What If: Kids' WB! still existed?

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Sans the new website, what if Kids' WB had still existed on TV? Ever since Warner Bros. and CBS announced that 4Kids was taking over Kids' WB's spot, my head's been spinning like crazy. What if Kids WB! had a new season? What new shows from Warner Bros. Animation would they cook up this time, aside from the remakes and spinoffs of properties? What will the new acquisitions be? Would Kids' WB! create a new theme? Stuff like that.

Prepare for a semi-long post on The "What If: Kids' WB! still existed?"



First things first (IF Kids' WB! had stayed):


Returning Shows (Again, IF Kids' WB! had stayed):

Tom and Jerry Tales (a new chasing round of 13 episodes, with new Droopy and MGM variety like segments in the middle or end). Produced by Warner Bros. Animation.

Shaggy and Scooby Doo! Get A Clue! (13 new Scooby Snackin' episodes with Fred, Velma and Daphne recurring with Scooby and Shaggy). Scrappy Doo will (would have) make a guest appearance. The last season. Produced by Warner Bros. Animation.

Legion Of Superheroes (13 Final Superific episodes, including more of Brainiac 5's long path to rejuvenate himself from.....well himself (well, 1.0), with Superman and Superman X and the Legion growing up even more and more cool things this season!) Produced by Warner Bros. Animation.



Skunk Fu! (All new Kungy, Stinky, Fueyfied episodes with the Skunk. Forget Kung Fu Panda, this skunk is all we need for some comedic action!) The last episodes of Skunk Fu!. From Cartoon Saloon.


Johnny Test (13 final lab busting episodes from Scott Fellows with Johnny, Dukey, Susan, and Mary making more crazy adventures, including a final episode, where Johnny must work with his villains (yes, Bling Bling Boy) he encountered to save the world!). This time, Warner Bros. Animation produces the final episodes from Cookie Jar.


Mid-Season (2009)


The Spectacular Spider-Man (26 web slinging episodes featuring your friendly neighborhood hero, with the same villains, new challenges, crossovers, and new characters. It's so much action, that Peter Parker's Spidey Senses are already tingling!) From Culver Entertainment (Sony) and Marvel.


World Of Quest (Get ready for more crazy fun with the Buff Quest, the nerdy Prince Nestor, fangirl of Quest Anna, and the rest of the gang in this new adventurous comedic season). From Cookie Jar Entertainment.




New Shows:


Looney Tuneiverse (Forget the cruddy 2003-2004 LT shorts and semi-crrud Loonatics, Warner Bros. comes back into the LT world with never before seen shorts featuring Bugs, Daffy, Sylvester and Tweety, Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner, Taz (and his family), Porky Pig, Foghorn Leghorn, Marvin The Martian, Pepe Le Pew, and some one shot shorts featuring Pussyfoot, Ralph Phillips, Hubie and Bertie, Cool Cat and many other LT characters (except Bosko and maybe Lola Bunny). From Warner Bros. Animation.


Jonny Quest X (Or Jonny Quest: The Next Generation) (From the world of Jonny Quest where The Real Adventures Of JQ takes off, Jonny grows up to be a father of a son (named Jr.) with Jessie as his wife, Dr. Quest and Race are grandparents and are also retired from the action. Hadji also has a kid (um...2 kids, twins) with a lady of his own. Like what Dr. Quest did with Jonny and Hadji, Jonny, Hadji and Jessie takes their kids on more adventures around the world, with new allies, new gadgets, and a new Questworld). From Warner Bros. Animation.


Pebble's World (Unlike Cave Kids, this show will feature awesome segments featuring Pebbles Flintstone and Bamm Bamm, Dino segments, and possibly a Captain Caveman Jr. segment). From Warner Bros. Animation.


Kids' WB! Playtower (A complication of preschool WB Animated shows, like Firehouse Tales, Baby Looney Tunes and Krypto: The Superdog). From Warner Bros. Animation.


Crash Bandicoot: The Series (From the Video Game Franchise, comes Crash, Coco, Aku and many other friends at Crash's Universe, as they battle foes like Dr. Neo Cortex, Dr. N. Gin, Tiny The Tiger, Dingo, and Aku's evil brother!) From Universal Cartoon Studios.




Mid-Season (2009)


Batman: The Brave And The Bold (Yeah, hang out with The Dark Knight once again, but this time with new allies. A wild, crazy world of Gotham City with just Batman?!?! Please! It's an Extravaganza of action and comedy mixed in!). From Warner Bros. Animation.




