{"id":29710,"date":"2017-03-09T10:23:53","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T10:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skwigly.co.uk\/?p=29710"},"modified":"2017-06-03T22:02:46","modified_gmt":"2017-06-03T22:02:46","slug":"we-bare-bears-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skwigly.co.uk\/we-bare-bears-returns\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We Bare Bears&#8217; returns to Cartoon Network UK this Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cartoon Network&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/webarebears.cartoonnetwork.co.uk\/\"><em>We Bare Bears<\/em><\/a> will be returning to the UK with new episodes weekdays at 6pm from this Monday (March 13th). The series, created by Annie-Award winner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skwigly.co.uk\/lightbox-daniel-chong\/\">Daniel Chong<\/a> (whose credits include Toy Story of Terror!) features the escapades of three brother bears Grizzly (Eric Edelstein), Panda (Bobby Moynihan) and Ice (Demetri Martin) as they attempt to assimilate to human ways of life and achieve social media stardom.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"We Bare Bears | Guide To Fame | Cartoon Network\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CPCPCmnJnmk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The series, which began life as Daniel Chong\u2019s webcomic <em><a href=\"http:\/\/thethreebarebears.blogspot.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Three Bare Bears<\/a><\/em>, also features Ellie Kemper, Jason Lee, Patton Oswalt and Charlyne Yi amongst its voice cast.<\/p>\n<p>To mark the series&#8217; return, Chong will be taking part in a Facebook Live Q&amp;A on March 13th between 4:10pm-4:30pm GMT, viewable at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CartoonNetworkUK\/\">Cartoon Network UK Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about the creation of the show in our video interview with Daniel Chong:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lightbox: Interview with &#039;We Bare Bears&#039; (Cartoon Network) creator Daniel Chong\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7jg_CRRWE1w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>All-new episodes of <\/strong><\/em><strong>We Bare Bears<\/strong><em><strong> kick off weekdays at 6pm on Cartoon Network from Monday 13 March.<\/strong> <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cartoon Network&#8217;s We Bare Bears will be returning to the UK with new episodes weekdays at 6pm from this Monday (March 13th). 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