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Post-NYCC News: Clone Wars Season 2

TheForce.Net reports Cartoon Network will retain Star Wars: The Clone Wars for a second season.
After debuting to record numbers and claiming the #1 series across the entire basic cable landscape in 2008 and through January 2009 with boys 6-11, Cartoon Network announced today that it has picked-up a second season of the hit CG-animated series [...]

TheForce.Net Covers The Star Wars Panel At NYCC

One of MDIAG!’s Things To Do at New York Comic Con, Star Wars/Lucas fansite The Force.Net has details on Saturday’s Star Wars panel at NYCC. For those of us who aren’t particularly fond of the prequels, it sounds as if we need to be there to enjoy it, as there weren’t any big announcements or [...]

OMG Megaton! Yo Gabba Gabba News at NYCC!

We don’t know how this got past us, but if we saw the W!LDBRAIN panel on the schedule for the New York Comic Con, we would have most definitely put it on our top five things to do at the convention. Instead, we were pleasantly surprised to see the write-up of the panel this morning [...]

New Marvel Animation Series Announced at NYCC

Marvel had some big announcements on day two of the New York Comic Con.

The Marvel Super Hero Squad series, based on those lovable super-deformed versions of your favorite superheroes. According to Marvel, it will be an “action comedy series”, and will star Iron Man as the leader, with Hulk, Thor, Falcon, Silver Surfer and Wolverine [...]

Digital TV Transition – An MDIAG! PSA

MDIAG! doubts any of our readers would be blindsided by the digital TV transition that was postponed from February to June 2009, at least on your primary TV sets. But you might be surprised just how many of you have rabbit ears on those hand-me-down sets in your kids’ playrooms and bedrooms. So as an [...]

George Takei on Star Wars Role

MDIAG! has been pleased with the Clone Wars series on Cartoon Network thus far. The pilot movie felt a little too watered down, but that quickly faded with the “Lair of Grievous” episode aired (Editor’s Reflection: Man, that was awesome…).
So color us interested whenever something Clone Wars-related pops up in our aggregators. Behold, George Takei [...]

MDIAG!’s Five Things To Do On Super Bowl Sunday

For most of us, the Super Bowl is a national event. A holiday, even. For us with families, unless we are living in either Arizona or Pittsburgh (which MDIAG! is not), we struggle to keep the game relevant with our families. Here a few tips to do just that:

Watch the Superbowl! Short of another Timber-gate [...]

[SPOILERS] Clone Wars Sneak Peak

Sci-Fi blog io9 gives us a quick taste of what we’re in store for this Friday’s Clone Wars episode:
In a new clip from Friday night’s episode, “Trespass,” Obi-Wan and friends discover a grisly sight… but the decapitating culprit isn’t the Separatists.
Source: Battlestar Carnage, Clone Wars Decapitations And Wolverine’s Explosions

Clone Wars Blu-Ray(s) in 2009…?

High-Def Digest reports The Cartoon Network’s Clone Wars will be getting a release this spring.
Following the release of the theatrical feature ‘Star Wars: The Clone Wars‘ on Blu-ray late last year, the company revealed it will debut the first four episodes of season one of The Cartoon Network series on high-def in late March.
Now here’s [...]

Yo Givea Me Morra!

What’s going on with Nick Jr.’s Yo Gabba Gabba?
The official production blog posted a link to an online petition for the network to start airing new YGG episodes, including ones that have evidently been in the can for some time now.
With only a few aired episodes of Yo Gabba Gabba’s season 2, viewers are beginning [...]