Weekday Morning/Afternoon Additions (Had weekdays still be around)


The Mr. Men Show (Renegade Animation, Chorion, Cartoon Network)

The Land Before Time (Amblin Entertainment, Universal Cartoon Studios)



Afternoons


Ben 10 (Cartoon Network Studios)

Bakugan (Hey, it's popular, Nelvana)

Shaggy and Scooby Doo Get A Clue! (Warner Bros. Animation)

Transformers: Animated (Cartoon Network Studios and Hasbro)



Bumpers


Will have the WB lot back, characters running around, and stuff. For the action part, it will be dark city buildings, and thunder and lightning all over.



Schedule




Weekdays:

Mornings: Kids' WB! Jr.

7:00AM The Mr. Men Show
7:30AM The Land Before Time
8:00AM Will and Dewitt
8:30AM Kids' WB! Playtower


Weekdays (except Fridays)

3:00PM Johnny Test
3:30PM Shaggy and Scooby Doo Get A Clue!
4:00PM Ben 10
4:30PM Bakugan


Fraturdays:

3:00PM Johnny Test
3:30PM Shaggy and Scooby Doo Get A Clue!
4:00PM Transformers: Animated
4:30PM The Spectacular Spider-Man






Saturdays: (Fall 2008)


7:00AM Kids' WB! Playtower (New Complication Show)
7:30AM Pebble's World (New Show)
8:00AM Looney TuneIverse (New Show)
8:30AM Tom and Jerry Tales (ALL NEW)
9:00AM Johnny Test (ALL NEW Until March 2009)
9:30AM Skunk Fu! (ALL NEW Until March 2009))
10:00AM Shaggy and Scooby Doo Get A Clue! (ALL NEW Until March 2009)
10:30AM Crash Bandicoot: The Series (New Show)
11:00AM Jonny Quest X (New Show)
11:30AM Legion Of Superheroes (ALL NEW Until March 2009)



March 2009 Schedule:

Gone:

Johnny Test (Saturdays)
Shaggy and Scooby Doo Get A Clue! (Saturdays)
Skunk Fu! (For good altogether)
Legion Of Superheroes (Saturdays)



7:00AM Kids' WB! Playtower (ALL NEW)
7:30AM Pebble's World (ALL NEW)
8:00AM Tom and Jerry Tales (ALL NEW)
8:30AM Looney TuneIverse (ALL NEW)
9:00AM Crash Bandicoot: The Series (ALL NEW)
9:30AM World Of Quest (ALL NEW)
10:00AM The Spectacular Spider-Man (ALL NEW)
10:30AM The Spectacular Spider-Man (ALL NEW)
11:00AM Jonny Quest X (ALL NEW)
11:30AM Batman: The Brave And The Bold (NEW SHOW)
​


Fraturdays


3:00PM Tom and Jerry Teles
3:30PM Looney TuneIverse
4:00PM Transformers: Animated
4:30PM The Spectacular Spider-Man



Whew!


I'll make a post on what would have came in the 2009-2010 season.

Later.























 
Warner was still going to stop production of most of their youth entertainment.

It seems like 4kids may not actually be producing Huntik.

World of Quest might have been cancelled.

Spider-Man would never be taken off even if it's just in reruns but it has 26 episodes to run this year and surely 13 of them will air in Fall.

So this is what I'd figure.

07:00 - Will and Dewit
07:30 - Magi-Nation
08:00 - Tom and Jerry Tales
08:30 - Shaggy and Scooby Doo Get a Clue
09:00 - Johnny Test
09:30 - Huntik
10:00 - The Spectacular Spider-Man
10:30 - Batman: The Brave and the Bold
11:00 - Legion of Super Heroes
11:30 - World of Quest

If Spider-Man keeps two slots then Batman and Legion are in 11AM hour again and World of Quest is toast.
 


Actually, we've already seen that plot. One of the Johnny Test season finales that aired on Kids WB a couple of weeks ago had Johnny (as Johnny X) teaming up with several of his enemies (excluding Bling-Bling Boy, who's really more of an annoyance than a villain) to stop an alien invasion led by Darth Vegan (in this episode, we learn that Vegan's daughter Jessica does indeed have a mother). Hugh (Johnny's dad) was frozen early in the story and the episode ended before he was freed.

My only gripe about this episode was where the heck was Johnny's mom Lila? It seems odd that she would still be at work when the entire planet was facing imminent doom. I smell a plot-hole!
 
