OK guys, I am going to do something which, I think, no-one else on the site has ever done before.
That being, review not just a film or TV show, but an entire TV channel.
With that said, onto my review of the TV channel, CNX.
Several years ago, many children's channels were branching out into sort of "spin-off channels to appeal to specific subsets of their audience, such as Nickelodeon having Nick Jr for younger kids and Nicktoons for fans who preferred the animated Nickelodeon shows to the live-action ones.
However, one of the spin-offs of Cartoon Network was a channel which lasted from October 2002 to September 2003, less than a year. It was called CNX. This channel featured more "mature" stuff than it's mainstream Cartoon Network counterpart, such as Batman Beyond, Samurai Jack and the X-Men Evolution series and several anime shows like Outlaw Star and Gundam Wing. In the evenings they would often show foreign language films, usually from Japan such as the anime film Blue Submarine 6, which I really liked. Overall, it was one of my favourite channels and was regular viewing each night.
But then, only eleven months after it's launch, it was pulled off the air. I've done some research recently to find out why this is but the only reason I've been able to come up with is that, according to one of the channel's production team:
"Too few people were watching it".
So because the number of people watching regularly numbered in the hundreds, they decided the channel was not worth keeping around.
This just really frustrated me about the network executives. The whole purpose of these ?spin-off? channels is to give specific groups in your mainstream audience a "channel all to themselves", but now because that group is smaller than you thought it's suddenly not worth keeping?
After the cancellation of CNX, the channel was later re-branded as "Toonami". However, considering that most of the more adult and anime-related stuff was pulled off at the time I do not consider it the same channel.
I was somewhat jaded when they pulled CNX off the air and I imagine many others who watched it were too.
It was a great channel and cut down before it?s prime. It had great shows, great films and never shied away from showing blood or adult themes to children, for which I salute it. When it aired it was a welcome escape from the more ?kiddy? direction it?s mainstream sister channel was (and unfortunately still is) going for at the time.
I don?t know how many people who read this review will have ever watched this channel or even heard of it. But if you did, I hope you?ve enjoyed reading this review.
Let?s hope the executives get some sense and bring CNX back to the airwaves some day.
That being, review not just a film or TV show, but an entire TV channel.
With that said, onto my review of the TV channel, CNX.
Several years ago, many children's channels were branching out into sort of "spin-off channels to appeal to specific subsets of their audience, such as Nickelodeon having Nick Jr for younger kids and Nicktoons for fans who preferred the animated Nickelodeon shows to the live-action ones.
However, one of the spin-offs of Cartoon Network was a channel which lasted from October 2002 to September 2003, less than a year. It was called CNX. This channel featured more "mature" stuff than it's mainstream Cartoon Network counterpart, such as Batman Beyond, Samurai Jack and the X-Men Evolution series and several anime shows like Outlaw Star and Gundam Wing. In the evenings they would often show foreign language films, usually from Japan such as the anime film Blue Submarine 6, which I really liked. Overall, it was one of my favourite channels and was regular viewing each night.
But then, only eleven months after it's launch, it was pulled off the air. I've done some research recently to find out why this is but the only reason I've been able to come up with is that, according to one of the channel's production team:
"Too few people were watching it".
So because the number of people watching regularly numbered in the hundreds, they decided the channel was not worth keeping around.
This just really frustrated me about the network executives. The whole purpose of these ?spin-off? channels is to give specific groups in your mainstream audience a "channel all to themselves", but now because that group is smaller than you thought it's suddenly not worth keeping?
After the cancellation of CNX, the channel was later re-branded as "Toonami". However, considering that most of the more adult and anime-related stuff was pulled off at the time I do not consider it the same channel.
I was somewhat jaded when they pulled CNX off the air and I imagine many others who watched it were too.
It was a great channel and cut down before it?s prime. It had great shows, great films and never shied away from showing blood or adult themes to children, for which I salute it. When it aired it was a welcome escape from the more ?kiddy? direction it?s mainstream sister channel was (and unfortunately still is) going for at the time.
I don?t know how many people who read this review will have ever watched this channel or even heard of it. But if you did, I hope you?ve enjoyed reading this review.
Let?s hope the executives get some sense and bring CNX back to the airwaves some day.
