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Good news for everybody in animation, according to AWN`s FLASH Drew Carey`s Green Screen Show has been picked up. In the first run of this live action/animation show everybody I knew and every boutique studio in town was steaming away under a mountain of animation. Here is hoping that Comedy Central is talking new shows not just reruns. I am thinking very strongly about putting Drew Carey up for animation sainthood. I know a lot of people who would vote for him.

21. COMEDY CENTRAL PICKS UP DREW CAREY`S GREEN SCREEN SHOW. Comedy Central has acquired DREW CAREY`S GREEN SCREEN SHOW, which will premiere Sept. 26, 2005, at 10:00 pm. The live-action/animated improv comedy first aired on The WB last fall.

To promote the broadcast, Carey and the stars of DREW CAREY`S GREEN SCREEN
SHOW will be featured in a special, DREW CAREY FRIDAY NIGHT STAND-UP, Sept. 16 from 8:30-11:00 pm. This will include specials from D.L. Hughley, Godfrey, Keith Robinson and Mark Curry, with Carey filling the audience in on his upcoming stand-up tour and details about his GREEN SCREEN SHOW.

The concept calls for the cast to act out quirky ideas suggested by the audience in front of a greenscreen. Animation directors Acme Filmworks recruited from around the world expand upon audience suggestions, inserting the actors into the skit in an animated version of the theme or environment pitched by the audience. Sometimes the actors are morphed and animated or later with vfx. The live-action and animation talents combine to create an actual improvised show that brings to life the details going on in their vivid imaginations.

For animation fans it offers a vast array of styles from 3D to traditional, stop-motion to cutout, anime to Disney.

Carey, who created the show, exec produced it with Ron Diamond, CEO of animation provider Acme Filmworks. The show is a production of Production Group and Michigan J.

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