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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A couple pops shy of a fun book; and shalom noel

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A Summer Musical: The Dolores Report

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Dolores CONFIRMED!

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