Warm Blanket coming to DVD
I still haven’t heard final word on whether the new animated special, Happiness is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown, will get a TV airing before it gets released to home video… but we do now have the date for that video release. The DVD will be available on March 29, …
Charlie Brown’s Caffeinated Christmas
A couple of you have written me about something Starbucks is offering its customers – a set with an A Charlie Brown Christmas DVD and a CD of the music, in a trifold with a booklet. So for those of you who don’t have Starbucks nearby (yes, I can hear …
what folks are ordering
The things AAUGH Blog readers order always fascinate me (to be clear: Amazon shows me what you order after clicking through here, but don’t show me who orders things, or even which different items were part of the same order.) There are, unsurprisingly, orders for things talked about on the …
I Want a Dog, tonight
The hour-long Peanuts special I Want a Dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown airs in the US on ABC tonight, and then again on Saturday – which will be a rerun about Rerun! My posting about the Peanuts pillow book generated enough orders that I thought there might be a general …
A double dose of Thanksgiving
A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving airs Thursday (i.e., “tonight” to most of you when you read this) and then again on Thanksgiving itself, at 8 PM on ABC in most U.S. time zones. To fill out the hour (both times), they’ll be running the “Mayflower Voyagers” episode of the miniseries This …
Great Pumpkin tonight
Just a quick reminder to set your VCR, your DVR, your DVD-recorder, or your eyeballs for eight o’clock tonight for the season’s first airing of It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown – and to repeat the same tomorrow for airing #2.
A DVD Valentine, an ultimate deluxe set, and a shrinkwrap note
A Charlie Brown Valentine is coming (well, returning) to DVD in December, paired with Someday You’ll Find Her, Charlie Brown. Peanuts video maven Scott McGuire has pointed out that the release does not bear the “Remastered Deluxe Edition” banner that has come on most releases in the line, which reflects …
This year’s airings of Great Pumpkin
If there seems tobe a lot of AAUGH Blog entries these days, there’s good reason. Part of it, of course, is my new book, so please forgive me if I’m a proud poppa and post about it a fair bit. But the other part isthat we’re getting into Peanuts Season, …
Sewing up animation adaptations
In recent years , I’ve laid hands on a few cloth Peanuts books – or at least the panels of fabric offered to make them. Well, today I laid hands on two more – and they actually fit two categories for me. Not only are these two cloth books – …
Peanuts animator passes
Jerry Beck reports on the passage of Bill Littlejohn, who worked as an animator on a number of Peanuts specials dating all the way back to A Charlie Brown Christmas, as well as quite a respectable list of other projects. It’s been 45 years since that first Peanuts special. As …