‘Powerpuff Girls’ Live-Action br Series Headed to The CW.br The live-action take on the popular br Cartoon Network show was announced br as being in development last August.br The new series will follow Blossom, Bubbles br and Buttercup as disillusioned twenty-somethings br bitter about their crime-fighting childhoods. .br Diablo Cody and Heather Regnier br will write and executive produce.br The original animated series ran br from 1998 through 2005 and was br rebooted on Cartoon Network in 2016.