Warner Bros. Animation announced that it has begun production on new seasons of Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue!, Tom and Jerry Tales, Legion of Super Heroes and The Batman. The all-new episodes are slated to begin airing this fall on Kids’ WB! on The CW, which boasts six of the top-10 rated Saturday morning kids’ shows.
Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue! debuted last year and has remained a top choice among kids 2-11. The show finds Scooby and Shaggy living in the mansion of Shaggy’s mysteriously missing Uncle Albert. Within the mansion, the pair discover a secret lab filled with gadgets, including a transforming Mystery Machine and Scooby Snacks that give the Great Dane super powers. All of this secret technology is put to use as Shaggy and Scooby set out to find Uncle Albert and keep his inventions out of the hands of the evil Dr. Phineus Phibes.
A big hit with boys 6-11, Tom and Jerry Tales has the classic slapstick characters traveling the globe and creating mischief as the each try to get the upper hand on the other. pummeling each other with their ongoing slapstick gags in new geographic locales and culturally diverse settings. Combining a faintly modern spin with a nod to the retro, this cat and mouse comedy team scrambles, slides and slams onto the screen, creating over-the-top, laugh-out-loud mayhem and memories.
Based on characters from D.C. Comics, Legion of Super Heroes has a group of futuristic caped crusaders going back in time to recruit the greatest hero of all, Superman, and enlisting him in their fight against evil in the 31st Century. The show introduces Lightning Lad, Saturn Girl, Brainiac 5, Phantom Girl, Bouncing Boy and Timber Wolf, who end up going too far back into the past and meeting up with young Superboy instead of the mature Man of Steel. Together, the heroes defend the rights of all free worlds and uphold the laws of the newly formed United Planets. The second season will find each member taking his or her skills to new levels in order to face even greater challenges, including a destroyer of galaxies from the annals of DC Comics. Superman returns from the 21st century with greater control of his powers, and a new ally emerges from across the space-time continuum.
The Batman, which has just been nominated for a 2006-2007 Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Class Animation Program, will focus its new season on the introduction of Batman’s Justice League peers. Superman, Aquaman, The Flash and several other superheroes come to help Batman defend Gotham from various super villains.
All four returning series are produced by Warner Bros. Animation with Sander Schwartz as exec producer. Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue! sees the creative team of producer Eric Radomski, associate producer Michelle Pniewski and story editor Ray De Laurentis back on the case. Frank Molieri is producer, Bobbie Page is line producer and Richard Pursel and Christopher Painter are story editors of Tom and Jerry Tales. In his second season as producer of Legion of Super Heroes, James Tucker is joined by associate producer Amy McKenna and story editor Michael Jelenic. Alan Burnett and Michael Goguen serve as supervising producers and Kim Smith is the producer of The Batman.
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