REVEALED. The 4th Powerpuff Girl - voiced by Toya Delazy in South Africa and Africa - is blue, brown and purple and named Bliss.

The Cartoon Network (DStv 301) has unveiled how the 4th Powerpuff Girl named Bliss looks and who is voiced by Toya Delazy in Africa and South Africa and by 15 other regionalised stars in America and other parts of the world.

The blue hair, purple eyed and brown-skinned Bliss has made her appearance in the new 5-episode The Powerpuff Girls special, The Powerpuff Girls: The Power of Four that kicked off in America on Sunday, with Turner Broadcasting that will roll out the episodes in South Africa and Africa a month later on Saturday 21 October at 08:00.

For people who can't wait, The Power of Four will be pre-screened before its TV broadcast on 7 October in the Kids Zone in the Cartoon Network screening area at the DStv Delicious International Food & Music Festival.

The Powerpuff Girls is produced by Cartoon Network Studios with Nick Jennings as executive producer and Bob Boyle as co-executive producer.

The teenage Bliss is the long-lost older sister of Bubbles, Blossom and Buttercup. In the new 5-part series, Bliss returns to Townsville as she figures out her powers that includes flying (of course!), super strength, telekinesis and teleportation.

Bliss was created by Professor Utonium before he made the three other girls, but she mysteriously disappeared for reasons unknown, and hasn't been seen by anyone in a very long time.

Now she is back but there's a lot of unanswered questions. Where was she? What went wrong? Why is she suddenly back? Of course the reunited sisters can sit down and just ask questions since they have to work together and use their combined powers to save Townsville.

Besides Toya Delazy, female stars from around the world are lending their voices to Bliss, with every regional feed of The Cartoon Network broadcasting their own version. The Australian star Wengie is for instance the voice of Bliss for Australia and New Zealand.

On voicing Bliss for Africa and South Africa, Toya Delazy says that she's always wanted to be a voice-over artists for a cartoon character" and that "it is an honour to be associated with the campaign and to represent Cartoon Network on the African continent again".

Cartoon Network says it has "joined forces with 15 super-powered celebrities across Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Australia who will each lend their voice to the newly revealed 4th Powerpuff Girl".

"This activation is the perfect way to continue building brand awareness and affinity, not only with girls and kids, but with millennial women and mums too," says Lesley Bailey, the vice president for channel marketing and brand management at Turner's kids division for the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region.

In 2016 Turner Africa's Cartoon Network collaborated with Toya Delazy to do a localised South African version of The Powerpuff Girls theme song for the launch of the reimagined new series.

BREAKING. Star Wars: The Clone Wars starting its 5th season on The Cartoon Network on DStv in South Africa on 1 April at 19:55.

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Attention, padawans: there's a disturbance in the force and I can exclusively reveal and break the news that it is because the 5th season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars will be starting on The Cartoon Network (DStv 301) on Monday 1 April at 19:55 (South African time) - and there's another massive surprise!

The Cartoon Network tells me that not only will Star Wars: The Clone Wars start on Monday 1 April, the phenomenally great 5th season will unspool with brand-new episodes daily on weekdays!

That means that Star Wars: The Clone Wars will run with new episodes Mondays to Fridays for 5 weeks - probably to quickly burn through the season before Turner Broadcasting System International and The Cartoon Network loses the rights to the LucasFilm animation series which is very likely moving to Disney XD (DStv 304) from next year for its 6th season.

The 5th season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars ended in America this past Saturday. Unbelievably, must-watch, absolutely awesome television masquerading as a "kids" animation show.

The 5th season of the fantastic story has several linked episode story arcs and quite a lot of wonderful exposition ranging from how Jedi's get their light sabres to what eventually happens to the woman Obi-Wan Kenobi loved (yeah. not kids' stuff).

STAR WARS SHOCKER! Massive character development in absolutely shocking Star Wars The Clone Wars season 5 finale!

Jaw-dropping does not describe or do justice to the absolutely shocking turn of events in the 5th season finale of Star Wars The Clone Wars which broadcast the final episode of the fifth season today on The Cartoon Network in America.

