EVERYTHING MUST GO! - Warner Bros. Discovery's HBO Max To Illegally Remove Almost EVERY Cartoon Network Series by 2026/27 As SVOD Channel Shifts to More Adult Focused Content

It's the mother of all closing down sales as Warner Bros. Discovery continues to illegally remove programs and movies from its own HBO Max streaming service that they own their own copyrights to, as WBD and David Zaslav continues their five years reign as the stupidest children's television company on the planet since August 2022. In less than two years time, almost ALL of WBD's Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Cartoonito, HBO, HBO Family and Boomerang lineup will be no more on the service.

Among the titles flocking the coop include almost every Scooby Doo series, The Flinstones, The Jetsons, The Tom & Jerry Show, Adventure Time, The Amazing World of Gumball, Batman: The Animated Series and preschool favorites such as the recently launched Sesame Workshop series Bea's Block, Baby Looney Tunes, Blippi Wonders, Lollabee City Farm, Sesame Street: Mecha Builders and the HBO Family Jam classic fairytales adaptations Happilly Ever After: Fairytales for Every Child.

Paramount's hit Comedy Central animated foul-mouth sitcom South Park has also left the streamer as Paramount had successfully gotten Zaslav fired and sued the comp[any for lying to them about their episode counts when the streamer was originally offered a deal to produce three seasons of ten episodes each, but the outcome ended with only two episodes in Season 22 and Seasons 23 and 24 both having six episodes each, bringing the order to a mear 14 episodes, half the promised amount.

The only upside positive news however is that it will be purging the first seven seasons of Teen Titans Go!, the 2013 reboot of the 2003-2006 iconic DC Comics series which many YouTubers have declaired the worst CN show ever existed.

The new illegal content purge of HBO Max means that more CN and WBD titles will be sent into public domain and pirated free video websites for no reason, although for the troubled WBD streamer now in its fifth anniversary to accidentally remove this much just seems confusing.

By 2027, the only good kids titles that will be available on HBO Max is the 2015-2025 contract deal of Sesame Street which ends after the 55th season on 9/11, the Mo Willems shorts from the Scholastic Video Collection series produced by Weston Woods Studios, the upcoming Mo Willems' Unlimited Squirrels! and Cat the Cat's Show with YOU! TV show adaptations, Dtylan's Playground Adventures, the preschool-focused MSB reboot The Magic School Bus: Mighty Explorers and the recently successful Mattel, Hit Entertainment and Nelvana reboot series Barney & Friends: Barney's World which is currently in its first five episodes with the next five slated to release weekly on Cartoonito linear from January 17th.

As of right now, it's currently unknown whether these WBD, CN and HBO Max titles will be available to watch on once they end their current streaming deal on WBD's own channel, though most people have speculate that Zaslav's company will be bought by Disney since they recently accidentally stolen some of the Cartoon Network and Warner Bros. catalogs in their recent merger with Hulu with the launch of the new Hulu on Disney+ section on Disney+ SVOD that launched in March 2024.

CINDERS AND ASHES - Thomas & Friends TV Series Creator Dead At 82

 We are so saddened to report that Britt Allcroft, the legendary creator who brought the Island of Sodor to television screens worldwide as creator of the Thomas & Friends TV series has passed away. The award-winning BAFTA®-wiinning TV producer was responsible for creating the TV. adventures based on the Railway Series books by Reverend Wilbert Awdry and his son Christopher which the original Thomas book series ran from 1945-2011.

Awdry, aged 32 in 1943 first had the idea for the franchise telling the stories to his then 3-year-old son Christopher Awdry who was suffering from measles and recovering from the terrible illness during the end of the second World War II.

The series first aired on CITV in the UK on October 9, 1984 with a TV version of the fifth story "Thomas & Gordon" from the second book "Thomas the Tank Engine" released in 1946, in which the foreword was used before the theme song to start each episode in the 2000s. Since the original generation of the television show under Allcroft and director David Mitton's control for its first 20 years, the show has now ran for over 41 years with 28 seasons, nearly 700 episodes, 20 theatrical feature films, a selection of videogames, theme parks, "Day Out with Thomas" live events and soundtrack albums, and Allcroft's recent project, the documentary An Unlikely Fandom: The Impact of Thomas.

