New Media!

Tom Hanks gets animated on the Intertubes.

... Tom Hanks has created an animated science-fiction show that initially will stream exclusively on Yahoo in what is the giant Internet portal’s first foray into narrative storytelling. ...

The show, called Electric City, is a production of Reliance Entertainment and Playtone, the latter being a TV and film company owned by Hanks and Gary Goetzman.

Hanks will voice the lead character in Electric City and Yahoo will roll out about 20 episodes, each one roughly four minutes long ...

How fancy or intricate EC will be, I couldn't say. It's doubtful the budget will be ... ah ... gargantuan. Despite Yahoo's representation of it being "the most" the net portal has ever paid for a scripted show. (It's the first and only scripted show, after all.)

But TAG has a "new media" clause in its contract, so we could negotiate a deal with Reliance/Playtone, in any event. That would certainly be the goal.