(UPDATED) Cartoon Network Has Reportedly Pulled BEWARE THE BATMAN

What the heck? I was really surprised with how good this show is.

Yeah Cartoon Network doesn't know how to handle shows.

It was an ok show and all, but it didn't really do anything new with the Batman.

I would like to see Wonder Women, Aquaman, or the Flash get their own animated show tbh, as it is getting tiring seeing Batman all the time.

Get the f*** outta here????!!!!

That makes two of my favorite animated shows getting pulled off the air...

Beware the Batman
Tron: Uprising

Sh**'s ridiculous!

Good riddance Beware. Bring on something better, or at least the same level as YJ or GL. BtB sucked.

Isn't it about time that DC just invested their money into their own Cable Channel? Just have a channel dedicated to showing their old live action shows, cartoons and movies and then add new shows to the lineup.

Hell they could even explore doing some live action shorts, show fan films, a DC News Block or some comic book artist reality show. I'm sure they have enough content in their archives along with developmental ideas to do their own thing and it would be way better than half the crap on Cable anyway.

Manogeek: DC has no say in the matter. WB, the parent company, calls all the shots and writes all the checks.

Yeah I knew it wouldn't last long it was just a messed up show Alfred was stupid and messed up and the stories were kind of stupid.... Just Bring back YOUNG JUSTICE and we will all be fine with that..

Regarding Young Justice, whichever corporate morons made the call to cancel it are a bunch of ignorant pricks. Young Justice was a real television show, not a piece of shit excuse to sell toys to little kids like the rest of their crap is. If they released an actual solid full season box-set they would have realized that the show was clearly worth keeping. They had ~2 million loyal viewers, if took a second to realize how much the creators and viewers of the show cared about it, they would've realized that a proper Season One Blu-ray release would have easily made millions of dollars.

@theblacknerd
"Get the f*** outta here????!!!!

That makes two of my favorite animated shows getting pulled off the air...

Beware the Batman
Tron: Uprising

Sh**'s ridiculous!"
....................................REALLY?

Haven't seen it yet. But I heard that Tara Strong was reprising her role as Barbara Gordon from the DCAU, right? That's kinda intriguing.
It's sad to hear that it's getting cancelled, but even if it is, then I'm sure it won't be too long before we see another Batman cartoon. And they're all good in their own ways, so whatever takes the place of Beware the Batman can't be that bad, right? I mean it's not like any Batman show could ever rival Batman: The Animated Series.

i miss Young Justice

Beware The Batman was by far the worst animated adaptation of Batman I have ever seen. The CGI animation was beyond terrible and the whole design felt lazy. Mr.Toad a talking toad are you kidding me people. I just don't understand how this ever became popular in the first place sorry. Cartoon Network has done the right thing.

@dougieisrollingthejays
Hey,Amazing World of Gumball was...Amazing.
i like it,as does Adventure Time & Regular Show.
dont blame other shows for this.

@batman1216

It's been confirmed that a new Justice League a animated series is indeed on the way! :)

Well that's stupid. Way to go CN cancel all the good shows.

Oh well. Maybe it'll get DC to do feature length animated movies. Like Pixar or something...

It's kind of sad when I have to get my DC animated fix from the CW's (edited for content and time) reruns of Justice League Unlimited.

I'm not the biggest fan of Beware The Batman, and it doesn't really hold a candle to either YJ or GL:TAS, but it wasn't remotely the flaming turd I was expecting. CN's seeming abandonment if any remotely "dramatic" DC animation is not a welcome development (if this is really becoming the case here).

@TerminalVoyd

Not just CN with DC animation shows, but Disney XD with Marvel. They had The Spectacular Spider-Man, whose animation was "kiddie" but the stories were deep & character-driven. They replaced that with Ultimate Spider-Man, which more often goes for humor. Same with The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes and its very loose follow-up Avengers Assemble, which is reaching for the movie and the similar tone of USM. Let's not mention Hulk and the Agents of SMASH, which is just wrong.

USM = Mildly amusing
AA = Bland
HULK = Terrible

@TDKRnry88

Losing Spectacular Spider-Man was inevitable. First, Marvel shared that one with Sony, as it was produced before Marvel acquired sole TV rights to the character. Second, the show suffered badly after the CW canceled the Kids WB block and SSM moved to Disney XD. The scheduling of new episodes was inconsistent, it had already aired abroad (meaning that it was pirated online before it even premiered in the states) and all of that led to poor ratings. Hell, I got so bored of waiting I watched Season 2 on Youtube (though I did rewatch when XD finally got around to airing them).

Once Raimi walked from Spider-Man, effectively killing that incarnation of the franchise and Marvel got the full TV rights, it was understandable they'd create a totally Marvel owned animated series with no ties to what came before and nothing owed to anyone else. It's just a shame it couldn't live up to what came before.

As for Avengers: EMH and Assemble... well.. like SSM vs. USM, it's also kind of crap when comparing the content of the two. And Hulk and the Agents of SMASH is pretty bad, but I find it more amusing that USM on multiple levels. Regardless of our opinions of those, it helps that the network that airs those owns Marvel with a direct line between the two, so there's a lot of support for Marvel animation on TV through that.

DC animation on the other hand is... well... a bit confusing. Cartoon Network (created in 1992) is owned by Turner Broadcasting which itself is an owned subsidiary of Time Warner (since 1996). I'm not sure exactly how much autonomy is given to the Turner subsidiary and CN and who makes the final call on what CN chooses to air. Obviously, both Disney/Marvel and WB/Cartoon Network are ratings conscious.

Avengers: EMH was dropped in favor of a more merch friendly product visually designed around a version of Marvel characters that received the most exposure, ie The Avengers movie (as opposed to the more fan friendly EMH with it's classic Marvel look and more comic oriented approach). Assemble's ratings have justified that decision. If BtB wasn't pulling in enough ratings, and had no real revenue to justify it from the merch standpoint, I can see DC being amenable to dropping a new animated TV series into the DC Nation slot that might fare better. Now while both are guilty of trading story quality for more $$$, CN and WB are seemingly more cavalier about yanking a show if it shows even the slightest under-performance with no ancillary revenue to back it up.

How about a Superman cartoon?