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Are you saying there will be new episodes of a new season?
 

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No, the report stated there'll be new episodes completing the second half of the show's first and so far only season.
 

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Well, that really sucks. WB screws over Young Justice and Green Lantern TAS only to screw this one over too? :boo:
 

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The good news? Beware the Bat's coming back to CN.
The bad news? It'll be on at 3:00 AM EST.

Just announced, Beware the Bat will be added to CN's Toonami lineup starting on May 10, 2014 at the time mentioned above. And yes, we'll have to go through the already aired eleven episodes to get to the new episodes starting on July 26, 2014. Also, there are a total of twenty-six episodes, so I don't rully expect more after that. So that's your update for today fellow Gothamites.
This is a brilliant idea in theory. Beware the Batman wasn't going to get that kid's audience, and it's never going to get a toy line because one of the characters is a girl, and somehow kids HATE girl characters in toy lines... you know, like every toy company not named Mattel doesn't believe. If it can manage to get that older cartoon viewer audience and just enough to keep the show going, I say, good for it.
 

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I take most of that back. They are dumping the series because they're too abysmally cheap to keep the show going when Mattel once again proves how much it sucks by refusing to make a toy line since there's a girl in the cast, and making an action figure would give the rest of the line cooties or something.

Hasbro doesn't flinch at Lady Jaye or Arcee (well, at least not recently) merchandise. Playmates has had April in every TMNT line (cept the live action series, since she never popped up). A freaking Katana isn't going to destroy their already overpriced non-selling toys. They failed to make the Young Justice line affordable and accessible (there was often more plastic in the packaging), and that's what caused that to end.

What's completely baffling is that Warner Bros failed to make their biggest cash cow, Batman, successful as a TV series. They purposely screwed the show because Teen Titans was cheaper (flash animated, only 5 voice actors, and only 10 minutes of footage a week) and kid friendly enough (despite the fact the jokes are often pretty disturbing) to force down the audience's throats. There's the CN that greenlit Adventure Time, Steven Universe, and The Tom and Jerry Show, and then there's the one that cancels shows because of terrible toy lines (Thundercats), moves Adult Swim to 8 PM so we can have episodes of The Cleveland Show (which no one really liked, despite being better than FG was currently), keeps thinking live action programing doesn't result in backlashes and low ratings, and feel the need for non-animated movies that no one bothers watching anyway (Son of the Mask? Really?!?)
 

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It's official. Beware the Batman is being written off by CN.

Yeah. Why bother resurrecting the show for an adult market anyway? We have Mr. Pickles to bring them the same lame juvenile "adult" humor that the AS fanbase supposedly wants.

DC is in dire crap if they can't get a Batman cartoon to work. The Bat's been their golden goose for years. Still is. Meanwhile, Marvel has 3 TV cartoons with a GOTG one in development and an anime which is pretty good if you can overlook the Digimon-esque elements.
 
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