<a href="mms://a386.v99506.c9950.g.vm.akamaistream.net/7/386/9950/v001/comedystor.download.akamai.com/9951/specials/drawntogether1r.wmv">Drawn Together</a>Comedy Central wrote:REALITY TV GETS ANIMATED ON COMEDY CENTRAL’S
NEW SERIES "DRAWN TOGETHER" PREMIERING OCTOBER 27
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Television's First Animated Reality Series To Bring Together Eight Iconic Archetypes
From The World Of Animation Under One Roof Including
"Captain Hero," "Spanky Ham," "Foxxy Love," "Toot Braunstein" And "Wooldoor-Sockbat"
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LOS ANGELES, July 23, 2004 -- This is the true story of eight characters, picked to live together in a house to find out what happens when people stop being real and start getting animated. COMEDY CENTRAL’s "Drawn Together," television's first animated reality series, is set to premiere on Wednesday, October 27 at 10:30 p.m.* with the first of eight episodes.
"Drawn Together" presents a world where cartoon characters from various genres of animation are brought together to live under one roof. The characters leave their animated "reality" and enter a new world where their cartoon universes collide with a bang, combining different styles of animation and different personalities all "drawn together." This is COMEDY CENTRAL's first original animated series that is drawn traditionally and in 2-D digital ink and paint animation.
The eight stars/housemates represent iconic archetypes from the world of animation and include: "Captain Hero," a not-so-moral do-gooder reminiscent of the Saturday morning TV super heroes of the 70's; "Clara," a 20-year-old sweet and naive fairy-tale princess; "Toot Braunstein," a black and white pudgy heart throb from the 20’s; "Foxxy Love," a sexy mystery-solving musician; "Spanky Ham," a foul-mouthed internet download pig; "Ling-Ling," an adorable Asian trading card mini-monster; "Wooldoor-Sockbat," a wacky Saturday morning "whatchamacallit;" and "Xandir," a strong young adventurer, similar to the great video game warriors.
The characters, all with different lifestyles and personalities, create alliances with some of their housemates, but often the fighting and backstabbing take center stage. This skewers the world of animation, and also parodies many clichés of reality television. Also, whenever the moment calls for a musical number, the characters are prone to break into song. The songs too are spoofs from various genres of animation (the emotional love song ballad, the girl-group rock band, group sing-a-long), but with original lyrics.
Credits for "Drawn Together" include Matt Silverstein and Dave Jeser as creators, writers and executive producers. The series is based on characters developed by Silverstein, Jeser and Jordan Young ("The Simpsons"). Zoe Friedman is the executive in charge of production for COMEDY CENTRAL.
Silverstein and Jeser previously served as writers on COMEDY CENTRAL's "The Man Show" as well as Fox's "Action" and "Andy Richter Controls the Universe."
COMEDY CENTRAL, the only all-comedy network, currently is seen in more than 85 million homes nationwide. COMEDY CENTRAL is owned by Comedy Partners, a wholly-owned division of MTV Networks. COMEDY CENTRAL is a registered trademark of Comedy Partners. COMEDY CENTRAL's Internet address is http://www.comedycentral.com.
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