Simply terrific television Star Wars The Clone Wars is, and after five years the biggest, eye-popping change the 5th season finale brings.

The 5th season of Star Wars The Clone Wars which will start soon on The Cartoon Network (DStv 301) on MultiChoice's DStv in South Africa might seem like a "cartoon" or a "kids show" but it's absolutely not - and the latest season further expanding on that galaxy far, far away and which just concluded in America, was phenomenally good.

I cannot underscore what riveting and great television Star Wars The Clone Wars is and has been - one of the very few TV shows I diligently watch and follow as a TV critic not because I have too, but because I am amazed by its intricacy and extremely complex and adult storylines and its heartwrenching and deeply emotional plots - wonderful television I really enjoy.

The last few episodes of the 5th season of Star Wars The Clone Wars packed a massive punch - the penultimate episode caused me hours upon hours upon hours of research looking for arcane facts and character histories and clues to a massive mystery which South African viewers will see unfolding and which will have any Star Wars fan's rapt attention when the 5th season's 20 episodes start here soon.

Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker look sullen in the final moments of the 5th season of Star Wars The Clone Wars - but there's actually also a painful sense of self-awareness visible on their faces.

They're not just sad about something shocking, they're also suddenly, painfully, keenly self-aware about something terrible about the Jedi and the Jedi order. That they've made a mistake. That they're flawed. That something huge has changed. Dark times for the Republic, indeed.

If you want television storytelling at its best and complain about the overabundance of repeats and the lack of really intelligent television; and if you want good and intricate stories and fascinating character development, watch the 5th season of Star Wars The Clone Wars when it starts on The Cartoon Network soon.

Just like the Star Wars movies, Star Wars The Clone Wars is a complex but richly textured narrative with interesting characters set against a bigger backdrop of sweeping, epic change and socio-political powers which they are actually powerless to change - they're only actually reacting to it, and that is changing them.

It's wonderful that what is disguised as a kids show, a cartoon, is actually a powerful grown-up story. Like The Simpsons kids can watch it and enjoy a one dimensional aspect to it.

It's however as an adult (and if you've ever watched Star Wars) that Star Wars The Clone Wars come alive with introspection and relevations. The 5th season more than ever before fills in missing puzzle pieces for the viewer and Star Wars fan about the overall existing story which you never knew you needed to (and wanted to) know.

Similar to that iconic Star Wars zinger of "Luke ... I am your father" (and Star Trek: The Next Generation's "Best of Both Worlds Part I), the 5th season finale of Star Wars The Clone Wars contains a plot twist so extreme, so magnificently yet tragically huge, that it will take your breath away.

Invest in this show, watch the amazing 5th season, and I can promise you that you won't be disappointed.

Entire 5th season of Star Wars The Clone Wars will remain and be seen on The Cartoon Network on DStv in South Africa in 2013.

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I can reveal and confirm that the entire 5th season of Star Wars The Clone Wars will be shown on The Cartoon Network (DStv 301) for South African and African viewers on MultiChoice's DStv sometime in 2013.

Turner Broadcasting System (TBS) which runs and operate The Cartoon Network, tells me that South African viewers will definitely see the entire 5th season of Star Wars The Clone Wars next year which is currently halfway through this season on the channel in America.

This is important because last week Disney and LucasFilm Ltd announced that Disney is buying the entire Star Wars franchise from George Lucas for $4,05 billion.

Disney then said that it wants Star Wars properties - meaning more than one show - on TV - especially on the Disney XD channel. TBS currently has the rights to the great animation show Star Wars The Clone Wars for The Cartoon Network until the end of 2013.

However, it's now uncertain whether Star Wars The Clone Wars (which is doing well in the ratings and viewership) might simply end after the current 5th season (George Lucas said he'd like at least 100 episodes of it), or might move to Disney XD or to another TV channel, and what the future of this show is.

At least there's some new hope and further clarity for South African viewers in as far as the current 5th season is concerned.

