Back to the Past - Cartoon Network Unveils 2024-2025 Content Slate at Annecy Film Festival

 In September 2010, the greatest golden era of Cartoon Network programming was born, with the launch
of Adventure Time, The Amazing World of Gumball and Regular Show known for some of the best animation staff and television identities of all time. But then it all went wrong when CN dropped Teen Titans GO!, the worst franchise IP series ever created and the network has been going down the drain ever since, with its Cartoonito and Adult Swim sister channels being more popular than the main source.

Now almost 15 years later, Warner Bros. Discovery has unveiled the newest content slate of children's television across CN Studios, Warner Bros. Animation and Hanna-Barbara Productions Studios Europe, the great grandfather of half-hour animated kids shows dating back to the early '40s, in a new content slate that just might get CN back on track to proper glory for a new generation of creative control.

Warner Bros. Discovery and Cartoon Network have announced their 2024-2025 content slate of kids' TV offerings at this year's Annecy Film Festival, where everything is based on existing IP and original cartoon ideas doesn't exist anymore.

First up is their late 2010 powerhouse of foul-mouth cartoons, Adventure Time which follows the hilarious near-death experience misadventures of Finn the Human and Jake the Dog. With the recent success of its foul mouth adult-oriented swearing and drag queen spinoff series Fiona & Cake being one of the hottest trending kids titles across HBO Max and Discovery+ streaming services, YouTube and thousands upon millions of social media game theories and discussions, the Distant Lands of Ooh will have tons more ahead in the years to come, with the second 10-episode season of episodes 11-20 currently in post-production. CN will also debut a new spinoff series called Adventure Time: Side Quests which will focus on other characters in the franchise and what tortures they have gotten into recently. Cartoonito has also ordered a new preschool series bootleg of the series titled Adventure Time: Heyo BMO folowing on the heels of other successful baby-fied cash grabs infringing copyright on other well-known CN and WBD brands like Batman, Looney Tunes and We Bare Bears which includes Batwheels, Bugs Bunny Builders and We BABY Bears. And to cap it all off, Finn and Jake reunite for their BIGGEST adventure yet in the all-new Adventure Time: The Movie slated for release in September 2025 in celebration of the original CN iconic series' 15th anniversary

Next is The Amazing World of Gumball which has launched in May 2011 and ended its original run of six seasons on a LITERAL cliffhanger with everything being killed off of the air forever and sucking up into the void. The possibilities of The Amazing World of Gumball: The Movie first ordered by CN and Max in October 2021 are currently in limbo for the next three years but still unfortunately show no signs of releasing or updating details as of yet meaning that the cliffhanger of 2019's series finale will almost NEVER get resolved anytime sooner or later. However, the show has been renewed for a seventh season of around 20-30 episodes and is currently in principal photography with the first Season 7 episode focusing on Gumball and Darwin getting drunk on Uncle Larry's endless chains of McDonalds-esque Joyful Burger fast food restaurants and trying to eat more healthier food but all of their plans ended up backfiring in the process. Currently the movie and the new batch of episodes are in limbo and don't have a proper release date yet but are expoected to be released sometime next year during next year's upfront season of television titles in the 2025-2026 TV upfront season release window.

Third up is Regular Show, one of the weaker CN titles released in August 2010 right before the end of summer vacation and the back to school rush. Mordecai and Rigby have been left in the dark for seven years. You know WHO ELSE has been left in the dark for seven years?! MUSCLE MAN'S MOM!!!! Recently announced is some new sort of reboot or additional projects involving the series' original creator J.J. Quintel. No release date has been attached to them yet.

One of CN's recent greenlights is the newest addition to the award-winning Scooby-Doo! Where Are You? franchise which will soon see the light of its 55th anniversary. After the unneccessary stupid hatetrains backlash of Max SVOD streaming series Velma which is currently in production on its third season, Scooby and Shaggy and the gang are back on track in proper glory with their new anime ripoff series Scooby-Doo!: Go Go Mystery Machine! which will follow the adventures of Frank Welker and Matthew Lillard as they get sucked into a Japanese anime fighting off hundreds upon thousands of stupid monsters which turns out to be their actual neighborhood citizens and these episodes were just a filler cringefest and a waste of everybody's time (and they would've gotten away with it if it wasn't for you meddling kids and their stupid dogs!!!). Although an anime Scooby series could work, it's predictable that this series might get rejected and content purge tax writeoff immediately because after Nickelodeon sued David Zaslav for trying to make Scooby Doo and the Mystery Pups for Cartoonito being a ripoff of Blue's Clues, it's possible that WBD might get sued again by Hasbro and Saban Brands for trying to make a Scooby Doo series that has copyright infringement on Power Rangers.

Also joining the Warner Bros. Discovery nostalgia train this TV season is a new project based on the hit Hanna-Barbara Throws a Wobbler, one of the company's award-winning programming blocks.It's currently unknown whether this new project will be a new programming block to air on Adult Swim on weekends showing reruns of retro CN programs joining the likes of Checkered Past on Mondays to Thursdays and Tooanmi Rewind on Fridays from 5-7pm or will be its own half-hour series.

And finally, CN has announced the official title and logo of the upcoming Cartoonito preschool series reboot of its iconic 2004 show Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends. The new Disney/ABC/BBC's Bluey-esque preschool series reboot Foster's FUNTIME for Imaginary Friends follows the adventures of Foster and his iconic fan club as they explore newer horizons and bring back one of western animation's forgotten gems for a whole new TV-Y generation of kids.

To make the nostalgia hype train even more exciting, fellow kids TV and animation veterans Lauren Faust (My Little Pony TV series for Discovery Kids channels) and Rebecca Sugar (Steven Universe) are also on board to join the party and give it their all with tireless effort to bring these iconic 2010s series back to modern life for a whole generation of animation fans and staff alike.

The news comes in just less than two weeks from the launch of MeTV Toons, a new linear 24/7 TV channel dedicated to airing retro WBD catalog titles from the 1930s and beyond.

For further information on these and other upcoming titles,
visit Cartoon Network online at www.cartoonnetwork.com,
www.cartoonito.com and www.adultswim.com
or subscribe to Max at www.max.com
and Discovery+ at www.discoveryplus.com