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TELETOON at Night's Fred Kennedy returns for a second season of "Fred at Night"TORONTO, Aug. 18, 2011, 2011 (Canada NewsWire via COMTEX) -- Kennedy returns to Sundays on TELETOON at Night to host the "Fred at Night" programming block at a new time beginning September 11 at 9 p.m. ET/PT It's hilarious t-shirt time! TELETOON at Night's Fred Kennedy is back to host a second season of the "Fred at Night" programming block, which gets a new timeslot this fall that sees the start time move one hour earlier at 9 p.m. ET/PT each week beginning Sunday, September 11. TELETOON at Night caters to an audience of older teens and adults with a lineup of edgy animated comedies and blockbuster movies. This season's "Fred at Night" lineup includes the new TELETOON original series, Crash Canyon, as well as brand new seasons of Futurama and Archer, with encore episodes of Robot Chicken rounding out the schedule. The new season of "Fred at Night" launches on September 11 at 9 p.m. ET/PT with back-to-back episodes of Futurama including the season premiere at 9:30 p.m. ET/PT, followed by the feature-length movie, Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs at 10 p.m. ET/PT. The regular "Fred at Night" lineup begins Sunday, September 18 and will be scheduled as follows: -- Crash Canyon at 9 p.m. ET/PT -- Futurama at 9:30 p.m. ET/PT -- Robot Chicken at 10 p.m. ET/PT -- Archer at 10:30 p.m. ET/PT Fred will continue to introduce the lineup of shows during nine hosted segments throughout the block while providing commentary on anything and everything related to animation, music, comics and beyond. The late-night block will also include interviews with heavy-hitters from across the entertainment industry. The first season of Fred at Night garnered a Promax/BDA Promo & Marketing Award with a silver in the Best Male or Female Voice-Over category for the Fred at Night - 300 Movie segment. Building on the success of the first season of Fred at Night, some features to look forward to early on this season include an interview with Joel Cohen, the developer of Crash Canyon, as well as a behind-the-scenes tour of Elliott Animation where the show is animated, led by executive producer Greg Lawrence. Fred also makes his first-ever trip to Comic-Con International in San Diego to hobnob with the biggest names in the industry including an interview with Archer star H. Jon Benjamin. In addition to the on-air content, Fred at Night will continue to produce and offer exclusive online content for www.teletoonatnight.com to further engage TELETOON at Night viewers. Web features include Fred's weekly blog posts with video reviews of TELETOON At Night's Saturday Night Movies, "Top 5" video segments featuring a different theme each week, the popular "She's Too Good For You" series focusing on Fred's object of affection for the week, and Fred's review of the series' weekly episodes. Fans can follow and interact with Fred through social media networks including Twitter and Facebook. Born and raised in Nova Scotia in a military household, Fred spent his pre-teen years in Belgium and lived in a number of different cities across Canada. During his adolescence, Fred lived in Edmonton where he would tune in to Drive Time with Matt and Jake on 100.3 The Bear on his way home from school. Eight years later he wound up hosting that same timeslot and renamed it Fearless Fred's Radio Extravaganza, a radio show which won him the Steve Young Broadcaster of the Year Award in March of 2009. The attention he earned from the award led to an offer of hosting the afternoon drive on 102.1 the Edge in Toronto and he made the move east in fall 2009 with his wife and cat. Fred has not only been dissecting cartoons since he was five years old, but he is an avid reader and writer of comic books, loves playing video games, has a very respectable t-shirt collection, enjoys cupcakes and even trains his cat to rob banks. TELETOON at Night is a special programming block on TELETOON for older teens and adult audiences who have an appetite for smart and culturally topical comedy shows. Available in both English and French, TELETOON Canada inc. brings kids, youth and adults the best in animated and animation-related entertainment with four nationwide specialty television channels - TELETOON, TÉLÉTOON, TELETOON Retro and TÉLÉTOON Rétro - and select programming is also available through On Demand, Mobile TV, iTunes and teletoon.com. Founded in 1997, TELETOON Canada inc. is owned by Astral (50%) and Corus Entertainment (50%). For more information, please visit www.teletoon.com. To view this news release in HTML formatting, please use the following URL: http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/August2011/18/c4699.html SOURCE: TELETOON AT NIGHT For media inquiries, interview opportunities and images, please contact: Simon Bassett Sarah Etherden TELETOON Canada inc. TELETOON Canada inc. Publicist Manager, Communications 416-956-5443 416-956-2051 [email protected] [email protected] |