Vivendi Universal and Universal Animation aren't interested in creating a Crash Bandicoot series. Otherwise, they would have done it back when the character was fresh. Spyro too.

Any new Jonny Quest animated series will likely be based on the live-action movie in the works and continue from that. No second generation mess nor an older Jonny Quest. The basics. Like the Scrappy-Doo era of Scooby-Doo and the Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm marriage/parenthood, Hanna-Barbera are pretending The Real Adventures never happened.

Fraturdays has been a thing of the past since September 2001. Weekdays are no longer an option.

I think this past season is the final season of Johnny Test. That finale did seem kind of final, in the tradition of Last But Not Beast. Same deal with Shaggy and Scooby-Doo Get A Clue. Eon Kid . . . well, that's in perpetual oblivion until CW 4Kids airs the final episodes this summer, but the franchise is history unless a new season is made.

That said, if Kids' WB existed beyond this season, here's a more realistic press release of what would have happened, based on what they're doing online (T-Works was going to be a vital part of Warner Bros. Entertainment regardless of the name) and on the network right now:

Action, Comedy, Legends, and Classics Rule Kids' WB On-Air and Online This Fall!

This fall, Kids' WB!, the CW's highly-rated Saturday morning block of programming, enters its 14th season (its third season on The CW Television Network) and relaunches its official website, kidswb.com, into a 24-hour broadband video channel with classic and new animation titles.

Kids' WB! will become a dominant force in children's online entertainment with the introduction of the new Kids' WB.com, a mix of video, interactive activities, and some of the world's best-known franchises under one roof. The broadcast component, Kids' WB! on the CW, will enter its 14th season with returning favorites, Tom and Jerry Tales, Legion of Super Heroes, The World of Quest, and The Spectacular Spider-Man, and five new series, Batman: The Brave and the Bold, Class of the Titans, Mashup!, Plastic Man, and The Wizard of Oz. In a first for Kids' WB, the latter three shows will make their world debut a day earlier every Friday afternoon on kidswb.com.

Introducing The New Kids' WB.com!

Starting in the fall, Kids' WB.com relaunches as the biggest online animation channel on the planet. Combining the libraries of Warner Bros., DC Comics, and Hanna-Barbera, kidswb.com will present 24/7 access to some of the biggest names and greatest cartoons on the planet, from Looney Tunes, The Flintstones, and Scooby-Doo to classic characters like Yogi Bear, Tom and Jerry, and Huckleberry Hound to comic icons like Batman, Superman, Teen Titans, and Justice League.

The site will be divided in three "zones," Kids' WB!, Kids' WB! Jr., and DC Comics HeroZone. Each zone will also offer interactive sections, games, downloads, and weekly contests.

Kidswb.com brings you the world premiere of three new series right before they air on Saturday mornings. Plastic Man, The Wizard of Oz, and Mashup! will debut every Friday afternoon. New shows exclusive to the site, including a new version of the classic Wacky Races series and new Spy Vs. Spy shorts, will also be debut throughout the year.

New Series:

Batman: The Brave and the Bold - The Dark Knight returns in a new series that has him teaming up with legendary DC Comics heroes, including some making their animated debuts. 13 episodes from Warner Bros. Animation.

Class of the Titans - Teenage descendants of Greek warriors unite to stop Chronos from trying to rule the world. 26 episodes from Studio B Productions and Nelvana Entertainment.

Kids' WB! Mashup! - Ever wanted to see Quick Draw McGraw take on Yosemite Sam? Would Tom have better luck trying to catch Tweety? How about Yogi Bear and Bugs Bunny outsmarting by Elmer Fudd? Welcome to the world of Mashup!, where classic and modern characters from the Warner Bros. animated family collide in new comedic adventures as well as found in their original incarnations, many shorts haven't been seen on Saturday mornings in over 20 years. 26 episodes with a new mashup each episode from Warner Bros. Animation. Episodes make their world premiere on kidswb.com every Friday afternoon. Exclusive Mashup! shorts will also be found only on kidswb.com throughout the year.

Plastic Man - From the studio that brought you Batman and Freakazoid comes this new comedic adventure from the pages of DC Comics. Former master thief "Eel" O'Brien becomes a stretchable, changable super hero detective. 13 episodes from Warner Bros. Animation. Episodes make their world premiere on kidswb.com every Friday afternoon.

