Robot Chicken courtesy Turner Broadcasting
If Robot Chicken's Emmy-nominated Star Wars episode wasn't enough, the show will be flying a second edition into orbit November 16, announced just days after nominations were released — and just in time for some Comic-Con kvelling.The show's cocreator Seth Green will direct the second go-around, and many of the original voice cast will be back, too, including Star Wars vets Carrie Fisher and Billy Dee Williams, as Princess Leia and Lando Calrissian. Per the Reporter, returning cast will also feature Seth MacFarlane as Emperor Palpatine and Conan O'Brien as Zuckuss, while Green will voice characters such as Ponda Baba.Is the Robot Chicken approach to Star Wars worth turning into (again) — or would they be better to leave the original alone? — Anna DimondUse our Online Video Guide to taste some Robot Chicken.
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The guys are hanging out and they all go in on a $800 bid on a time machine prop from the original The Time Machine movie. Of course, they'll be outbid. Whew! That was close. What in the world would they do with a time machine? Except they won the auction.Why didn't anyone else bid? Oh, because it's about the size of a Renault. Didn't Leonard say it was miniature?Cut to the best animation/opening sequence in all of television.Step by step, Leonard, Sheldon, Howard and Rajesh push and pull the time machine up the stairs. But they're blocking the stairwell and Penny has to get to work. Sheldon suggests she go upstairs to the roof, hop over a few buildings, but don't look down because she might get vertigo. What? Is he kidding? "Oh, I never joke when it comes to vertigo," deadpans Sheldon.You know what, this time machine looks pretty cool. After all, this is the machine that transported Rod Taylor from Victorian England into the post-apocalyptic future with those subterranean Morlocks...
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Warning: Adult LanguageDo you love yourself some good old fashion Yoda? Well, how about a sick freestylin' Yoda? Get ready because it's the V to the A to D-E-R (Vader!) and all you other Star Wars characters like Chewbacca, Luke and Lando busting out rhymes in the new "Star Wars Gangsta Rap" (an original title indeed). "This is Admiral Biatch to base camp!"
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Deal or No Deal by Adam Taylor/NBC
Two contestants will need the Force with them in a special, Star Wars-themed, winner-take-all edition of Deal or No Deal airing April 28. Deal will be transformed into a Mecca of Star Wars characters and themes, complete with models dressed as Imperial storm troopers and Princess Leia.Contestant Elyse McCrillis will also get some help from none other than Carrie Fisher — the original Princess Leia — who will make a special cameo. Other faves from the franchise — Chewbacca and R2D2 — will also be on hand for some surprise arrivals. Of course, no Star Wars scene would be complete without Darth Vader: The bad guy steps in as the show's villainous banker.Ready to tune in to your inner, space-savvy dealmaker? The two-hour event airs Monday, April 28 (NBC, 8 pm/ET). — Anna Dimond
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Batman: The Brave and the Bold courtesy Cartoon Network
With a quartet of Clone Troopers as his escort, George Lucas made a grandiose entrance to the Cartoon Network upfront Thursday morning in Manhattan. Lucas was on hand to plug Star Wars: The Clone Wars, a feature film/animated series combo coming later this year. (As previously announced, the movie premieres August 15, followed by the series on Cartoon, then TNT, in the fall. No date for the TV premiere was made.) It was the key announcement for the network, which is also premiering the Ben 10 relaunch Alien Force, and finally confirmed the rumored series Batman: The Brave and the Bold, which teams the Caped Crusader with a variety of DC Comics superheroes.Calling Star Wars "the greatest brand in entertainment history," Turner Animation COO Stuart Snyder said he personally courted Lucasfilm when he heard about the project (which went into production before a network had signed on), and "after watching five minutes they had me." For his part, Lucas calls the project "Star Wars starrin...
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Toddlers—how they love to talk once they have a grasp on language. Between their incessant questions and detailed accounts of everything that happens in their daily lives, you can easily get a story that just cracks you up to no end. In this video, an adorable 3-year old girl explains how Luke Skywalker learns to use his “light up sword” and warns us not to “talk back to Darth Vader because he’ll getcha.” This little tike’s account of the Star Wars movie really makes life worth living!
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars courtesy Cartoon Network/(c) & TM 2008 Lucasfilm Ltd.
By the moons of Tatooine! I'm a card-carrying member of the Boba Fett Fan Club, but does anyone else wish that George Lucas would make a movie set in a galaxy far, far away from Star Wars? Not Lucas himself, apparently. Remember that animated Star Wars series about the Clone Wars? Well, it seems that Uncle George liked the results so much that he's ordered up a full-on theatrical release for a new Clone Wars animated film that will kick off a new series. "I felt there were a lot more Star Wars stories left to tell," says Lucas, executive producer of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, which will premiere on the Cartoon Network in the fall. "I was eager to start telling some of them through animation and, at the same time, push the art of animation." (Start telling?) The new film, which takes place between the events of Episodes II and III (before Anakin becomes Darth), will hit theaters on Aug. 15. And I'll probably be there on opening night. Sigh. — Mickey O'ConnorRelated:• George...
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Family Guy courtesy FOX
I feel like I should be ashamed to admit this, but I freakin' love Family Guy. Oh. My. God. What is wrong with those people?! They get away with more jaw-on-the-floor "did they really just say that?" shizz than any cartoon and every live-action network series that I can recall, and yet, every time — every time, people! — I'm stunned. While not laughing me arse off, of course.My theory is that Guy flies, much like the Millennium Falcon, under the radar. Fox doesn't promote it too much, it never became huge-huge-huge and nobody in the cast has gone to rehab for press purposes. Hence, the freedom to have a walker-bound septuagenarian pedophile, a greased-up naked deaf guy and a veritable parade of equal-opportunity slurs against every special interest group known to man, woman and Wookiee. It universally flips the bird to Standards and Practices!Which is why I greet this week's "Blue Harvest" release with such glee. Not only is it a smashing production, but I am perilously cl...
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So far Chuck has been pretty good about keeping his secret spy life from interfering too much with his regular life, but tonight the two collided, and his friends and family lost. Ironically it was Chuck's own personal code of trying to help everyone that got him in trouble. Talk about no good deed going unpunished! So how many different directions was Chuck being pulled in? Ellie wanted him to spend time with her and celebrate their special family "October Mother's Day," and Morgan wanted Chuck to help him with the sales contest. But Casey and Sarah needed him to check out a Chinese spy, who insisted Chuck help her rescue her brother after he botched her attempt (while being helpful to the wrong person, no less!). Chuck felt so bad about getting the intel wrong that he was compelled to help the spy... which pretty much messed up everything for everyone. He wasn't there for Morgan or Ellie, while Casey and Sarah got captured on the mission he forced them to take. Of course, he came...
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Film auteur George Lucas has announced his plans for a live-action Star Wars TV series, it was reported elsewhere (and with much circumstance) in the press on Wednesday. Of course, Lucas gave TV Guide an in-depth look at this smaller-screen follow-up — set in the same universe, but using peripheral characters — a good four weeks ago, here on TVGuide.com. So, Stars Wars fans, though you probably already inhaled every morsel of that Q&A... four weeks ago, when it first came out... I link you to it again, since a bout of amnesia seems to be going around. (Damn Jedi mind tricks!)
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