The Hub has announced the official return of Transformers: Prime to the airwaves as Friday, February 11, 2011 at 4:30pm EST which will be its regular time slot. The initial five episodes of the series, Darkness Rising, will begin re-airing on January 14th at 4:00pm.HUB TV TO PREMIERE ORIGINAL SERIES TRANSFORMERS PRIME
New Episode of Popular Series to Premiere February 11; Preceded by Encore of Highly Rated “Transformers Prime” Mini-Series
LOS ANGELES, Ca. – The Hub, a television network for kids and their families, will premiere its original half-hour, full CGI animated series “Transformers Prime” in its regular weekly time period with a new episode Friday, February 11 (4:30 p.m. ET). Announcement of the premiere date was made following the network’s recent record-setting performance of its mini-series event, a five-part presentation of original episodes of “Transformers Prime,” November 29-December 3. The highly anticipated programming event earned the network its best-ever audience deliveries among Persons 2+ and in Households. Also, for the five-day (Monday-Friday, 6–7 p. m. ET) time period average, “Transformers Prime” was the top co-viewed program among all kids cable networks with 43% of Kids 2-11 watching with Adults 18-49.*
Prior to the series’ February 11 premiere, The Hub will present an encore presentation of the “Transformers Prime” five-part mini-series, beginning Friday, January 14 (4 p.m. ET) with back-to-back presentations of the first two half-hour episodes of the mini-series. On successive Fridays in the same time period, The Hub will present two additional episodes of the mini-series, leading to the February series premiere.
The new animated series will feature archrivals the Autobots and Decepticons as they once again face-off in their epic rivalry for control of Earth. The all-new mini-series will feature iconic characters of the franchise, including Autobots Optimus Prime and Bumblebee, and the ominous Decepticon Megatron, as well as introducing new human characters to the action series.
The Hub, which rebranded from the former Discovery Kids on 10-10-10, is a joint venture of Discovery Communications and Hasbro, Inc., and is available to 61 million U.S. cable and satellite households.
“Transformers Prime” is produced for The Hub by Hasbro Studios. Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci and Jeff Kline are executive producers. Kurtzman and Orci served as co-writers and producers on the hit feature film Star Trek, and are currently co-writers and producers for the feature film Cowboys and Aliens from Dreamworks/Universal, set for release in summer 2011. Kline is also executive producer of The Hub animated series “G.I. Joe Renegades.”
I guess I could have broken this up into four or five posts but figured better to hit all the bullet points at once for this interesting day in the world of Transformers. The news covers an interview with Lester Speight, new concept art, a reward from Michael Bay and Discovery Communications held hostage.There is a disturbing video going around the news outlets. It's a video of blonde young woman in a red sweatshirt casually tossing squealing puppies into the fast-moving river one by one.The video is disturbing enough that the folks over at 4chan are on the case. As it turns out, the 4chan threat might have lead Bosnian Katja Puschnik to post a video (pulled by YouTube) apologizing for her actions. She wrote:
Michael Bay has informed me that he is offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and successful prosecution of the woman in the red sweatshirt and the person who shot this act of cruelty.
If you have any information, please e-mail me at webmaster@michaelbay.com
"My name is Katja Puschnik and I would like to apologize [sic] for my behavior. The puppies belong to my grandma and she told me to get rid of them because they were only 3 days and they were ill. They had parasites from their mother. I didn't knew [sic] exactly what to do so I thrown [sic] them in the river because it was a short death. I did not want to make them suffer. I am really sorry for this:("Local police are apparently investigating this but it has not been verified if this confession is real or not.
MG: Tell us about your role in the upcoming “Transformers 3″?No idea if the $400 million budget figure is true but I think it is likely way too high. It will likely be a while before find out for sure. If true, I take it as great news as Bay is such a budget hawk that the more he has to spend, the more screen time of Transformers in robot mode we are likely to get. (link via TFW2005)
LS: I am not sure if you know but “Transformers 3″ has just eclipsed “Titanic” as the largest budgeted film ever. $400 million (incorrect, see below) and still going north! We are totally taking over downtown Chicago. The city is buzzing and it is crazy around here. I play Hardcore Eddie. Tyrese’s character Robert Epps calls me in. I was in a war with his father. I always told his dad I would look out for him and watch his back. I am doing all the heavy shooting, rocket launchers and kicking ass. Hardcore Eddie is old school soldier who has seen it all and done it all. I am just kicking ass and blowing up shit. Michael (Bay) just created such a great character.
The Ultimate Transformers Blog has posted this art from Josh Nizzi (from his website I guess) that shows a concept of Optimus Prime combining with his trailer. I have a feeling this is Transformers 2 art but still cool looking idea, especially with the electric axe. Thanks to Scorpio for the link.
The main villain is finally here giving us his one-eyed evil glare, Shockwave. Accompanying him is Soundwave. Both of whom were spotted during filming in Chicago. There is still no news on the alt mode for Shockwave or whether Soundwave will acquire a earth mode.
