Gumball Returns: Series Drops Main Title & International Date
Cartoon Network has announced the international premiere date for its eagerly awaited 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.).
In recognition of this announcement, Cartoon Network has also unveiled the vibrant main title sequence, designed by acclaimed Jack Sachs, who also created the new logo. The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball will launch in the U.S. on Monday, July 28, on Hulu.
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 and 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 includes Alkaio Thiele as Gumball, Hero Hunter as Gumball’s younger brother, Darwin, Kinza Syed Khan as his younger sister, Anais, Teresa Gallagher as his mother, Nicole, Dan Russell as his 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 and yet resilient mum Nicole, and little sister and the smartest of the bunch Anais.
The Amazing World of Gumball is famed for its humorous depictions of the imperfect realities of growing up where everything ordinary becomes extraordinary. The animation was created in 2011, when Ben Bocquelet decided to take some rejected characters he had created for commercials and combine them into one series set inside a school. Some of the characters in Elmore are based on Ben Bocquelet’s real family.
With self-referential and meta-comedic roots from Monday, July 21 (on Cartoon Network in the UK), audiences can follow the misadventures of Gumball, Darwin, and the other quirky residents of Elmore.
They include 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.
