Press Pours In

Animax is happy to see that Bob & Doug has been getting lots of coverage in consumer and trade press and it's all positive. The McKenzie Brothers were already close to being patron saints of Canada and all this press just backs that up. Bob & Doug airs on Global TV in Canada this Sunday.
· National Post
· Vancouver Sun
· Canada.com
· Channel Canada
· Time Colonist
· Leader-Post
· Montreal Gazette
· Edmonton Journal
· Macleans
· Winnipeg Sun
· The Barrie Examiner
· TV Time
· Radio Interview: Talk 1410AM
· Radio Interview: DBS Podcast
· The Movie Blog

Bob & Doug Premiere!

That's right, it's finally here. The premiere episode of Bob & Doug launches this Sunday night April 19 at 7:30 p.m. ET/PT in Canada on Global TV. Check out the show's website. The animated McKenzie Brothers first starred in a short piece for the DVD release of Strange Brew, and then it all just snowballed from there. Now everyone (well, Canadians at the very least) will be able to see Bob & Doug McKenzie on a weekly basis. Animax is very proud to see all those years of hard work and determination to see the show come to fruition finally pay off. We hope to see the show take off, eh, big time. (Sorry, we just had to drop one of those references in there.)

Cartoon Script Winners

Animax announced the winners of its Canucks Cartoon Script Contest at KidScreen Summit today. Congratulations go out to:

• First place: Ryan Cordes and Gerald Thompson for "Journey Quest,"
• Second place: Atul N. Rao and Greg van Riel for "Bem and Buzzy in 'Dawn of the Dynamic Deviants,'" and
• Third place: Hollis Ludlow-Carroll's "D.V. Productions."
  

Read the press release.

Canuck Contest Results

We will announce the results of the first ever Animax Canucks Cartoon Script Contest at the upcoming Kidscreen Summit. The 10th Annual Kidscreen Summit takes place February 11-13th, 2009 in New York City. Animax Entertainment will award the top three finalists with cash prizes and the top award winner with a development option. The contest was open to all Canadian citizens submitting material.

Canada Writing Contest

On the heels of launching a new studio in Toronto with former Nelvana exec Patricia Burns installed as head of production, Animax Entertainment is casting its net wide for animation concepts via a Canadian script-writing contest. If you're Canadian, enter the contest here. (From Kidscreen Magazine)

The Great White North

Hello, from Canada. Animax Entertainment has folks up here this week working on a big project that we can't tell you about just yet, but it's a fun and different one for us. We're also meeting with some big muckity mucks. If you are a Canadian muckity muck we should be meeting with you too.