Hasbro has announced that they, along with Discovery Communications, will create a joint venture that will create a television network and website based on Hasbro brands. Among the brands named in the article includes G.I. Joe and Transformers. The network will operate as the current Discovery Kids until a new programing slate and an a new name debuts in late 2010. Programming will be geared toward children under 14.
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General Hawk says
Discovery and Hasbro are forming a joint venture to create a new Kid's Network:
Hasbro and Discovery Communications An… : Discovery Communications
The most interesting nugget in that long as hell press release is this:
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RolandofGilead says
Excellent!
Tuskegee Joe says
What could this mean in terms of Joe's possibilities? Product? Content? Kid's shows? What would you Tankers hope, fear, love to see?
popsicleviper says
sounds rad
JohnnyAngel77 says
To have a kids cartoon for Joe again would be nice. Get the newer generations interested in it. Well, at least the ones that don't have father's like us around, lol.
Moses says
The good is that there may be a Joe cartoon. The bad is that most kids cartoons today are near unwatchable garbage (I guess unless you're a kid). We may be lucky if it is a cartoon based on the movie...
zenfakor says
I hear its based on the combat heroes.
Troynos says
Awesome news. Even if it's geared for kids, it's still good news for for the brand.
That's great.
samjjones says
Hasbro owns Romper Room?
And its coming back?
xhairs says
Hasbro CEO Brian Goldner hinted on a conference call to shareholders that they would be working on a new Transformers series for sometime after "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen", most likely in 2010. The same goes for a new G.I.Joe series.
- Cartoon Network has the exclusive right to Transformers: Animated which currently airs on that network and if they wished to pursue the continuation of that series they could.
- The possibilities of shows from the 80's and 90's Hasbro library content to air on this network is a possibility though they mainly want to focus on new content.
- Goldner also made some hints that a possible "Stretch Armstrong" movie could be in the works with Universal Pictures and that a series on the new network would be forthcoming afterwards.
- For International viewers, shows made for this new network would continue to be made available to networks in other countries, just like existing Hasbro based shows are now.
- The actual name for this new network and specific programming will be revealed later as we get closer to the 2010 launch date for it.
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