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
Weekday cartoon carriage of the Fox Kids lineups, replacing them either with talk and reality shows or additional local newscasts. In the affected markets, the local rights to Fox Kids programming went to an independent station, and eventually an affiliate of either The WB or UPN. The popularity of the weekday cartoon lineup increased from the mid-1980s through the mid-1990s. The upstart minor network, The WB, launched Kids' WB, in September 1995, which had initially carried an afternoon block of animated series. At that point, shows such as "Tiny Toon Adventures" that featured Looney Tunes and other classic Warner Bros. animated characters