marblemedia, Blueprint Strike TELETOON Co-Production Deal

TORONTO, October 19:
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