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ATLANTA (AP) -- First the documentary, then the Broadway musical, then the HBO film... now are you ready for "Grey Gardens: The Animated Series"?

Cartoon Network announced today the development of a new television series, "Grey Gardens: The Animated Series," to premiere on the popular cable channel this October. Based on the lives of the famed Beale women "Big Edie" and "Little Edie," relatives of former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, the series will capitalize on America's continued fascination with the shattered lives of the once wealthy and privileged mother-daughter pair in their dilapidated east Hampton, NY mansion. Ever since the Beales' story of living in isolated squalor in their Long Island mansion was first exploited by newspapers in 1971, the women have been the subjects of a famous 1975 documentary by the Maysles brothers, a 2006 Broadway musical, and a recent 2009 HBO made-for-cable movie with Jessica Lange and Drew Barrymore... all of which have been entitled "Grey Gardens."

This new animated version, Cartoon Network spokesman James Anderson assured reporters, "will be very much in keeping with the previous versions," in a press conference this morning. "We want to emphasize the mother-daughter relationship as much as possible," Anderson suggested, "and answer the questions millions of Americans still have about how a family with so much money and prestige could have ended up like this."

Anderson also added that there will be new twists to this version of the famous story. Every week "Big Edie" and "Little Edie" will pool their resources to solve crimes that occur in the nearby estates of their Hamptons neighbors, and will receive aid from their closest friends, the enormous assortment of cats and raccoons sharing lodging in the crumbling manor house. A new character, "Scrabbles," the head raccoon who will warn Big Edie of a breaking crime event, will feature heavily into each episode.

Anderson noted the Cartoon network has already secured the services of noted "Laugh-In" actress JoAnn Worley to provide the voice of Big Edie and Academy Award-nominated actress Winona Ryder to provide the voice of her daughter Little Edie. Rounding out the cast will be the voices of Matthew Broderick as Albert Maysles, Joan van Ark as Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and Kenan Thompson as Scrabbles the Raccoon.