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Hasbro announced the cast of Transformers: Prime in this official press release. The press release also announces the cast of the new GI JOE Series GI JOE: Renegades along with the casts of other original programming for The Hub.

LOS ANGELES, Ca. – Approaching its October 10 (10-10-10) launch, the new children’s and family network The Hub has tapped an impressive roster of popular stars for its lineup of Hub Original Series. The casting for animated and live-action series was announced today by Margaret Loesch, President and CEO, The Hub, during the new network’s appearance at the 2010 Television Critics Association Press Tour in Los Angeles.
The Hub is a joint venture of Discovery Communications and Hasbro, Inc., and will be available to 60 million U.S. cable and satellite households upon launch.
Casting unveiled today includes:

“Transformers Prime” (Hub Original Series, animated) Cast includes: Peter Cullen (“Transformers” Trilogy – Optimus Prime), Frank Welker (“Transformers” Trilogy - Megatron), Gina Torres (“MadTV”), James Remer (“Dexter”), Josh Keaton (“Justice League: Circle of Two Earths”), Kevin Michael Richardson (“The Batman”), Markie Post (“The Fall Guy”). Produced by Hasbro Studios.

In another press release, it was announced the channel will air episodes of the Generation 1 cartoon and GI JOE: A Real American Hero among other shows.

Announcement of the program acquisitions was made today by Margaret Loesch, President and CEO, The Hub, during the new network’s appearance at the 2010 Television Critics Association Press Tour in Los Angeles.

“Transformers – Generation 1”
The iconic ’80s TV series, “Transformers – Generation 1,” which launched the global Transformers entertainment franchise, introduces audiences to the Transformers, sentient robotic beings from Cybertron who crash land on Earth and are divided into two opposing factions, the Autobots and Decepticons. Produced by Marvel Productions and Sunbow Productions.

See all the casts for each of the new shows here and for the acquisition of old series here

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"Tranformers Trilogy"? What trilogy? I know there was a Unicron trilogy, but Peter Cullen and Frank Welker were in none of them. I am excited to see the re-airing of the original series.

Mindmaster wrote:"Tranformers Trilogy"? What trilogy? I know there was a Unicron trilogy, but Peter Cullen and Frank Welker were in none of them.

I'm pretty sure they mean the Film trilogy, though I don't remember Frank Welker being in the first movie.

Also it's Crisis on two Earths not Circles

Mindmaster wrote:"Tranformers Trilogy"? What trilogy? I know there was a Unicron trilogy, but Peter Cullen and Frank Welker were in none of them. I am excited to see the re-airing of the original series.

Maybe its reffering to the movie series as a triology.
But this means no movies after the thrid?I hope not,i dont wanna see a reboot.

Its seems Hasbro really putting some big effort on this new series,cant wait for it.

Cliffjumper Prime wrote:Also it's Crisis on two Earths not Circles

Maybe a new saga!

Markie Post, much better known from "Night Court".

thats only 7 characters. are they voicing multiple transformers?

griftimus prime wrote:thats only 7 characters. are they voicing multiple transformers?

That is fairly normal. The first season of G1 had Mr. Welker voicing more than half of the Decepticons, and let us not forget the talented Mr. McNeil during Beast Wars and the number of times he was arguing with himself.

What time and what channel is this re-airing on?

I wonder if I carry The Hub; I'd love to see G1 on TV for myself (wasn't around yet when it was on)

autobot-jolt wrote:I wonder if I carry The Hub; I'd love to see G1 on TV for myself (wasn't around yet when it was on)

Me neither! I want to re live the lives of the TF fans that where alive when G1 first aired!

SlyTF1 wrote:

autobot-jolt wrote:I wonder if I carry The Hub; I'd love to see G1 on TV for myself (wasn't around yet when it was on)

Me neither! I want to re live the lives of the TF fans that where alive when G1 first aired!

If I understand it right if, you currently have Discovery Kids it'll "transform" into The Hub in October. (My local cable provider does not carry Discovery Kids in any package.)

However, to truly re-live the lives of us old codgers who were around in 1984: you can only watch 1 episode per week (even the multi-parters in the first season), you have to beg your parents or grandparents to buy you your Transformers, and have to do the "duck and cover" drills as at the time we were still worried about getting nuked by the U.S.S.R.

