Warner Bros. Animation

Warner Bros. Animation
Founded	1980
President	Sam Register
Notable Works	Looney Tunes Teen Titans Go!

Warner Bros. Animation is the film and television animation subsidiary of Warner Bros. Entertainment.

History

After Warner Bros. shut down its cartoon studio in 1969, the company began focusing on distributing compilation features derived from its library of cartoons. The first of these was 1975's Bugs Bunny Superstar, which showcased eleven Bugs Bunny cartoons and interviews with the cartoons' creators. Compilation cartoon movies with a central theme, starting with Chuck Jones' The Bugs Bunny-Road Runner Movie (a.k.a. The Great American Chase) in 1979. Friz Freleng hemled a number of TV specials which culled clips from classic cartoons with new animation in a unified story for each show.

Freleng left in 1986, with Steven S. Greene and Kathleen Helppie-Shipley helming taking charge of animated fare. Their first full-fledged venture was 1990's Tiny Toon Adventures, which had animation farmed out to numerous studios but had the stories and direction done at a studio in Sherman Oaks under the aegis of Tom Ruegger (who had previously worked at Hanna-Barbera on A Pup Named Scooby-Doo). Many TV shows, most notably Batman: The Animated Series and Freakazoid! followed.

In 1996, Warner Bros. parent company Time Warner bought Turner Feature Animation (which produced the ill-fated animated feature Cats Don't Dance) and the library of cartoons from Hanna-Barbera Productions. In 1998, WB Animation started a series of made-for-video animated features of what is arguably Hanna-Barbera's most profitable icon, Scooby-Doo, and they would use him in three new TV series henceforth (What's New Scooby-Doo?, Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue! and Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated). Through its purchase of Turner Entertainment, Time Warner also acquired ownership of the pre-1986 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer library, allowing WB Animation to focus on a new series of Tom and Jerry features. Time Warner also owns DC Comics and with the success of the 1992 Batman show, WB Animation has built a library of video and TV features with DC's roster of superheroes.

List of shows produced by Warner Bros. Animation

• Tiny Toon Adventures (1990-95, Syndication/Fox)
• Taz-Mania (1991-93, Fox)
• Batman: The Animated Series (1992-95, Fox/Kids WB)
• The Plucky Duck Show (1992, Fox)
• Animaniacs (1993-98, Fox/Kids WB)
• The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries (1995-2000, Kids WB)
• Pinky and the Brain (1995-98, Kids WB)
• Freakazoid! (1995-97, Kids WB)
• Road Rovers (1996-97, Kids WB)
• Superman: The Animated Series (1996-2000, Kids WB)
• Waynehead (1996-97, Kids WB; co-produced by Nelvana)
• The New Batman and Robin Adventures (1997-99, Kids WB)
• The New Adventures of Zorro (1997-98, Kids WB)
• Histeria! (1998-2001, Kids WB)
• Batman Beyond (1999-2001, Kids WB)
• Detention (1999-2000, Kids WB)
• Baby Blues (2000-02 primetime, WB)
• Static Shock (2000-04, Kids WB)
• The Zeta Project (2001-02, Kids WB)
• Justice League (2001-04, Cartoon Network)
• 3 South (2002-03, MTV)
• Baby Looney Tunes (2002-05, Kids WB/Cartoon Network)
• ¡Mucha Lucha! (2002-05, Kids WB)
• Ozzy & Drix (2002-04, Kids WB)
• What's New Scooby-Doo? (2002-05, Kids WB/Cartoon Network)
• Duck Dodgers (2002-05, Cartoon Network)
• Teen Titans (2003-06, Kids WB/Cartoon Network)
• Xiaolin Showdown (2003-06, Kids WB)
• Justice League Unlimited (2004-06, Cartoon Network)
• The Batman (2004-08, Kids WB/Cartoon Network)
• Firehouse Tales (2005, Cartoon Network)
• Johnny Test (2005-06, Kids WB/Cartoon Network)
• Coconut Fred's Fruit Salad Island (2005-06, Kids WB)
• Loonatics Unleashed (2005-07, Kids WB/The CW)
• Tom and Jerry Tales (2006-08, The CW)
• Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue! (2006-08, The CW)
• Legion of Superheroes (2006-08, The CW)
• Batman: The Brave and the Bold (2008-11, Cartoon Network)
• Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated (2010-13, Cartoon Network)
• MAD (2010-13, Cartoon Network)
• Young Justice (2010-13, Cartoon Network)
• The Looney Tunes Show (2011-14, Cartoon Network)
• ThunderCats (2011-12, Cartoon Network)
• Green Lantern: The Animated Series (2012-13, Cartoon Network)
• DC Super Hero Girls (2015-present, YouTube)
• Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! (2015-18, Cartoon Network/Boomerang)
• Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? (2019-2021, Boomerang)
• Yabba Dabba Dinosaurs (2019, Bommerang; starts on HBO Max 2021)
• Harley Quinn (2019-present, HBO Max)
• Looney Tunes Cartoons (2020-present, HBO Max)
• Jellystone! (2021-present, HBO Max)
• Velma (2022, coming to HBO Max)