'Animaniacs' rumoured for Spielberg reboot

THE 1990s cartoon series Animaniacs is in line to return with Steven Spielberg and Warner Bros. exploring the possibility of a reboot, according to a new report.
Steven Spielberg production company Amblin Television and Warner Bros. Animation are discussing a potential reboot of Animaniacs, a mid-90s cartoon series starring Yakko, Wakoo and Dot, three oddball siblings only recently released from the iconic Warner Bros. water tower after a 60-year internment.
They presided over 99 episodes of variety show format broadcasts which, though directed at children, regularly lampooned films and shows familiar to an older audience.
Segments featured original characters such as Slappy Squirrel, Buttons and Mindy, and, most famously, Pinky and the Brain, a clever-stupid cartoon mouse pairing that succeeded the first Animaniacs run in the same way that Animaniacs had taken the baton from Amblin and Warner's earlier Tiny Toon Adventures.
Though Steven Spielberg is most famous for a feature film career that spans Jaws, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and Indiana Jones through to Saving Private Ryan, Bridge of Spies and The BFG, Amblin's TV division has overseen production of everything from Animaniacs and Tiny Toon Adventures to Seaquest DSV, ER, The Borgias, and The Americans.
A broadcaster for the new Animaniacs is not yet tied down, according to IndieWire's report, which notes that the original series has "experienced a new surge in popularity" after landing on Netflix in 2016.
The digital on-demand service has already taken Warners' previous 1990s reboot, Full House revisitation Fuller House, not necessarily an indication of collaboration where a revived Animaniacs outing is concerned, but at the least underlining the viability of new adventures with Yakko, Wakoo and Dot. — AFP Relaxnews