evidence: Is Cartoon Network Ending? Cartoon Network will not be shutting down, but its existence seems to be continuing in name only. With one person in charge, the day-to-day operations of all three studios are expected to be aligned, with decisions affecting all three in the same ways. [...] If the shift for all three studios moves towards this catalog-focused menu of shows, as Warner Bros. boss David Zaslav has previously hinted, it will be hard for Cartoon Network to continue the same original output that we’ve gotten used to over the years.