Warner Bros. not showing much faith in the Looney Tunes anymore?

Man, things are really sleepy on this forum, compared to, say, ten years ago. So maybe I'll post about a topic that's well worth discussing here...

I couldn't help but notice in recent years, Warner Bros. Animation does not seem to have much faith in the Looney Tunes franchise. There are a few instances where it appears that way:

For the most part, Warner did not get any of their better writers and creative team to work on "The Looney Tunes Show," only mostly relying on the Improv team of Hugh Davidson, Larry Dorf, etc. whom all didn't seem to know much about Warner Bros. cartoons. Instead, they sent their better writers over to "Scooby-Doo: Mystery Incorporated," which was generally more well-written and better-animated. This is averted with "Wabbit" (which surprisingly hasn't been discussed here yet!) which has gotten better writers than "The Looney Tunes Show" did.
The voice casting for the Looney Tunes can often vary quite a bit. For "Rabbits Run," Marvin the Martian and Pete Puma were recast once again; even Lola Bunny! (Though with her it'd make sense, due to Kristen Wiig's unavailability or something.) Warner is more consistent with voice-casting with their other franchises, currently, with a few certain exceptions (like recasting Velma for "Be Cool, Scooby-Doo.") For "Wabbit," Wile E. Coyote was just cast to this new guy, J.P. Karliak, whom has very little experience in voice-acting.
Warner almost never makes any direct-to-video Looney Tunes movies, instead mostly focusing on Scooby-Doo and Tom and Jerry. Though that may change with "Rabbits Run." But even so, it appears Warner clearly put more effort into "Tom and Jerry: Spy Quest" and "Scooby-Doo! and KISS: Rock and Roll Mystery" than they did with "Rabbits Run." Additionally, "Rabbits Run" used the "Looney Tunes Show" designs for the characters, while the other two movies I mentioned kept their respective characters in their original designs.
Warner also had "Rabbits Run" animated by Rough Draft Korea, whom didn't do that great a job animating it. Likewise, "Wabbit" is also animated by Rough Draft and Yearim, and for the most part isn't that great-looking. Now, usually Warner rarely uses Rough Draft, and not having this movie or the series animated by Toon City or even their more favored Korean studios Lotto Animation and DongWoo A&E, appears to be a sign that Warner shows little faith in the Looney Tunes franchise, sending it to be animated by a studio they rarely use (heck, not having "The Looney Tunes Show" animated by DongWoo or Lotto also appears to be the same reason.) Lotto has shown they CAN animate the Looney Tunes pretty well (better than Rough Draft, at least), though DongWoo's Looney Tunes experience seems mostly limited to "Baby Looney Tunes" and "Loonatics Unleashed" (blech.)
When it comes to home media releases, Warner Home Video has released nearly all of the Scooby-Doo and Tom & Jerry media out there (with a few exceptions, like the full 1975 "Tom and Jerry" H-B animated series, or the full "Shaggy and Scooby-Doo Get a Clue"), yet Looney Tunes stuff is another story. There are still a high number of theatrical shorts that haven't come to DVD or Blu-Ray yet, and a number of the TV shows have not completely been released on DVD yet (not even "The Looney Tunes Show," while its sister show "Scooby-Doo: Mystery Incorporated" DID get the complete series released on DVD. However, the complete "Looney Tunes Show" IS available on iTunes and Amazon, at least.)

This doesn't sound very good. It all seems to have started after "Looney Tunes: Back in Action" bombed and Warner considered hand-drawn theatrical animation "dead," and began to pull the plug on a lot of Looney Tunes stuff at the time.

I grew up watching Looney Tunes and now they are gone..

I think it's a corporate thing...it seems that LT isn't making money, so...Warner lets it go into obscurity!

And LT/MM is VERY popular! Not as popular as Scooby Doo, but still...

oneuglybunny nailed it.

Disney started putting distance between the Looney competition years ago when they made a slew of full length animated movies with memorable music that could be enjoyed for decades.

If LT ever gets another show, maybe they should try telling stories with more character driven narrative. Keep the goofy cartoon slapstick they're known for, but use it to tell slightly longer stories that uses and explores lots of characters, and not just five minutes of the Bugs outwitting a rival formula. And don't do movies, since LT seems best in shorter doses.

They had it with LT: BIA - but let it slip away. The secondary story in that movie of the dots to connect between Bugs and Daffy's friendship in spite of their rivalry could have made for an unforgettable movie. Instead they were more worried about cameos 1 liners that missed. That seems to be the case every time they put the LTs out there. They'll put them out there but they'll present them wrong every time.

Now the DVD sets were nothing short of amazing. The recession did those in more than anything else I always thought, even if volume 1 was always the bestseller. Other sets were being made and selling well enough up until people just couldn't afford shopping lol!

And I forgot about Volume 2

I think we had a slightly heated discussion about this when it happened. It was a massive backfire. It was a Bugs Bunny disk and 2 disks of fluff with 1 adult adult collector's choice thrown in, plus another disk of collector's choices. That made the collection a half and half pretty much.

Teletoon Retro in Canada aired Looney Tunes cartoons several years ago until the network went off the air in September 2015.

For what it's worth, Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies was popular among my grandparents when they were younger, but I think, in my perspective, that the reason why it's gone the way of the dinosaur lately is because the series' target audience is getting closer to death, if not deceased already.

Same principle applies as to why The Flintstones and The Jetsons, and other cartoons from prior to the 1970s are not shown anymore. Today's generation of adults who enjoy cartoons are more interested in Smurfs, Snorks, the 1983 Inspector Gadget, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, among many shows from the 80s and early 90s. Even more strangely, the older Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoons are not shown on TV anymore (they were last aired in Canada on the now-defunct Teletoon Retro).

I've watched MM/LT as well...I'm in my 30's and I feel that after the 90's, many shows that didn't get much viewers weren't on as much...and it got worse by the 2000's.

If it makes money...keep the show on, but if it doesn't...goodbye!

I wonder if older MM/LT weren't making much money for CN?