CN execs FTL!

[takineko]

http://www.cartoonbrew.com/archives/2006_11.html#002443

:sad:

[Martianinvader]

What? Execs have always been, and always will be, stupid. Life will never be fair.

Though it always drives me crazy when people who have the power and free will to make it even the LEAST bit fairer choose not to.

If there is any good news about the Andre 3000 series, it's that I hear they'll be hiring individual famous animators to create music video sequences for it, which is certainly interesting and unheard of for TV cartoons today.

[Dynamite XI]

I remember being SO excited as a kid that they'd have a 24-hour network of cartoons. I still have a videotape of CN from 1993, featuring "Bugs and Daffy Tonight!" and its various commercials (including a commercial for the original Mario Kart :D).

The Tom and Jerry shorts are the only classic cartoons on CN right now. Looney Tunes are nowhere else to be found on cable, since very few people receive the sham spinoff network (http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/boomerang/).

Sad.

[J. B. Warner]

You know, this is the kind of behavior that really makes me wish I could enact my master plan to finally create my ultimate TV network:

Step 1: Create my own studio, with a branch for television production
Step 2: Merge with Time Warner, thus gaining access to its library
Step 3: Launch a new TV network that actually airs all the stuff in the Time Warner library that, for some reason or another, they just want to ignore (Looney Tunes, classic MGM cartoons, Hanna-Barbera cartoons, Silver Age WB shows, classic Cartoon Network programming, etc.)
Step 4: Start licensing the rerun rights to certain properties from other entertainment conglomerates, including Viacom (classic Nicktoons), Disney (the Disney Afternoon shows), and News Corporation (primetime FOX cartoons)
Step 5: Round up the most talented cartooning minds in the business and let them create their own series, free of network meddling

By the end of it, I'd have a grandiose network that contained all those great shows that we all love, yet don't seem to get enough respect from their current owners. I realize it's a pipe dream, but let's face it - TV executives are morons, and we know better than them.

Besides, who here would object to a cable channel where you could watch "Looney Tunes", "Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends", "The Flintstones", "Darkwing Duck", "Tom and Jerry", "Rocko's Modern Life", "Futurama", "Tiny Toon Adventures", "Goof Troop", "Dexter's Laboratory", "The Ren and Stimpy Show", "King of the Hill", and "Animaniacs" all in the same day?

[takineko]

Got my vote.

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For the good of Cartoondom.