No. of episodes 44 Original release 2017 | Original network Cartoon Network | |
Country of origin United Kingdom
United States | ||
The sixth season of the British-American animated television series The Amazing World of Gumball, created by Ben Bocquelet, will air on Cartoon Network in the United States on 2017. This season is also Ben's final season of the series, and that the show would continue without him. The series focuses on the misadventures of Gumball Watterson, a blue 12-year-old cat, along with his adopted brother, Darwin, a goldfish. Together, they cause mischief among their family, as well as with the wide array of students at Elmore Junior High, where they attend middle school. Unlike the previous seasons of the show, this season will have 44 episodes.
Production
On June 22, 2016, Cartoon Network renewed the series for a sixth season, that would air in 2017. On September 6, 2016, Ben Bocquelet announced that the sixth season would be the last of the show, although he stated that the sixth season would not be necessarily the end of the whole series. Also, he expressed interest in a film adaptation of the series that would serve as the finale of the series altogether.