Toronto-based Cuppa Coffee is handling the 20 episode order of Nick at Nite’s new, stop-motion, family-comedy series Glenn Martin, DDS. The show was co-created by Alex Berger and former Disney CEO Michael Eisner. Eric Fogel (Celebrity Deathmatch) is the supervising director and Michael Jamin and Sivert Glarum, two King of the Hill vets, are showrunners. There’s no official premiere date yet, but it’s due out this summer. Here’s a clip and a featurette:

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Completed in 2007, Jun Falkenstein’s Random Cartoons short Kyle + Rosemary finally aired earlier this year on Nicktoons. It’s a 7-minute short that combines 2D and CGI animation. The store follows “a Geek and a Goth who fall for eachother, even though their friends disapprove. The twist: they meet online, in the fantasy roleplaying game Questworld.”

By way of The People’s Republic of Animation (PRA), James Calvert and Eddie White directed this 3-minute animated short in 2008 for Nickelodeon Australia’s Nick Shorts program. The Ghastly Gourmet Cooking Show follows three beastly chefs, Chip, Chop and Chunk, who apparently have a recipe for a meal of any size:

Eric Robles’ (The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy) new series Fanboy & Chum Chum received a 26-episode order from Nickelodeon back in 2008, and the Frederator team has been doing a wonderful job of cataloging the production process on their blog. This week, we get a sneak peek at the series main title, which is still a work in progress. This sequence was directed by Shaun Cashman, boarded by Niki Yang and Andy Kelly and animated by Michael Franceschi, Erik Kling and Dennis Shelby.

Ever wonder was a series bible looks like? Well, here’s the Fanboy & Chum Chum bible online.

This Saturday at 9:30pm/8:30c, Nickeloeon will premiere the new CG animated comedy series The Penguins of Madagascar, which is a continuation of the Madagascar feature film franchise. The show actually first hit TV last November, strategically teased on Nick weeks after Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa bowed in theaters. DreamWorks and Nick must have liked what they saw, as the 26 episode order was doubled before the first episode even got its feet wet. Check out a clip:

Series Executive Producers Bob Schooley and Mark McCorkle are no strangers to the translation process of a feature-film property to TV – having done the same on Aladdin, Hercules, Lilo & Stitch and Buzz Lightyear. However, they also know how to build something from the ground up, as evidenced in Kim Possible, the animated franchise they created at Disney. In the following Lineboil interview Bob and Mark explain how these skillsets have combined to create what looks to be Nickelodeon’s next big hit:

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Italian artist Lucas Zanotto, who works in Berlin, directed this cute ident for Nick Jr. Germany – using a mixture of stop-motion and After Effects. It was produced by way of Dyrdee.

This Friday at 8:30pm, we’ll get a sneak-peek at Nickelodeon’s upcoming TV series, The Penguins of Madagascar. The series, which stems from the immensely successful Madagascar feature film franchise, is currently scheduled to premiere in early 2009. “Our Madagascar penguins were hugely popular on the big screen, so it seemed natural to give them their own television show on the premier entertainment network for kids,” said DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg. As we await Friday’s preview, here’s a short clip from the series to chew on…