Craig McCraken, most well-known for creating each the Powerpuff Girls and Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends, has introduced that he will probably be returning to those properties in a take care of Hanna-Barbera Studios Europe. Both exhibits are set for new animated sequence, with McCraken anticipated to steer each exhibits as as creator, producer and director, Deadline stories.

The Powerpuff Girls will return to the unique world of the sequence because the trio of super-powered ladies—Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup—go toe-to-toe with each new and legacy threats. The unique present was an Emmy-winning success, and whereas it solely lasted 78 episodes, the influence of the 1998 cartoon remains to be felt. (Lest we overlook, that live-action remake is nonetheless on the market… someplace… within the reshoot ether.)

Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends may even goal the identical younger viewers, however with a brand new forged of associates and familiars. The present, which initially ran from 2004-2009, skilled an enormous quantity of vital success, successful seven Emmys throughout its five-year, 79-episode run. There’s no phrase on whether or not the reboot will nonetheless comply with the adventures of perpetually-eight-years-old Mac and his imaginary good friend Bloo, however we is likely to be seeing a model new forged of heroes and misfits.

McCracken has been instrumental on quite a lot of wonderful animated titles over time, together with Dexter’s Laboratory, Wander Over Yonder, and, most not too long ago, Kid Cosmic, which is presently airing on Netflix.

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