Hanna-Barbera Studios Europe Ltd. (also known as Great Marlborough Productions or simply Hanna-Barbera), formerly Cartoon Network Development Studio Europe and Cartoon Network Studios Europe, is a British

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headquartered in

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, England, and owned by the UK division of Warner Bros. International Television Production, a subsidiary of the Warner Bros. Television Group, ultimately owned by

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. It is originally an

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arm of

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. On 7 April 2021, Warner Bros. Discovery predecessor

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announced it had rebranded the studio to Hanna-Barbera Studios Europe, in honor of the original Hollywood-based studio and its co-founders

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and

Joseph Barbera Joseph Roland Barbera ( ; ; March 24, 1911 – December 18, 2006) was an American animator and cartoonist, best known as the co-founder of the animation studio Hanna-Barbera. Born to Italian Americans, Italian immigrants in New York City, Bar ...

. The Hanna-Barbera name had previously been revived on certain

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productions based on the classic franchises, including the fifth through thirteenth ''

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'' direct-to-video animated films, '' The Jetsons & WWE: Robo-WrestleMania!'' and the 2017 reboot of ''

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''. The first projects greenlit under the studio's new name were a film and sequel series based on ''

The Amazing World of Gumball ''The Amazing World of Gumball'' (also known simply as ''Gumball'' or by its abbreviation ''TAWOG''; retitled ''The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball'' beginning with its The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball, seventh season) is an animated si ...

'', the latter of which ultimately became the seventh season of the original show and was titled '' The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball''.

Filmography

Television series

Shorts series

Pilots

Films

Short films

Logos

File:Cartoon Network Development Studio Europe logo.png, Former logo as Cartoon Network Development Studio Europe used for the first six seasons of ''

''. File:Cartoon Network Studios Europe Logo.jpg, Former logo as Cartoon Network Studios Europe until the rebrand in 2021. File:HBStudiosEurope.svg, An earlier version of the logo as Hanna-Barbera Studios Europe in 2021 until being rebranded the same year.

References

External links

Finn Arnesen

Turner Broadcasting commissions first series from its European Development Studio

Boulder Media Enters ‘The Amazing World of Gumball’
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