Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: That's All Folks for Classic Looney Tunes on Max

2025-03-18 Thread Kevin M.
I bought all of J Straczynski’s Babylon 5 script books as well as his autobiography, and in both he wrote extensively about the creative bookkeeping of Warner Bros. Yes, they do license shows and movies and cartoons back to themselves or to their own networks and streaming platforms, and they will

[TV orNotTV] Re: That's All Folks for Classic Looney Tunes on Max

2025-03-18 Thread 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV
They coalesced the library back in the 1990s when then-Time Warner gained full control of Turner... and multiple reports, not all of which I can still find, suggested that WB wants to go back to the pre-TBS days and sell the old 'toons only to linear broadcast (e.g. MeTV Toons, which is not com

[TV orNotTV] Re: That's All Folks for Classic Looney Tunes on Max

2025-03-18 Thread M-D November
Saying Looney Tunes are "children's fare" shows that Zazlav didn't actually grow up with Looney Tunes. Because they were NOT written for children. Someone make this make sense. How does dropping the Looney Tunes library help WBD financially? Doesn't Warners own the library outright? It's not