Click on the link below to see the edited transcript from a chat with Shawn Ashmore and Brooke Nevin that took place on Thursday, March 18th on AOL's Entertainment Asylum in association with Scholastic Entertainment Inc. The transcript is used with permission from Entertainment Asylum.

ABC TV announced that their broadcast schedule for Animorphs has changed. The first episode in the series will now go to air on May 10, at 5.30pm.

I've seen the comercial for the home video on Nickelodeon, WAMI, and Fox Kids. Blockbuster has it for rental. I have seen the commercial for the transformer toys on the same channels

For AOL people: On Thursday March 18 from 6:00 - 6:30pm EST there will be a live chat with Shawn Ashmore and Brooke Nevin at keyword: LIVE.

<WHO> Shawn Ashmore (Jake) and Brooke Nevin (Rachel)

<WHEN> Friday, March 19

<WHERE> Borders Books and Music

230 Garden State Plaza

Paramus, NJ

<TIME> 7:00 - 8:00 pm

<WHAT> Signing copies of "Meet the Stars of Animorphs" Books

...or catch them earlier that day at 10:00am at FAO Schwarz in New York City!

Animorphs on Video: Invasion Series part one

When Jake and his friends witness the crash of an alien spacecraft, they meet Elfangor, a warrior from the Andalite home planet, who greets them with a WARNING: Earth is under attack by an empire of evil Yeerks. To help them resist the invasion, Elfangor gives these five ordinary kids the ability to MORPH, and Andalite technology no human has ever possessed.

Release Date: February 16, 1999

Suggested Retail Value: $15.98

In addition, the video has some unreleased footage.

Animorphs on Video: Invasion Series part two

Release Date: April 6, 1999

Suggested Retail Value: $14.99 (They'll probably be avaliabe for much cheaper)

In addition, the video has some unreleased footage.

You could win lunch with one of the stars of Animorphs! Enter the Animorphania contest!

Here's how:

1) Answer this question correctly: In the Animorphs episode, THE CAPTURE (Sunday, January 10 at 8:00pm) Ax morphs into one of his human friends. Whom and why?

2) If YOU could morph into any of the Animorphs, Which Animorph would it be and why?

3) If you answer Question 1 correctly, you will be an Animorphamania contest finalist. From the finalists, we will chose the most creative response to Question 2.

Animorphamania Contest rules:

No purchase necessary. To enter please write your response on one 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of paper. Be sure to include your name, age, grade, complete address, and home telephone number. Mail complete entries to Animorphs TV, c/o Scholastic Entertainment Inc., 524 Broadway, 7th floor, New York, NY 10012-399. ALL ENTRIES MUST BE RECIEVED BY FEBRUARY 1, 1999. Scholastic is not responsable for late, stolen, misdirected, damaged mutilated, postage due, incompletable or illegible entries or mail. Contest is open to residents of United States who currently attend grades 2-6. Employes, and memebers of their families living in the same household of Scholastic Inc, are not eligable to enter. Void where prohibited by law. One entry per person. All entries will become the property of Scholastic Inc and will not be returned. One grand prizewinner will have lunch with one of the stars of the Animorphs show. Entrants selection of cast memeber cannot be guarranteed. 100 runners up will recieve an Animorphs t-shirt and cap. Each winner will be required to sign and return an affidant of eligibility and liability/ publicity realease within 15 days. For names of prize winners (availible after february 15th.1999) send a self addressed stamped envolope to Animorphs TV, c/o Scholastic Entertainment Inc, 524 Broadway, 7th floor, New York, NY 10012-3999

Wednesday and Thursday, January 6th and 7th, LISTEN for a special radio message from the CAST of ANIMORPHS.

Sat. Jan.2 - The Underground- the Animorphs are suspicious of a new club called the Sharing that everyone in town is eager to join. (Rerun)

Unfortunatly, Kablaam has replaced Animorphs on Christmas day.

Yesterday on ANIMORPHS: Sat. Dec. 26

The Message-Cassie and Tobias receives strange visions and pain from Aximili, an Andalite aristh who has crash-landed on earth. It is up to Aximili to decide whether to trust the Animorphs, or another stranger who has contacted him... (rerun)

Recently, Animorphs enjoyed a great reception by the international community of buyers of children's television at the MIPCOM TV market in Cannes, France. The series was sold to the BBC in the UK, TF-1 in France, TVNZ in New Zealand, and RTE in Ireland, and there are pending deals in other major international territories, as well. TVNZ will kick off the series in February of 1999, with TF-1 in France starting September 1999. The BBC will also air the show in September of 1999, and Nickelodeon UK in November of 1999. Animorphs can currently be seen on the Global Television Network and YTV in Canada!

If you don’t have Cable, tune into the ABC on Monday, 22 February, when the first episode will be screened at 5.30pm. Follow the Animorphs’ adventures at this time each week.

Actors participating in the chat will be Christopher Ralph (Tobias), Nadia Naciamento (Cassie) and Boris Cabrera (Marco).

Nickelodeon is doing a big Animorphs TV promotion on the weekend of

January 8 -10.

On Friday, January 8, at 7pm there will be a live chat with the stars on AOL. Keyword: nick.

On Saturday, January 9, they're showing an Animorphs Marathon from 1-6 pm with all of the shows that have aired so far.

