Astro Boy comes to Kids' WB!

By Paige Albiniak
( Broadcasting & Cable )
published

Kids' WB! is teaming up with Sony Pictures Entertainment Japan, Sony Pictures
Television and Tezuka Productions to bring 26 episodes of anime program Astro
Boy to its Saturday-morning schedule next fall.

The show is based on a comic book character from a 1950 series, and it is about
an atomic-powered robot who fights for peace and justice even though society
scorns him.

Astro Boy was a star of Japanese TV as early as 1963, and it was the first
Japanese show to be imported to the United States.

A new version of Astro Boy began airing on Fuji TV in Japan April
6, 50 years after the original Astro Boy appeared in the comics.

Sony Pictures Entertainment and Kids' WB! also team up on Jackie
Chan Adventures.

Paige Albiniak
Paige Albiniak

Contributing editor Paige Albiniak has been covering the business of television for more than 25 years. She is a longtime contributor to Next TV, Broadcasting + Cable and Multichannel News. She concurrently serves as editorial director for The Global Entertainment Marketing Academy of Arts & Sciences (G.E.M.A.). She has written for such publications as TVNewsCheck, The New York Post, Variety, CBS Watch and more. Albiniak was B+C’s Los Angeles bureau chief from September 2002 to 2004, and an associate editor covering Congress and lobbying for the magazine in Washington, D.C., from January 1997 - September 2002.