The Wizard of Oz - Based on the books of L. Frank Baum and 1939 MGM classic musical film, Dorothy, a school-girl from Kansas gets swept away to a magical kingdom called Oz. In order to get back home, she'll travel the Yellow Brick Road to get to Emerald City to find the Wizard and make many friends and foes along the way. 13 episodes from Turner Entertainment and Warner Bros. Animation. Episodes make their world premiere on kidswb.com every Friday afternoon.

Returning Series:

Legion of Super Heroes - After the shocking events of the last season, Brainiac 5 has left the Legion. Meanwhile, a new threat emerges in the form of Six, created by the darkness within ol' Brainy. The Legion, no longer with Superman nor Kel-El, rebuild with new members, including a quintet of familiar 21st century teenage heroes, familiar joining their ranks. Worlds collide in the third season of Legion. 13 episodes from Warner Bros. Animation.

The Spectacular Spider-Man - The legendary wall-crawler returns for a second season with the arrival of new allies and even newer villains, including Venom and the return of the Green Goblin. Plus, tragedy touches the life of Peter Parker once again, and it may be his fault. 13 episodes from Sony Pictures Family Entertainment and Marvel Studios.

Tom and Jerry Tales - Hollywood's greatest cat and mouse team return for a third season filled with wacky antics and comedic adventures. 13 episodes from Warner Bros. Animation.

The World of Quest - The journey continues as Prince Nestor, his eternal protector Quest, and their odd but loyal allies travel throughout Odyssia in search of action and adventure. 26 episodes from Cookie Jar Entertainment.

The Lineup (all times Eastern):

7 AM: Bed Head (TV-Y E/I): Rotating lineup of E/I programming, including Baby Looney Tunes, Krypto the Superdog, The Mr. Men Show, and Gerald McBoing Boing
7:30 AM: The Wizard of Oz (TV-Y E/I) - NEW!
8 AM: Tom and Jerry Tales (TV-Y)
8:30 AM: Mashup! (TV-Y) - NEW!
9 AM: The World of Quest (TV-Y7)
9:30 AM: Plastic Man (TV-Y7) - NEW!
10 AM: Batman: The Brave and the Bold (TV-Y7 FV) - NEW!
10:30 AM: The Spectacular Spider-Man (TV-Y7 FV)
11 AM: Class of the Titans (TV-Y7 FV) - NEW!
11:30 AM: Legion of Super Heroes (TV-Y7 FV)
 
No kidding. I'm interested about how far the real world Kids' WB! site is going to take the real Mashup! concept. Right now, they have coloring pages, wallpaper, and the like with characters from different shows together, including the aforementioned Quick Draw McGraw vs. Yosemite Sam, and the famous animated mice not named Mickey nor Minnie (that'd be Jerry, Speedy Gonzales, and Pixie and Dixie [sorry Hubie and Bertie fans]). That one's on my desktop right now.

But to answer the off-topic notice, Fox is NOT going to air all news on Saturday mornings. Not this fall. Hopefully not next fall either. I can imagine Fox signing a new programming deal before the end of the year with a third-party studio like Cookie Jar or Nelvana. They're making animation a priority, which means they may return to their roots of creating their own programming (it's doubtful, but it'd be interesting if Fox Kids is reborn as a result of the 4Kids exodus). Hell, it wouldn't even surprise me if they went the route of hiring Warner Bros. to produce shows for their lineup. It happened before . . .
 
Even though 4Kids will have the CW this fall, they're still going to have 4KidsTV on Fox in the fall as well. I don't know if that will be the case for the fall of 2009 since that's when 4Kids' contract with Fox expires, I think. If 4Kids does let the contract expire, then I could see Fox either doing news or infomercials in the fall of 09.

As for the topic at hand, if Kids' WB had gotten another season, I doubt that it would be much different from what they have. I pretty much agree with what Jeff said about the schedule. Most of their shows would have another season and they would also get pretty much all of the shows that Jeff mentioned. As much as I did like Kids' WB, I'm not sure how good and/or helpful it is to keep on wondering "What if..." schedules at this point. I feel a bit sad about it, but at least some of the shows that they did air are either on their website or have already had DVD releases. Okay, not everyone of their shows have been released yet, but still. I just think that focusing on what could have been might not be so helpful at this point, but that's just me.
 
To Jeff:

Heck, Fox already airs Fox News on Sundays.


I could see Fox making a deal with BKN to air some cartoons on Saturdays. Or Fox could team up with Hasbro on putting some of their properties that have just returned.



