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[[Warner Bros]] acquired the rights to Tom and Jerry after purchasing Turner Broadcasting System, which in 1986 had purchased MGM's entire pre-1986 library. Interestingly, since then it seems like Warner has been treating Tom and Jerry better than their own ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' (probably due, in part, to the commercial bombing of ''[[Looney Tunes: Back in Action]]''). Tom and Jerry has been the only classic cartoon series to air consistently on [[Cartoon Network]], [[Network Decay|miraculously]]. Since acquiring the rights to Tom and Jerry, Warner has produced several direct-to-video movies - and ''[[Tom and Jerry Tales]]'' - which, for the most part, stay true to the classic Tom and Jerry form.
Thanks in large part to the lack of dialogue, ''Tom and Jerry'' has been very popular internationally. In fact, when Japanese television network [[TV Asahi]] ran [http://www.animenewsnetwork.
As of October 2011, Warner Bros. has started to re-release the classic Tom and Jerry theatrical shorts in a new DVD and Blu-Ray series called the ''Tom and Jerry Golden Collection'', featuring fully-restored and strictly uncut and uncensored shorts. The previously [[Missing Episode|legally unavailable]] "Mouse Cleaning" and "Casanova Cat" will more than likely be included on Volume 2.
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