The Amazing World of Gumball

Bocquelet based several of the series' characters on rejected characters from his previous commercial work while making its premise a mixture of "family shows and school shows", which Cartoon Network was heavily interested in. After Bocquelet pitched The Amazing World of Gumball to the network, Turner Broadcasting executive Daniel Lennard green-lit the production of the series. The show is produced by Cartoon Network Development Studio Europe (later Hanna-Barbera Studios Europe), in association with Boulder Media (Ireland; season 1), Dandelion Studios (season 1), and Studio Soi (Germany).

Gumball is noted for its intentional stylistic disunity, with characters designed, filmed, and animated using various styles and techniques, often within the same scene (stylised traditional animation, puppetry, CGI, stop motion, Flash animation, live-action, etc.). Although it is a children's series, Gumball comments on topics that are often considered serious or mature, including philosophy, marriage, cyberbullying, political intolerance, mental illness, and the human condition. The series has received critical acclaim and developed a cult following, with particular praise for its extensive references to popular culture and internet culture, sarcasm, subtle innuendos, dark humour, and metahumour.

On 6 September 2016, Bocquelet announced the series would end after season 6; he reaffirmed his position on Twitter in October 2018. However, Turner Northern Europe was unable to confirm at the time whether the sixth season would be the show's last. Following the season 6 finale, two miniseries were released: the six-episode Darwin's Yearbook in November 2019 and The Gumball Chronicles in October 2020.

On 17 February 2021, Cartoon Network revealed that a television film based on the series was in development. Later that year, a spin-off series was announced to follow both the original show and the film. Following several production shifts and network changes, the spin-off was rebranded as a revival series titled The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball, which premiered on 28 July 2025.