Dexter's Laboratory (commonly abbreviated as Dexter's Lab) is an American animated series created by Genndy Tartakovsky and produced by Cartoon Network Studios (also co-produced with Hanna-Barbera in 1996-2001). The show was about a boy named Dexter who had an enormous secret laboratory filled with an endless collection of his inventions. The series premiered in the United States on Cartoon Network on April 28, 1996 and ended on November 21, 2003. As of 2006, Cartoon Network's sister channel Boomerang now reruns the show. The show returned to Cartoon Network in reruns on November 8, 2010 until March 4, 2011