Animated TV News

On TV this Wednesday: Franklin & Bash are Locklear and loaded, William Shatner helps Hot in Cleveland boldly go where 30 Rock has gone before, The Exes get buzzed and Futurama launches its final missions.

Country singer Slim Whitman, who George Harrison credited as an early guitar influence, died Wednesday of heart failure, reported CNN .

From appearing on Saturday Night Live and American Bandstand to opening for the Rolling Stones and rocking out with Bruce Springsteen, Greg Kihn has quite a history.

It's not easy being a parent at the best of times -- let alone when you're the father of a brooding Kryptonian.

The long-teased animated series Beware The Batman will finally make its debut this July.

The classic '70s latchkey kid, I bounced from homes and caregivers so often that I like to say it took a village to raise me.

"We need less adventures, not more adventures." We the longtime fans of Futurama would disagree with Cyclopean Leela's assessment as the delightfully berserk outer-space toon begins its final run on Comedy Central , which revived the show long after Fox dropped it.

In tonight's TV Picks, an animated favorite begins its final mission, Heather Locklear lands a new gig and one show broadcasts live.

I noted the serendipity of Paul McCartney's 71st birthday occurring at the same time as the G-8 summit of global leaders in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.

" Sesame Street " jail topics have taken center stage with a new character. The new "Sesame Street" Muppet has a parent in jail, revealing that the show is tackling another tough topic while appealing to a new demographic of viewers.

Since assuming command of Archie Comics in 2009 following the death of co-founder John L. Goldwater, the company has continued to grow under the stewardship of new CEO, Jon Goldwater as the only major comic book publisher which is still family owned.

Jason Biggs first broke out with 'American Pie' in 1999, along with Tara Reid and Chris Klein , and the rest of the American Pie crowd.

First, of course, is its sound, that light, airy quality is it breathy, or breathless? that gave the great Zombies tracks of the mid-1960s an immediate, intimate, confessional feel.

"Futurama's" general lot in life was underappreciation. Matt Groening and David X. Cohen's lovably nerdy cartoon series premiered in 1999 on Fox to mixed reviews and the afterglow of Groening's "Simpsons" success.

As leader of Murder, Inc., Albert Anastasia was one of the most vicious and feared mob bosses of the twentieth century.

Arthur, D.W., and their family and friends demonstrate effective, age-appropriate problem-solving skills.

ROCK AND ROLLING BACK THE YEARS: Barrie Herbert played lead guitar in the Fabulous Fortunes who supported the Beatles in Abergavenny fifty years ago ON Saturday evening, Barrie Herbert will be among the audience at Abergavenny's Borough Theatre, watching a Beatles tribute band.

Adele has won nearly every major music award out there -- not to mention an Oscar and a Golden Globe -- but now, she's receiving an honor that's truly representative of what she's meant to her home country of Great Britain.

The title of this season's second- to-last episode is "The Quality of Mercy," which comes from Portia's famous speech in Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice."

Eric Shaw, a visiting instructor in Film Studies at Colorado College, took home the Emmy award for Outstanding Writing in Animation for his work on the PBS television series "WordGirl" this weekend.