Aardman's "Creature Comforts" coming to CBS

Aardman fans rejoice! CBS has ordered its first animated series in 13 years - "Creature Comforts", an American version of the hit British stop-motion animated series (based on the Oscar-winning short film by Nick Park), wherein interviews with real people on a variety of subjects are transposed into the mouths of talking animals. (Trust me, it's brilliant.) Seven half-hour episodes have been ordered for midseason 2006-07 from Aardman Animations, the makers of Chicken Run and the Oscar-nominated Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (which comes out on DVD Tuesday).

For more info on the British series (now in its second season on ITV), check out CreatureComforts.tv. (You can also buy Season 1 on DVD.)