Cartoon Network Renews Two Shows

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Cartoon Network has renewed two shows and ordered additional episodes of another.

Animated comedy Regular Show, has been picked up for a fifth season and The Amazing World of Gumball will return for a fourth, the network announced Thursday.

Additionally, Cartoon Network has picked up additional episodes of Annoying Orange.

Created by JG Quintel, Regular Show centers on a six-foot-tall bule jay Mordecai and a hyperactive raccoon Rigby, who work as groundskeepers at a park. Ed Asner, playing Santa Claus, and Thomas Haden Church, playing a rogue elf, will be featured in an upcoming holiday episode.

The Amazing World of Gumball, from Cartoon Network Studio Europe, follows the misadventures of 12-year-old Gumball and his family in the town of Elmore.

The web-to-TV series Annoying Orange was developed and produced by The Collective, and co-created by Dane Boedigheimer and Tom Sheppard.

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