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Warner Bros Discovery finalizes split, confirms they plan to cut Cartoon Network loose from Warner.


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Well, according to an interview with Seth Green to promote the Robot Chicken special, Discovery Communications is DeMarco's boss. But, since he was promoted to become WB's new head of action cartoons, Warner Bros. may still have him on their record. It depends on where the turn buckles.

But in all seriousness, while I do understand the split, I do NOT understand why they merged in the first place. Not to mention where AT&T lies in all of this.

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Comcast is taking Cartoon Network out of their basic package and putting it into an additional $9.95 a month tier. It feels like this is the beginning of the end for the network and it’s giving me a bit of existential dread.

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7 hours ago, SwimOdin said:

Comcast is taking Cartoon Network out of their basic package and putting it into an additional $9.95 a month tier. It feels like this is the beginning of the end for the network and it’s giving me a bit of existential dread.

You guys had it in your basic package??

Last few areas I've been to, it's been in a premium package for a long while now.

Big contributing factor for me just cutting loose.

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This split would almost be good (besides the loss of jobs and projects) if AS/CN (and by extension Boomerang) and TCM were on the WB side with HBO. As it stands they feel like two islands in a sea of unscripted TV shows under the Discovery banner.

Nothing much will change for Adult Swim because they mostly rely on Disney owned shows anyway and I don’t think they will lose R&M, the president spin-off, Smiling Friends or any other original series that does well for AS. I would not rule out HBO Max taking some or all of those away but they’re probably sticking with AS for a while yet. But now the network won’t own the rights to those shows and have to pay for the privilege of showing them.

They can develop new IP for the network and on the AS side that probably will happen but the CN side? Not dang likely. Meanwhile WB will make shows for HBO Max or any streamer willing to pay the most.

This could lead to interesting acquisitions for AS and maybe even some for CN if they even care to do that. Or CN will just air whatever WB catalog shows that are affordable enough and maybe WB won’t price them out of Gumball, Adventure Time and Regular Show reruns. Somewhat ironically TTG a WBA show itself is probably gonna stay on the network and even keep premiering episodes there.

Its not all that different than when Turner was largely autonomous under AOL Time Warner but back then Turner had plenty of operating cash they pumped into CN and I don’t see Discovery’s regime doing that for a number of reasons. Honestly I don’t know why they don’t just kill CN outright. Maybe they’ll finally kill it now if it becomes too expensive to air library titles on it. But AS will probably be fine and Toonami by extension will stick around but Rooster Fighter might be the last anime co-pro besides more Ninja Kamui.

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