Nearly 3 months after North American audiences started getting Transformers: Animated on their TV screens, the UK is joining them. Starting today on Nicktoons (Sky channel 606) with the 70 minute movie special, Transform and Roll Out! at 4:30pm, we will receive a new episode every day at 4:30pm until the end of the first season, which will air on 7th April.

There isn’t any news on if the second season will follow shortly after, but we should find out soon.

Here are the episodes for this week. We will update you at the weekend will the next week schedule.

25th March
Transform and Roll Out!        16:30 GMT

26th March
Home is where the Spark is    16:30 GMT

27th March
Total Meltdown            16:30 GMT

28th March
Blast from the Past        16:30 GMT

29th March
Thrill of the Hunt        16:30 GMT

30th March
Nanosec                 16:30 GMT

31st March
Along Came a Spider         16:30 GMT

More Transformers: Animated goodness airs today in the USA and Canada, with episode 14, “Nature Calls”.

For the USA, Cartoon Network airs the episode at 10:30am EST, whilst in Canada, YTV is 30 minutes later at 11am EST.

Comics Continuum have provided details on the what episodes of Transformers: Animated will be airing on Cartoon Network in the USA in April.

The good news is that the series won’t be taking a break after the first season. The second season will start a week later with on 12th April with “The Elite guard”, followed by the next episode 2 weeks after.

We currently don’t know if the series will continue in Canada on YTV or the UK on Nick Toons.

Nature Calls – 22nd March
Megatron Rising, Part One – 29th March
Megatron Rising, Part Two – 5th April
The Elite Guard – 12th April
The Return of the Headmaster – 26th April

To help promote the start of Transformers: Animated in the UK, Nick.co.uk have put up their own Transformers: Animated website. There isn’t much up right now, expect a few character profiles, some downloads and a video clip telling you that the series is on Nicktoons.

As with their main site, it takes a while to load and if you have a slow computer, beware of the flash animations.

There’s a new Transformers: Animated episode airing today in the USA and Canada. The episode, “Headmaster”, is the 10th or 13th episode depending on whether you count the movie as 3 episodes or a special pilot.

As usual, it airs at 10:30am EST in the USA on Cartoon Network and 11:00am in Canada on YTV.

Currently airing on the Canadian channel YTV, we have a new commercial that shows off more footage of Sentinel Prime and Ultra Magnus as well as the first appearances of Jazz and Wreck-Gar from future episodes of Transformers: Animated.

The clip is 30 seconds long and should get fans excited about the next four episodes which make up the end of the first series.

The first country outside North America has started airing Transformers: Animated, with it being Malaysian. The series started on Sunday 2nd March at 11am. The remainder of the episodes will air every Sunday on TV3.

The channel are also running a competition until the end of March to win Playstation 3 consoles and Ipods.

Here’s the weekly reminder for people in the USA and Canada, as well as all you torrent people, that the next episode of Transformers: Animated airs today.

For the USA, Cartoon Network airs the episode at 10:30am EST, whilst in Canada, YTV is 30minutes later at 11am EST. The episode is titled “Survival of the Fittest” and is the 9th or 12th episode in the series depending on how you are counting.

Artist Sean Galloway, who was hired to work on some of the designs for Transformers: Animated, has posted some interesting concepts sketches that he did for the Dinobots, Slag, Swoop and Grimlock.

He discusses, briefly, how difficult robots are to draw and how he had to make them more organic than the classic designs.

My goal was to make them feel as if they had some Japanese aspects in them. For Sludge, I wasn’t sure if 4 arms would work on him, but I figured what the heck, ya know? For Swoop I wanted to make him more ninja-esque…. Grimlock more Samurai-esque, and finally Snarl as more of a bruiser or a grunt from the bunch.