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Right Now Kapow stands out from its fellow animated kids’ shows in a number of ways. Foremost, it marks a rare team-up of animation powerhouses Disney and Warner Bros. Animation. While WB live-action projects air on a host of networks, WB animated series have mostly aired on what was then The WB and Cartoon Network (also under the umbrella of Time Warner). Right Now Kapow premieres tonight on Disney Xd, the first time the network has aired an original series produced by WB. Creators Justin Becker and Marly Harlpern-Graser were developing the animated sketch comedy series at a time when Disney Xd was looking for something akin to Mad, the Cartoon Network series that aired from 2010-2013. “Disney Xd is trying to go off in new directions and do different, interesting kinds of things. They were a fan of what we had done on Mad, and they were looking for a show like that,...

AnimationFix: Your regular round-up of the latest animation news, from HitFix reporter Emily Rome Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny are teaming up. So to speak. Warner Bros. Animation is producing a series with Disney Xd for the first time. While WB live-action projects air on a number of networks, WB animated series have mostly aired on what was then The WB and Cartoon Network (also under the umbrella of Time Warner). Titled Right Now Kapow, this new animated sketch comedy series features a literally colorful cast of characters named Dog, Moon, Ice Cream, Candy, Diamond, and Plant. Their physical features are pretty much exactly what you’d expect... if you’re expecting something a bit weird. Image credit: Disney Xd A release about Right Now Kapow went out to press today, describing it as “delightfully silly, weird, and frenetic” and announcing the series premiere date, Monday, September 19, with half-hour episodes...

The author of that recent satirical hoax-slash-vision of a pre-9/11 world Peepers, a canticle has been positively identified as Justin Becker—a name many already suspected, given that it’s all over copies of the screenplay spread across the Pacific Coast and subsequently the Internet. Becker, a 27-year-old writer whose day jobs include working part-time for a (purposefully unnamed) newspaper and kid’s show, gave an interview to Sf Weekly confirming that “Justin Becker, Sr.”—identified in the book as the “Chairman Emeritus of Cinema Studies, Durrod University” who helps to put Chris Kattan’s Mr. Peepers screenplay in ...