New animated Peanuts shorts

Peanuts Worldwide has announced that they are working with Normaal Animation and Télévisions to produce some 90-second Peanuts shorts. Some? How about 500? This French production would be offered worldwide for the TV market in fall 2014. I presume that in the US it will be gathered in half-hour blocks. It would take about 15 of these to make a show (once you allow for commercials), which means that you’d have about 33 episodes. That’s a lot of material.

 

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Free Snoopy Weekend

Apple just announced that this weekend, you can watch all of their original programming for free (you will have to sign in for an account, but not a subscription.) This means The Snoopy Show, Snoopy in Space, Camp Snoopy, and the new Peanuts specials that were created for Apple should all be …

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RIP Willie Mays

Willie Mays has died. The baseball great lived until the age of 1993. “Why is that relevant to a Peanuts blog?” I hear of a few of you cry (though many of you know better.) Before Lee Mendelson had any connection to Peanuts, he made a documentary about Mays… and …

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New Peanuts feature film on the way

Apple, who have been producing Peanuts series and specials in plentitude, have announced that they, Wildbrain, and Peanuts Worldwide are working together on a new Peanuts feature-length film, the Hollywood Reporter notes. If you liked the last feature film, then this should be very good news. They’re using a story …