Lucille Bliss
Actress Lucille Bliss, who voiced The Smurf's Smurfette, has passed away at the age of 96.
Bliss died from natural causes on Nov. 8 at an assisted living center in Costa Mesa, The Los Angeles Times reports.
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Alf
ALF is making a Hollywood comeback — this time on the big screen.
Sony Pictures Animation has landed the rights to the 1980s sitcom and plans to make a CG/live action hybrid feature film, like it did last year for The Smurfs, The Hollywood Reporter reports.
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Gary Basaraba
Gary Basaraba will be putting on a cop's uniform once again for a guest spot on Blue Bloods, TVGuide.com has learned exclusively.
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Basaraba, who starred as a police officer on both Steven Bochco's Brooklyn South and NBC's short-lived Boomtown, will play Jimmy, a former partner of Tom Selleck's Commissioner Frank Reagan. As we first reported, Jimmy once saved Frank's life and vice versa.
When the two reconnect, Jimmy hopes to capitalize on the friendship and asks Commissioner Reagan for a promotion to commander...
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Cagney & Lacey: The Menopause Years
New releases announced April 30:
Cagney & Lacey - The Menopause Years will be coming out August 25
New Tricks - Season 1 will be coming out August 25
Route 66 - Season 3, Volume 1 will be coming out June 30
The Smurfs - Volume 2: Smurfy Tales will be coming out August 18
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Smurfs
New releases announced today, December 5:
The Smurfs - Season 2, Volume 1 will be coming out February 17
Speed Racer: The Next Generation - Comet Run will be coming out May 5
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The Smurfs - Season 1, Volume 2 courtesy Warner Home Video
New releases announced today, July 15:The Buccaneers - The Best Of will be coming out August 19 Keeping Up with the Kardashians - Season 1 will be coming out October 7 The Smurfs - Season 1, Volume 2 will be coming out October 7 Speed Racer: The Next Generation - The Fast Track will be coming out October 7 Visit TVShowsOnDVD.com for the complete stories on these and other news items.
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Smurfs courtesy Peyo
Smurfing news just in your favorite Saturday morning cartoon from the 80s is making its way to the big screen According to Variety Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation are creating a live-actionanimated Smurf film In negotiations to write the screenplay are none other than David Stem and David Weiss who also penned the second and third installments in the Shrek franchise Sony obtained film rights to the blue-colored characters from Lafig Belgium via Jordan Kerner Charlottes Web who is producingThough most of us remember the cartoon as the long running Hanna-Barbera series the tiny blue residents of Smurf Village were a part of a franchise that encompassed the world for decades who wasnt obsessed with Smurfs on Ice The Smurfs are one of the best-known franchises and among the most beloved collection of characters in the world Columbia co-president Doug Belgrad said Were very excited to introduce a new generation to Papa Smurf Smurfette and th
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The Smurfs and the Magic Flute courtesy Morningstar Entertainment
Somehow a magic flute has gotten out of Smurfland and into the hands of young practical joker Peewit and the good knight Johan. That isn't so bad...but when Peewit loses the flute to the sinister Oily McCreep, the Smurfs have to come to the rescue!Legendary TV exec Fred Silverman had the knack of getting great ideas for a show from just about anywhere...including his own daughter's Smurf doll! Realizing that this line of toys represented an enormously popular world, that could make an excellent kid cartoon, Silverman put together a deal which would bring the now-classic animated series out near the end of his three-year stint as President and CEO of NBC. In 1981 NBC and Hanna-Barbera debuted the Saturday morning cartoon version of The Smurfs, and it quickly became a huge success. So much of a success, that the 1976 Belgium-made (and French-language) animated film La Flûte à six schtroumpfs was brought to the USA in 1983, dubbed in English, and distributed in theaters by At...
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Question: Are you going to do anything special to kick off the 50th anniversary of Smurfs? I bet you could get us Ausholes to join in! Maybe you could start by turning your column blue for a day?
Answer: I ran that idea by the producer in charge of all things AA and he made a really angry face and pounded his fist into a wall, so methinks we may have to come up with an easier way to mark the occasion. Something that doesn't involve 10 developers and a brand-new template. Here's an idea: What if you guys went onto eBay, purchased a bunch of vintage Smurf loot, and then mailed it to me? How much fun would that be?!
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Question: I don't know who's more anxious about the beloved Smurfs coming out on DVD, you or me. Any news on that date?
Answer: This is an easy one: I'm more anxious. Trust me. As far as a date, it's slated to "street" on Feb. 26 — three days after a certain spoiler whore's birthday. Do I have to draw you a map from my Amazon wish list to your shopping cart? 'Cause I will.
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