The Mystery Of Mess O' Blues (Unreleased Johnny Bravo Pilot)

Mess O' Blues is a 1993 senior thesis project short film by Johnny Bravo creator Van Partible. The short film stars an Elvis Presley impersonator, who was the prototype version of what would later become the Johnny Bravo character. The title itself is a reference to an Elvis Presley song, A Mess of Blues.

While plot details of the short film are unknown, fifteen seconds of footage was shown in the "Bringing Up Johnny Bravo" look-back documentary, which was a bonus feature on the Season 1 DVD. In a video uploaded by Loyola Marymount University, four animation cels from Mess O' Blues were shown. These depicted the Elvis impersonator holding a mirror, holding a microphone, holding up a sheep with a bow on its head, and sitting on a bench across from an irritated woman. According to Partible, he owns the only VHS tape copy of the film.

As a guest on the What's In My Head Podcast, Van Partible confirmed that he has no plans to release Mess O' Blues. He wishes to preserve the novelty of sharing it with others as a "fun little thing" in private viewings, rather than publicly on the internet for all to see. Partible also reassured that the short film "isn't going anywhere" and that he saved a re-digitalized copy to his hard drive.

History
While Van Partible was a student at Loyola Marymount University, he decided to persue animation, and soon enough began to develop a short film for his senior thesis project. He originally wanted it to star a trio of Elvis impersonators ("Elvi") who fought crime, but settled on just one to lighten his one-man workload. This sole impersonator was described as an "over-the-hill aging rock star who thinks he's Elvis." The project originally had no soundtrack and was presented with a live-reading out of necessity, some friends of Partible's providing the voices and music, with Partible himself providing the sound effects. Due to Mess O' Blues being silent, he was unable to enter the piece in any film festivals.

When Partible learned that the short film was going to be shown to Hanna-Barbera, he added an audio track of himself doing all the voices. His animation professor, Dan McLaughlin, presented the completed short film (alongside student films by others) to Buzz Potamkin, a friend of his at the studio. Soon after, Partible was asked by Ellen Cockrill, one of the heads of development, if he was interested in pitching a 7-minute cartoon based on Mess O' Blues for their shorts program What A Cartoon! on Cartoon Network. When Partible pitched his polished idea of Johnny Bravo, it was met with some hesitancy until Cockrill and two other women fought to get the project made.

Credits: Wiki and YoshiKiller2S

Turkish Couple Edits Presents Verdeelde Liefde's Zeynep & Mehdi ❤️ You And I

Turkish Couple Edits a YouTube channel which distributes a variety of music videos based on couples within a number of telenovelas. Part of which can be viewed on eExtra: #DisComplicated and Verdeelde Liefde.

Here's the first music video this time for the show Verdeelde Liefde:

If anyone is wondering what song is being used here it's You And I performed by the English Irish band One Direction which consists of Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Harry Styles, Niall Horan and Louis Tomlinson.

What To Expect On TNT, Cartoon Network And Boomerang Africa In November 2022? (Drafted Version)

TNT:

Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson Fan Month
Reckless Behaviour
Rising Above

Cartoon Network:

Lego Monkie Kid - New Show
Monkie Kid, also known as MK, leads an ordinary life as a noodle delivery boy until destiny chooses him for a legendary quest against a powerful enemy who was subdued by Monkey King several hundred years ago.

Coach Me If You Can - New Episodes
Erico Platana, a skilled soccer player, is turned into a football by a sorcerer. If he wishes to get back to normal, he must help Daniel, a little boy, hone his soccer skills.

Teen Titans GO! - New Episodes
The superheroes Robin, Cyborg, Starfire, Raven and Beast Boy love saving the world. But after they decide to stop fighting crime, things do not go as planned.

Boomerang:

Looney Tunes Cartoons - New Episodes
A compilation of the misadventures of the various classic Looney Tunes characters such as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig and more.

