HBO Max Misplaced Two Extra Cartoon Community Classics This Week

The present regime at Warner Bros. Discovery—quickly to separate into Warner Bros. and Discovery within the close to future—has by no means actually appreciated its animated history. After licensing out outdated Cartoon Community hits and their sequel exhibits to different platforms, the corporate nonetheless have just a few extra exhibits to kick out of HBO Max.

On this case, it’s Braveness the Cowardly Canine and What’s New, Scooby-Doo that are actually not on the service. Per Deadline, the 2 youth-aimed horror exhibits left the service on July 31 after their latest license offers expired. In accordance with the outlet’s sources, the recent renaming means basic youngsters’ exhibits are “decrease precedence” when it’s time to resume licenses. The excellent news is, the 2 exhibits’ particular person episodes and full seasons stay purchasable on iTunes, Prime Video, and the like. Odds are by the tip of 2025, they’ll find yourself someplace like Hulu’s library, and by extension Disney+.

However as many on-line have famous, the elimination of Braveness and Scooby means HBO Max has successfully zero Cartoon Community exhibits that got here out previous to 2010. (The one actual outlier seems to be Samurai Jack, due to its final season airing on Grownup Swim.) And its collection of post-2010s exhibits it has is equally incomplete. What’s there’s grandfathered in by another method, like having an HBO Max offshoot (assume Younger Justice or Fionna & Cake) or being a part of the DC household, like Batman: Courageous & the Daring. So no Common Present or Gumball, you’ll should get these elsewhere.

Newer youngsters exhibits like Iyanu will wind up on HBO Max after they air on Cartoon Community. However how lengthy will or not it’s earlier than they, too, are forged out of the service and left in some type of limbo?

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