Animated Peanuts

A Summer Musical: The Dolores Report

The animated special Peanuts: A Summer Musical is coming out on Friday, as discussed before. And yet here I am on Thursday, covering it. What sort of secret inside access did I have that let’s me do this? Easy, I live on the West Coast. It’s already Friday on the East …

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Dolores CONFIRMED!

That is genuinely Dolores, the obscure Latina Peanuts character from the filmstrips, in the new special that releases this coming Friday. I’ve had it confirmed by the director of the special, who is half Latin himself. He indicates that she will not be the only character of such heritage in …

Animated Peanuts

Officially, it’s a “Super Chubby”

When I reviewed the 2015 book adapting the TV special It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, I had this to say: The book that’s titled It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (adaptation by Kara McMahon, art by Scott Jeralds) takes basically the whole special and simplifies everything. It briefly tells you that Charlie …

Animated Peanuts

New Peanuts animated special DELAYED!

Apple TV+  has changed the release date for Snoopy Presents: A Summer Musical from the planned a-week-from-today date to four weeks later, August 15. You can see the new date in the headline of the press release announcing the release of the show. But that press release has a release date …

Animated Peanuts

More on Snoopy Presents: A Summer Musical

Well, there’s a promotional video out now out Snoopy Presents: A Summer Musical… but I can’t right off find any source that will let me embed it here. But I did manage to grab some screenshots. The plot is apparently that Sally is going to summer camp for the first time, …

Animated Peanuts

Look who’s coming to television

We’re less than a month away from the new Peanuts special Snoopy Presents: A Summer Musical (debuts on AppleTV+ July 18) and I just saw some promotional images I hadn’t seen before… including this shot from a very brief video. Now look closely at the girl crowdsurfing. See who that is? …

Animated Peanuts

Animated Peanuts musical en route

Coming to streaming screens this summer is Snoopy Presents: A Summer Musical, a 40-minute animated special with music composed by Jeff Morrow and one of Dr. Mrs. The AAUGH Blogger’s favorites, Ben Folds. The special, which is about the kids finding their favorite summer camp is not long for this …

book adaptations of A Charlie Brown Christmas

A portrait of A Charlie Brown Christmas. Also, a landscape.

Looks like we’ll be getting a couple more editions of book adaptations of A Charlie Brown Christmas this year. One is a board book version of the 2015 Tina Gallo and Scott Jeralds adaptation that’s already been reworked before, and the other… is also a board book version of that …

Animated Peanuts

We finally know how Charlie Brown did at the Super Bowl!

If you’ve never seen the 1994 Peanuts special You’re in the Super Bowl, Charlie Brown, well, you’re not alone. It aired only in 1994, linked to that year’s Super Bowl, on NBC, which had never before and has never since aired a Peanuts special. It has never been rerun, never …

book adaptations of A Charlie Brown Christmas

Finally, a book adaptation of A Charlie Brown Christmas!

Coming this September is a book adaptation of A Charlie Brown Christmas! Oh, okay, there’s been such books before, but this one has an adaptation by artist Vicki Scott and writer Maggie Tesla!! Oh, okay, this adaptation has been published before, but this particular adaptation has never been published with a …