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Across the film and television landscape, there is no shortage of notable talking felines, from the endlessly endearing Puss in Boots (voiced by Antonio Banderas) of the Shrek/Puss in Boots franchise to the momentarily popular version of Garfield (voiced by Bill Murray) from the Garfield films. However, when narrowing the scope down to the most famous of black cats, especially in the interest of Spooky Season, chances are for a number of people, the Sabrina franchise’s Salem will first come to mind. Perhaps the most iconic version of the character is from the popular sitcom, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, in which the witch’s feline companion is voiced by Nick Bakay. Salem’s popularity continues to endure, whether in memes pulled from the sitcom, or even in his non-talking form in the recent delightfully campy reimagining, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. And yet, despite his memorability and memeability, Salem...

Paula Hart (Sabrina The Teenage Witch) and her Hartbreak Films will work with the independent studio to develop and produce series and TV movies for family and animation programming. Under the deal, eOne will serve as the worldwide distributor as part of its strategy to expand its U.S. Family and Animation division, according to Managing Director Olivier Dumont. The momager executive-produced more than 160 episodes of the series starring her daughter Sabrina The Teenage Witch and also served as Executive Producer of Sabrina The Animated Series as well as several Sabrina movies. Hart is currently producing ABC Family’s Melissa And Joey also starring her daughter, and the new Nickelodeon series Grounded.

I want to make you aware of something that isn’t going to be for all of our readers though I think more of you out there will find this an interesting grab despite its contents. Mill Creek has been sending us some excellent Halloween treats available at some very reasonable prices perfect for a variety of tastes and age groups. As you may know I have a gruesome twosome of little ones at home. Let’s just say that I don’t shy away from showing them some spooky offerings especially around Halloween. My little girls, aged eleven months and eight years old, love TV, and I am making it my duty to get them into the Halloween spirit and darker cartoons and age appropriate horror. For those of you who want to get on my ass about “too much TV” for kids, I am the product of my TV; shove it.

So you’re a horror fan, but you’re on a budget. You like a little of everything from Hostel to Browning’s Dracula and the gamut that is run in between especially during the month of October. How do you pick up a respectable horror movie collection, quickly, spending as little money as possible? Mill Creek (not Wolf Creek or Boggy Creek). These guys put out a nice series of collections from the Drive In theater favorites to those rad 100 movie boxes you might find on the shelves of Walmart.

Make sure you take a gander at the selection below and stop by their website. We’ll have product reviews as we watch them and make sure you know what you’re getting inside each box. No matter what, you’ll be getting a pile of movies at a low price. I’m sure you’ll be able to...

POSITANO, Italy -- California's DIC Entertainment and Italian studio Enarmonia were presented with studio of the year awards Saturday at the 10th Cartoons on the Bay Festival, while the Italian premier of the blockbuster animated film Ice Age 2 was greeted with rousing applause from those on hand and it earned praise from Italian critics. DIC, which is one of only a handful of studios at this year's Cartoons on the Bay festival that was also on hand for the first edition of the event in 1997, also said that its new lineup of programs to debut in September on CBS will be for 26 30-minute episodes, rather than 13 as in past years. The three-hour "Saturday Morning Secret Slumber Party" lineup, which is aimed at kids aged 6 to 12, is set to debut Sept. 16. It will feature three new series: Horseland, Kooky Kitchen, and Littlest Pet Shop, along with new programming for existing series Sabrina: The Animated Series, Trollz, and Madeline.

POSITANO, Italy -- California's DIC Entertainment and Italian studio Enarmonia were presented with studio of the year awards Saturday at the 10th Cartoons on the Bay Festival, while the Italian premier of the blockbuster animated film Ice Age 2 was greeted with rousing applause from those on hand and it earned praise from Italian critics. DIC, which is one of only a handful of studios at this year's Cartoons on the Bay festival that was also on hand for the first edition of the event in 1997, also said that its new lineup of programs to debut in September on CBS will be for 26 30-minute episodes, rather than 13 as in past years. The three-hour "Saturday Morning Secret Slumber Party" lineup, which is aimed at kids aged 6 to 12, is set to debut Sept. 16. It will feature three new series: Horseland, Kooky Kitchen, and Littlest Pet Shop, along with new programming for existing series Sabrina: The Animated Series, Trollz, and Madeline.

Trollz, Sabrina: The Animated Series and Madeline are among the shows that will air during CBS and DIC Entertainment's Saturday morning children's block during the 2006-07 season. CBS and DIC said Thursday that "Saturday Morning Secret Slumber Party," a three-hour block that meets FCC guidelines for kids programming, will feature more original episodes than ever before during the upcoming season, including six animated series and two reality-based live-action shows. Along with those recognizable titles, the block will feature three new animated series: Horseland, Kooky Kitchen and Littlest Pet Shop.