Boomerang Becomes Home of New WB Cartoons

[lhb412]

A long-rumored development, now confirmed:

https://deadline.com/2015/06/turner-bro ... 201461361/

New shows for Bugs Bunny, Scooby-Doo, and a series based on the Bunnicula children's books (about a vampire bunny, naturally).

For those who came in late: in the last several years Cartoon Network has had tremendous success with a lineup of hip, original series produced by the network. This has been bad news for the series that haven't fit the network's new image, and especially for shows produced by CN's sister company, Warner Brothers, who've been trying to promote the characters they own (the Looney Tunes, Scooby, the DC superheroes, ect.) with new shows only to have CN hide them in obscure time slots and saddle them with limited runs and even more limited promotion.

Essentially, it appears that Boomerang will be the new home for new WB produced animation. Also, the channel will have expanded access to WB's cartoon library, meaning more variety in their classic reruns. Cool, huh?

[Shin_Edda_Robo!!!!!]

Maybe thats where Robots In Disguise will go.

Man, this is kinda tragic though. Brianne Drouhard's Gemworld series would have been a perfect fit on this channel

[The Shadow]

Drouhard's Amethyst: Princess of Gemworld were easily among the best of the DC Nation shorts, I'm disappointed that it never became a full series.

In someways, IE the expanded access to WB's animation catalog, it appears Boomerang will be returning to form; I expect we will see a return of the H-B shows that pretty much evaporated from the schedule a couple years ago.

[lhb412]

Perhaps they should restart the DC Nation programming block on Boomerang? It fizzled before, but that was more lack of support than anything else, and Disney has had success with their similar Marvel block for, what? A couple of years, now?

[The Shadow]

A return of DC Nation (under the same or different name) would be great, especially if it started pulling from all the animated DC stuff that WB has available. It'd be nice if even the live action shows could be included in a revived DC Nation block.

Back when DC still had their forums up, someone once suggested that as WB had so much DC animation, live action shows, and movies at in their catalog that they could just about start up a dedicated superhero/comics network (I think the original idea was a co-owned network with Marvel that would run stuff from both companies).

It would also be great if the Boomeraction block returned, plenty of other great action cartoons Boomerang could run.

I'm glad the classic Looney Tunes shorts returned when the current format came to be, though I was disappointed at the loss of the MGM cartoon shorts; hopefully both can be a part of renovated Boomerang in the future.

[lhb412]

^I used to catch the odd Tex Avery short amid Boomerang's Tom and Jerry block, and that wasn't that long ago. After decades of using Bugs Bunny to headline shows that included all the Looney Tunes I wonder why they never did the same with Tom and Jerry? An hour means 6 cartoons, and you could have 3 Tom and Jerry ones to anchor the thing. It fits with what WB's direct-to-video Tom and Jerry movies do, as they all seem to have Droppy, Screwball Squirrel and the like in minor and not-so-minor parts.

[mr.negativity]

[mbozzo]

Maybe Boomerang will do a DC Nation block on the weekends from 8 to 11 PM. One can always dream.

[lhb412]

http://www.avclub.com/article/warner-br ... ns--251680

Okay, here's the weird news: the new Boomerang streaming service will be the exclusive home to what's being branded as 'new episodes' of classic cartoons. While the new Wacky Races will be a reboot, it seems the new Looney Tunes, Scooby-Doo, and Tom and Jerry cartoons will be packaged essentially as new episodes of their respective classic series.