4Kids Plans for Fox Kids

4Kids Entertainment recently bought the rights to schedule their own programming for the Saturday morning hours of Fox Television network’s weekly schedule. Toon Zone has revealed some of 4Kids plans for that broadcast time. The original 1983 Kinnikuman TV series is considered too old to be marketable on American television, so Fox will be broadcasting the Kinnikuman Second Generation TV series that began airing on Japanese television last month. 4Kids is apparently also interested in licensing the American broadcast rights to the current Hoshi no Kirby anime TV series, based on the popular Nintendo video game character. On the live action front, 4Kids will be reviving the Ultraman franchise in America beginning with the broadcast of the 52 episode Japanese Ultraman Tiga TV series from 1996.

4Kids will also be inaugurating its theatrical distribution division with the American release of Pocket Monster movie 4 and the upcoming movie 5.

Source: Toon Zone