But everyone's favorite cheeky blue engine didn't get the USA treatment until 1989 when Allcroft sold the original four seasons of RWS adaptations to America under the PBS Kids series Shining Time Station that ran from 1989-1995 and starred former Thomas narrators, The Beatles' alumini drummer Ringo Starr and the late George Carlin, the first host of NBC's Saturday Night Live playing on the roles of Mr. Conductor. Shining Time Station would later hit the silver screens of Hollywood with the summer release of the 2000 box office flop Thomas and the Magic Railroad, in which Allcroft voiced the engine Lady who hasn't been seen on the show since the 60th anniversary movie "Calling All Engines!" in September 2005.

But Allcroft wasn't structured to just trains, planes and automobiles. In 1994, she created her third and final series The Magic Adventures of Mumfie which followed the adventures of a kind talking friendly elephant and her whimsical world of animal friends. The series ran from 1994-1998 and received a direct-to-video feature film from UK physical media distributor VCI in 1996.

Despite the original TV show's creator no longer with us, the adventures of America and Great Britain's #1 engine, his steam team of Edward, Henry, Gordon, James, Percy, Toby, Emily, Mia and Rebecca, his arch nemesis Devious Diesel, Bertie, Harold, Annie & Clarabelle, Duck, Donald & Douglas the Scottish twins, the mischevious troublesome trucks and their rightful controller Sir Topham Hatt(or the rudely named "The Fat Controller" if you live outside of the USA/Canada) are still going strong in television and merchandise and have continued to put smiles on millions of kids for over 80 years.

2025 marks the 80th Ruby Red anniversary of the tank engine's first adventures on Sodor, with a new theatrical feature film in the works and the upcoming 28th season of the TV show, currently steaming ahead into its fourth season of the current All Engines Go! era when the series was first shipped to WBD's Cartoon Network and Canadian animation icons Nelvana Limited in 2021 currently on the way. Like last year's AEG episodes. Season 28 of Thomas & Friends will consist of 13 episodes with 26 15-minute stories. The first half will drop in March 2025 and the second half will be delievered by September.

From everyone who works on the railways of Hit Entertainment PLC, Mattel, Jam Filled Entertainment Toronto, Britt Allcroft Company, Gullane Entertainment, Random House, PBS Kids, Nickelodeon, CITV, Channel 5's Milkshake, ABC Kids Australia, Cartoon Network, Netflix, 20th Century Fox Studios, Lionsgate Entertainment, Universal Studios, Anchor Bay Entertainment, Starz Media, Butlins and Hard Rock Cafe, we would like to send a huge and massive THANK YOU to Britt Allcroft, David Milton and all the stinky steamies and devious diesels on the Sodor Steam Team past and present who have continued to make Thomas one of the best television series and children's book character franchises icons of our generation. Without this woman, this ever-evolving world of talking trains wouldn't even exist to this day.

Thank you for everything Britt and rest in peace. You were far more than a Really Useful Engine.

RIP in the Sodor Scrapyards
Britt Allcroft
1943-2025

Bring On The Slime Geysers - Nickelodeon's January 2025 Lineup

 HAPPY NEW YEARS!!!!!! 2025 has come alive and Nickelodeon has a whole host of all new and exciting programs coming your way as we've reached the second quarter of the 21st century.

Here is Nickelodeon's content listings for January 2025

BABY SHARK'S BIG SHOW! (WATCH IT OR ELSE!!! >:()
TUES January 7th S03E11 "The Power Swap/Shore Square"
WEDS January 8th S03E12 "Blizzard's Big Bite/A Friend of a Friend"
THURS January 9th S03E13 "Daddy Shark's Favorite/The Goldie Standards"
FRI January 10th S03E14 "The NICE Faceoff/Substitute Toothfish Fairy"
SAT January 11th S03E15 "The Lucas Youngblood Show!/Detective Baby Shark's Musical Mystery"
SUN January 12th S03E16 "Meet the WubWubs/InvinciBUBBLES"
MON January 13th S03E17 "HOLDERS Keepers?!/The Nickname King"
FRI January 17th S03E18 "Guiding Grandma Shark/The Nautical Nonsense of Night Fish"
All times 12:30PM ET/11:30AMc

