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Atomic Betty

From L to R: Sparky, Betty, and X-5
Genre Animated television series
Creator(s) Trevor Bentley
Mauro Casalese
Rob Davies
Olaf Miller
Ginan Zedra
Starring (English version)

Tajja Isen
Rick Miller
Bruce Hunter
Adrian Truss
Laurie Elliott
Catherine Disher
Colin Fox
Len Carlson
Country of origin Flag of Canada Canada
No. of episodes 104 x 15 minutes or 52 x 30 minutes, plus 1 Christmas special (60 minutes) (List of episodes)
Production
Producer(s) Kevin Gillis
Ginan Zedra
Virginie Jallot
Rob Davies
Executive producer(s) Ira Levy
Peter Williamson
Kevin Gillis
Trevor Bentley
Steven Hecht
Philippe Alessandri
Nghia Nguyen (co-executive producer)
Running time 15 or 30 minutes, depending on market and format.
Broadcast
Original channel TELETOON / TÉLÉTOON
See Airing locales for outside of Canada.
Original run September 6, 2004 (Canada)
September 17, 2004 (United States) – Present
Links
Official website
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

Atomic Betty is a Canadian animated television series ("Canime") produced by Atomic Cartoons, Breakthrough Films & Television, and Tele Images Kids. Additional funding for production is provided by Teletoon in Canada and Métropole 6 in France. The animation is produced by Atomic Cartoons, with some additional animation support for the French language version by French firm Caribara.

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[edit] Overview

[edit] Production

Breakthrough Films & Television became Atomic Cartoons' partner in producing and distributing the television series worldwide, beginning with TELETOON in Canada (premiered September 6, 2004) and Cartoon Network in the United States (premiered September 17, 2004)

Atomic Betty is one of an increasing number of cartoons made using Adobe Flash and has a distinct smoothness to the animation that separates it from traditional cel animation. Ironically, there is considerable artistic influence from classic cel animation such as old Hanna-Barbera cartoons like The Jetsons.

There were 52 half-hour or 104 quarter-hour episodes over the course of two seasons. There is also a full-hour christmas special.

According to some Atomic Cartoons staff, several television stations that broadcast, including Teletoon in Canada, Cartoon Network in the United States, and M6 in France, eventually decided that the third season of Atomic Betty was rejected, and it seems that the show will be cancelled. This might be because Len Carlson, who was the voice of Minimus P.U., died on January 26, 2006, and Atomic Cartoons couldn't remove the character from the show nor find another voice actor to replace Carlson. There's still hope of the show not getting cancelled, but unless Teletoon renews the license with Atomic Cartoons, the show will end up being cancelled entirely.

[edit] Story

The series centers on Betty, a typical Canadian adolescent who enjoys school, science-fiction movies and singing in her band. Unknown to most of her friends and family, however, she is also a Galactic Guardian, dedicated to interstellar peacekeeping and law enforcement. As Atomic Betty, assisted by her alien pilot Sparky, and a robot named X-5, she confronts the evil overlord Maximus I.Q. Despite being rather unassuming on Earth, Atomic Betty is a superstar throughout the galaxy and even has her own fan club of loyal followers.

In each episode, a crisis occurs somewhere in the galaxy, while Betty enjoys some activity with her friends. Invariably, her bracelet begins beeping, and she runs off alone to save the galaxy. Accompanied by her crew, Betty manages to defeat the villains before returning home.

Although the series is about a spaceranger, the story line bears simillar to the superhero genre and, mostly, magical girl genre, as Betty has an identity secret to the people on Earth.

[edit] Characters

Main article: List of Atomic Betty characters

[edit] Voice cast

[edit] Episodes

Main article: List of Atomic Betty episodes

[edit] Posters

Atomic Betty poster

Atomic Betty series poster

[edit] Airing locales

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In Canada, where the series produced, TELETOON, as well as its French language version, TÉLÉTOON, broadcast it. In the outside of Canada, Cartoon Network broadcast it in the countries where Cartoon Network exists except in some countries. In France, TéléTOON, only on TPS platform, broadcast the series; Cartoon Network in France, only on CanalSat platform, had never broadcast the series. In Germany, Disney Channel premiered the series in 24 October 2005 and later on its sister channel, Toon Disney.[1] Later, Kabel Eins launched Cartoon Network as their programming block. However, Disney Channel still broadcast the series. In the Netherlands, Jetix broadcast the series. From February 2007, the Dutch version of Cartoon Network is broadcasting the series in English.

As well as on subscription platform, the series also broadcast on terrestrial platform. In France, Métropole Télévision broadcast the series on their M6 KID block, as the station involved in the production. In the United Kingdom, CITV on the British ITV stations such as ITV1 branded stations, STV and UTV, as well as its free-to-air digital channel, CITV Channel, broadcast the series. In Australia, ABC broadcast the series on their ABC Kids block. In Hong Kong, TVB Pearl broadcast the series on their children’s programming slot. In Brazil, Rede Globo broadcast the series.

Pan Middle Eastern channel MBC 3 broadcast Arabic language version of the series.

In Andorra, Portugal and Spain, Luk Internacional, SA licenses the series.

[edit] DVD Releases

Warner Bros. released two volumes of Atomic Betty on DVD in October 18, 2005, which contains 16 15-minute episodes from the first season.

[edit] Video games

[edit] External links

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