. Meanwhile, an evil protégé of Count Dooku attempts to prevent the meeting, leading to battles between clones and Yoda and his three-man escort.)

Supervising director David Filoni, who at 34 wasn't even born when Star Wars was originally released, said he was amazed at the number of stories the creators couldn't get around to telling in the first Clone Wars series.

A veteran of 2-D animation, Filoni said this animated series has allowed him to render a greater number of clones and a greater variety of types of battles. And, unlike the theatrical films, series viewers won't have to wait three years between episodes, he noted.

Clone Wars will anchor an evening programming block that will also include Batman: The Brave and the Bold from Warner Bros. as well as the returning series Ben 10 (Alien Force).

I personally can't wait for Clone Wars to begin.

[Space Cadet]

Woah, August 10th. I thought the show would come much later, like in October or November.

[Draft]

I guess that makes sense, since the movie comes out on the 15th

Wait, i'm confused. It's gonna debut on Sunday. Is that a 1-Time thing, or is this where it'll be airing all the eps, cause wasn't it confirmed for Friday (Or is that what we assumed)?

[Mickialla]

I guess that makes sense, since the movie comes out on the 15th

Wait, i'm confused. It's gonna debut on Sunday. Is that a 1-Time thing, or is this where it'll be airing all the eps, cause wasn't it confirmed for Friday (Or is that what we assumed)?

No, the action block is for Fridays.

Yea, I definitely thought it would be coming out a few months after the movie's release. But hey, the earlier the better I suppose. If it's premiering on a Sunday, than I suppose the action block might be starting up the following Friday.
Just one more thing, is this series coproduced by CN, is it a CN original??

[Racattack!Force]

Wait, it's premiering next month...and Cartoon Network hasn't promoted it yet? What the freaking hell? I excepted a September or October release, to give all the Star Wars fans a chance to see the movie before getting into the series. After all, the movie is supposed to lead-in to the series, not the other way around.

[Draft]

Wait, it's premiering next month...and Cartoon Network hasn't promoted it yet? What the freaking hell? I excepted a September or October release, to give all the Star Wars fans a chance to see the movie before getting into the series. After all, the movie is supposed to lead-in to the series, not the other way around.

now that I think about it, they didn't really promote any of their accquasistions this year until it was within 2 weeks (Total Drama Island, George of the Jungle). I guess CN treats it's accquasistions like [AS] does it's anime :-p

[Racattack!Force]

now that I think about it, they didn't really promote any of their accquasistions this year until it was within 2 weeks (Total Drama Island, George of the Jungle). I guess CN treats it's accquasistions like [AS] does it's anime :-p

They did that last year too. They didn't promote Storm Hawks until a week before it's premiere.

[lemonhead75]

Woah, thats soon. I was counting on seeing whole half-hour blocks devoted to hyping up the series

[Mickialla]

now that I think about it, they didn't really promote any of their accquasistions this year until it was within 2 weeks (Total Drama Island, George of the Jungle). I guess CN treats it's accquasistions like [AS] does it's anime :-p

Yea, and they didn't promote Skunk Fu! at all!

[Racattack!Force]

Yea, and they didn't promote Skunk Fu! at all!

Yeah, kinda came out of no where, but they didn't promote Xiolin Showdown either.

[D Dubbs]

Yeah, kinda came out of no where, but they didn't promote Xiolin Showdown either.

I remember Xiaolin Showdown promos when it was first airing.

[Nexonius]

Yep, during February 2006.

[Mickialla]

Yeah, kinda came out of no where, but they didn't promote Xiolin Showdown either.

I remember a promo for Xiaolin Showdown where everyone was riding donkeys or something and wearing cowboy hats.... or was that just a dream...

[DarthGonzo]

I remember a promo for Xiaolin Showdown where everyone was riding donkeys or something and wearing cowboy hats.... or was that just a dream...

Xiaolin Hoedown. Heh, I remember that.

[Mickialla]

Ok, now I'm pretty sure the Friday action block is premiering sometime in early August, seeing as how http://www.dccomics.com/comics/?cm=9994 says that the Secret Saturdays are premiering in August. In fact, there's a promo on Cartoon Network "subliminally" promoting it, and a website at http://cryptidsarereal.com/. You can tell that website is for the Secret Saturdays because at the bottom of the page there's the Cartoon Network copyright. So I'm guessing we'll be seeing Brave and the Bold sometime during August too, meaning the action block can start up.

[D Dubbs]

I thought the new Batman series was delayed until spring.

[Nexonius]

(To Mickialla) But Batman:TB&TB is coming in March of 2009.

[Mickialla]

(To Mickialla) But Batman:TB&TB is coming in March of 2009.

Even so, I suppose three shows on the action block until Brave and the Bold's premiere would be enough, especially if they had encores.

[Sketch]

I would expect they'll go with a HarHar schedule-like strategy.

Ben 10 Alien Force - The Secret Saturdays - Star Wars - Aquisition (Storm Hawks, Naruto, or KWB leftover come to mind).

Or if it goes 3 hours I wouldn't put it past them to repeat 1.5 hours of content right after them air.

On the flip side... this seems likely.

08:00 - Ben 10: Alien Force
08:30 - The Secret Saturdays
09:00 - Star Wars: The Clone Wars
09:30 - Naruto
10:00 - Naruto / Samurai Jack
10:30 - Samurai Jack / Clone Wars encore

Could be a rebirth or death of Toonami though.

But unless ASA moves to Friday I would expect they'll keep the Chowder and Flapjack comedy hour at 10PM on Friday. We'll just have to wait and see though.

[Draft]

I would expect they'll go with a HarHar schedule-like strategy.

Ben 10 Alien Force - The Secret Saturdays - Star Wars - Aquisition (Storm Hawks, Naruto, or KWB leftover come to mind).

Or if it goes 3 hours I wouldn't put it past them to repeat 1.5 hours of content right after them air.

On the flip side... this seems likely.

08:00 - Ben 10: Alien Force
08:30 - The Secret Saturdays
09:00 - Star Wars: The Clone Wars
09:30 - Naruto
10:00 - Naruto / Samurai Jack
10:30 - Samurai Jack / Clone Wars encore

Could be a rebirth or death of Toonami though.

But unless ASA moves to Friday I would expect they'll keep the Chowder and Flapjack comedy hour at 10PM on Friday. We'll just have to wait and see though.

I expect the 2nd schedule (Probably Ben 10/TSS Encore at 10PM tho). Then Toonami can just run an encore of the block, with the 8-9 hour moving to 10-11 (So B10:AF would probably be a better bet at 10PM on Fri) and the 9-10PM hour staying the same.