4Kids Entertainment Adds Emmy Award Winning Show `Back to the Future' to Fox Box Lineup.Entertainment Editors/Business Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 13, 2003 4Kids Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : KDE (K Desktop Environment) A GUI-based user interface primarily for Unix and Linux machines, but also available for Windows and Mac. The source code is freely distributed and is maintained by developers around the world. ) announced today that it is adding a new television series to its Saturday morning FOX BOX lineup. The new addition, Emmy award winning-series "Back To The Future," will debut on FOX BOX, Saturday, March 22 at 8:30AM (ET/PT). "Back To The Future" stars Christopher Lloyd in live-action wrap-arounds featuring scientific demonstrations by Bill Nye, the host of "Bill Nye the Science Guy Bill Nye the Science Guy is an Emmy Award-winning educational television program, hosted by Bill Nye. It was originally broadcast on PBS from September 10, 1993 until October 3, 1997. Then after cancellation, aired reruns until February 5,1999. ." Dan Castellaneta, the voice of Homer Simpson in "The Simpsons," lends his voice as Doc Brown. Tom Wilson and Mary Steenburgen provide their voice talent - Wilson as the show's archrival arch·ri·val n. A principal rival. through history, Biff (Binary Interchange File Format) A spreadsheet file format that holds data and charts, introduced with Excel Version 2.2 in 1989. 1. BIFF - /bif/ (Or "B1FF", from Usenet) The most famous pseudo, and the prototypical newbie. Tannen; and Steenburgen as Doc's no-nonsense wife, Clara Clayton Brown. The series has won several awards, including two Daytime Emmys. "Back To The Future is an award-winning show that is based on three blockbuster films of the same title," said Al Kahn, Chairman and Chief Executive Office of 4Kids Entertainment. "The series is a perfect fit for our action-oriented Saturday morning block and it is an FCC (1) (Federal Communications Commission, Washington, DC, www.fcc.gov) The U.S. government agency that regulates interstate and international communications including wire, cable, radio, TV and satellite. The FCC was created under the U.S. core educational show, which helps us to meet our programming requirements for the FOX BOX." The addition of "Back To The Future" follows the debut of the swashbuckling swash·buck·le intr.v. swash·buck·led, swash·buck·ling, swash·buck·les To act as a swashbuckler, as in a movie or play. [Back-formation from swashbuckler. live action-adventure series, "Pirate Islands," on FOX BOX this past Saturday, March 8 at 11:30am (ET/PT). The show follows the adventures of the Redding kids, Kate, Nicholas and Sarah, who are thrown into the real life action and adventure of their Dad's prototype video game, Pirate Islands. Through a freakish freak·ish adj. 1. Markedly unusual or abnormal; strange: freakish weather; a freakish combination of styles. 2. Relating to or being a freak: a freakish extra toe. happening, the kids get zapped into the game itself and find themselves trapped behind the video screen. The only way to get home is to beat the game! This high-concept action-adventure series transports kids into a world ruled by eighteenth century Pirates where they are marooned on an exotic island along with a group of castaway Castaway Arden, Enoch shipwrecked sailor; lost for eleven years. [Br. Lit.: “Enoch Arden” in Benét, 316] Bligh, Captain commander of H.M.S. Bounty who was cast adrift by mutinous crew. [Am. Lit. children. Allied with the castaways, the Redding kids set up a base in a secret tree house to battle the sinister Captain Blackheart and his motley band of fearsome Pirates. The Company noted that the two new shows join FOX BOX's existing Saturday morning line-up of kids series: "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles," "Kirby: Right Back At Ya!" "Fighting Foodons," "Ultimate Muscle: The Kinnikuman Legacy" and "The Cramp Twins." "Back To The Future" is a production of Universal Cartoon Studios and Amblin Television. Produced in association with Wang Film Productions Co., L.T.D. Animation designed and produced by Big Pictures, A Colossal Company. "Pirate Islands" is produced by leading Australian animation producer Jonathon M. Schiff Productions Pty Ltd in association with Tele Images (France). About 4Kids Entertainment Headquartered in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. with international offices in London, 4Kids Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: KDE) is a global provider of children's entertainment and merchandise licensing. 4Kids, through its wholly owned subsidiaries, provides domestic and international merchandise licensing; television, film, music and home video production and distribution; media buying and planning; product development; and Web site development. For further information, please visit the company's Web site at www.4KidsEntertainment.com. This press release contains forward-looking statements. Due to the fact that 4Kids Entertainment Inc., faces competition from toy companies, motion picture studios and other licensing companies, and the uncertainty of public response to the Company's properties, actual results or outcomes may differ materially from any such forward-looking statements. |
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