Nerd Alert! A meaty glimpse of Sausage Party; Big Hero 6 is coming to TV

Welcome back to Nerd Alert!, your weekly round-up of news from the worlds of science fiction, fantasy, comic books, animation, and all things nerdy. I took a couple of weeks off, but now I'm ready to nerd out again. I think.

CARTOONS DON'T OFTEN get raunchy, but the R-rated Sausage Party promises to be an exception, and we can—in the words of a certain other R-rated animated feature—blame Canada for that. Sausage Party was written by the all-Canadian team of Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Ari Shaffir, and Kyle Hunter, with the animation produced right here in Vancouver by Nitrogen Studios. The plot concerns “one sausage’s quest to discover the truth about his existence", and so far we have seen exactly one image (see above). 

Given the movie's pedigree (and the fact that it appears to feature a male wiener and a female hot-dog bun), you can bet things get dirty at some point.

The voice cast includes Rogen, James Franco, Salma Hayek, Kristen Wiig, Paul Rudd, Jonah Hill, Edward Norton, and (another Canuck) Michael Cera.

IF YOU'RE A FAN OF the big-screen version of Big Hero 6—and chances are high that you are, seeing as how the 2014 film is one of the highest-grossing animated movies of all time, and won the Academy Award and Golden Globe for best animated feature—you might be pleased to know that it's headed for a small-screen adaptation. The series is being developed by, among others, Kim Possible creator Mark McCorkle, and it picks up where the film left off, with Hiro attending the San Fransokyo Institute of Technology while continuing to battle villains with his superhero friends and his robot buddy Baymax. The TV version of Big Hero 6 comes to Disney XD (which we can totally get in Canada now) next year.

IF YOU ABSOLUTELY MUST listen to a fictional band made up of comic-book characters, well, there's always the Archies. And now there's Black Canary, which just released a three-song EP. It's a promotional tie-in with a DC Comics trade paperback, Black Canary Vol. 1: Kicking and Screaming—and it ain't bad! It's sort of a poppy take on the darkwave genre (or something) and there's even a cover of the Bauhaus song "The Man With the X-Ray Eyes". The two original tracks, "Fish Out of Water" and "Old World", were created by Black Canary writer Brenden Fletcher in collaboration with Michelle Bensimon and Joseph Donovan. Check them out below:

HEY, LOOK: It's the official trailer for Paul Feig's Ghostbusters reboot, which hits cinemas in July. And while we're watching stuff, let's peep the new trailers for Finding Dory and Angry Birds.