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TELETOON Announces Fall ’08 Line-up

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  • Fall 2024 on TELETOON brings choice new cartoons to Canadian televisions. For kids and youth the coolest comedy and hottest action shows find a home on the new daytime line-up. While, for teens and adults, shows that are too hot for daytime take to TELETOON Detour. The new schedule begins September 1. Top picks for TELETOON daytime (for kids and youth) include Chowder, The Spectacular Spider-Man and Ben 10: Alien Force. For teens and adults, TELETOON Detour hosts Life’s a Zoo; Lucy, Daughter of the Devil; and American Dad. The complete TELETOON fall line-up is available on teletoon.com.

    TELETOON Daytime Schedule
    For kids and youth, daytime on TELETOON is set to sling young webs, fight new aliens and create delicious dishes with shows including the gastronomic comedy, Chowder, The Spectacular Spider-Man and Ben 10: Alien Force (the highest rated original series ever to premiere on Cartoon Network). For information on more cool cartoons for kids coming this fall please see teletoon.com

    New daytime shows include:

    Ben 10: Alien Force (Canadian premiere)
    TELETOON premiere: Saturday, September 6, 6:30 pm ET/PT (as part of the special Ben 10 back to school event.)
    Regular time: Sundays 9:30 am ET/PT

    Ben 10: Alien Force begins the next chapter for Ben 10, one of the top rated shows on TELETOON, and was the highest rated original series premiere on Cartoon Network. When a now 15-year-old Ben chooses to once again put on the OMNITRIX he discovers that it has reconfigured his DNA and can now transform him into 10 brand new aliens. Joined by his super-powered cousin Gwen and his equally powerful former enemy Kevin E. Levin, Ben is on a mission to find his missing Grandpa Max and defeat the evil DNALIENS, a powerful alien race intent on destroying the galaxy, starting with planet Earth.

    Chowder (Canadian premiere)
    TELETOON premiere: Saturday, September 6,11am ET/PT
    Regular time: Saturday at 11am ET/PT

    A new original series from Cartoon Network and created by C. H. Greenblatt (SpongeBob SquarePants), Chowder is a bright and food-filled comedy that follows a young apprentice who spends his days learning from a magical chef. Along with creating fantastical dishes from the fresh and weird ingredients found at the local market, Chowder runs errands, tries to keep things tidy in the kitchen and stay on the good side of the scatterbrained yet brilliant chef Mung Daal and his bossy wife Truffles.

    The Spectacular Spider-Man (Canadian premiere)
    TELETOON premiere: Sunday, September 7, 10:30 am ET/PT
    Regular time: Sunday at 10:30 am ET/PT

    Produced by Sony Television and Marvel Comics, this new animated series focuses on the education of Peter Parker, four months on from the famous radioactive spider bite that leaves him a sixteen-year-old with spectacular superpowers. Still upset over the death of his uncle Ben, Peter comes face to face with villains including the Lizard, Green Goblin, Kingpin, and Venom. As he does his best to manage the many pressures of high school with those of becoming a supernatural crime-fighter, Peter learns about love, family, friendship, and what it takes to balance great power with great responsibility.

    TELETOON Detour
    For teens and adults, TELETOON Detour travels down a humour highway adding new comedies to the post-9:30 pm line-up. September sees the broadcast premiere of the surreal stop-motion reality show, Life’s a Zoo as well as Lucy, Daughter of the Devil from Home Movies creator Loren Bouchard. American Dad also joins the TELETOON Detour roster. More information on the smokin’ new shows coming to TELETOON Detour available on teletoon.com.

    New TELETOON Detour shows include:

    Life’s a Zoo (Broadcast premiere)
    TELETOON Detour premiere: Monday, September 1, 11 pm ET/PT
    Regular time: Monday and Friday at 11 pm and Tuesday and Saturday at 1:30 am ET/PT

    Seven strangers locked in a mansion in the middle of a Saskatchewan wheat-field, debase themselves and attempt to destroy one another in order to win their luxurious abode and maybe even become famous. Life’s a Zoo is a TELETOON Original Production with Canadian Studio, Cuppa Coffee (Rick and Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World) and is a stop-motion comedy unlike anything seen on television before. Filled with the usual reality TV suspects: the vain, the villainous, the meek and the manic, each episode of Life’s a Zoo features a fresh music video from one of Canada’s hottest bands including Spiral Beach, Plants and Animals and Joel Plaskett.

    American Dad
    TELETOON Detour premiere: Monday, September 1, 10 pm ET/PT Regular time: Monday and Tuesday at 10 pm and midnight and Tuesday and Wednesday at 2:30 am ET/PT

    Co-created by Seth MacFarlane (Family Guy) American Dad looks at the family of Stan Smith, a CIA agent and zealous American patriot. With a repressed party-girl wife, an ultra-liberal 18-year-old daughter, a geeky son as well as a sarcastic grey alien and talking German goldfish, life in the Smith household is far from typical. American Dad stars Seth MacFarlane, Wendy Schaal and Patrick Stewart.

    Lucy, Daughter of the Devil (Canadian premiere)
    TELETOON Detour premiere: Wednesday, September 3, 11 pm ET/PT
    Regular time: Wednesday at 11 pm and Thursday at 1:30 am ET/PT

    From Adult Swim, Lucy, Daughter of the Devil is directed and produced by Loren Bouchard (Home Movies, Dr. Katz: Professional Therapist) and stars H. Jon Benjamin and Melissa Galsky (Home Movies). Lucy is the spawn of Satan, a 21-year-old art graduate, who struggles with her father’s wishes for her to fulfill her destiny as the Antichrist and her growing feelings for DJ Jesús. While working out what she wants from life she is unknowingly being tracked by two priests and a nun intent on destroying her.

    Boilerplate
    TELETOON is where cartoons live ¿ all day, every day. Available in both English and French in over 7.4 million Canadian homes, TELETOON brings kids, youth and adults the best in animated entertainment. Founded in 1997, TELETOON Canada inc. is owned by Astral Media Inc. (50%), and Corus Entertainment Inc. (50%)


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