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Daniel Lennard, vice president of Original Series and Development at Turner Broadcasting System Europe, was impressed by the premise and approved production of the series in 2009. However, when the studio decided to have its employees all pitch their own ideas, he decided to take some rejected characters he had created for commercials and put them together in one series set inside of a school. When Cartoon Network Studios Europe was created in 2007, Ben Bocquelet was hired to help people pitch their projects to the network. On August 22, 2022, it was reported that the film would no longer be heading to HBO Max, but would be shopped to other outlets instead. On September 21, 2021, it was announced that a new spin-off series, to be a follow-up for both the show and the movie, had been greenlit for Cartoon Network and HBO Max alongside the film. On February 17, 2021, Cartoon Network revealed that a television film based on the series was in development. Following the season 6 finale, two miniseries were released: the six-episode Darwin's Yearbook in November 2019 and The Gumball Chronicles in October 2020. However, Turner Northern Europe was unable to confirm at the time whether the sixth season would be the show's last. On September 6, 2016, Bocquelet announced the series would end after season 6 he reaffirmed his position on Twitter in October 2018. Although it is a children's series, Gumball comments on topics that are often considered serious or mature, including philosophy, marriage, cyberbullying, political intolerance, mental illness, and the human condition. The series has received critical acclaim and developed a cult following, with particular praises for its extensive references to popular culture and internet culture, sarcasm, subtle innuendos, dark humor, and metahumor. Gumball is noted for its intentional stylistic disunity, with characters designed, filmed, and animated using various styles and techniques, oftentimes within the same scene (stylized traditional animation, puppetry, CGI, stop motion, Flash animation, live-action, etc.). The show was produced by Cartoon Network Studios Europe, in association with Boulder Media (Ireland season 1) and Studio Soi (Germany seasons 2–6). After Bocquelet pitched The Amazing World of Gumball to the network, Turner Broadcasting executive Daniel Lennard green-lit the production of the series. They often find themselves in various shenanigans around the city, during which they interact with fellow family members-younger sister Anais, mother Nicole, and father Richard- along with an extended supporting cast of characters.īocquelet based several of the series' characters on rejected characters from his previous commercial work while making its premise a mixture of 'family shows and school shows', which Cartoon Network was heavily interested in.

The series concerns the lives of 12-year-old Gumball Watterson, an anthropomorphic blue cat, and adoptive goldfish brother Darwin, who attend middle school in the fictional city of Elmore, California.

The Amazing World of Gumball (known simply as Gumball) is a British-American animated sitcom created by Ben Bocquelet for Cartoon Network.

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