Warner Bros Discovery, in their never-ending quest to destroy their own legacy, decided to pull every remaining Looney Tunes & Merrie Melodies short from Max. Again, it's in the name of saving money, and, also, in the warped, misguided mindset of WBD suits, to move the streamer further away from animation and toward live-action programming for families, if the kiddos want something to watch. Lord knows, WBD already decided they weren't renewing their contract for Sesame Street, which likely will find a new primary broadcast home, or just go back to airing first-run episodes on PBS.
But, there is a light at the end of this tunnel.
On April 1, fittingly, April Fools Day, shows like The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries & The Looney Tunes Show, along with a number of other properties, including some Scooby-Doo movies, are heading over to Tubi (they swear this isn't a joke), which already has The Flintstones, Tom & Jerry, & some older Scooby-Doo content.
In time, the shorts will gravitate over to Tubi and/or Me-TV Toons, proving once again how short-sighted the thinking is of David Zaslav and his staff at WBD.
In other WB news, as you may know by now, an independent studio, which acquired "The Day The Earth Blew Up" for a recent theatrical release, is now seeking to pick up "Coyote vs. ACME", starring Wile E. Coyote with human co-stars Will Forte & John Cena. Ketchup Entertainment was able to generate $3 million in box office receipts for "Earth", and are hoping to do the same with "Coyote". Go for it, y'all.
Wouldn't be at all surprised if both movies eventually air on a non-WBD network, like, oh, I don't know, USA? Stay tooned.
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Personally, as Tubi is free and Max is a paid streaming service, I would definitely be OK with more Looney Tunes, Scooby Doo or other WB owned content on free streaming services...
Of course, I also have a number of DVDs of Hanna-Barbera shows(including most of the Scooby series sets, and some of the various Scooby knockoffs), so it's nice to have a backup if what I like isn't on streaming.
@Hobbyfan: it's funny you mentioned maybe the Looney Tunes movies potentially airing on USA or a non-Turner/Warner Brothers network in the future, as pre-Cartoon Network there was a Jonny Quest movie that aired on USA.
I also remember some of the Hanna-Barbera Superstars 10 movies airing on Disney Channel of all places around 1993/1994 or so...
Which illustrates how there are more options than the media is willing to admit to.
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