"Star Wars The Clone Wars will remain on The Cartoon Network for the entire run of its 5th season," Turner tells me. "There has been no decision about the 6th season yet."

Green Lantern The Animated Series starting on the Cartoon Network in South Africa on Monday 6 August with new episodes daily.

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The new Green Lantern The Animated Series animation show which was commissioned last year by the Cartoon Network in America is finally coming to South African TV viewers with Green Lantern The Animated Series which will start on the Cartoon Network (DStv 301) on Monday 6 August.

The first season of Green Lantern The Animated Series has 26 episodes which the Cartoon Network plans to show daily until Wednesday 22 August, with repeats every Saturday and Sunday from 08:20.

BREAKING. Star Wars The Clone Wars returns for its exciting 4th season on The Cartoon Network on Saturday 5 May at 20:00.

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I can exclusively break the news that Star Wars The Clone Wars is back and that the fourth season will (finally!) start in South Africa on The Cartoon Network (DStv 301) on Saturday 5 May at 20:00 with a repeat another brand new episode on Sundays, also at 20:00 (all South African times).

The 4th season of Star Wars The Clone Wars, subtitled ''Battle Lines'' is strong and great television. Yes. I've managed to already see all 22 episodes and it's riveting.

If you think Star Wars The Clone Wars is meant for kids - guess again. The much later timeslot of 20:00 (remember the early timeslot the first season started out in) should give you a clue. Obi-Wan Kenobi as a slave and actually helpless (and again later in the season finale helpless against an ever stronger evil adversary), an increasingly dark and vengeful Anakin Skywalker, a galaxy very clearly swept up in the true terribleness of war ... this aint kids stuff people.

The new planets, the intricate plots, the subtle humour, the intangible depressive desperation of it all makes Star Wars The Clone Wars really an unappreciated TV series. It's filling in so many blanks and backstories only alluded to in George Lucas' films.

And I love the humour - weary adults like the Jedi who've seen and done it all, and yet endeavour to try and ''save'' the galaxy. The humour adds a wonderful touch to the show like Obi-Wan Kenobi (I won't spoil it all) suddenly fighting side by side with his enemy Asajj Ventress when she throws him her one red light sabre during very stressful circumstances. She says she wants it back. He snaps back, ''That's fine. Red isn't really my colour''.

My friends often ask me: What television do you actually watch for your own real enjoyment? And its true. I watch a massive amount of television. The bulk of it is work. But Star Wars The Clone Wars is really something artistic, something very enjoyable, with great conceptualisation and a vast and intricate narrative that keeps me wanting to watch it to find out what is going to happen next.

BREAKING. Tower Prep coming to Vuzu from 24 October at 20:30, suddenly replacing The Nine Lives of Chloe King.

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I can exclusively break the news that Tower Prep is coming to Vuzu and will start on Monday 24 October at 20:30.

The teen drama will be replacing The Nine Lives of Chloe King which I was first to spill in August RIGHT HERE was supposed to start in that timeslot, but has now been replaced. ''The title has been dropped from the schedule,'' a source tells TV with Thinus. In its place is Tower Prep - actually a Cartoon Network show - but one of the new hour long live-action shows the Cartoon Network started trying.

The Cartoon Network has another live-action show Unnatural History which immediately made me wonder: If the Cartoon Network is not going to show Tower Prep (their own show) first, if at all, and rather sold it to other channels (Cartoon Network doesn't want to show it themselves in this territory), is there still a chance it will be showing Unnatural History? The answer is no. The Cartoon Network in London tells me Unnatural History won't be on the channel.

(By the way, I also asked about the 4th season of Star Wars The Clone Wars which just started on Cartoon Network in America and I'm told is will start in the 2nd quarter of 2012 on the Cartoon Network in South Africa).

Tower Prep is a very enjoyable science fiction type show and revolves around Ian Archer (Drew van Acker) who goes to sleep and then wakes up at Tower Prep - a private boarding school nobody can escape from. There's a wall around it, strange and dangerous creatures in the woods at night, teachers and a coach, and an enigmatic computer controlling everything.

