Editing Cartoon Network Studios (section)

=== 2000s ===
[[File:Cartoon Network Studios 2007.jpg|thumb|The Burbank building in 2007 with the channel's first logo.]]
On July 21, 1999, Cartoon Network officially started the studio to separate itself from the complete folding of Hanna-Barbera into WBA. Following the death of the studio's co-founder [[William Hanna]] in 2001, Cartoon Network Studios took over the animation function of [[Hanna-Barbera]].<ref name="j686">{{cite web | title=Hanna-Barbera Studios, 1997 | website=archives.frederatorblogs.com | date=December 18, 2007 | url=http://archives.frederatorblogs.com/frederator_studios/2007/12/18/hanna-barbera-studios-1997/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130923010116/http://archives.frederatorblogs.com/frederator_studios/2007/12/18/hanna-barbera-studios-1997/ | archive-date=September 23, 2013 | url-status=dead | access-date=May 22, 2024}}</ref> The network acquired a three-story 43,000-square-foot facility located at 300 N 3rd St. in [[Burbank, California]] to house its new offices, previously a commercial bakery, and prior to that, the location of a [[Pacific Bell]] telephone exchange.<ref>"Latest News", Variety magazine, 1999</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Kaplan |first=Don |date=21 March 2000 |title=Bye, Bye Boo Boo!; Cartoon Legends Get Erased at Shrinking Hanna-Barbera Studio |url=https://nypost.com/2000/03/21/bye-bye-boo-boo-cartoon-legends-get-erased-at-shrinking-hanna-barbera-studio/ |access-date=15 May 2018 |website=New York Post}}</ref> According to Cartoon Brew, the network spent around $1.2 million to renovate the building.<ref name="Amidi 2023 x525">{{cite web | last=Amidi | first=Amid |author-link=Amid Amidi | title=RIP, Cartoon Network Studios Burbank Building (2000-2023) | website=Cartoon Brew | date=July 9, 2023 | url=https://www.cartoonbrew.com/studios/rip-cartoon-network-studios-burbank-building-2000-2023-230408.html | access-date=July 10, 2023}}</ref> The network took counsel from its top cartoonists, [[Genndy Tartakovsky]] and [[Craig McCracken]], on the site of its new studio, as well as design proposals for its offices.<ref name="Twitter v933">{{cite web | website=Twitter | url=https://twitter.com/CrackMcCraigen/status/1678073880383213575|title=Craig McCracken on Twitter | access-date=July 10, 2023}}</ref>

In March 2000, the network began to transfer its production offices, and on May 22, 2000, the studio was christened by veteran animator and animation advisor [[Joseph Barbera]] with a bottle of champagne.<ref>{{cite AV media |date=May 5, 2018 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2n3p2y2fPHM |title=Cartoon Network Studios {{!}} Top 7 Coolest Things!!! {{!}} Cartoon Network This Week |publisher=[[Cartoon Network]] |via=[[YouTube]] |access-date=December 21, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220622043609/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2n3p2y2fPHM |archive-date=June 22, 2022 |url-status=live}}</ref> The building's official opening came on August 24, 2000; former [[DIC Entertainment|DiC]] and [[Nickelodeon]] employees [[Brian A. Miller]] and Jennifer Pelphrey were hired to manage the studio.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Baisley |first=Sarah |date=September 27, 2004 |title=Cartoon Network Studios Promotes Pelphrey to Production VP |url=https://www.awn.com/news/cartoon-network-studios-promotes-pelphrey-production-vp |access-date=2022-06-26 |website=Animation World Network |language=en}}</ref> [[Mike Lazzo]], then head of programming and development,<ref name="Chron 2001 f500">{{cite web | title=Cartoon Network exec has his ducks in a row | website=Chron | date=February 21, 2001 | url=https://www.chron.com/culture/main/article/cartoon-network-exec-has-his-ducks-in-a-row-2001649.php | access-date=July 10, 2023}}</ref> designed a pirate flag, with a skull bearing the channel logo in its teeth, that flew over the building for several weeks before local police threatened action over its lack of permit.<ref name="Twitter y788">{{cite web | website=Twitter |title=Brian A. Miller on Twitter | url=https://twitter.com/bfredmuggs/status/1678443533748015104 | access-date=July 10, 2023}}</ref> Its artists quickly took to its stairwell with doodles and other graffiti that filled over its twenty-year history; it was also home to a mural by artist Ian Anderson titled ''Mazeway to Heaven''.<ref name="LA Weekly 2016 d724">{{cite web | title=A Maze Maker's Biggest Project Ever Has Taken Over Cartoon Network's Burbank Studios | website=LA Weekly | date=June 20, 2016 | url=https://www.laweekly.com/a-maze-makers-biggest-project-ever-has-taken-over-cartoon-networks-burbank-studios/ | access-date=July 10, 2023}}</ref> The first new productions at the new offices included ''[[Samurai Jack]]'' and ''[[Time Squad]]'' (both 2001). In 2001, Lazzo called the studio "the [[Termite Terrace]] of today."<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Schmuckler |first=Eric |date=April 1, 2002 |title=Looking for a Fight |magazine=[[MediaWeek]] |volume=12 |issue=13 |issn=1055-176X}}</ref>

