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The new Veep over at CN has decided that Jim Carrey movies and new, live action sitcoms are just as (if not more) profitable to show on the "Cartoon" Network than animated programs.
In other news, Burger King is shifting its menu to "mostly personal pan pizzas and maybe some tacos".
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But... it's the cartoon network... Perhaps they should change it to the cartoon and bad sitcom station.
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If you ask me I don't see the point. TNT, TBS and other networks like it already do exactly that, why would they bother trying to compete with a half dozen other networks for old movies and the like when they already have a virtual monopoly on the cartoon market?
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If they're going to show live action movies, they should at least stick with things that are partially animated (Cool World, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Space Jam, etc) or related to cartoons/comic books (Spiderman, Batman, etc.) I'd even accept the Matrix movies in this, as long as they showed the Animatrix as well.
Otherwise, yeah this seems like a pretty dumb move.
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MTV, No longer Plays Music. Comedy Central,Only sometimes funny Cartoon Network means No Cartoons? I guess we should have been exepcting it. What is next? the SciFi Channel going to give up and just play Romanantic Comedies? Battle Star Glattica being replaced by When Harry Met Sally? TV is getting dumber and dumber
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I wish Cartoon Network was still predominately Looney Toons and Bugs Bunny. That would be something sweet.
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Maybe Cartoon Network will do what Disney and MTV did.
When MTV became primarily about it's stupid feckless shows and not about music, they created MTV2, which plays a hell of a lot of music videos. Then again, it also plays Wondershowzen, which, as far as I'm concerned nulls their status as a television station.
Disney still shows some cartoons, but they aren't really about them anymore, so they started Boomerang, which plays all Disney cartoons from the old and the new.
Maybe we can look forward to a Cartoon Network 2? Or something similar.
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Prank? It's already happening. CN has been showing Jim Carrey and other live action movies regularly since last fall.
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quote:Originally posted by Primal Curve: Dude, Lyr,
Boomerang IS Cartoon Network's second station.
D'oh! I did mean Toon Disney.
Tee hee, nice way for me to undermine my own argument. Although Boomerang is CLASSIC cartoons if I'm not mistaken, correct?
Maybe they'll need a third station (a la MTV Jams, VH1 Soul, MTV Hip Hop) for just anime and newer cartoons.
Regardless I don't understand the point of moving out of a niche market that they dominate to a heavily competitive one that is dominated by others.
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quote:Originally posted by Lyrhawn: If you ask me I don't see the point. TNT, TBS and other networks like it already do exactly that, why would they bother trying to compete with a half dozen other networks for old movies and the like when they already have a virtual monopoly on the cartoon market?
Reminds me of how a local radio station ticked me off; they were the ONLY Oldies station in the market -- and that's got to be a valuable advertising demographic, baby boomers & such -- but they changed formats to go into direct competition with some country stations.
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I can't really see it happening, I mean come on, its Cartoon Network, not Network, I hope that it doesn't happen. They have new shows running, Adult Swim is the only anime programing on, unless you count G4's anime that they show once in a while but thats for digital cable.
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I seriously thought I was going crazy the day I switched to CN looking for Foster reruns or some anime and got "Dumb and Dumber." I remember calling in my roommate to flip around on the remote to make sure I wasn't just seeing things.
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Other than Adult Swimm who watches Cartoon Network for anything else? All their other programs seem kind of insipid derivatives of Dexter's Labatory and the like.
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I always like the Justice League and Teen Titans. In fact, I would go so far as to say that I love Teen Titans, but please don't tell my friends. But really, Adult Swim is the biggest draw.
Ooh ooh, Ed, Edd and Eddie is a good show too. And...whats it called? The Grimm Tales, or something. I like that show.
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There's a cable network called "Boomerang" or something where they moved all the traditional old animated programs they used to have. Biggest draw for me is around midnight when they show a Batman/Superman combo--the ones from the 90s. =)
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Hey, at least they admit that it's fiction with their name. Which the people on the show don't seem to do.
I laugh my head off every time I catch a glimpse of that show. Even the thing about the scratches on the toddler. Come on, what toddler doesn't get mysterious scratches and bruises?
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Maybe if they just played good cartoons more often they wouldn't have to resort to this.
...Rather than showing Ed, Edd, n Eddie for four hours a day. And another six or so of Pokemon rip-offs.
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This is why I stopped watching TV. The world is ending, my friends. I'd say that started when Firefly was canceled... (May the Fox executives be buried under thousands of pounds of molten slag)
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As always when it comes to cartoons, I must give out my customary nod to Disney's mid 90s series "Gargoyles." The opening five episode story arc ("awakening")--the second season four parter "City of Stone" and the three parter "Hunter's Moon" that concludes the second season (and the series) represent for me the peak of action/adventure tv animation in the 90s. And David Xanatos was the shiznit, yo. .
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quote:Originally posted by pH: I want more old cartoons. Fantastic Four and X-men and all that good stuff. Marathons of them!
One thing about that "X-men." It had its moments to be sure and riveted me when I was younger but having come across it recently I must say that its animation is laughably bad.
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quote:Originally posted by Jimbo the Clown: Which X-men? I like the one from the early nineties myself.
--the one from the 90s. It's animation is a bit jarring when you see it today, but I adored it (best wolverine?)
-PH, He did an awesome job as David Xanatos. In fact I seem to keep on finding out that nearly the entire cast of the show was voiced by some fairly recognizable actors. For instance, Eliza's partner Matt Bluestone was voiced by Biff from "Back to the Future" and the Viking from the first episodes (and his great great great great grandchild Wolf of the Pack) are both voiced by that evil guard from The Shawshank Redemption.
Wow. Even when I know who the people are, I can't recognize a lot of them from those crappy pictures.
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Why was everybody on Gargoyles also in Star Trek? Must be the incestual studio casting policies.
About this CN thing with live action shows thrown in... anything to cast a slightly warmer glow on the drool dripping from my roomate's mouth as his soul is subsumed by Samurai Jack, and the TV makes plaintive little plinking sounds at him.
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quote: Why was everybody on Gargoyles also in Star Trek? Must be the incestual studio casting policies.
No I think it may have just worked out that way. I think initially there was Mirina Sirtis and Jonathan Frakes as the villains Demona and Xanatos and they ended up convincing their fellow cast members to join in.
There was hope that Patrick Stewart was going to join in too at one point but they couldn't afford him.
If the show would have progressed beyond the second season then undoubtedly Shakespeare as a character would have appeared somehwere--it was the hopes of the fans Stewart would voice him.
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See that's why Gargoyles was actually a pretty good show, alot of interesting characters. Why you get only two seasons of that, and 28 seasons of Law and Order? Who knows. Good things never last in this world.
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Indeed Orin. But unlike "Firefly" that got canned after twelve episodes Gargoyles got about 65 episodes and ends conclusively with the moment the fans were always hoping for. So no bitterness here.
quote:Originally posted by Orincoro: See that's why Gargoyles was actually a pretty good show, alot of interesting characters. Why you get only two seasons of that, and 28 seasons of Law and Order? Who knows. Good things never last in this world.
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