Here’s when the basic Looney Tunes cartoons are leaving Max.
Update: A Warner Bros. Discovery spokesperson says basic Looney Tunes was “included in error as a title leaving the platform” within the firm’s official launch for what’s new and what’s leaving Max for December 2023. “This is not the case and the show will continue streaming on Max,” the spokesperson mentioned. The authentic report follows.
That’s all, people: Looney Tunes is leaving Max. Warner Bros. Discovery confirmed Monday that the final of the basic Looney Tunes shorts will depart the streaming platform on December 31. In addition, Max is about to take away the 2003 live-action/animated film Looney Tunes: Back in Action and all 52 episodes of the 2011 collection The Looney Tunes Show. The firm already pulled over 250 Looney Tunes episodes from the platform on the finish of 2022, purging seasons 16-31 (1950—2004) of the unique Merrie Melodies/Looney Tunes library. Seasons 1-15 (1930—1949), consisting of 255 shorts, remained on the service — however on January 1, 2024, subscribers will now not be capable to stream the basic Looney Tunes cartoons on Max.
Amid the primary Looney Tunes content material purge, Variety reported that Warner Bros. licensed Looney Tunes to its personal streaming service (then HBO Max) and didn’t renew the licensing agreements after they expired on the finish of 2022. It appears that Max has opted to not renew its license for the primary 15 seasons and can let it expire on Dec. 31.
Warner Bros. Discovery didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
Looney Tunes exhibits that may stay on Max past Dec. 31 embrace new collection Tiny Toons Looniversity and preschool collection Bugs Bunny Builders. Other titles that may stay obtainable embrace two seasons of New Looney Tunes, 5 seasons of Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries, six seasons of Max Original Looney Tunes Cartoons, the four-part Bugs and Daffy’s Thanksgiving Road Trip podcast, and the movies Space Jam (1996), Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021), and King Tweety (2022).
In 2022, the corporate additionally eliminated collection like Westworld, The Nevers, Generation, FBoy Island, Legendary, The Time Traveler’s Wife, The Gordita Chronicles, and Raised by Wolves as a part of CEO David Zaslav’s cost-cutting measures; Max later deleted greater than 100 episodes of Impractical Jokers and culled Cartoon Network and Adult Swim content material. Some of these exhibits had been shopped to FAST (free ad-supported streaming tv) companies; others, just like the animated collection Final Space, had been wiped from the web fully.
Coyote vs. Acme — a live-action/animated film starring John Cena and Wile E. Coyote — was the most recent Looney Tunes challenge axed at Warner Bros. for a reported $30 million tax write-down, however the studio reversed that call and can store the finished film quite than scrap it.
Want to observe Looney Tunes on-line? Max subscribers will not be capable to stream seasons 1-15 after Dec. 31, however these episodes — and the 256 episodes eliminated final Dec. 31 — are at the moment obtainable for digital buy on Apple TV (priced $0.99—$2.99 per episode.) Ain’t {that a} stinker?
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