Cartoon Network upfronts 2009
 

And you thought last year was depressing....:(

http://www.broadcastingcable.com/art...Off_Script.php

Yep the good folks at Turner have officially announced the new direction for CN which with due to the shifting winds of popular youth culture will mean more live action and reality shows thus effectively destroying the whole notion of a "Cartoon Network"

Oh well it isn't all gloom and doom the new Genndy Tartakovsky show looks promising and I am glad to see Adventure Time finally get picked up by somebody.

But other then that everything else gets a big fat pass from me.

(BTW I know hailing from Canada I should be the last person to talk about the going ons of a station I don't get, but a lot of these shows will more then likely make their way to Canada one way or another, so it is of some interest from me.)

On the plus side, there's a new Scooby-Doo series in the works; with any luck, Grey Delisle will get the call to do the voice work for Daphne again. :frankiesmile:

On the minus side is everything else. Or, as a certain famous cartoon character from MTV might put it, "This sucks!" :P

The channel hardly deserves the name "Cartoon Network" anymore. ::)

Well, at least I like Ben 10 =\

Live action is one thing, but reality shows and even a game show??? Now that's disgusting. It's only a matter of time before they change their name. Has anyone else seen the demos for the new logo? I'll have to try to find them again so I can share.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, as soon as Chowder is no longer airing, I have no plans to watch CN anymore. Bleh. :P

Cartoon Network? More like Childrens Network, hyuk hyuk hyuk! :gooblab:

But no, it really bothers me that they apparently think a station initially aimed for animation should be changed to include live action. It seems like there are incredibly few fronts for western animation to air anymore.

Yes, I've heard about this too and to be honest I couldn't believe it when I first read it. Cartoon Network is becoming the next MTV! Well, once the final episodes of Fosters have aired I'm not gonna really care about CN anymore anyway. While I think that 6Teen, Total Drama Island and Chowder are all good shows, I still don't watch them regularly mainly because I'm doing other things. I've said this before; if Cartoon Network wants to restore itself, then bring back the older stuff like Dexter's lab, Looney Toons and show Tom and Jerry more frequently. Yes, I know there's Boomerang, but I still don't feel like paying extra for something that should be on the main network. Oh, and start showing Ed, Edd and Eddy and Fosters again. Just because they've finished doesn't mean they have to stop airing them completely! Oh well, if they go under then they only have themselves to blame, but it's really no skin off my nose.

I had hoped CN would stop with all the live action crap. It doesn't look like it. Thumbs down from me.

It looks like I'll only watch this channel for Chowder, Flapjack, Batman & Star Wars.

I may tune in for an occasional movie but that'll be it. For me, the network really doesn't seem to have anything else to offer. :bloosad:

Like all of TV. This is why I like movies (except from Fox aka the Company that destroys comic book characters), the internet & video games.

This is completely unacceptable. There used to be several reasons for me to tune into Cartoon Network. Heck, my grandfather introduced me to the channel back when it was mostly Looney Tunes, Tom and Jerry, and all the other old cartoons that are now on Boomerang. This was before my area's cable provider, which was absolute...junk, offered the channel. By the time my viewing area got Cartoon Network, Cartoon Cartoons started appearing (i.e. Dexter's Laboratory, Cow and Chicken), which was...1998 or 1999.

Cartoon Network was even responsible in part to Family Guy's resurrection (because of Adult Swim reruns). And speaking of Adult Swim, their shows were (and still are) highly amusing to me even if it relied on cruder humor.

The first blow for me was when Megas XLR got canceled. Additional blows include Out of Jimmy's Head the series, the Ben 10 franchise becoming stale, and the fact that Cartoon Network's original shows that were introduced between 1999-2004, some as new as Billy and Mandy, aren't on as often as they should if they air at all. The proliferation of live-action only shows and movies plus reading that article has made me give up hope on Cartoon Network. Too many of the current shows that were introduced from 2008 to today just aren't worth my time, and the whole notion of additional live action shows really does kill the purpose of naming a channel "Cartoon Network." The people that own CN should just rename the network to something else.

Hmmm...

I was a die-hard PPG fan back in the day, and I came back for Foster's.

But all that is left for me on CN is Ben 10 Alien Force, which is either hit or miss.

I like the idea of more mature programing (like Alien Force, which is about as mature as I am considering right now- not Adult Swim mature), but not live action other than the occasional movie. And I want more decent cartoons.

And on that note, ANOTHER Ben 10 series? I wasn't a fan of the original, but I'm liking most (like I said, it's hit or miss) of AF. But STOP CHANGING TITLES and keep one series going!!! It's called continuity, and you don't need to end one series to start another to accomplish the aging of characters and time changing. And just when I thought AF was good because it was definitely a SERIES.

So, CN- either change your plans, or change your title. 'Cause half the time, I watch Ben 10 AF online. And that's it. And once Foster's ends, I'm done for another six years when ad if until something good comes on.

-Marty :goo:

Well the main reason why the creators/producers etc... are doing what they are doing is that

1. They are able to skirt around the networks "episode ceiling" rule (You know, the rule Cartoon Network has in which that they will only order a set number of episodes of a show and that's it.)

2. It's pure marketing, with a "new" show they in turn can introduce a ton of new characters and settings and thus create a whole new line of toys and video games and other pieces of merchandise for the kids to buy. And then when they've grown bored of those toys/show/characters...BAM whole new line. (It's the Power Rangers/Super Sentai business model.)