How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (TV special) animation divisions of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, where Jones was under contract at the time. CBS, coming off the surprise success of "A Charlie Brown Christmas" a year before, allotted Jones and MGM a $315,000 budget, more than four times what Bill Melendez was offered to produce "A Charlie Brown Christmas". The original broadcast was sponsored by the Foundation for Full Service Banks whose sponsor plugs within the original airing were later edited out for subsequent broadcasts. The entirety of the book's text, with some slight embellishment, was adapted into the special; to pad the special to a full 30-minute time slot,
Peanuts (TV series) Peanuts (TV series) Peanuts is an Italian-French-American animated television series based on the franchise of the same name. The series first aired in France on November 9, 2014, and later aired on Discovery Kids in Latin America in 2015 and in the United States on Cartoon Network and Boomerang on May 9, 2016 as segments of shorts that plays on a theme, and as interstitial shorts played only on Boomerang a few times during some hours. The series briefly aired on Cartoon Network in May 2016, despite this, it remains present on the Cartoon Network streaming app. In June 2018,