The cast for Gi Joe looks great as well:

“G.I. Joe Renegades” (Hub Original Series, animated)
Cast includes: Charlie Adler (“Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen”), Lee Majors (“Six
Million Dollar Man”), Clancy Brown (“Shawshank Redemption”), Jason Marsden
(“Batman: The Brave and the Bold”), Johnny Messner (“Tears of the Sun”) and Kevin
Michael Richardson (“The Batman”) Produced by Hasbro Studios.

Also approve of the cast for Pound Puppies:

“Pound Puppies” (Hub Original Series, animated)
Cast includes: Betty White (“Hot in Cleveland”), Eric McCormack (“Will & Grace”),
Michael Rapaport (“Prison Break”), John DiMaggio (“Futurama”), Alanna Ubach
(“Hung”), Rene Auberjonois (“Boston Legal”) and Yvette Nicole Brown (“Community”).
Produced by Hasbro Studios.

Also cool to see that Doogie Houser and the Wonder Years are on here as well. Pure awesomeness

Awesome news on the re-airing of the original toon! Now wouldn't that be sweet if it ended up getting better ratings than TF:Prime?

In a way it wouldn't shock me if initially the ratings were better, especially if they played it often enough. I mean it always was sort of a crying shame that TF-G1 wasn't really rerun too often since the early 90s when it was temporarily re-branded Generation 2 (Even though it was all just old G1 episodes with CGI bumpers)

I wouldn't be too surprised if the TF DVD sales start going down and they start to discount the dvd sets a bit more. I mean now they can command a good price simply because no one is really airing them anymore and us nostalgic old farts in our late 20s and early 30s are buying them regardless of the price. And I'm sure enough kids are asking for it after the movies.

If they're able to capture some of the feeling of the classic show in the new show - then whoa they'll have a hit. Also helps that at least the voices of the two main characters - Optimus Prime and Megatron have the same voices in both shows, so even if the art and all that is clearly different, kids won't be too overly confused. "Oh they sound alike, must be the same show" and they'll watch both shows religiously, just like we did.

It airs October 10th? that's my dog's birthday!

Wow... gee... no good reply there.

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By the way, has anyone read if it's been confirmed that TF:Prime will be sort of a continuation of War for Cybertron or if it'll just be "loosely" descended from it?

there's a mistake in there....Gina Torres was never on MadTV. she's more famous among the genre crowd for her role on Firefly/Serenity and she was also on Angel for the last episodes of its 4th season. but its interesting because there was an actress from MadTV who looked similar to her, they have different last names but i used to wonder if they might be sisters.

but Gina has done a lot of voiceover work in recent years so i'm betting she IS on this show but they mistaked her for that other girl and accidentally listed MadTV as a credit. case anybody cares this is the MadTV actresss:

http://anyclip.com/actors/nicole-randall-johnson/

and here is Gina Torress

http://www.cloverfieldmovieforums.com/s ... php?t=9184

so i can see how someone got confused but you'd think someone's job would be to make sure information is correct before sending it out to the world. lol

oooooooh, maybe they'll air beast wars/machiens and round out the generation 1 trilogy

"Justice League: Circle of Two Earths"?! That's "Crisis on Two Earths". What a ridiculous typo.

Also,

“G.I. Joe Renegades” (Hub Original Series, animated)
Cast includes: Charlie Adler

Please tell me he's Cobra Commander, he did such a spectacular job as him in Resolute. If he does, then I am so watching "G.I.Joe: Renegades".

Elita One wrote:The cast for Gi Joe looks great as well:

“G.I. Joe Renegades” (Hub Original Series, animated)
Cast includes: Charlie Adler (“Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen”), Lee Majors (“Six
Million Dollar Man”), Clancy Brown (“Shawshank Redemption”), Jason Marsden
(“Batman: The Brave and the Bold”), Johnny Messner (“Tears of the Sun”) and Kevin
Michael Richardson (“The Batman”) Produced by Hasbro Studios.

Also approve of the cast for Pound Puppies:

“Pound Puppies” (Hub Original Series, animated)
Cast includes: Betty White (“Hot in Cleveland”), Eric McCormack (“Will & Grace”),
Michael Rapaport (“Prison Break”), John DiMaggio (“Futurama”), Alanna Ubach
(“Hung”), Rene Auberjonois (“Boston Legal”) and Yvette Nicole Brown (“Community”).
Produced by Hasbro Studios.

Also cool to see that Doogie Houser and the Wonder Years are on here as well. Pure awesomeness

Wow, it seems like Hasbro making a big push on all their properties. I mean not only did they get great voice actors, but great regular actors as well. Way to get it on Hasbro.