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Saturday, July 22nd, 2006 Show Schedule: 7:00 AM Yu-Gi-Oh! 7:30 AM Yu-Gi-Oh! 8:00 AM Johnny Test 8:30 AM Xiaolin Showdown 9:00 AM Xiaolin Showdown 9:30 AM Lunatics 10:00 AM Pokémon 10:30 AM Spider Riders 11:00 AM The Batman 11:30 AM Viewtiful Joe

Show Schedule 7:00AM Yu-Gi-Oh!  501  Unwanted Guest, Part 1 7:30AM Yu-Gi-Oh!  502  Unwanted Guest, Part 2 8:00AM  Johnny Test  01  Johnny to the Center of the Earth / Johnny X 8:30AM Xiaolin Showdown  07  Ring of the Nine Dragons 9:00AM Xiaolin Showdown  28  The Black Vipers 9:30AM Loonatics Unleashed 09  Sypher 10:00AM  Pokémon  852  Pasta la Vista! New 10:30AM  Spider Riders  5  Memories of Champions New 11:00AM  The Batman  27  Batgirl Begins, Part One 11:30AM Viewtiful Joe  05  Howdy, Partner  

Four months after initial designs caused an Internet uproar, the final look of the characters in "Loonatics Unleashed," a new animated television series starring descendants of the stars of the famous Warner Brothers Looney Tunes cartoons, have been completed. "Loonatics Unleashed," which is part of the Kids' WB fall schedule, is a comedy adventure set in the year 2772. The series finds the Earth flung off its axis and protected by six superheroes, the Loonatics. The team comprises Ace Bunny (Charlie Schlatter), Danger Duck (James Marsden), Spaz B. Wilde and Tech E. Coyote (Kevin Michael Richardson), Rev Runner (Rob Paulsen)...

TULSA, Oklahoma (AP) -- Eleven-year-old Thomas Adams thought Warner Bros. had gone daffy when he saw the company's plans for a new cartoon called "Loonatics," based on Bugs Bunny and his Looney Tunes pals. The grimacing, hollow-eyed, power-fisted prototypes of a futuristic Bugs, Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner struck the boy as dark and scary. In the words of Daffy Duck, he found them "dethh-picable." Now, nearly two months after starting an Internet petition drive against the TV series' fall debut, Thomas has gotten the company's attention. Warner Bros. Entertainment spokesman Scott Rowe said his company wants the thousands...

The carrot-chomping smart aleck is making a comeback - as a futuristic, slimmed-down superhero. The extreme makeover also revamps Bugs' buddies Daffy Duck, Road Runner, Tasmanian Devil and Wile E. Coyote in an attempt to charm young audiences with old favorites. But the changes have Looney Tunes fans hopping mad.

One look at the new, angry Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck and I’m reminded why I got into this field of children’s entertainment in the first place: The gatekeepers of today’s animation don’t care what parents think. It’s not even a consideration. If you haven’t heard, Warner Bros. is prepping a new-look Looney Tunes (calling them Loonatics) for the near future, having turned the lovable characters we’ve grown up with into menacing creatures that look like they crawled out of a nuclear disaster. Warner Bros. just doesn’t get what the fuss is all about. The studio sent recently named entertainment...

NEW YORK - Bugs Bunny and his pals are being updated for the future — way in the future. The WB network will take the famed Looney Tunes characters as models for a new children's series, "Loonatics," that will air on Saturday mornings starting this fall. The characters' descendants — Buzz Bunny and the like — will be superhero action figures for the cartoon set in the year 2772. The network's animators have re-imagined Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Wile E. Coyote as sleek new figures for a modern age. "We all flipped for it," David Janollari, president of the...

February 17, 2005 -- HAS Warner Bros. gone daffy? For Kids' WB's new show "Loonatics," a futuristic bugs Bunny loses his light-and-fluffy look to become a fierce, sharpclawed beast with superpowers. Warner Bros. That's what fans of the studio's classic cartoon characters might be asking after they get a look at the new, futuristic versions of some of their favorite animated heroes, which Warner unveiled yesterday. The Looney Tunes characters — six in all — have been "reimagined" (in studio parlance) for a new series called "Loonatics," which is set to air next fall on WPIX/Channel 11 as part of...