TORONTO - marblemedia and Blueprint Entertainment have partnered to produce 13 half-hour episodes of the animated series The Dating Guy, scheduled to air in late 2008 as part of The Detour on TELETOON, the Canadian animation station’s teen/adult programming block.
The Dating Guy, to be available in both English and French, is an urban-minded animated series that looks at relationships from a “downtown guy’s” perspective. Created by marblemedia partners Matt Hornburg and Mark Bishop, and developed with TELETOON, the series will also feature a fully integrated online component.
Blueprint’s John Morayniss and Frank Saperstein serve as executive producers, along with Hornburg and Bishop. The international distribution rights will be handled by Blueprint through Oasis International. The Dating Guy marks marblemedia’s first foray into the world of animation.
—By Kristin Brzoznowski
Excerpted from Worldscreen
