Colbert's 'Tooning Out' Studio Unionizes

[Mark Jeffries]

As many people in the TV animation industry have become more disgruntled lately, the staff of Late Night Cartoons, the Paramount-owned studio that produces the Stephen Colbert EPd "Tooning Out the News" originally for Paramount+, but soon for Comedy Central, has announced that they will join the Animation Guild:

 

https://www.thewrap.com/tooning-out-the-news-animators-vote-to-unionize/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=breaking_news_7032059

The question is:  Will Paramount approve it?  Late NIght is the second TV animation production house in New York to unionize--Titmouse's New York studio ("Big Mouth," the "Beavis and Butt-Head" reboot) organized with the Animation Guild earlier this year.