America Online's KOL Service For Kids Premieres New Original Animated Series, ''SKWOD''.DULLES, Va. -- Original Programs Strengthen Popularity of AOL's Content For Kids Coming off the heels of "Princess Natasha Princess Natasha is a flash animation series developed by Larry Schwarz for AOL kids which ran from 2004 to 2006. The series features the adventures Princess Natasha, who assumes the role of a secret agent/exchange student in an Illinois high school in order to stop her evil uncle " - the animated series that successfully transitioned from the Web into a Cartoon Network For Cartoon Network outside of the United States, see . Cartoon Network is a cable television network created by Turner Broadcasting which primarily shows animated programming. TV program and Little, Brown Books for Young Readers series of books - AOL's KOL KOL Kings of Leon (UK band) KoL Kingdom of Loathing (online game) KOL Key Opinion Leaders KOL Key Opinion Leader KOL Kiss on Lips KOL Key Objects Library KOL Knights of Labor KOL Key-Oriented List (TM) service for kids will launch a new original animated series called "SKWOD." Developed in partnership with Animation Collective, the ten episodes will follow the adventures of a skateboarding high school, crime-fighting team. In addition to each eleven-minute episode, the KOL service will launch an online comic for each episode as well as an interactive game based on one of the team's adventures. "SKWOD" joins Animation Collective's "Princess Natasha" and "Kung Fu kung fu Pinyin gongfu Chinese martial art that is simultaneously a spiritual and a physical discipline. It has been practiced at least since the Zhou dynasty (1111–255 BC). Academy" as the KOL service's full line-up of original animated programs. "Working on feedback from over 3.5 million kids we have developed a unique cartoon targeted at skateboarding, humor and action, available for them to watch whenever they want," said Malcolm Bird, AOL's Senior Vice President and General Manager, Kids and Teens Programming. "We have a successful track record in launching original cartoons that become wildly popular with our young users, and we're confident SKWOD will make an exciting addition to our programming line-up." "SKWOD is different from anything else we've done both stylistically and in tone," said Larry Schwarz, SKWOD's creator and C.E.O. of Animation Collective. "The series has a unique visual look influenced by skateboarding art and graphics. The humor is both wry and slapstick slapstick Comedy characterized by broad humour, absurd situations, and vigorous, often violent action. It took its name from a paddlelike device, probably introduced by 16th-century commedia dell'arte troupes, that produced a resounding whack when one comic actor used it to and extremely kid-relatable. The action is cartoon-like and over-the-top, while at the same time being real. The characters perform actual skate-moves that have been rotoscoped and animated. There's nothing else like it on the web or on television." Millions of kids can now skate along with SKWOD members Logan, Jax, Kick and Seth, the radical skateboarding team who attend Fairmont High School Fairmont High School may refer to:
About the KOL(TM) Service for Kids Winner of the 2004 National Parenting Seal of Approval, the KOL service is the first version of the America Online(R) service designed entirely for kids. Combining exclusive content from industry leading kids' brands and original programming, the KOL service is fully integrated with the AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. award-winning Parental Controls, offering kids a safer and more secure online environment. About America Online, Inc. America Online, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of Time Warner Inc. Based in Dulles, Virginia, America Online is the world's leader in interactive services, Web brands, Internet technologies and e-commerce services. About Animation Collective: New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of based Animation Collective is a leader in creating animation for television, the Internet, home video and feature films. Animation Collective has previously produced the "Princess Natasha" and "Kung Fu Academy" online series as well as many games for KOL. |
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