Capture from Bitanic

NEW YORK (ENTERTAINMENT WIRE) - In this stop-motion parody of the biggest romantic movie of the last millennium, Kate Winslet's love for Leonardo DiCaprio hits an iceberg - in the form of the ship's comedian, Ellen DeGeneres - who opens Kate's eyes to the possibility of truly forbidden love. Bitanic is the second installment of Corky Q's Chick Flicks, one of the laugh-out-loud series in Oxygen's award-winning animated variety show, "X-Chromosome." "X-Chromosome" will debut Bitanic on Saturday, June 9 at 9:30 p.m.

Also in this all-new episode of "X-Chromosome:" In Hey Monie, Monie learns the true meaning of work: backbiting, lies and gossip. In The Adventures of Harry Follicle, we go on a surreal and raunchy trip through time, space and more personal terrain with a plucky little hair with an unwaxable love for women. And in the wittily animated Drawn from Life, a young Swedish woman touchingly tells how she fulfilled her dream of coming to America, only to find herself longing for home.

On Saturday, June 16 at 9:30 p.m., "X-Chromosome" will air the third installment of Corky Q's Chick Flicks, in which famed stop-motion animator Corky Quakenbush parodies the ultimate chick flick, Dirty Dancing. In Dirty Riverdancing, Baby and her family go to a potato peeling resort where, to the dismay of her father, Baby trades in the old folks' Lambada for the erotic leg-stomping of the Riverdance. Other spoofs in the Corky Q's Chick Flicks series include Pretty Woman II: Runaway Hooker Bride in which Richard Gere and Julia Roberts re-unite for a third time and Castaway: A Woody Allen Film in which the inveterate New Yorker has to adapt to life on a deserted island.

"X-Chromosome," breakthrough animation coupled with cutting-edge comedy, offers a variety of six different animation shorts, Avenue Amy, Bitchy Bitch, Corky Q's Chick Flicks, Drawn from Life, Fat Girl and Hey Monie. Avenue Amy, Oxygen's animated answer to "Sex and the City," chronicles the adventures of Amy Sohn, a real-life sex columnist constantly on the prowl for material. Bitchy Bitch is a funny and fearless reclamation of the word "bitch," that allows us to find relief and humor in the everyday annoyances that we often forget to laugh at. Corky Q's Chick Flicks is a series of shorts that lampoons movies primarily marketed to female audiences. Drawn from Life, a fresh form of portraiture, is a series of two-minute stories told by real-life women communicating that even the ordinary can be illustrated -- literally and figuratively -- in an extraordinary manner. Fat Girl centers on the life of Kate Bloom, a warm-hearted, funny, intelligent fat woman living in ultra-thin Los Angeles. Hey Monie explores the life and longings of a single, African-American, professional woman in big city America.

Kate Winslet and Ellen Degeneres at the 3rd Class Party

"X-Chromosome" airs Saturday and Sunday nights from 9:30 - 10:00 p.m.

About Oxygen Media

Oxygen Media is an integrated media brand that combines the best qualities of the Internet and cable television to serve women. Founded in 1998 by Geraldine Laybourne, Marcy Carsey, Tom Werner, Caryn Mandabach and Oprah Winfrey, Oxygen consists of web properties including Oxygen.com, ThriveOnline.com, Oprah.com and Trackers.net, and a 24-hour cable network featuring animation, music, talk, health, comedy, movies and sports.

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From Oxygen.com:

BITANIC In Corky Q’s Chick Flicks, we turn your best-loved girl films on their heads. In this love boat for the new milennium, Kate Winslet finds herself drawn to Leonardo Dicaprio, a handsome steerage class lad. But when Kate also catches the eye of the ship’s comedian, Ellen Degeneres, her eyes are opened to a new form of forbidden love.

Watch X-Chromosome this week Saturday and Sunday nights at 9:30 PM and find out who gets the girl.

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Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio

Whether you love to hate them or hate to love them, you've seen them all, can quote them at will ("Nobody puts Baby in a corner!") and when you watch them on TV in the wee hours of the night, you even -- admit it! -- get all weepy at the end. We've decided to put some much-needed distance between ourselves and these chick flicks using the time-honored technique of ruthless parody.

Oxygen's "Corky Q's Chick Flicks" are animated in stop-motion, in which posable puppets in miniature sets are moved in small increments and photographed. Episodes include "Pretty Woman II: Runaway Hooker Bride," "Bi-Tanic" (A Story of Forbidden Love) and "Dirty Riverdancing."

X-Chromosome airs Saturday and Sunday nights at 9:30PM ET.

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