Cartoon Network’s The Amazing World of Gumball will have a sixth season. Produced in the UK and Germany, the mixed media family sitcom has become a global favorite since it first launched in 2010.
The Amazing World of Gumball cleverly combines live action with 2D and 3D animation to chart the adventures of the energetic and fearless blue cat—Gumball—and his idiosyncratic family, the Wattersons. Season five is slated to begin airing this September.
“Gumball, Darwin and the Watterson family have so much more to give and I’m excited to be working with our fantastic team at Cartoon Network Studios here in London to create a sixth season of The Amazing World of Gumball. We have big plans for the show and are already working on new episodes that we hope will have audiences laughing louder than ever,” said Ben Bocquelet, Gumball series creator.
The show reached more than 165 million viewers globally in the first quarter of 2016. It also has an increasingly strong presence across digital platforms, with the latest global mobile game launch Agent Gumball reaching no. 1 overall on the iTunes charts on iPad in five countries and no.1 in the Kids category in 27 countries, and almost seven million downloads produced by all Gumball apps worldwide. The show also has more than nine million Facebook fans and has generated eight million views on its YouTube channel this year alone. What’s more, awareness and affinity among the channel’s core audience is at an all-time high and is growing among girl audiences too – in other words, kids love it!
“The Amazing World of Gumball is a great example of how a European production can establish itself as a top performing kids’ animation around the globe and a pillar to Cartoon Network’s ratings and DNA globally. We continue to be thrilled by its performance, not just on our linear channels but on multiple Cartoon Network platforms right across the world and there was really no question that we’d be taking Gumball’s amazingly imaginative world into a sixth season,” said Patricia Hidalgo, senior vice president, chief content & creative officer, EMEA Kids & International Kids Strategy at Turner.
The multiple award-winning series has scooped 28 international awards to date including six BAFTAs and an Emmy®.
The Amazing World of Gumball is an animated family sitcom for kids that offers a warm hearted, funny and surreal kid perspective into everyday life, in a way that they and their families can relate to. Season four is currently airing on Turner channels across the globe and season five is set to roll out in September 2016.
Catch new episodes of The Amazing World of Gumball on weekdays, 4:45 pm only on the no.1 kids’ channel, Cartoon Network on SKY Channel 35, Cignal HD Channel 110, Destiny Cable (Digital) Channel 43, Destiny Cable (Analog) Channel 51 and Cable Link Channel 26, Dream Satellite Channel 15.