With some new friends (there's bullies too) Ian and his friends try to figure out how to escape from Tower Prep and what (and where) the school actually is. As students at the school they're all actually special, each with a unique ability, and later on are mysteriously warned that they have to be prepared because ''a war is coming''.

You might start out watching Tower Prep and think ''Harry Potter'', but my only clue will be that this is not magic, its a science fiction show - remember that.

OUT OF PLACE. The new ThunderCats and its characters is an anatopistic mistake; won't make sense if you've seen the original.

It's heartbreaking for me to say this but the new ThunderCats is a disappointment because of a major anachronistic, and more specifically a non-sensical anatopistic character flaw.

The re-imagined setting is fine but the characters don't fit. The original characters are back (although only in name and superficial appearance). But here's the thing: they simply shouldn't be, and shouldn't exist within the world where they're placed in the new animation show.

Let me explain.

I just finished watching the first two episodes of the new updated animation show on The Cartoon Network which will most probably be shown on the channel feed for Africa on DStv sometime within next year. A South African broadcasting date still to be determined, although I have asked The Cartoon Network again today about it. Sadly however, in my opinion, the new ThunderCats is not good because its just too ... well, weird.

Whereas, if you've watched Star Wars, you will love Star Wars The Clone Wars since it follows the canon of the established lore and mythology so well and colour in little backstories and details, my guess is that you're (sadly) not going to like the new ThunderCats (if you've watched the classic 80s show).

Here's why. The new 2011 ThunderCats is too Japanese manga-looking (although that's not the big problem). It's other things. The first thing is a big word, and it's called anachronism: things that don't belong in their setting and time (like gunpowder in Egypt or a horse and carriage on a modern-day highway). And while anachronism usually refers to objects out of place and time, in the new ThunderCats its the very characters that don't fit in their time.

It goes even beyond anachronistic - the same characters operate in the future world of the original show - but they're still the same characters. This new ThunderCats - and from now on you'll only understand if you're familiar with the original show - is still taking place in the same setting but the set-up is different. It's very anatopistic.

In line with the established original ThunderCats story, everything starts off fine. However, imagine time has moved forward an indeterminable amount of time. So the Cats' Lair is still there, on the planet Third Earth, but it's now a palace, surrounded by a sprawling city - a civilization and a population. Nothing wrong so far and actually quite a neat idea because, of course, time has moved on. So the cats have multiplied and conquered evil and all that stuff.

Now the first weird bit. All the characters from the original ThuderCats are present but they're different (and I don't mean drawn differently, that goes without saying). They have the same names and the same characteristics and the same skills, but their back stories are completely different. It's like the original ThunderCats arrived on Third Earth, struggled and won and created a society. Then at a time in the future - their own future - they're all suddenly present again as their characters, with their same names, but different.

Therefore, the new ThunderCats is in essence a sequel, yet takes the original characters, ''brainwashes'' them; changes the socio-links between them (Tygra is now Lion-O's resoonsible brother; Cheetara will be Lion-O's love interest; Jaga is alive) and plops them into a framed future that you're asked to accept - yet here's the very characters who created this future in the first place and now they're still here. It doesn't make sense and doesn't feel right. As a viewer you're asked to accept and believe that one part of the established show has evolved, but then the producers want to completely interject and weirdly change this other part that has not evolved. The mish-mash is too much when it comes to the willing suspension of disbelief.

Think of this. The original Battlestar Galactica from the 1970s got a 2000's remake. The new Battlestar Galactica was a new show with a new Starbuck and new Adama and new stories but it was the same idea and took place in the same time period of the original show. Now imagine that the new Battlestar Galactica of 2000 took place in the future time of the 1970s Battlestar Galactica story time. Nothing wrong with that. (It would be like Robotech New Generation and Robotech Masters following Robotech The Macross Saga). What you simply cannot have though - not even in science fiction - is then the original Starbuck and Adama characters, still being that very Starbuck and Adama but in their ''future'' again as themselves. That is the crazy that is the new ThunderCats - characters placed there, but who don't belong in their own future.

