The embargo is up: After premiereing on Cartoon Network Europe years
ago, Biker Mice from Mars 2006 is airing on 4Kids.tv at 830 AM Eastern
Time. (2nd time slot in the lineup, after reruns of the suprisingly
tolerable Digata Defenders.)

I caught Saturday's airing of Episode 2 (of a 2-part premiere).
Details later. For now:

Voices for the Mice are the same. Rob Paulsen, Ian Zeiring, and
Dorain Harewood return without missing a beat. Not sure of Charlie/
Charlotte has a new voice. Clancy Brown is PERFECT as a gruff
antagonist (the loss of Morgan Sheppard as Limburger is tempered, as a
result) Luke Perry plays an annoying Francophone feline.

Animation from Phillippine Animation Studios is a DEVOLUTION from
their work on the original show. The new character designs are less
detailed, lankier and mushier. The animation is too rubbery, when it
isn't simply sloppy. It's as though the show had a lower budget and a
less capable crop of animators.

Tom Tataranowicz returns to direct, and has a writing credit, as
well. (I beleive he contributed to the pilot of the original series).

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Son of the Mask might work as a cartoon, but it's not something I would
watch.

I don't see The Tick coming back any time soon after the failure of the live
action version. The cartoon did run a good length but any new episodes would
depend more on how much more story could be drawn from the original comics.

I don't think a remake of Carmen SanDiego could get any better than the
first, with the exception of improving the storyline.