One of the world's most beloved cartoon duos returns to television in The Tom and Jerry Show, a fresh take on the classic frenemies coming soon to Cartoon Network.
Comprised of two 11-minute shorts, each episode will feature Tom the cat and Jerry the mouse plotting against each other -- with Tom's determination matched only by Jerry's own cleverness in evading capture.
But this time, the cartoon mayhem will not be limited to only Tom and Jerry's traditional suburban setting. In The Tom and Jerry Show, the title characters' nonstop game of cat and mouse will expand to also include more fantastic worlds, from a medieval castle to a mad scientist's lab.
Preserving the look, core characters and sensibility of the original theatrical shorts, The Tom and Jerry Show shines a brightly colored, high-definition lens on a never-ending battle that has set the standard for cartoon rivalries. After all, with a setup as elementary as a determined cat chasing a resourceful and mischievous mouse, the possibilities (and laughs) are endless!
Sam Register (The Looney Tunes Show, MAD, Teen Titans) serves as executive producer on The Tom and Jerry Show. The series is being produced by Warner Bros. Animation in conjunction with producers Darrell Van Citters and Ashley Postlewaite at Renegade Animation.
"Tom and Jerry are two of the most iconic characters on the planet," said Register, Warner Bros. Animation's executive vice-president of creative affairs. "While it's important we honor their great legacy, we don't want to keep them in the archives. We want to introduce them to a new generation of fans.
"As we have done with The Looney Tunes Show, The Tom and Jerry Show will bring Tom and Jerry into a contemporary environment and tell hilarious stories that kids and adults will love."
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Comprised of two 11-minute shorts, each episode will feature Tom the cat and Jerry the mouse plotting against each other -- with Tom's determination matched only by Jerry's own cleverness in evading capture.
But this time, the cartoon mayhem will not be limited to only Tom and Jerry's traditional suburban setting. In The Tom and Jerry Show, the title characters' nonstop game of cat and mouse will expand to also include more fantastic worlds, from a medieval castle to a mad scientist's lab.
That sounds like Tom & Jerry Tales, except Tales typically contained 3 seven-minute shorts instead of 2 eleven-minute ones.
Also, can't these guys think of another method for titling these updates besides just sandwiching the franchise's name between the words 'The' and 'Show'?
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What I find interesting about this is that Warner Brothers currently holds the rights to the Hanna-Barbera properties, and yet the only ones that WB seems to want to revive for new animated series are Tom & Jerry and Scooby Doo (there was the Yogi Bear movie in 2010, but that was a movie, and no new spinoff series was launched from it). I'm not a huge H-B fan, but even I'm getting a little tired of WB reviving the same 2 properties almost exclusively. Come on, WB. You have an entire library of franchises at your disposal. If you insist on reviving old properties instead of making new ones, you could at least try reviving some of the other H-B properties.
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What I find interesting about this is that Warner Brothers currently holds the rights to the Hanna-Barbera properties, and yet the only ones that WB seems to want to revive for new animated series are Tom & Jerry and Scooby Doo (there was the Yogi Bear movie in 2010, but that was a movie, and no new spinoff series was launched from it). I'm not a huge H-B fan, but even I'm getting a little tired of WB reviving the same 2 properties almost exclusively. Come on, WB. You have an entire library of franchises at your disposal. If you insist on reviving old properties instead of making new ones, you could at least try reviving some of the other H-B properties.
If I were one of the head honchos at CN/WB and I wanted to do a general HB revival show, I'd do this.
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IMO, except for one or two others (probably Jonny Quest), most everything else from HB could barely support their own shows the first time around. Let's face it, almost everything else HB did was a clone of Scooby or Yogi anyway.
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I hope it goes well...and I hope CN would make a Yogi Bear Show with all the H-B Characters from Yogi Bear and Huckleberry Hound to the obscure ones like Loopy de Loop and Lippy and Hardy.
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