If you were looking for an angry foam filled fanboy rant about Cartoon Network's live action line-up I'm sorry to disappoint you. I found this article in a link to a link to a link to a...well you get the idea; not much of a news shocker for those of us who grew up with the network but I felt it was an interesting read none-the-less
By Tim Surette
Cartoon Network renewed its first live-action series. It's time to say farewell to what was once a great thing.
To be read in an old-man voice: Back when I was just a snot-nosed kid, there was a new cable channel called MTV (as in MUSIC Television) that showed music videos for such awesomeness as Blondie's "Rapture," Wall of Voodoo's "Mexican Radio," and of course The Buggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star." Decades later, finding a music video on MTV is a Herculean task, because the network is polluted with college kids trying to get into each others' pants.
The Cartoon Network is headed in the same depressing direction.
The Cartoon Network (or CN, as the brand managers would like you to say) just renewed Destroy Build Destroy, the first of the network's live-action programs to be given a second season. Which means it looks like "CN Real" (I throw up a little in my mouth every time I say that) is sticking around.
R.I.P. Cartoon Network. Time of death, August 20, 4:56 p.m.
The once-mighty channel has been ill for sometime, with programming quality declining greatly in the last few years -- especially since new president Stuart Snyder took over in 2007. The death sentence was the introduction of CN Real (blrmmph!), an attempt to bring reality television to The Cartoon Network. I repeat, CARTOON Network.
Gone are the days of The Powerpuff Girls, Dexter's Laboratory, and Cartoon Cartoon Fridays. Now we have quiz shows on roller coasters, pint-sized Ghost Hunters, and a Survivor rip off.
"It's a little sad," Craig McCracken, creator of The Powerpuff Girls and one of animation's leading figures, told The Los Angeles Times. "Cartoon Network had something really unique." McCracken recently left his position at Cartoon Network after 17 years on the job.
To borrow from Buggles frontman Trevor Horn, reality killed the animation star.
Link to original page: http://www.tv.com/story/17471.html#
My question I now pose here to community at large is how do you feel about this disturbing trend cartoon network...oh I'm sorry "The CN" has decided begin.
By Tim Surette
Cartoon Network renewed its first live-action series. It's time to say farewell to what was once a great thing.
To be read in an old-man voice: Back when I was just a snot-nosed kid, there was a new cable channel called MTV (as in MUSIC Television) that showed music videos for such awesomeness as Blondie's "Rapture," Wall of Voodoo's "Mexican Radio," and of course The Buggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star." Decades later, finding a music video on MTV is a Herculean task, because the network is polluted with college kids trying to get into each others' pants.
The Cartoon Network is headed in the same depressing direction.
The Cartoon Network (or CN, as the brand managers would like you to say) just renewed Destroy Build Destroy, the first of the network's live-action programs to be given a second season. Which means it looks like "CN Real" (I throw up a little in my mouth every time I say that) is sticking around.
R.I.P. Cartoon Network. Time of death, August 20, 4:56 p.m.
The once-mighty channel has been ill for sometime, with programming quality declining greatly in the last few years -- especially since new president Stuart Snyder took over in 2007. The death sentence was the introduction of CN Real (blrmmph!), an attempt to bring reality television to The Cartoon Network. I repeat, CARTOON Network.
Gone are the days of The Powerpuff Girls, Dexter's Laboratory, and Cartoon Cartoon Fridays. Now we have quiz shows on roller coasters, pint-sized Ghost Hunters, and a Survivor rip off.
"It's a little sad," Craig McCracken, creator of The Powerpuff Girls and one of animation's leading figures, told The Los Angeles Times. "Cartoon Network had something really unique." McCracken recently left his position at Cartoon Network after 17 years on the job.
To borrow from Buggles frontman Trevor Horn, reality killed the animation star.
Link to original page: http://www.tv.com/story/17471.html#
My question I now pose here to community at large is how do you feel about this disturbing trend cartoon network...oh I'm sorry "The CN" has decided begin.
