‘Tis the fifteenth season

Watch out Homer Simpson, you’re not the only one who can go on forever: Viacom and Comedy Central renewed veteran comedy South Park until 2011 (its fifteenth season) – but wait, there’s more: Comedy Central and the creators of the show agreed to create a South Park hub to spread the show’s material to the Internet, mobile phones, and other […]

Homer hits a homer

No D’ohing here: The Simpsons Movie was a big box-office success this weekend, opening at the top with an amazing $72 million, which is the fifth best opening of the year. The movie, based on the long-running sitcom on Fox, succeeded thanks to a strong marketing campaign (from longtime partners 7-Eleven and Burger King) and turnout from die-hard fans and […]

Yabba Dabba Doo!

Boomerang is airing an 83-hour Flintstones marathon, beginning July 4 at 5 a.m. (CT) The marathon consists of all 166 episodes of the prime-time series, which ran on ABC from 1960-66, then launched a number of Saturday morning spin-off shows (Pebbles & Bamm-Bamm, The Flintstones Comedy Hour, Flinstone Kids, etc.) To see at a 1963 ABC promo for The Flintstones, […]

Master Shake and friends to the big screen

While America has to wait until July for The Simpsons to hit the big screen, and Family Guy’s movie eschewed theaters altogether for the safety of your living room via DVD, The Aqua Teen movie will be hitting theaters this March, called The Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theaters. (I swear I’m not making this up.) Based […]

"King of the Hill" is back on at 7:30 Sundays. Central Time.

Yes! Fox’s King of the Hill is back in its original time slot where it launched in January 1997, the plum slot after The Simpsons. This means that American Dad, which has occupied that slot, is moving back to its 8:30 pm (Central Time) slot, all effective January 28. Family Guy’s time slot remains unchanged. King of the Hill will […]