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The Hub Presents Five-Day Original Mini-Series Event Showcasing Transformers Prime
LOS ANGELES, Ca. – Fans of the enormously popular
Transformers action-adventure entertainment franchise will
revel in the upcoming television event on The Hub cable network
– a five-part original mini-series, Monday-Friday, November
29 – December 3, showcasing “Transformers: Prime,” a new
CGI-animated television series coming to the network. The Hub, a
TV network for kids and their families, is a joint venture of
Discovery Communications and Hasbro, Inc., and is available to
60 million U.S. cable and satellite households.
“Transformers: Prime” is produced for The Hub by Hasbro Studios.
Alex Kurtzman, Robert Orci and Jeff Kline are executive
producers. Kurtzman and Orci served as executive producers of
the feature films “Transformers,” “Transformers: Revenge of the
Fallen” and “Star Trek.” Kline was also executive producer of
the animated series “Jackie Chan Adventures.”
Prior to the five-day mini-series event, The Hub will spotlight
“Transformers: Prime” with a Thanksgiving holiday weekend sneak
preview of the mini-series and an action-packed lineup of
“Transformers: Prime”-related programming that begins Friday,
November 26. Kicking off the Transformers schedule is
a special episode of the original series “Hubworld,” a weekly,
half-hour, pop culture magazine that will be dedicated to the
Transformers phenomenon, Friday, November 26 (3 p.m.
ET).
“Hubworld”’s special “Transformers: Prime” episode will be
followed by a half-hour behind-the-special, “Hub Exclusive:
“Transformers: Prime’” (3:30 p.m. ET), which culminates
with the premiere of the first two half-hour episodes (at 4
p.m. and 4:30 p.m. ET) of the “Transformers: Prime”
mini-series, in which arch rivals the Autobots and Decepticons
once again face-off in their epic rivalry for control of Earth.
The all-new mini-series will feature iconic characters of the
franchise, including Autobots Optimus Prime and Bumblebee, and
the ominous Decepticon Megatron, as well as introducing new
human characters to the action series.
Following the “Transformers: Prime” Friday lineup of
programming, The Hub will showcase the highly anticipated new
series with the five-day mini-series event, Monday-Friday,
November 29-December 3 (6:30 p.m. – 7 p.m. ET). The
week-long run will include three additional new episodes of
“Transformers Prime” on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, December
1-3.
A full schedule of the “Transformers: Prime” and related
programming follows. (All times ET).
“Hubworld” – Transformers-themed
episode (Friday, November 26, 3 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.)
“Hubworld” is a weekly, live-action pop culture magazine show
that infuses what's happening in the life of everyday kids with
what's happening on The Hub television network. Actor-magician
Justin Willman will hosts.
“Hub Exclusive: ‘Transformers: Prime’”
(premiere: Friday, November 26, 3:30 p.m. – 4 p.m. Encore
presentations: Monday, November 29, 6 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.; Friday,
December 3; 4:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.; and Saturday, December 4, 12
p.m. – 12:30 p.m.)
“Transformers: Prime” - Part 1 of “Darkness
Rising” (premiere: Friday, November 26, 4
p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Encore presentations: 6 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
and 12 a.m. – 12:30 a.m.; Monday, November 29, 6:30 p.m. – 7
p.m.; Tuesday, November 30, 6 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.; Saturday,
December 4, 1:30 p.m. – 2 p.m.)
“Transformers: Prime” - Part 2
of “Darkness Rising” (premiere: Friday,
November 26, 4:30 p.m. - 5 p.m. Encore presentations: 6:30
p.m. – 7 p.m. and 12:30 a.m. – 1 a.m.; Tuesday, November 30,
6:30 p.m. – 7 p.m.; Wednesday, December 1, 6 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.;
Saturday, December 4, 2 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.)
“Transformers: Prime” - Part 3
of “Darkness Rising” (premiere: Wednesday,
December 1, 6:30 p.m. – 7 p.m. Encore presentations:
Thursday, December 2, 6 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. Saturday, December 4,
2:30 p.m. – 3 p.m.)
“Transformers: Prime” - Part 4
of “Darkness Rising” (premiere: Thursday,
December 2, 6:30 p.m. – 7 p.m. Encore presentations:
Friday, December 3, 6 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.; Saturday, December 4, 3
p.m. – 3:30 p.m. and 12 a.m. – 12:30 a.m.)
“Transformers: Prime” - Part 5 of “Darkness
Rising” (premiere: Friday, December 3, 6:30
p.m. – 7 p.m. Encore presentations: Saturday, December 4,
3:30 p.m. – 4 p.m. and 12:30 a.m. – 1 a.m.)