Larry Kenney for his voice work as Lion-O on the 1980s Rankin-Bass cartoon "ThunderCats", and Karate Kat, a martial arts blackbelt cat featured as part of "The Comic Strip". He was also the voice of Bluegrass in "SilverHawks" and Dolph in "TigerSharks". Kenney also did voice work for several breakfast cereal characters, including Count Chocula and Sonny the Cuckoo Bird. In recent years, he has reprised this role for humorous "ThunderCats" references on the animated series "Family Guy". Warner Bros announced that a new ThunderCats animated series is in the works, set to air in 2011 on Cartoon Network. Kenney will return
What a Cartoon! company to pay for the whole program. In addition to the eventual spin-offs, the "What a Cartoon!" short "Larry and Steve" by Seth MacFarlane featured prototypes of characters that would later go on to become MacFarlane's massively successful "Family Guy". The "What a Cartoon!" project and its assorted spin-offs brought Cartoon Network more commercial and critical success, and the network became an animation industry leader as the 1990s drew to a close. In 2001, coinciding with the death of William Hanna, Hanna-Barbera Productions merged with Warner Bros. Animation and Cartoon Network opened its own production arm, Cartoon Network Studios, in