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BAFTA Children's Awards Nods Announced

This year's newly titled Children's Awards recognize the ever-widening platforms used to entertain the nation's children -- covering television, feature films, websites and, for the first time, children's videogames.

Hosted by popular TV presenter Keith Chegwin, the awards will take place on Sunday, Nov. 25 at the London Hilton on Park Lane in front of a star-studded audience, with presenters spanning the world of television, music, sports and film.

The animated and visual effects nominees include:

* ANIMATION

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Charlie & Lola Third Season Debuts This Weekend

Disney Channel will debut the third season of CHARLIE AND LOLA, the preschool series about a pair of supportive siblings, on Saturday, Oct. 13 (11:30 am, ET/PT) during the learning-focused Playhouse Disney programming block. The new season consists of 14 episodes in which considerate seven-year-old big brother Charlie patiently helps his feisty yet endearing four-year-old sister Lola through preschool-age challenges, such as school, coping with change, fear of thunder, first sleepovers and going to the eye doctor.

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Disney Channel Orders Third Season of Charlie And Lola

Disney Channel has ordered a third season of CHARLIE AND LOLA, the preschool series about a pair of supportive siblings, for its learning-focused Playhouse Disney programming block.

"The series does a wonderful job of showcasing preschool-age life lessons through the special bond siblings have," said Nancy Kanter, svp, original programming, Disney Channel. "We are delighted that Charlie and Lola's tender and humorous relationship will continue to warm the hearts of our young viewers and their parents and caregivers."

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YTV & Treehouse Focus February on Love, Snow & Debuts

YTV and Treehouse are focusing their February lineups around themes of love and snow as well as premiering new series.

On Feb. 17, 2006, CAPTAIN FLAMINGO will premiere in The Zone at 4:30 pm.

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Designer Charles McElmurry Passes Away

Designer/illustrator Charles O. McElmurry passed away Dec. 5, 2005, at the age of 84 in Santa Rosa, California. McElmurry grew up in Los Angeles and attended Chouinard Art Institute. He began his career in the animation industry at Walt Disney in 1942, but was soon drafted into the Marine Corps and sent to Quantico, Virginia. He spent the war years in a film unit there. He attended Chouinard Art Institute on the GI bill.

He later worked for many independent studios in New York, France, and California including Quartet Films, Jay Ward, Cartoon Farm and Bill Melendez.

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WB To Lens Midnight for Charlie Bone Adaptation

Warner Bros. has secured the screen rights to Welsh author Jenny Nimmos MIDNIGHT FOR CHARLIE BONE and the four additional books in the fantasy series, reports VARIETY. WB-based Thunder Roads Basil Iwanyk and Alysia Cotter will produce. Neil Alsip will adapt the books. WB execs Lynn Harris and Geoff Shaevitz will oversee the project for the studio.

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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to Get IMAX Summer Release

Hot on the heels of the record-setting THE POLAR EXPRESS: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE, IMAX and Warner Bros. Pictures will next bring Tim Burtons CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY to IMAX theaters, day-and-date with conventional theaters on July 15, 2005. The event marks the seventh IMAX DMR (Digital Re-mastering) collaboration between IMAX and Warner Bros.

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Burton Dips Into Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Director Tim Burton is busy indeed. Simultaneous to production commencing in London on the stop-motion CORPSE BRIDE, he has also started production in the same city on CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY. Based on the classic Roald Dahl novel and filmed once before in 1971 as WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY, CHARLIE is a Warner Bros. Pictures and Village Roadshow Pictures production.

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ABC Gets New Peanuts Special For Christmas

ABC premiered an all-new animated hour-long PEANUTS Christmas special at 8:00 pm on Dec. 9, 2003. I WANT A DOG FOR CHRISTMAS, CHARLIE BROWN! Was produced and animated by the same team that made the now classic PEANUTS specials from the famed comic strip by the late cartoonist Charles M. Schulz.

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Breakiron Joins Serious Robots

Charlie Breakiron has signed on as lead animator at Serious Robots, a cutting-edge 3D broadcast animation and visual effects shop in Raleigh, North Carolina. In his new role, Breakiron will be heading up all 3D computer graphics at Serious Robots (www.seriousrobots.com). The 14-year veteran has served at leading graphics houses such as Fox Animation Studios (TITAN AE); Quiet Man in New York (AT&T, Disney); Janimation in Dallas (new Barney show, K-Mart); Metropolitan Audio-Visual (Diamondback logo effects) and more. Pixel Liberation Front (PLF) hired Breakiron for a cinematic promoting the 3D action/adventure game MEDAL OF HONOR. "Charlie is nationally ranked talent," stated Tom Waring, CEO of Trailblazer Studios, the parent company of Serious Robots. "When he first came in, his outstanding capabilities were obvious immediately. He also generated great chemistry with our team. After only several days it was clear Charlie was the caliber of artist we need. Were hoping to put together a dream team at Serious Robots, and Charlie will be an integral part of that."

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I Call On Charlie Adler

Will Ryan pays a visit to the super-kinetic Charlie Adler, one of the industry's foremost voice actors and directors.

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ABC Outbids CBS For Peanuts’ Specials

ABC has secured broadcast rights for the classic holiday PEANUTS specials from rights holder United Media ending the specials 35-year run on CBS. The main reason for the switch was that the new deal was more lucrative for the rights holder. However no specific monetary details were released. The agreement also guarantees that ITS THE GREAT PUMPKIN, CHARLIE BROWN and A CHARLIE BROWN THANKSGIVING will be aired each year, which wasnt always an absolute on CBS.

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