[[File:Cartoon Network Studios 3rd logo.jpeg|thumb|right|Logo used from 2001 to 2012.]]

In 2002, the studio produced two television pilots for Cartoon Network's late night programming block [[Adult Swim]]: ''[[Welcome to Eltingville]]'' and ''[[The Groovenians]]'', neither of which were picked as full series.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Worley |first=Rob |date=February 26, 2002 |title=The Future of 'Eltingville' on TV and in Comics |url=https://www.cbr.com/the-future-of-eltingville-on-tv-and-in-comics/ |access-date=15 June 2014 |publisher=CBR}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Bishop |first=Sam |date=November 8, 2002 |title=Bishop: 'The Groovenians' fail to groove |url=https://www.onlineathens.com/stories/110802/ent_20021108014.shtml#.Vt4ha5MrK34 |access-date=March 7, 2016 |website=Online Athens |publisher=Athens Banner-Herald}}</ref> Also, the studio released this year its only theatrical film to date: ''[[The Powerpuff Girls Movie]]'', based on ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'', which received positive reviews from critics<ref>{{Cite web |date=2002-06-22 |title=The Powerpuff Girls – The Movie |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/powerpuff_girls_movie/ |access-date=2016-05-26 |website=www.rottentomatoes.com}}</ref> but performed poorly at the box office. In 2006, CNS collaborated with sister studio [[Williams Street]] for the first time for ''[[Korgoth of Barbaria]]'', a television pilot made for Adult Swim, which was also not green-lit as a series.<ref name="asbump2010">{{Cite web |date=2010-10-31 |title=Adult Swim Pilots Update |url=https://www.bumpworthy.com/bumps/3898 |access-date=2011-05-16 |publisher=Bumpworthy.com}}</ref>

In 2007, CNS began its first foray into [[live-action]] with the hybrid series ''[[Out of Jimmy's Head]]'', and then its first fully live-action project, ''[[Ben 10: Race Against Time]]'' and its sequel, ''[[Ben 10: Alien Swarm]]'', along with the television pilots ''Locker 514'', ''Siblings'' and ''Stan the Man''. The studio's first live-action series ''[[Tower Prep]]'' would arrive in 2010. Former [[New Line Television]] producer Mark Costa was hired to oversee the projects and CNS' live-action production company Alive and Kicking, Inc.. ''[[Incredible Crew]]'' was the last series in that genre the studio produced for Cartoon Network. Despite the failure of live-action on the channel, the studio's infrastructure was retained to produce live-action fare for sibling programming block Adult Swim, identifying on-air as Alive and Kicking, along with two other companies (Rent Now Productions and Factual Productions), instead of using the Cartoon Network Studios banner.