{"id":434788,"date":"2026-01-26T18:28:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T18:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/434788\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T18:28:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T18:28:13","slug":"tcm-becomes-home-to-looney-tunes-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/434788\/","title":{"rendered":"TCM Becomes Home to Looney Tunes Library"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tBig news just in from the folks at the Acme Corporation: TCM<\/a> has become \u201cthe ongoing television home\u201d of the iconic Looney Tunes<\/a> library from Warner Bros.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn late 2022, HBO Max eliminated 256 Looney Tunes shorts from 1950-2004 when its license expired and the streaming arm of Warner Bros. Discovery chose not to renew it, Vulture reported<\/a>. Last year, another 255 shorts produced from 1930-1949 were excised.<\/p>\n

\n\tBut on Feb. 2 at 8 p.m. PT, the prized animated films \u2014 more than 750 in all \u2014 will begin running on WBD cable channel TCM as part of a new six-year deal. It all starts with the Oscar-nominated, Tex Avery-directed A Wild Hare (1940), the Merrie Melodies short that\u2019s considered the first \u201cofficial\u201d Bugs Bunny cartoon.<\/p>\n

\n\tForty-five shorts featuring the rascally rabbit \u2014 TCM\u2019s Star of the Month! \u2014 will screen through Feb. 7, and a curated selection of related full-length features will follow in yet another example of the thoughtful programming for which TCM is known.<\/p>\n

\n\tSo, Rabbit of Seville (1950) and What\u2019s Opera Doc (1957) will set up A Night at the Opera (1935); Tortoise Beats Hare (1941), Tortoise Wins by a Hare (1943) and Rabbit Transit (1947) will lead to Walk, Don\u2019t Run (1966); Apes of Wrath (1959) will precede King Kong (1933); Buccaneer Bunny (1948) will set up Mutiny on the Bounty (1950); Captain Hareblower (1954) will lead to Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951); Bugsy and Mugsy (1957) and The Unmentionables (1963) will precede The Roaring Twenties (1939); and A Witch\u2019s Tangled Hare (1959) will set up Hamlet (1948).<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tWhat\u2019s Opera Doc? premiered in theaters in 1957.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cBy making TCM an ongoing home for this iconic library, we\u2019re able to present these cartoons with the care they deserve, alongside the classic films they helped influence,\u201d Charlie Tabesh, TCM senior vp programming and content strategy, said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe shorts, also featuring Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam, Wile E. Coyote and other beloved characters, will continue to show up on the channel beyond February, with select titles branded as TCM Premieres.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe new deal \u201censures these cartoons are celebrated, contextualized and accessible to audiences of all ages,\u201d TCM notes.<\/p>\n

\n\tTCM\u2019s annual \u201c31 Days of Oscar\u201d programming kicks off Feb. 13 and leads to the 98th annual Academy Awards on March 15. Each day is organized around a distinct theme, including \u201cOscar Goes Big,\u201d \u201cOscar Goes West,\u201d \u201cOscar Goes International\u201d and \u201cOscar Goes Hollywood.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Big news just in from the folks at the Acme Corporation: TCM has become \u201cthe ongoing television home\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49,48,75,21198,47240,348],"class_list":{"0":"post-434788","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-looney-tunes","12":"tag-tcm","13":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}