‘Regular Show’ Forewarned of the Hazards of Streaming Eight Years Prior to David Zaslav Removing the Show from Max | Entertainment

Under Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav’s continued marketing campaign of content material erasure, animation followers mourn the destruction of Planet Nielsen.

In case Zaslav’s popularity amongst the cartoon group wasn’t low sufficient already, the controversial government’s regime made a stunning and surreptitious transfer this week that sparked outrage throughout quite a few on-line fandoms. Following the newest updates to the Max streaming library, seven Cartoon Network exhibits have disappeared from the premium streaming service, with Ben 10, Steven Universe, the 2016 Powerpuff Girls revival, Amazing World of Gumball, We Bare Bears, Chowder and Regular Show all pulled from service with out a lot as a “leaving soon” discover.

Now that the total leisure trade is firmly sliding on a downward slope following the peak of streaming, evidently no TV sequence — regardless of how beloved or endlessly quoted — is secure from the content material cuts which have change into company-wide coverage underneath Zaslav’s management. However, followers of J.G. Quintel’s beloved, offbeat animated sitcom Regular Show have to admit that they need to have seen this coming and copped some DVDs:

Sadly, the striking of Regular Show and other beloved cartoon comedies from the streaming library is just the latest move in Zaslav’s relentless antagonizing of animation fans. When Zaslav canceled the already completed and already acclaimed film Coyote vs. Acme, traditional Warner Bros. cartoon followers (and quite a few filmmakers) campaigned to persuade Warner Bros. Discovery to permit the director of the movie Dave Green to court docket different distributors. But regardless of Netflix, Amazon and Paramount all submitting bids for the film, Zaslav declined to promote it, electing to take the tax lower as a substitute.