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Thursday announced three upcoming animation projects,
including the second season of its hit animated series
Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the
World as well as the airing of the Jim Henson
Co.'s Tinseltown pilot and the short-form
series Small Talk.
Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All of
the World premiered in July. The unique six-episode
stop-motion series, which features the voices of Peter
Paige, Alan Cumming, Margaret Cho, and Wilson Cruz, as
well as its companion Web site,
HappiestGayCouple.com, were a hit with the LGBT audience,
who for the first time were treated to a full-length
animated series on commercial television that
satirized all aspects of gay life, according to the
release.
The 12-minute
Tinseltown pilot, which airs November 2, stars
puppets Bobby, a celebrity has-been pig, and his
manager and life partner, Samson -- who is a bull -- as they
navigate their way through Hollywood and try to raise
their teenage human son. Tinseltown was created and
directed by Brian Henson and Bill Baretta of the
Henson Co. and was cowritten by Del Shores, the
writer-director most famous for his hit play and feature
film Sordid Lives.
The animated
Small Talk stars two gay male friends who
take witty aim at gay life from the steam room to rehab. The
series was created by Michael Trull and Rick Ziegler, who
have worked on animation projects for both feature
film and television on such titles as Beowulf
and South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut.
(The Advocate)
