The video player on BBC’s website, formally known as the iPlayer, has had a tremendous amount of success overseas. This is particularly true when you factor in the influence of the CBBC, the children’s portion of the network, home to many of the great animated series. With the CBBC iPlayer, fans can catch all of their favorite episodes in full, directly on the website, for about a week after they appear on TV. A number of shows live on for a few months, allowing fans to “catch up” on what they’ve missed. Amongst these shows are: Bears Behaving Badly, Skunk Fu, Raven, Kerching!, Dennis the Menace – Dennis and Gnasher, Arthur, and many other hit shows. Despite regional issues (some locations are unable to view the videos) it’s since become a major success. How much of your toon-enjoyment is found online? (more… )

The BBC iPlayer is now available for shows on the CBBC.  …so what does all of that mean?  Other than a whole giant combination of a weird letter jumble? It means you can now go to the official CBBC website and watch a selection of shows up to a week after they appear on TV, and other shows available for 3 months as “series catch-ups” — this includes; Skunk Fu, Raven, Kerching!, Dennis the Menace, Arthur, or any of their hit shows! UPDATE: The CBBC iPlayer is a huge success! (more… )

Want some Skunk Fu! toys?  Well you got’em!  Galleon Holdings has signed a deal with Trends UK to start cranking out a full toy line in the UK.  Games, figures, balloons, the whole bit! Look for them to start hitting stores in the first few months of 2009.

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This coming Friday, September 12th, you can catch a special preview of the brand new CW4Kids Saturday morning block.  That’s right; Saturday morning cartoons on a Friday!  The preview will run at 4:30pm on your local CW network (For example, that’s channel 11 in most NYC areas).  The preview, called The CW4Kids Brand Spankin’ New Spectacular Saturday Sneak Peek Party!, shows a quick look at all of the upcoming shows.  It’s only a half hour, but they managed to cram in a preview of the full 5-hour-block.  Be sure to check it out!

Sure, Saturday September 13th is the launch of the CW4Kids lineup, but that doesn’t mean it’ll be the same schedule forever!  In fact, only a few weeks later in September, on Saturday the 27th, we’ll see our first alteration to the cartoon block as new shows are introduced.  So, as of September 27, 2008, the CW4Kids Saturday morning block will look like this:

07:00 AM    Will & Dewitt
07:30 AM    Skunk Fu!
08:00 AM    Viva Pinata
08:30 AM    Gogoriki
09:00 AM    The Spectacular Spider-Man
09:30 AM    Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Back to the Sewer
10:00 AM    Dinosaur King
10:30 AM    Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s
11:00 AM    Chaotic
11:30 AM    Chaotic

It’s here!  It’s time!  The premiere season of The CW4Kids Saturday morning block of cartoons starts up next Saturday, September 13th… but the lineup of shows is available now!  Starting at 7 AM and running through 12 PM, the line up of cartoons on The CW looks like this:

07:00 AM    Will & Dewitt
07:30 AM    Magi Nation
08:00 AM    Skunk Fu!
08:30 AM    Viva Pinata
09:00 AM    The Spectacular Spider-Man
09:30 AM    Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Back to the Sewer
10:00 AM    Dinosaur King
10:30 AM    Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s
11:00 AM    Chaotic
11:30 AM    Chaotic

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Cartoon Network’s Skunk Fu is pretty funny… and now, pretty addicting!  Play this Skunk Fu game once and find yourself playing forever.  All you have to do is click Skunk or Panda.  The more you click one of them in a row, the better!  Be sure you don’t click Dragon, and look out for Bird!  He offers the power ups.  Give it a shot!

If you ever wanted a Skunk fu! toy, but couldn’t find one, well maybe today is your lucky day!  Galleon Holdings has signed a deal with Zizzle Toys to distribute the line of Skunk fu toys all across America.  The toys will be based on the popular characters from the show which airs both on Cartoon Network and the Kids’ WB! Saturday morning block on The CW.