Tutenstein
Updated:
18 Jul 2022
Directors:
Fred Schaefer
Bruce D. Johnson
Jessica Hanlon
William T. Baumann
Paul Cummins
Tapaas Chakravarti
Brooks Wachtel
Mark Seidenberg
Siobhan Ní Ghadhra
Steven Wilzbach
Mark Young
Fred Schaefer
Milt Vallas
Tom Gleason
Mark Seidenberg
John Petrovitz
Actors:
Crystal Scales
Lex Lang
Jeannie Elias
Maryke Hendrikse
David Lodge
Genre:
Animation
Country:
no data
Year:
2003
Tutenstein is an animated television series, produced by Porchlight Entertainment for Discovery Kids based on the comic by Jay Stephens which was published in Oni Press' JetCat Clubhouse. This cartoon also airs on Jetix in Europe and Maxi TV in Turkey. It began broadcasting on November 1, 2003. The half-hour series features young mummy Tutankhamen who is awakened about 3,000 years after his accidental death and now must face that his kingdom is gone. The series is based on an idea by Jay Stephens. The name is a portmanteau of Tutankhamun and Frankenstein. On October 11, 2008 a TV movie entitled Tutenstein: Clash of the Pharaohs aired on Discovery Kids.
The production company, PorchLight Entertainment, which is based in Los Angeles, California, has won Emmys for the first and second seasons of the series. Irish TV production company Telegael, which is based in An Spidéal, Co Galway, also won an Emmy Award for the second season.
The Hub aired the show after the closure of Discovery Kids.