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.

Just a quick reminder that the next Transformers: Animated episode airs today in the USA and Canada. Cartoon Network will air the episode first at 10:30am EST, with YTV  airing the episode slightly later at 11am EST.

The title of the episode is ‘Lost and Found’ and introduces us to some new Decepticons  who arrive on Earth.

Cartoon Network have updated their online tv guide with news that a new episode of Transformers: Animated will air next Saturday (8th March). The episode is “Survival of the Fittest”, and airs oat 10:30am and again at 11:00am on Sunday.

This Saturday (1st March) also has a new episode, “Lost and Found”.

TF@TM are reporting that NickToons will start airing Transformers: Animated in the UK from 25th March 2008, starting with the 3 part animated special ‘Transform and Roll Out!’. The full series will follow the next day, with a new episode airing every day until the first series finale on 7th April. Each episode will air at 4:30pm with repeats starting from 8th April.

This would mean that the series would end about the same time as the USA and Canada, who both only get one episode per week.