Cartoon Network has announced the international premiere date for its new original animated series The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball. Produced by Hanna-Barbera Studios Europe, the series will launch on Monday, October 6 across EMEA, Latin America and APAC and on HBO Max (excluding the U.S.) The channel has also unveiled the show’s main title sequence, designed by Jack Sachs, who also created the new logo.
About the Show: Welcoming audiences back to Elmore — a place where the laws of reality are a joke and family life is anything but ordinary — The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball continues the surreal humor and wild storytelling of the multi- award winning The Amazing World of Gumball.
Created and executive produced by Ben Bocquelet, this quarter-hour animated comedy series blends an eclectic mix of media styles — including 2D & 3D animation, CGI, puppetry, photorealism and live action — into a wildly imaginative world defined by its vibrant visual style and sharp meta humor.
Matt Layzell and Erik Fountain serve as executive producers and series directors. The composer for the series is Xav Clarke and Joe Sparrow serves as art director. The voice cast features Alkaio Thiele as Gumball, Hero Hunter as Gumball’s younger brother Darwin, Kinza Syed Khan as younger sister Anaïs, Teresa Gallagher as mother Nicole, Dan Russell as father Richard, and many more.
Ahead of this premiere, Cartoon Network will be celebrating all things Gumball over the summer by airing the very best moments of The Amazing World of Gumball every day. Starting in July, audiences can rediscover the joy in the dysfunction of the Watterson family: Gumball, the dynamic and optimistic 12-year old; his right-hand man, younger brother, and conscience, Darwin; the loveable stay-at-home Dad, Richard; the tireless overworked yet resilient mum Nicole; and little sister (and the smartest of the bunch) Anais.
The Amazing World of Gumball was created in 2011 when Ben Bocquelet decided to take some rejected characters he had created for commercials and put them together in one series, set inside of a school. Some of the characters in Elmore are even based on Bocquelet’s real family.
From Monday, July 21 (on Cartoon Network U.K.), audiences can follow the misadventures of Gumball, Darwin and the other quirky residents of Elmore, including Gumball and Darwin’s classmates Tina, the scary T. rex with anger issues; Carrie the Emo-dressing depressed ghost; and Banana Joe, the class clown who laughs at everyone; their teachers Miss Simian whose been teaching second graders for 300,000 years; and Principal Brown a big furry “slug” in love with Miss Simian.
The Amazing World of Gumball in Numbers:
- 294 episodes of The Amazing World of Gumball, across 6 seasons as well as its 2 miniseries: Darwin’s Yearbook and The Gumball Chronicles
- 90 weeks of production to produce 420 minutes (7 hours) worth of animation for The Amazing World of Gumball
- The Amazing World of Gumball episode “Xmas” was the longest episode to animate, taking over a year and episode “The Nobody” was the quickest episode to produce, taking 138.4 days
- 41,040 Post-it notes and 500 red pens are used by the studios on average per season.
- Aired in more than 185 countries, over 450 million homes and in 33 languages
- 543 new characters and costumes designed in Season 2 alone of The Amazing World of Gumball
- 38 award wins including Annie Award, BAFTA Children’s, International Emmy, Pucinella, British Animation Award, ASTRA Awards and Kidscreen Awards
- #1 Rated Show on Cartoon Network globally.
- #1 Cartoon Network show in viewing minutes on owned YouTube channels globally
