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40cakesNews from the world of idiot boxes:
- Comedy Central launched on iTunes yesterday with 56 half-hour episodes of South Park, Drawn Together and Comedy Central Standup. Comedy Central will also continue to add to the iTunes library int he weeks and months ahead. The cost of the downloads is the standard iTunes fee of $1.99. However, for the first week, users will be able to download a free copy of the new Drawn Together episode starting Monday, three days prior to the show's February 1 premiere date. And while South Park and Drawn Together have been previously released on DVD, new episodes of both will be available for download prior to their DVD release.
- And from MTV Networks, iTunes is now also carrying programs from Nickelodeon, The N, MTV and MTV2, including SpongeBob SquarePants, Dora the Explore, Laguna Beach, Punk'd and Beavis & Butt-Head.
I should check for episodes of Daria...
Adult Swim has given the go ahead for a second season of The Boondocks. Twenty new eps will debut in late 2006. Ten episodes of the initial 15-episode commission have already aired this season.The Aaron McGruder-created series is produced by Rebel Base in association with Sony Pictures Television with Aaron and Reginald Hudlin as exec producers.
And the oddest, by far:
USA has ordered a new pilot called eBaum's World from 20th, inspired by the website of the same name where people can post their funny home videos and clips. The network has ordered the 60m pilot in the eventual hope it can be paired with WWE's Monday Night Raw, perhaps as early as this fall.
- Comedy Central launched on iTunes yesterday with 56 half-hour episodes of South Park, Drawn Together and Comedy Central Standup. Comedy Central will also continue to add to the iTunes library int he weeks and months ahead. The cost of the downloads is the standard iTunes fee of $1.99. However, for the first week, users will be able to download a free copy of the new Drawn Together episode starting Monday, three days prior to the show's February 1 premiere date. And while South Park and Drawn Together have been previously released on DVD, new episodes of both will be available for download prior to their DVD release.
- And from MTV Networks, iTunes is now also carrying programs from Nickelodeon, The N, MTV and MTV2, including SpongeBob SquarePants, Dora the Explore, Laguna Beach, Punk'd and Beavis & Butt-Head.
I should check for episodes of Daria...
Adult Swim has given the go ahead for a second season of The Boondocks. Twenty new eps will debut in late 2006. Ten episodes of the initial 15-episode commission have already aired this season.The Aaron McGruder-created series is produced by Rebel Base in association with Sony Pictures Television with Aaron and Reginald Hudlin as exec producers.
And the oddest, by far:
USA has ordered a new pilot called eBaum's World from 20th, inspired by the website of the same name where people can post their funny home videos and clips. The network has ordered the 60m pilot in the eventual hope it can be paired with WWE's Monday Night Raw, perhaps as early as this fall.
