Just a few updates that have surfaced over the past few days, but I haven’t been around to post -

Turbonick has a 1 minute, 3 second long preview of The Beach up, check it out if you feel like it.

Newsarama recently interviewed Mike and Bryan, beware of spoilers.

Animation World Magazine posted an interview with Mike DiMartino, and although he mainly talks about what has influenced Avatar, the Avatar Live Action movie, and other things, it’s still a pretty good read Not much Season 3, so for those of you who like being spoiler-free, you’re pretty safe.

Animation insider has posted an EXTREMELY DETAILED review of episode 301, the awakening, including screenshots. Spoilers beware of course, but a very good read if you don’t want to wait another two weeks.

YTV has recently released two minutes of an episode from season three, featuring a young Avatar Roku and Fire Lord Sozin. The clip was put on youtube, check it out here.

Just a quick post to say that Nickelodeon has issued a press release about Season 3, check it out here. Just a note, this isn’t your typical “watch our show, here’s when it’s on” statement, it actually gives some details on the plot, which of course qualify as minor spoliers. Read at your own risk.

Nickelodeon has released the season 3 trailer in high quality .mov format, and given ASN permission to offer it for download. There are four links, if one doesn’t work, try another. Links thanks to ASN:

Mirror 1 (Compressed)
Mirror 2 (Compressed)
High Res (Compressed to 41 MB)
Completely Uncompressed (Be warned! 400+ MB file size!)

Nick has requested that you do not post this video on youtube or any other file sharing service

Sorry for the late notice (I’ve been away from home for the past week), but the date of the premiere of Avatar Season 3: Fire has been announced - September 21st, at 8 PM EST.

As a side note, after a almost month long hiatus, I’m adding new content to the site again, starting with the character bios, you can check out some new ones on the characters page now.

The release date of the Book 3 (yes, that’s right, 3), Volume 1 DVD has been announced- It is October 30th. The cover art is viewable here (Aang with hair ?!?). More details here.

The box set for book 2 of avatar was announced today by TV Shows on DVD.com. Two pictures of the DVD, which releases on September 11th, can be seen here (box art only) and here (box art with discs sticking out). This appears to roughly coincide with the probable air date of Book 3, and releases about a month after volume 4 of the individual DVD’s come out.

This DVD will also, like the first box set, contain a bonus disc of special features, in addition to all of the episodes on 4 discs. ASN is reporting that the special features on the bonus disc will have subtitles. The exact content of the bonus disc, and whether or not it only contains all the special features on the individual DVD’s (like the first box set) is yet to be revealed.

In a press release yesterday, Viacom agreed to license television shows and movies to Joost, a new online video distribution channel launched in part by the founders of the popular internet telephony service, Skype. Under the agreement, Viacom’s MTV, BET, and Nickelodeon television networks and its Paramount studios would license shows and movies to Joost.

Joost will allow users to have free access to thousands of programs and channels not readily available on the Web. Through Joost, viewers can watch programming from many of Viacom’s brands on their computers through a customizable platform with advanced television viewing features such as links that lead to more information or related websites based on the content; and a variety of plug-in applications, such as instant messaging, message boards, and news tickers.

The full press release can be found here

Whether the content that Viacom is licensing to Joost includes Avatar or not is unknown at this time. Joost currently does not allow users to post videos on it’s servers, and is only in beta testing.