'Peanuts' revival to Boomerang

[Bob Jersey]

The Time Warner-owned tooncaster debuts a rather-faithful-to-Schulz effort May 7th. 'Rather' in that the basic designs are there and it's not 3-D, but the movements of the gang seem much more fluid here.

'Toob of the first ad (link)

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[Mark Jeffries]

I'm wondering if the package Boomerang is airing is this:

http://www.cartoonbrew.com/shorts/france-will-produce-500-new-peanuts-shorts-89590.html

Which from the look of the promos seem to be Flash animation.

Mark Jeffries
Saints Spotlight Editor
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[David Bruggeman]

The animation company, Normaal, has produced Peanuts shorts since 2014, and it's unclear whether they will be making new shorts in addition to Boomerang airing the ones that have been broadcast in Europe.

David

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[Kevin M.]

Either way, more Peanuts fills me with happy. The recent movie didn't get much press, but I thought it was well done, full of the charm of the original characters, but a good furthering of the franchise.

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[Mark Jeffries]

Normaal's posted five episodes in the form Boomerang is probably going to air on its web site--you can make up your own mind:

http://normaal.fr/filmography/peanuts-de-schulz/?lang=en

Positive was the animation and design being very faithful to Schulz and that their English-language voice caster (who does voices on a lot of their other shows) was able to find American-sounding kids in Paris, not to mention that Normaal doesn't farm out anything to Asia, including doing their own sound production.  The negative is that the music is very synthy and they didn't even try to do something that sounded like Vince Guaraldi (and the Boomerang promo includes "Linus and Lucy," which I assume Turner had to pay to use).  Normaal's only other series with an American pickup is something called "Tangerine and Cow," which looks like it was sold to CN in the U.S.  I have the feeling that Turner will force them to redub the use of "sucks" (as in "that sucks") in the episodes (which pops up in another of their kids series).

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[M-D November]

This is all lovely...too bad Comcast in central NJ still doesn't see fit to provide Boomerang on any tier.

[Mark Jeffries]

Boomerang is on VOD on my Comcast system in Chicago, even if the main channel isn't.

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