On Sunday, January 10 at 8pm, there will be a one-hour special episode "The Capture" based on book 6 where Jake becomes a Controller.

After January 10, Nick is MOVING Animorphs to Sunday nights at 8pm.

Studio: Columbia/Tristar Studios

Video Release Date: February 16, 1999

A spaceship plummets to Earth in a construction site, and five unsuspecting teens - Jake, Rachel, Marco, Cassie, and Tobias - discover a dying alien, an "Andalite" prince named Elfangor, who communicates with them in <thought-speak>. Elfangor warns them that Earth has been invaded by the evil "Yeerks," green, slug-like creatures, which enslave their victims one by one by crawling into their ears and taking control of their minds. To empower and protect the young Earthlings, Elfangor gives them a unique Andalite gift - the ability to morph into any animal they touch. Now, the five "Animorphs" must use their newly acquired power to battle the Yeerks and save the galaxy. They must trust no one, and nothing will ever be the same again….

Scared and curious, the Animorphs experiment with Elfangor's gift. On Cassie's family farm, Jake, Rachel, Marco, Cassie, and Tobias practice their new morphing powers, experiencing, for the first time, what it feels like to be a horse, a cat, and a rat. The Animorphs, now confident about their new ability, return to the crash site to retrieve a lost disk given to them by Elfangor, who warned the kids to guard it with their lives. To their horror, when the Animorphs arrive at the construction site they find the place filled with "human-Controllers!"

There's something suspicious about a new club called "The Sharing." The Animorphs attend a meeting at school to find out more. They are led into the ominous "Yeerk Pool," that Controllers must visit every three days in order for the Yeerks to survive...Will the Animorphs ever get out alive?

After a terrifying close call in the Yeerk Pool, the Animorphs decide to split up and gather more information. While Rachel and Cassie find out about The Sharing and look for the missing Tobias, Jake and Marco make a startling discovery about Elfangor's disk…!

Tobias finally shows up and nothing will ever be the same.... Meanwhile, Rachel's best friend Melissa (the daughter of human-Controller Principal Chapman) is acting strange and distant. When Rachel and Jake are captured in cat and dog morph, the Animorphs are in danger of becoming part of the animal kingdom...forever.

Cassie and Tobias are having strange visions and feeling someone's pain…. Cassie follows her visions and discovers another injured Andalite has crashed on Earth. This young Andalite, named Ax, is unsure whom he can trust. Should he place his faith in the young humans who possess the Andalite's unique ability to morph or in that other stranger...

The Animorphs have discovered a secret weapon to use against the Yeerks-flavored oatmeal! The Yeerks crave it, and when they eat it, they are unable to control their hosts! But to use the oatmeal weapon successfully, the Animorphs will have to return to their darkest nightmare…the Yeerk Pool!

Homesick for his own planet, Ax uses a high-powered telescope to contact his father, and becomes hurt and upset when he is blamed for entrusting the Animorphs with the Andalite power to morph. Ax tries to hide his feelings from his friends on Earth, but soon learns that he must trust the Animorphs if they are to fight together against the Yeerks.

Cassie and Rachel rescue a young boy from a crocodile pit at the zoo. But, since the incident, Cassie has been itchy...and morphing involuntarily. The girls are invited to appear on a morning TV show, but if Cassie's not careful, she'll end up morphing on national TV!

An omniscient alien, the Ellimist, pays a surprise visit to the Animorphs and shows them the probable future--complete Yeerk domination of the Earth. The Ellimist offers the Animorphs and their families refuge on another planet. Will the Animorphs abandon their battle to save the Earth in order to save themselves?

Rachel morphs a hawk, but something goes terribly wrong. She crashes and awakens lost in the woods with no memory. First captured by a suspicious freed controller and then '"rescued" by controllers at a Sharing camp-out, Rachel doesn't know whom to trust. Will she remember about the Yeerks before it's too late?

Jake's dad has been planning the installation of a new health clinic at the local hospital. On the eve of the grand opening, Jake discovers that the clinic's most generous benefactor is…a Yeerk! The Animorphs must infiltrate the clinic before the Governor, the clinic's special guest, is infected!

Jake is acting pretty normal…but he did fall into the Yeerk pool. The Animorphs decide to play it safe and keep Jake under close watch for three days. They cannot trust him. But can they save him?

Tobias and Ax take a trip down memory lane when Ax constructs a "living diary maker" which projects their memories. To help Ax understand what it is to be human, Tobias revisits some painful human memories. In the process, Tobias understands that he's still the same person, no matter what his physical form.

The weight of battling the Yeerk invasion is wearing on Jake and after a bad day, he wishes he'd never met Elfangor at all. But be careful what you wish for, it might come true. After a taste of "what if" from the Ellimist, Jake realizes that as hard as the fight is, it must go on.

The Animorphs discover a second Kandrona and set out to destroy it, but Jake and Marco are caught with the Yeerk's new morph-detecting devices and sent into space aboard the Yeerk mother ship. On the ship, Jake and Marco uncover some shocking secrets.

Back on earth, Cassie and Rachel destroy the Kandrona. Marco and Jake make a daring escape from the mother ship with the help of Ax and the other Animorphs. Marco has a new reason to fight the Yeerks.