Scooby-Doo! Return To Zombie Island
Scooby-Doo and his friends are invited to a tropical island for a relaxing vacation. When they are attacked by zombies, they decide to come out of retirement and investigate it.

Tweety's 80th Birthday
Anchoring the “80 Years of Tweety” celebration, the stunning murals designed by a spirited group of artists will celebrate Tweety’s cheerful enthusiasm, cutes and smarts, as well as his endearing personality.

Shrek "I Feel Good" Animation Test Part 1-4 Compilation

Shrek is a 2001 computer-animated film directed by Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson, based on the book of the same name. However, production for the film dates back to around 1995, when Chris Farley was originally cast as Shrek. Around this time, Dreamworks made an animation test featuring an early version of Shrek. It is currently unknown how long the animation test was. 

Plot 

All that's known about the plot is that Shrek enters a gated city at night, singing "I Got You (I Feel Good)" by James Brown. He comes across a Mugger tied to a rope, who was singing along with Shrek. Shrek proceeds to play with him and then stretches the Mugger on his rope, and sends him soaring into the night sky.

Availability 

Very little information is known about the topic, and all that remains of the actual animation test are still images. In April of 2017, YouTuber "unclesporkums" uploaded a storyboard version of the animation test. He later re-uploaded it in September of 2017 because he found more storyboards of the animatic. Since voices were absent from the original upload, he decided to voice over the missing lines by himself. The upload can be watched down below and is roughly 2 minutes and 23 seconds long. Considering the storyboards' existence, it’s likely that the actual animation is either somewhere in the Dreamworks Archives or in the hands of a collector.

On July 30th, 2022, LMW user DingleManBoy (aka DoofusManBoy on YouTube) found a sped-up clip of the tape in HD quality on a demo reel of a previous animator for Dreamworks' pre-production stage of Shrek (1996-1998). It was uploaded to YouTube and slowed down/zoomed so that every frame was visible (31 frames total). It is partially covered by another film and has no audio. 

On August 14th, 2022, YouTube user TheSecretLifeOfAliens uploaded two snippets of the test, a snippet with just Shrek, and a snippet with both Shrek and the Mugger, without the original audio. The footage comes from demo reels by another Dreamworks animator. 

On August 17th, 2022, a video containing early models for Shrek and the Mugger was found on the Hester Studios website. It's unknown if they were used in the final test. Credits: Lost Media Wiki and Simtonpore Studio

Magic Showcase: Potential Outcome For Upcoming M-Net Channel

A few days ago, it was announced that M-Net and MultiChoice will be launching a "new" channel Magic Showcase inspired by one of their current channels Novela Magic which too is based on a variety of local brands from the company but how do these two differ nobody knows yet.

Novela Magic inspired by the likes of Telemundo and Zee World is telenovela based basically another female led channel while as the duplicate Magic Showcase doubles down on the rebroadcast with Legacy, Enakhe, Zuba and Arendsvlei.

Magic Showcase is set to be unveiled from 1st of November but not much is known about the channel except for the launch date and content which might not be the final outcome as it could most likely be a Pan-African brand like The Africa Channel.

Another thing to note is just like Novela Magic did at launch the same could await Magic Showcase as other outlets in neighbouring countries seem to not be familiar with this reported channel as most don't seem to be aware of such a brand existing probably cause it's early.

But we're almost at the end of the month so how early is early in this case.

Magic Showcase seems more geared to the Easyview package as consumers on that package have no means to watch the bulk of local content coming to M-Net but what makes me think that just like Real Time it will tag other customers has to do with Legacy.

The 2 seasoned soap finished it's run on M-Net with reruns currently seen on Me. Mzansi Wethu which would probably be the only means to view Legacy at one point hasn't broadcast the show alongside Novela Magic.

So consumers might be getting the Real Time treatment which benefited the weakest of the pack and was much of a burden to other customers. Overtime Real Time evolved but there's no telling if the same is expected for Magic Showcase as the content is all over the place.