2017 in animation

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2017 in animation is an overview of notable events, including notable awards, list of films released, television show debuts and endings, and notable deaths.

Events

January

• January 14: Paw Patrol concludes its third season on TVO in Canada with the episodes "Pups Save Their Floating Friends/Pups Save a Satellite". Season later concluded on Nickelodeon on January 26.
• January 15: Your Name becomes the highest grossing anime film, grossing nearly $300 million.
• January 16:
  • PBS Kids Channel launches and became available on many PBS member stations as a digital subchannel (particularly those that in the past, PBS had routinely supplied content for their independently programmed, kid-targeted subchannels) and through apps and streaming services, features a broad mix of the public television service's current inventory of children's programming.
  • The final episode of Regular Show airs on Cartoon Network.
• January 23: As a result for Alphablocks. Numberblocks premieres on CBeebies for the first time at 10:20.

• January 30: Cartoon Network greenlights a new upcoming series for its line-up titled "Summer Camp Island".
• January 31: The Scooby-Doo direct-to-video film Scooby-Doo! Shaggy's Showdown releases on digital services; later released on DVD on February 14.

February

• February 2: Adventure Time concludes its eighth season on Cartoon Network with the final part in the Islands miniseries "Islands Part 8: The Light Cloud".
• February 3: Clarence concludes its second season on Cartoon Network with the episode "Pizza Hero".
• February 6: Season 4 of Paw Patrol begins on Nickelodeon in the US with the premiere of the episodes "Pups Save a Blimp/Pups Save the Chili Cook-Off". Season later premiered on TVO in Canada on March 4.
• February 4: 44th Annie Awards.
• February 10:
  • The third & final season of Clarence begins on Cartoon Network with the premiere of the episodes "Sumo Goes West" and "Valentimes".
  • Series 1 ends for Numberblocks.
• February 19: The Simpsons episode "The Cad and the Hat" premieres, guest starring Seth Green.
• February 20: SpongeBob SquarePants concludes its ninth season on Nickelodeon with the premiere of its 200th episode "Goodbye, Krabby Patty?", Jon Hamm guest stars as the character Don Grouper. The season's finale was seen by over 2.6 million viewers that night.
• February 26: 89th Academy Awards:
  • Piper by Alan Barillaro and Marc Sondheimer wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.
  • Zootopia by Byron Howard, Rich Moore, and Clark Spencer wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.
• February 27: Star vs. the Forces of Evil concludes its second season on Disney XD with the episodes "Face the Music/Starcrushed".

March

• March 9: Cartoon Network greenlights another new upcoming series for its line-up titled "OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes", which is based on Ian Jones-Quartey's Lakewood Plaza Turbo short (and its recent mini web series based on it). An upcoming tie-in game based on the series was also announced.
• March 12: The Simpsons episode "22 for 30" airs, in which the couch gag is animated by Bill Plympton, the fifth time he has done so.
• March 30: Cartoon Network greenlights two more upcoming shows for its line-up, them being "Apple & Onion" and "Craig of the Creek".

April

• April 1: Season 3 of Rick and Morty begins on Adult Swim with the premiere of the episode "The Rickshank Rickdemption". The season's premiere was only seen by 676 thousand viewers that night due to it secretly premiering as an April Fools' Day joke.
• April 2: The Simpsons episode "The Caper Chase" premieres, guest starring scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson.
• April 21:
  • PBS Kids launched "PBS Kids Family Night," a weekly block on Friday evenings (with encore airings on Saturday and Sunday evenings) that showcase themed programming, premieres or special "movie-length" episodes of new and existing PBS Kids children's programs.
  • Season 9 of Adventure Time begins on Cartoon Network with the premiere of the episode "Orb".

May

• May 1: The second series of Numberblocks begins.

• May 11: Steven Universe concludes its fourth season on Cartoon Network with the two-part episodes "Are You My Dad?/I Am My Mom". The season's finale was seen by over 1.1 million viewers that night.
• May 19: The second series ends for Numberblocks.
• May 21:
  • The Simpsons concludes its 28th season on Fox with the episode "Dogtown", guest starring english actor Michael York. The season's finale was seen by over 2.1 million viewers that night.
  • Family Guy concludes its 15th season on Fox with the following episodes:
    • "Dearly Deported"
    • "A House Full of Peters"
      • Both episodes were seen by over 2.1 million viewers that night.
• May 24: Luke Lerdwichagul, creator of the machinima YouTube series SMG4 since May 7, 2011, announces the creation of his company "Glitchy Boy" (which became Glitch Productions the following year).
• May 29: The fifth & final season of Steven Universe begins on Cartoon Network with the premiere of a 4-episode'd event titled "Wanted".
• May 30: Season 2 of