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EXCLUSIVE: The world’s largest digital comic publisher Webtoon is expanding with its newly launched production division Webtoon Studios. The new production arm connects Webtoon’s huge library of titles and creators with entertainment platforms including film, television, interactive entertainment, licensing and…

Scooby-Doo co-creator Ken Spears died on Friday, November 6. He co-founded Ruby-Spears Productions with Joe Ruby, who died in August. Spears was 82. Spears’ son Kevin confirmed his death to Variety, saying that he died from complications related to Lewy body dementia. “Warner Bros. Animation is saddened to learn of…

EXCLUSIVE: The American Forces Network is getting a special Veterans Day broadcast of Netflix’s World War II animated drama series The Liberator, for military service members and their families. Based on the book by Alex Kershaw, the series hails from writer Jeb Stuart (Die Hard), A+E Studios, Bob Shaye and Michael…

Fox welcomed back its Sunday night animation block after its World Series run with The Simpsons getting a healthy boost from the network’s coverage of the San Francisco 49ers-Seattle Seahawks game leading into primetime. The long-running animated series aired its 31st “Treehouse of Horror” episode, which delivered a…

CBS All Access has officially picked up a fourth season of its original comedy series No Activity, starring Patrick Brammall and Tim Meadows. The formal greenlight for a fourth season had been expected. The season had already been written and the show had been gearing up for production when the pandemic brought…

Everett Downing, the animator behind the Oscar-winning viral short Hair Love, has landed his own Netflix series. Downing and Patrick Harpin (Hotel Transylvania 2) will team to create action-comedy series My Dad The Bounty Hunter, with Dwarf Animation Studio producing the CGI animation. My Dad The Bounty Hunter follows…

HBO Max and Cartoon Network have ordered a new project from Emmy-award winning creator and animator Genndy Tartakovsky. The network greenlit Tartakovsky’s Unicorn: Warriors Eternal, a supernatural animated series inspired by myths and lore from across the globe. Unicorn: Warriors Eternal is one of several new series…

Babs, Buster Bunny and the rest of the Acme Acres gang are back and headed to college. HBO Max and Cartoon Network have handed a two-season, straight-to-series order for Tiny Toons Looniversity from Warner Bros. Animation, Amblin Television and returning executive producer Steven Spielberg. Tiny Toons Looniversity is…

Netflix unpacked a swath of news during its Netflix Anime Festival 2020 livestream Tuesday out of Japan, setting five new anime projects and providing updates on 11 other series in various stages of production at the streamer’s bustling Tokyo headquarters. The new original projects — continuation Rilakkuma's Theme Park…

Cardboard cutouts from the South Park episode “The Pandemic Special” will again be in the stands at Denver’s Empower Field on Sunday. The NFL has limited or banned fan attendance at their stadiums this fall, thanks to the coronavirus pandemic. To create the illusion of fan support, many pro sports teams have replaced…

Rick and Morty showrunner Dan Harmon has called the global pandemic a “net zero” on his productivity during a virtual PaleyFest New York panel released Friday. The Emmy-winning writer and co-creator of Adult Swim’s animated juggernaut remarked that the isolating effects of the pandemic has led to some interesting…

EXCLUSIVE: Lena Headey and Luke Wilson have joined the voice cast of the sci-fi animation series New-Gen, based on the Marvel comic book series by J.D. Matonti, Chris Matonti and Julia Coppola of A.P.N.G. Enterprises. The series, co-created by J.D. Matonti and showrunner Brent Friedman, is now underway on production. N…