The milieu integration in the new ThunderCats is correct. Sadly the character integration is completely wrong. The new ThunderCats, if it kept the new setting and set-up, should have changed the characters to a ''next or new generation'' - or should have given them different names. Just have new characters. If they had to, the new protagonist could have again been called Lion-O (but what about Lion-E (''lioney?'') or Lion-O2) and would have worked better and have been believable as something like the great grandson who've only heard of his great ancestor (the original Lion-O) but don't know the full tail of how their society has lost sight of the technology and ideals of the original ThunderCats.

Then Lion-O could have met up with other characters that contain vestiges or the traces of other ThunderCats forebearers (instead of weird adaptations of the original ones) and together experience a new adventure and move forward with their own new story as they uncover some of the past original story. Now its just a mess.

Another weird bit, which could be cool, and is plotcentric (and is now not cool because of the character problem) is the exposition that the future setting and the society of the cats has no technology. So basically something happened that the currently superficially happy (although it's clear that the society is no longer utopian and actually oppressing other species on Third Earth) is in a medieval state where technology is scarce. Technology isn't outlawed per se, but science isn't pursued. It's clear that whatever the new Lion-O's quest is going to be, it's also going to be about finding new (lost) technology and why the society lost the knowledge of that.

Sadly I won't be a part of that TV journey. If you've watched the original, and you see the new ThunderCats, you will see exactly what I mean when I say they've messed up the characters. The characters are messed up though in a way where there's nothing really wrong with them - it's just that they shouldn't be able to exist as they are. Oh, if Snarf could talk.

ALSO READ: The first trailer of the new ThunderCats updated cartoon series.
ALSO READ: The first official look at the new new ThunderCats series starting in 2011 on The Cartoon Network.
ALSO READ: The new Lion-O in The Cartoon Network's new ThunderCats animation show.
ALSO READ: Mumm-Ra will NOT be happy. The Cartoon Network is reviving the classic 80s animation series ThunderCats.

BRIGHTEST DAY. Green Lantern The Animated Series coming to The Cartoon Network; set to start early 2012 in South Africa.

If you liked the animation movie Green Lantern First Flight (showing on M-Net) get ready for a follow-up film Green Lantern Emerald Knights just released in America and a brand-new animation TV show based on the green wonder entitled Green Lantern: The Animated Series.

Green Lantern: The Animated Series will start in November in America on The Cartoon Network (DStv 301) and will definitely be seen in South Africa on this channel roughly six months later in 2012. The live action feature film Green Lantern - Rise of the Manhunters with Ryan Reynolds is opening this weekend in America (on 22 June in South Africa) but it's actually part of a much bigger restart of the fabled superhero franchise by Warner Bros.

Green Lantern The Animated Series will be similar to what's been done with Batman: The Animated Series and Superman: The Animated Series and will have a first season of 26 episodes and is executive produced by Bruce Timm. Green Lantern: The Animated Series will still have an angular, retro visual style but the animation will be computer generated and be somewhat more 3D (similar in look and feel to The Incredibles).

The Jedi secrets we never knew. 10 things that the new season of Star Wars The Clone Wars reveals which brings context to the Force.

Who knew. Half the awesomeness of the exciting new 3rd season of Star Wars The Clone Wars (besides the adventure and the visual spectacle like this half-destroyed, yet habitable planet with a Jedi prison for instance in that galaxy far, far away) is the additional context and perspective that colours in everything that Star Wars fans never knew they needed to know.

As new episodes of Star Wars The Clone Wars are rolling out until 9 September on Thursdays at 17:55 on The Cartoon Network (DStv 301) a fascinating observational and character study is actually the unspoken revelations inside this finely-crafted animation series. The show continues to fill in hordes of little-known details only hinted at in the movies.

The 3rd season - through a myriad of side adventures by the characters which is taking them across Lucas' (in)famous galaxy - are giving fans more insight into the underlying motivations, places and the galaxy-wide socio-economic and socio-political machinations that is Star Wars. And its vast, and wonderful. Just take the Jedi - that mysterious warrior religious order - who wields the Force. Star Wars The Clone Wars offers tantalising new details, background and revelations about the Jedi that we never knew.

