'Storm Hawks' to Air on Free TV in the UK

Following a launch in the UK on digital television, Nerd Corps Entertainment’s 3-D animated series “Storm Hawks” is heading over the dial to free-to-air broadcaster GMTV. The series will launch mid-March, starting with back-to-back episodes each weekday morning on GMTV’s Action Stations block and simulcast on CITV.

The series currently airs more than 25 times per week on Cartoon Network UK, where it launched in August 2007. As well as GMTV, the series is slated to launch in more than 40 additional countries this year, and currently sees multiple weekly airings on Cartoon Network in the United States, France, Eastern Europe, and Latin America, as well as YTV and VRAK in Canada and terrestrial broadcasters France 3 and RTL II (Germany).

Master toy partner Spin Master kicked off the show’s retail roll out in the UK in February, launching the toy line at Toys “R” Us. Next in line will be Sony Pictures Home Entertainment’s release of the first season of Storm Hawks on DVD, slated for September. Topps Europe has also come on board and will launch Storm Hawks trading card games, collectable stickers and albums at the end of 2008 and early 2009.