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Special "Atom TV" episode Features The 'George Lucas 2008 Selects' Winner, Padmé

Other Shorts Airing Include Web Hit "Chad Vader: Day Shift Manager" And Past George Lucas Selects Winners

"STAR WARS™ FAN MOVIE" EPISODE PREMIERING ON COMEDY CENTRAL® MONDAY NIGHT, OCTOBER 6 AT 2:00 A.M.*

NEW YORK, NY, September 30, 2008 — COMEDY CENTRAL is pulling out the lightsaber and celebrating all things Star Wars in a special episode of "Atom TV." Since 2000, Atom.com and Lucasfilm Ltd. have teamed up for the "Stars Wars Fan Movie Challenge," finding and honoring the best Star Wars-related shorts at Atom's official fan movie website (http://starwars.atom.com) along with the Official Star Wars website (http://starwars.com). This special episode of "Atom TV" will premiere on COMEDY CENTRAL on Monday night, October 6 at 2:00 a.m., and repeat three times during the following week. Both COMEDY CENTRAL and Atom.com (formerly AtomFilms) are divisions of MTV Networks, a unit of Viacom (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B).

"Atom TV" is a weekly comedy show featuring a selection of random and hilarious web videos, each one of them developed or handpicked by COMEDY CENTRAL and Atom. This Star Wars episode features a clip of George Lucas introducing the 2008 competition’s winner, a Juno spoof called "Padme" along with several past winners and finalists.

Below are the shorts featured on this episode of "Atom TV":

"Paraphrase Theatre: Tarkin ’n Friends," by Will Carlough: Best Comedy Winner, 2008.

"Chad Vader: Day Shift Manager," by Aaron Yonda and Matt Sloan: Darth’s brother manages a grocery store. George Lucas Selects Winner, 2007.

"Padme," by Robert Reeves: Spoof of the movie Juno, from a Star Wars point of view. George Lucas Selects Winner, 2008.

"SW Grindhouse," by Michael Ramova: A movie trailer, spoofing Grindhouse. Best Parody Winner, 2008.

"Incident At Tosche Station," by Tyler Soper: An animated parking lot set in the Star Wars galaxy. Best Short Subject, 2007.

Montage of films, including: "Jar Jar’s Walking Papers," an animated short where George Lucas decides to terminate the character in a most unusual way (Best Animation Winner, 2002); "Pink 5," in which a Valley girl tries to help win the war for the Rebel Alliance (George Lucas Selects Winner, 2003); and "Silent But Deadly," about stormtroopers in the "real" world (Finalist, 2002).

Encore presentations of this special episode of "Atom TV" air Wednesday, October 8 at 12:30 p.m., Thursday, October 9 at 2:00 a.m. and Sateruday, October 11 at 10:00 a.m.

About ATOM
Atom.com, a division of Viacom Inc.'s (NYSE: VIA and VIA.B) MTV Networks, is a digital comedy network for young men that reaches millions of consumers each month on the Atom.com Web site and millions more through multiplatform distribution on television, mobile phones, and the Internet. Drawing on a strategic partnership with COMEDY CENTRAL and its own 10-year history of online video innovation and leadership (formerly as AtomFilms), Atom.com delivers Web comedy like nobody else.

About COMEDY CENTRAL
COMEDY CENTRAL, the only all-comedy network, currently is seen in more than 95 million homes nationwide. COMEDY CENTRAL is owned by, and is a registered trademark of, Comedy Partners, a wholly-owned division of VIACOM Inc.'s (NYSE: VIA and VIA.B) MTV Networks. COMEDY CENTRAL's Internet address is www.comedycentral.com. For up-to-the-minute and archival press information and photographs visit Press Central, COMEDY CENTRAL’s press Web site at www.comedycentral.com/press.

CONTACT: Kelly Campbell, kelly.campbell@comedycentral.com, 310-407-4728

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