Did you know for instance that ''bad'' Jedi who've ''lost their way'' got locked up in an inescapable prison tower on a faraway world (the one above)? Didn't? Well, watch and learn my young Padawan. Here's 10 things the 3rd season of Star Wars The Clone Wars reveals about the Jedi - that we never knew.

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BREAKING. Back, it will be! The 3rd season of Star Wars The Clone Wars set to start on The Cartoon Network on 14 April.

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The 3rd season of Star Wars The Clone Wars will start on The Cartoon Network (DStv 301) on Thursday, 14 April at 17:55 the channel just told me.

There will be 22 new episodes that is set to unspool in the 3rd season of Star Wars The Clone Wars, as well as a marathon showing of the 1st and the 2nd seasons on Saturdays, 9 and 10 April at 07:55. Star Wars fans will enjoy the season entitled ''Secrets Revealed'' as more secrets are definitely revealed, filling in hiherto-unknown arcana and backstory regarding some of the characters and events only alluded to within the set of films.

ALSO READ: Whoopee! Star Wars The Clone Wars welcomes a Whookiee. Chewbacca to appear in the 3rd season finale of Star Wars The Clone Wars.

WHOOPEE! Star Wars The Clone Wars welcomes a Wookiee: Chewbacca to appear in the last two episodes of the third season finale.

''Great, Chewie... Great.'' A Wookiee is a rare sight but a resident from Kashyyyk - one you might happen to know - will appear in the third season finale of Star Wars The Clone Wars. Yep, get growling for Chewbacca.

With no word yet from The Cartoon Network (DStv 301) on when the 3rd season of Stars Wars The Clone Wars will be starting in South Africa (and I just asked them directly again), comes the news that one more of the iconic Star Wars characters will be showing up for the first time in the Star Wars The Clone Wars animation series. The third season of 22 episodes will end in America on 1 April and Chewbacca will show up in the season finale's last two episodes.

The New York Times is first to report Chewbacca's appearance, adding that actor Peter Mayhew who starred as Chewbacca in the live action films not only did the voicework for the upcoming episodes but also recently helped the animators with drawing the digital Chewie. He explained and showed them Chewbacca's peculiar walk, mannerisms and body language like head movements as well as vocabulary.

BREAKING. The first official look at the new updated ThunderCats that's set to start on The Cartoon Nework later this year.

Here is the first official look at the new ThunderCats cartoon that will debut later this year on The Cartoon Network (DStv 301) in the first image released by the studio responsible for the new show.

The new characters' look in ThunderCats is quite a departure from their 80's classic look with a marked more manga/anime look. ''Roaring to life through WBA and Studio4°C's use of the Japanese animated artistry of anime, ThunderCats characters Lion-O, Mumm-Ra, Panthro, Cheetara and others will spring off the screen with realistic cat-like characteristics inconceivable in previous incarnations,'' says the studio in a press release.

''The new ThunderCats will appeal to viewers who have loved the characters all their lives as well as young newcomers to the franchise. A sweeping tale combining swords and science and boasting ferocious battles with the highest of stakes, the grand origin story of Prince Lion-O's ascension to the throne - and of those who would thwart his destiny at any cost - takes on epic dimensions in this sharp new telling. ThunderCats is executive produced by Sam Register (Teen Titans, Ben 10, Batman: The Brave and the Bold).''

ALSO READ: Mumm-Ra will not be happy. The Cartoon Network getting ready to revive the classic 80's cartoon series in 2011.
ALSO READ: First glimpse of the new Lion-O is The Cartoon Network's planned updated ThunderCats cartoon for 2011.
ALSO READ: The Cartoon Network still mum (January 2011) on whether ThunderCats will be shown in South Africa in 2011.

BREAKING. The Cartoon Network not planning on showing the high buzz, live action shows Unnatural History and Tower Prep in Africa soon.

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I can exclusively reveal that South African viewers of The Cartoon Network (DStv 301) are going to have to wait longer for the possibility of seeing the great live action shows that The Cartoon Network is already broadcasting in America and planning to expand on.