THE BIG BANG THEORY (Nick@Nite only)
WEDS January 1st 
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WEDS January 8th 
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THURS January 9th 
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SAT January 11th 
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SUN January 12th 
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All times 12:00AM ET/11:00PMc

BIKINI BOTTOM BREAKDOWN: INSIDE THE NFL SUPER WILDCARD
Dee Bradley Baker and Doug Lawrence join Nate Berglesen as they give you an inside scoop on the unfortunate cringe factor content in today's high-stakes NFL football coverage.
New special premieres WEDS January 15th at 8:00PM ET/7:00c

THE HENRY DANGER MOVIE
One of Nickelodeon's stupidest sitcom superheroes of all time IS BACK!!!
Jace Norman reunites the whole cast for this special one-off movie adventure!
Henry Danger movie premieres FRI January 17th! at 7:00PM ET/6:00c

MAX AND THE MIDKNIGHTS
WEDS January 1st S01E08 "The Trails of the DEAD"
WEDS January 8th S01E09 "A Vial of Valor"
WEDS January 15th S01E10 "The Uphill Battle!" (Season 1 Finale)
All times 7:00PM ET/6:00c

MOVIE PREMIERES
TUES January 14th - DreamWorks' Trolls Cringe (2016)
FRI January 17th - The Henry Danger Movie (2025)
All times 7:00PM ET/:00c

NFL SLIMETIME
WEDS January 1st S04E18 "Week 17"
WEDS January 8th S04E19 "Week 18"
WEDS January 15th S04E20 "Week 19"
WEDS January 22nd S04E21 "Week 20"
WEDS January 29th S04E22 "Week 21"
WEDS February 5th S04E23 "Week 22: NFL Slimetime Super Bowl Preview"
SUN February 8th S04E24 "Week 23: NFL Slimetime at Super Bowl 59 LIX 2025"
WEDS February 12th S04E25 "Week 24: Post Super Bowl Highlights" (Season 4 Finale)
All times 7:00PM ET/6:00c

NFL WILDCARD GAME III
Nickelodeon has stupidly once again got away with F-bomb swearing on kids TV
The third annual NFL Wildcard game is SUN January 12th! at 4:30PM ET/1:30 PT

SONIC PRIME
SAT January 4th S01E09-10
SAT January 11th S01E11-12
SAT January 18h S01E13-14 
SAT January 25th S01E15-16 (Season 1 Finale)
SAT February 1st S02E01-02 (Series Premiere)
SAT February 8th S02E03-04 
SAT February 15th S02E05-06 
SAT February 22nd S02E07-08 
SAT March 1st S02E09-10 
SAT March 8th S02E11-12 
SAT March 15th S02E13-14 
SAT March 22nd S02E15-16 (Season 2 Finale)
SAT March 29th S03E01-02 (Season 3 Premiere)
SAT April 5th S03E03-04
SAT April 12th S03E05-06
SAT April 19th S03E07-08
SAT April 26th S03E09-10
SAT May 3rd S03E11-12
SAT May 10th S03E13-14 (Series Finale)
All times 8:00AM ET/7:00c

THE THUNDERMANS UNDERCOVER (NEW SERIES!!!)
Jack Griffo and Kira Kosarin are back and better than ever!
The all-new Thundermans reboot premieres January 22nd!
WEDS January 22nd S05E01 "THUNDERcover" (Reboot Series Premiere)
All times 7:00PM ET/6:00c

TRANSFORMERS EARTHSPARK (linear premieres)
SAT January 18th S02E06 "The Spitfire Problem"
SAT January 18th S02E07 "The Among Us Imposters"
SAT January 25th S02E08 "Hey Dude! Where's My Trailer?!"
SAT January 25th S02E09-10 "Witwicky War II"
All times 9:00AM ET/8:00c

NICK JR. WHEEL OF GAMES (podcast series)
THURS January 2nd S01E07 
THURS January 9th S01E08 
THURS January 16th S01E09 
THURS January 23rd S01E10 
THURS January 30th S01E11
All times 8:00PM ET/7:00c

Please note that this schedule is incomplete and has yet to be finalized.