Cartoon Signs Register

Cartoon Network has signed animation vet Sam Register to a first-look deal for adult and kids cartooons.

It will be a homecoming for Register, who was formerly VP, development for Cartoon, overseeing shows including Teen Titans, Ben 10, My Gym Partner is a Monkey, Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi, and Star Wars: Clone Wars, the shorts produced with LuasFilm.

He was also the first employee of Cartoon Network Online.

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