Anyways, for KidsWB.com:


The New Wacky Races:

Get ready for all new adventures with not just Dick Dastardly, Peter Perfect, and Penelope Pitstop, but with many Warner Bros. Animation stars in the mix, including The Flintstones, The Jetsons, Yogi Bear, Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Shaggy and Scooby Doo, Speed Buggy, Wheelie just to name a few. They will not only race through the normal Wacky Races stages, but in different worlds, like Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner's world, Bedrock, in space with Duck Dodgers and Marvin The Martian, driving around the yellow brick road in The Wizard Of Oz, underwater races with Jabberjaw, Fender Bender 500, and more. From Warner Bros. Animation.
 
I seriously doubt you'll be seeing the Hasbro/Sunbow titles on broadcast television any more. In fact, you're more likely to see them on a Hasbro-owned broadband channel than anywhere else. Don't be surprised if an announcement happens in a couple of months on that end. Either that, or they syndicate those titles on Hulu.com.

As for BKN . . . they're a strange outfit that has a massive library but no vision on how to distribute it in the US. They've pretty much stuck to syndication, the video marke, and Toon Disney for some of their recent productions. I'm thinking the new Zorro will be Jetix bound sometime this year, but everything else will remain video-only titles.

There is going to be a new Wacky Races series (it's in the works and may come to Kids' WB! as an online-exclusive), but it's not going to look anything like that.

CW4Kids isn't going to be 100% 4Kids-produced programming. Neither is 4Kids!TV. They could produce shows for both outlets and air shows from other studios, and they will too.

Which is why I'm curious about where all the talk about Spectacular Spider-Man being cancelled is coming from . . .

For that matter, I'm curious about where all the talk about FOX airing a Saturday morning news program is coming from as well. I mean, FOX doesn't have a nationally-produced morning news show unlike ABC, NBC, and CBS, so why would they go out of their way to have a morning news show on Saturday mornings only? FOX isn't going to be Saturday morningless in 2009. I can guarantee that.
 
There is going to be a W.R. series? I think I heard it from Sander Schwartz when he was at WBA.

Ain't there supposed to be a new Thundercats series coming?
 
True, but some of the local stations have very popular newscasts. In my market the local Fox newscast is #1. In fact, I'm one of the markets where Fox Kids didn't actually air on the Fox channel back in the `90s. I had to watch Fox Kids on one of the Independent/Syndicated Channels cause Fox was airing news.
 
Yes, there's going to be a new Wacky Races series. It's still in the works and will contain some of the classic racers and a few new racers NOT BASED ON ANY EXISTING CHARACTERS. WBA are working mostly on newer productions based on pre-existing properties, including Wacky Races and a few others.

Also, what do you mean Sander Schwartz was at Warner Animation? He's still there, but not in an executive role. He's supervising numerous animated projects for non-traditional digital platforms, including broadband outlets like Kids' WB!.com. Sam Register's doing a similar role at the studio as well.

They're doing the animated movie instead. If the movie is successful, then there'll be a new series, and it'll be based on the elements introduced in the film.
 
If Fox were to do something about 'toons in the wake of the 4Kids migration, my advice is to NOT sign a deal with ONE company. At least one saturday morning lineup should NOT be dominated by one company exclusively (by the way, I'm heavily hinting at what caused the "one-company-lineup" thing).

Also, 4Kids is NOT a Fox block, Fox stations have right of first refusal to air it. A lot of Fox stations (mostly the ex-New World stations that switched in the wake of Fox winning the NFC contract in 1994) don't air the block, opting instead to air news (a practice carried over from the Fox Kids days).
 
He did.

But he also has a production deal with Warners to develop new outlets and oversee animated productions for new media. The most recent project that came from Sander Schwartz is, in fact, the new Kids' WB! website, which he began under the Toon Works Project after he left the presidency of WBA last year . . . ironically around this time frame. All that is his inception. The new shows exclusively for the site was his doing as well. At Sony, he's just the president of the international television distribution unit for the American products.
 
2009 series:
The alien world of Mer is STILL being devoured by Dark Water. Only Ren, a young prince, can stop it, by finding the lost Thirteen Treasures
of Rule. At his side is an unlikely but loyal crew of misfits; at his
back, the evil pirate lord Bloth, who would stop at nothing to get
the Treasures for himself.

High adventure with The Pirates of Dark Water continues!


(C'mon, you know you'd watch!)
 
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