Aug 20
It seems that all of television is slowly losing its identity. The History Channel doesn’t cover history. TV Land clogs their airwaves with run-of-the-mill reality shows. Comedy Central gives Carlos Mencia his own show.
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*sniff* I remember the days of Samurai Jack, the Original Toonami, and when they had all the pilot episodes for their “Cartoon Cartoons”. Now it’s just a pile of rubbish. I say let this network die and start a proper animation channel in its place. Kinda like a Phoenix effect, if you will.
Bring back Toon Heads!! I loved that show. Each night they would have a series of cartoons with a similar theme as giving some of the history of the making of the toons in question. It was great.
It is going to suck if Cartoon Network continues this trend. If so they will loose the wife and I’s ratings.
-John
The reason, as is usual, is the business end. Niche networks often find that they don’t get enough viewership to bring in big advertisers, which is the bread and butter for any commercial network. Hence, network execs are often forced to expand their target demographic in the hopes of catching a more lucrative audience, leading to programming which can only be loosely contained in the network’s overall genre. This is partly why SciFi was rebranded as Syfy – an attempt to reinvent and reinvigorate the network, in the hope of attracting new viewership and thence more advertising revenue.
You can forget about creativity, artistry or originality. Networks will go with what sells, every single time.
What’s with the Rocko’s Modern Life screengrab for the Cartoon Network story? Rocko’s was one of the first “Nicktoons” made specifically for Nickelodeon!
Yeah, I was wondering that, too. I was a little confused at first.
I hope they don’t drop the C. And I wish they still had good cartoons on there… bring back Samurai Jack! Show some oldies, too (Underdog!).
Cartoon Network should put out an Avatar The Last Airbender quality type of show. But I guess that’s just wishful thinking for a cash strapped network. Oh well, my memories of old school Toonami shall not be forgotten!
“What’s with the Rocko’s Modern Life screengrab for the Cartoon Network story? Rocko’s was one of the first “Nicktoons” made specifically for Nickelodeon!”
omg, who cares?
and yeah i can agree with you scott, cartoon network has died in my eyes… you should watch it here in sweden with its magnificent swedish dubbing, it’s even worse ;P
Changed it. had a brain fart that day. I just love Rocko a lot.
the history channel would be fine if it didn’t pander to things like UFOs and Bigfoot-esq monster myths, and other brands of hysteria. the most asinine thing is that they only present token skepticism while using arguments from ignorance to justify hair brained ideas.
And I thought SyFy was stupid.
http://thurop.deviantart.com/journal/25780434/
“NO, CARTOON NETWORK isn’t changing its name. Not anytime soon anyways… they were gonna… But I think their reality show idea didn’t go as well as they had hoped, so… they’re kinda backing out of that idea (the name change idea). Yay for cartoons!”
I’ll trust the creator of Flapjack to know what’s what.
they can name it Car-Tune Network and start running Nascar and wrestling. just like Sy-Fy
I have already cancelled my SyFy feed (Dish customer here). Looks like Cartoon Network will go next. Oh, well. Next year I can cancel Dish, I have a Roku on the way and I can live on straming Netflix and local digital HD broadcast news. There is increasingly less and less reason to bother subscribing to what used to be niche channels (unless you really like having lies fed to you as “news,” since Faux News won the lawsuit and is now court-sanctioned to lie and call it news).
No Cartoon network will become Cnet…. oh wait
“Comedy Central giving Carlos Mencia his own show” – zing!
I used to watch History Channel, but how does Ice Road Truckers have to do with History? Maybe its all a conspiracy, all the cable networks are trying to push as much junk as they can so we all can get outside and exercise. Hmm…
Overall, regular TV is just horrible. Most of the best shows come from the pay channels. Regular TV is technically dead… long live Hulu, Torrents, and the Intertubes.
I haven’t had cable in a year and a half now. Looks like it has been getting worse since I abandoned that monthly bill. No reason to go back.
Man, I loved Cartoon Network when I first got it as a kid. I think that was in 1993. I was 11 then. That’s back when they showed a lot of Hanna Barbara stuff and where I learned about a lot of that. Huckleberry Hound, Flinstones, Top Cat, Johnny Quest, Herculoids, Wacky Races. Then a ton of Warner Bros stuff too. The launching of Cartoon Cartoons, Superchunk, Johnny Bravo. Obviously all the awesome adult swim and bringing anime over into the mainstream.
God I hope these are just rumors that die off.
Dexters Lab, Johnny Bravo, Power Puff Girls (I guess), Samurai Jack, Edd ed n’ eddy, a newer one but still good.. Grim Adventures of Bill and Mandy, I miss all these shows, THESE are the shows I grew up with =P and they’re all gone… It makes me sad