Welcome to the Boyle-Age of cartoons!
Last week I was invited to breakfast on the Disney lot and had a look behind the scenes of Toon Disney's latest original series, Yin Yang Yo! Though it's produced by Disney Television Animation, it's actually not a Disney-labeled show. It's the first original series for the Jetix programming brand (According to the Jetix presskit: "Jetix is boy-driven, but it is not boy-exclusive and never strays from the Disney core values of trust, quality, optimism, self-expression, creativity, storytelling, imagination, and entertainment")
Yin Yang Yo! was created by art director and producer Bob Boyle (Fairly Oddparents, Danny Phantom) who, amazingly, has another show he created debuting a week earlier on rival kids network, Nick Jr. Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! (pictured at right), is a problem solving cartoon for pre-schoolers. The Wubbzy crew has been producing one of the best production blogs I've ever seen for the past ten months. In addition to that, a nifty behind-the scenes promo film is posted here. Wubbzy starts regular telecasts on Monday, August 28.