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CHILDREN'S ANIMATED PROGRAM
Comedy-Action-Adventure 'Kim Possible' Eligible Since Its Move to Daytime Slot
If you don't know "Disney's Kim Possible," you probably don't have kids.
The half-hour animated comedy-action-adventure series premiered on the Disney Channel in June 2002, and was one of the nominees last year for Outstanding Children's Animated Program until someone realized its 6:30 p.m. debut made it ineligible for a Daytime Emmy. Now eligible, the show has become a tween phenomenon, inspiring catch phrases ("What's the sitch?"), a hit song ("Call Me, Beep Me"), soundtrack CDs and music videos, an animated cable movie and DVD and a host of other commercial tie-ins, not to mention a few hundred thousand teen crushes.
Midriff-baring Kim (voiced by 19-year-old Christy Romano of "Even Stevens") is a female role model extraordinaire-a sassy high school cheerleader who saves the world from evil supervillains in her spare time. Kim not only doesn't shun geeks, she relies on two of them for help-affably inept best friend Ron Stoppable and child-genius/tech-support guru Wade. She's cute, smart and has a heart of gold.
"Growing up we always had heroes like James Kirk of 'Star Trek' who were capable of all kinds of incredible things," said Mark McCorkle, creator and executive producer of the show with Bob...