The fantastic hour long live action show Unnatural History (about a kind of young Indiana Jones-type, high school pupil going on awesome adventures and seeking artefacts while enrolled at a preppy school set inside a museum) is already deep into its first season on The Cartoon Network in America. Soon viewers there will also see the second live action series - a highly anticipated hour long live action show called Tower Prep with Drew van Acker that already has huge buzz and will debut in October in America. A rebellious teen wakes up one morning to find himself trapped at a mysterious prep school that offers no escape. He forms a secret group to discover what they're being trained for and how to escape.

I asked The Cartoon Network whether there is a possibility of the channel's feed for South Africa adding these live action shows like Unnatural History and Tower Prep to the schedule. ''At the moment the focus on The Cartoon Network in Africa is on original cartoons,'' says Alan Musa, vice president and general manager for the Middle East, Africa and Pan region for Turner Broadcasting Systems. The Cartoon Network will in 2011 be looking at possibly broadcasting the live actions shows from America on The Cartoon Network in Africa, ''but not in the next six months'' I'm told.

FIRST LOOK! See the new Lion-O in the Cartoon Network's updated ThunderCats TV show - complete with the Sword of Omens.

I told you on Thursday RIGHT HERE about the new ThuderCats TV show that the Cartoon Network (DStv 301) is working on, and here is how the new Lion-O looks.

Warner Bros. Animation will be producing the new ThuderCats for the Cartoon Network that will debut the show next year, with South African viewers who might get to see it a few months later.

Warner Bros. Animation is working with Japan's Studio4°C on animating the new ThunderCats series. According to Warner Bros. the new ThunderCats will ''be a sweeping tale combining swords and science and boasting ferocious battles with the highest of stakes. As the forces of good and evil battle each other in the quest for the fabled Stones of Power, Lion-O and his champions learn valuable lessons of loyalty, honor and mortality in every episode."

BREAKING. Mumm-Ra will NOT be happy. The Cartoon Network reviving the classic 80s animation series ThunderCats.

''Thunder, thunder. . . ThunderCats!'' Hello Lion-O: The ThunderCats, the classic TV animation show broadcast in South Africa on TV1 during the 80's is making a huge TV comeback.

The Cartoon Network (DStv 301) is reviving the ThunderCats and will be producing a brand-new version of the show, reports Reuters. Warner Bros. Animation will be producing the series for America's Cartoon Network, which means the likelihood is great that South African viewers will also get to see it, similar to the popular Star Wars: Clone Wars currently in its second season on Friday nights on the animation channel.

The animation show about a set of anthropomorphic cats led by Lion-O, battling the evil Mumm-Ra on a distant planet, had 130 episodes (I have them all). A big screen ThunderCats movie is also in the works, although by a different studio. Other new TV shows South Africa will also hopefulyl get to see on The Cartoon Network and that is currently in development in America for the channel is an animation series build around The Green Lantern, as well as a live-action series Unnatural History which looks great. In Unnatural History Henry Griffin (Kevin G. Schmidt), a teenager, moves to a very strange high school.

BREAKING. Star Wars The Clone Wars back for a 2nd season in April in South Africa.

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Time to restore balance to the Force in 2010. I'm at episode 13 already and I can reveal first that the 2nd season of Star Wars The Clone Wars in South Africa is set to start on The Cartoon Network (DStv 301) in April. I asked the TV channel who told me that the highly anticipated 2nd season debut is tentatively set for Friday, 9 April.

FIRST LOOK. Ben 10 Alien Force and the new Ben 10 movie

Here's a first look at the new Ben 10 movie, Ben 10: Alien Swarm that will debut on The Cartoon Network (DStv 301) later this year.

But first there's Ben 10: Alien Force, the new cartoon show that starts on Monday, 21 September at 16:40 on Cartoon Network (DStv 301). It will be going out on weekdays. It's five years later and Ben Tennyson is now a teenager and 15. Get ready for brand new alien forms he can turn into, and brand new adventures.