{"id":176331,"date":"2023-01-03T23:38:05","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T23:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/hbo-max-removes-256-looney-tunes-shorts-three-seasons-of-the-flintstones\/"},"modified":"2023-01-03T23:38:05","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T23:38:05","slug":"hbo-max-removes-256-looney-tunes-shorts-three-seasons-of-the-flintstones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/hbo-max-removes-256-looney-tunes-shorts-three-seasons-of-the-flintstones\/","title":{"rendered":"HBO Max Removes 256 ‘Looney Tunes’ Shorts, Three Seasons of ‘The Flintstones’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Warner Bros. Discovery’s content purge of HBO Max continued with a year-end culling of a bucket of classic \u201cLooney Tunes\u201d shorts and \u201cThe Flintstones\u201d episodes.<\/p>\n

As of Dec. 31, HBO Max removed Seasons 16-31 of the original \u201cLooney Tunes\u201d library, variety<\/em> has confirmed. Still remaining on the service are \u201cLoony Tunes\u201d Season 1-15, which comprise 255 shorts spanning 1930-49. The shorts that were deleted were released from 1950-2004, including \u201cWhat’s Opera, Doc?\u201d, \u201cFeed the Kitty,\u201d \u201cRabbit of Seville,\u201d \u201cDuck Amuck\u201d and \u201cOne Froggy Evening,\u201d as noted by Vulture.<\/p>\n

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In addition, HBO Max has pulled Season 4-6 of \u201cThe Flintstones,\u201d a total of 78 episodes. The first three seasons of the Hanna-Barbera classic are still available on the service.<\/p>\n

The \u201cLooney Tunes\u201d and \u201cFlintstones\u201d content was licensed to HBO Max from Warner Bros. under an intra-company deal. Those licensing agreements expired at the end of 2022 and HBO Max did not renew them, as it seeks to reduce content expenses. It’s unclear whether the \u201cLooney Tunes\u201d and \u201cFlintstones\u201d content that is no longer on HBO Max will be available other streaming platforms.<\/p>\n

HBO Max’s removal of the \u201cLooney Tunes\u201d shorts was reported<\/a> Dec. 31 by a Twitter account called The Cartoon News. In a follow-up post Monday, the account said<\/a> without citing a source that the \u201cLooney Tunes\u201d clips were \u201cremoved temporarily due to a maintenance check to fix the photoshop titles\u201d and that \u201cthey will be returning to HBO Max soon.\u201d A source familiar with HBO Max told variety<\/em> that the \u201cLooney Tunes\u201d shorts will not, in fact, be coming back to the service.<\/p>\n

Since Discovery’s acquisition of WarnerMedia to form Warner Bros. Discovery, the company has made a series of content cutbacks aimed at reducing expenses. That has included canceling HBO Max original series \u201cMinx\u201d (reversing the Season 2 renewal) and HBO’s \u201cThe Nevers.\u201d Earlier in the year, HBO Max had expunged multiple exclusive film titles and original series and 200 older \u201cSesame Street\u201d episodes. All told, WBD said last month, the company could incur content impairment and development write-off charges of up to $3.5 billion as the result of the merger.<\/p>\n