CARTOON NETWORK AND HBO MAX REVEAL PLANS FOR TEEN TITANS GO.

Cartoon Network will continue to lean into some of its most popular franchises, including Ben 10, Teen Titans Go! and Infinity Train, while also expanding with new offerings to help bolster sister streaming service HBO Max. WarnerMedia, which owns both outlets, announced plans for family and kids programming on Wednesday, giving the green light to more than 300 hours of series, specials and acquisitions. The upcoming slate features plenty of characters that have anchored Cartoon Network for the last decade, but there are also some new franchises on the horizon, including Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai. WarnerMedia revealed its picking up a second season of the previously announced animated series before the first season premieres. A prequel to the 1984 film Gremlins, about the mischievous mogwai critters, the first season is currently in production with a voice cast that includes Ming-Na Wen, BD Wong, James Hong and Matthew Rhys.

“The show takes place in 1920s China,” executive producer/showrunner Tze Chun teased in a video WarnerMedia presented to advertisers as part of their upfront presentation. “We really wanted to be authentic to that time period and we have an incredible team of artists and cultural advisors who really built this world and made that happen. It starts in Shanghai and it follows that old Mr. Wing [played as an elderly man by Keye Luke in the original Gremlins] when he was just a 10-year-old boy named Sam. He meets Gizmo and he also meets a French street thief named Elle, and the three of them go on a journey through China to return Gizmo to his ancestral home, the Valley of Jade.” Another new series is Jade Armor, which, according to the studio, “centers around the martial arts-loving Lan Jun, an unlikely teenage heroine who must learn the ancient secrets of her family and uncover the unexpected, all while navigating life as a teen.”