‘Looney Tunes’ Has Discovered a New House: Turner Traditional Films

Come February 2, Looney Tunes has a brand new house on Turner Traditional Films.

Warner Bros. Discovery is shifting over 750 shorts to TCM, beginning with 45 basic cartoons starring Bugs Bunny airing in a weeklong marathon that may even highlight the character as Star of the Month. First up on the listing is 1940’s A Wild Hare, the character’s debut as directed by Tex Avery and nominated for an Oscar the next 12 months.

The complete line of shorts will later seem on TCM on an “ongoing foundation” past February, in accordance with a press launch, and choose titles will air as TCM Premieres.

This licensing take care of TCM will final six years, and in accordance with programming SVP Charlie Tabas, it makes the community the brand new “ongoing tv house for this iconic library. We’re capable of current these cartoons with the care they deserve, alongside the basic movies they helped affect.” The deal additionally “ensures these cartoons are celebrated, contextualized, and accessible to audiences of all ages.”

Final 12 months, WBD yanked hundreds of Looney Tunes shorts from HBO Max; they finally discovered a house over on Tubi. That transfer labored out pretty great for Tubi: it used the phrases “an enormous win” final October to explain including the shorts to its library and mentioned it was working to ensure these shorts would keep on the service for years to come back.

On the time of writing, it’s unclear how these talks have shaken out or how a lot overlap there’ll be between it and TCM’s incoming inventory.

Nevertheless it’s clear there’s a need to protect the Looney Tunes library and in addition increase it. Later this 12 months, the characters will return to the large display screen with Coyote vs. Acme, and the gang’s different resident speedster, Speedy Gonzales, has his personal solo film within the works.

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