Cartoon Network upfronts 2009

[L.G.]

Originally Posted by taranchula

"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...."

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.