View Full Version : News: Thundercats back, Let's get CTN to air GI Joe
Auggie Doggie
03-09-2002, 02:17 PM
I have just gotten word that "Thundercats" will be returning to Cartoon Network April 15th at 4:00PM. That's good, and it is even at a less pathetic time, as it is in the middle of the day instead of early in the morning.
BTW, it is also possible to get Cartoon Network to air the new rights that daddy Turner Entertainment just bought, GI Joe in the US. Write to them and ask them to do such a thing. Their address is:
CARTOON NETWORK
C/O PROGRAMMING DEPARTMENT or
C/OTOONAMI or
C/O BOOMERANG
1050 TECHWOOD DRIVE NW
ATLANTA, GA 30318
It may not do too much good, but you could also e-mail them at:
ToonNet@aol.com
And mosszonedotcom, I agree with your new CGI Joes series idea based on the new commerical.
Originally posted by Auggie Doggie
I have just gotten word that "Thundercats" will be returning to Cartoon Network April 15th at 4:00PM. That's good, and it is even at a less pathetic time, as it is in the middle of the day instead of early in the morning.
BTW, it is also possible to get Cartoon Network to air the new rights that daddy Turner Entertainment just bought, GI Joe in the US. Write to them and ask them to do such a thing. Their address is:
CARTOON NETWORK
C/O PROGRAMMING DEPARTMENT or
C/OTOONAMI or
C/O BOOMERANG
1050 TECHWOOD DRIVE NW
ATLANTA, GA 30318
It may not do too much good, but you could also e-mail them at:
ToonNet@aol.com
And mosszonedotcom, I agree with your new CGI Joes series idea based on the new commerical.
Hmmm...Who's your source? I've already seen the April schedule and it's airing at 5:00 PM, not 4:00 PM.
Mr. Obsession
03-09-2002, 02:28 PM
I thought it hasn't been confirmed yet whether or not Cartoon Network has acquired the Sunbow Library (which includes GI Joe). If it's been confirmed then that's great! But like Vincent I've got to ask, what's your source?
mosszonedotcom
03-09-2002, 02:37 PM
http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/feedback/
Auggie Doggie
03-09-2002, 04:27 PM
Originally posted by Vincent Benenati
Hmmm...Who's your source? I've already seen the April schedule and it's airing at 5:00 PM, not 4:00 PM.
Originally posted by Mr. Obsession
I thought it hasn't been confirmed yet whether or not Cartoon Network has acquired the Sunbow Library (which includes GI Joe). If it's been confirmed then that's great! But like Vincent I've got to ask, what's your source?
I found the info at CybertOOn's Cartoon Campagin. You can visit this neat site at: http://cybertoon.tripod.com
Anyway, it has not been confirmed that all of Sunbow's library has been aquired, but I do know that Turner Entertainment, Cartoon Network's parent company, has aquired the US rights to GI Joe according to TV Toonland.
Does this help any?
DisneyBoy
03-09-2002, 04:33 PM
Does anyone know if Cartoon Network could possibly air the He-Man and She-Ra series? I know the whole situation with the rights for the shows is rather muddled but does anyone know which network it'll air on?
BTW, to clarify, "Thundercats" is what I was referring to. "G.I.Joe" has yet to be confirmed.
Originally posted by DisneyBoy
Does anyone know if Cartoon Network could possibly air the He-Man and She-Ra series? I know the whole situation with the rights for the shows is rather muddled but does anyone know which network it'll air on?
Not sure. Last I heard, the Hallmark Network had the rights to the series.
Mr. Obsession
03-09-2002, 05:12 PM
Originally posted by Auggie Doggie
I found the info at CybertOOn's Cartoon Campagin. You can visit this neat site at: http://cybertoon.tripod.com
Anyway, it has not been confirmed that all of Sunbow's library has been aquired, but I do know that Turner Entertainment, Cartoon Network's parent company, has aquired the US rights to GI Joe according to TV Toonland.
Does this help any?
Well CybertOOn's lists Quick Kick's Theater (http://www.qktheatre.com/program.htm) as their source for the news. Yet I can't find anything on the page (even after searching through the new archives) about CN acquiring the GI Joe series. So unless I missed it I'd say until there's an official announcement from CN, it's still a rumor.
EDIT: Also I can't seem to find anything about GI Joe, the Sunbow library or CN by searching through TV - Loonland's Archives.
The Clown Prince
03-09-2002, 05:38 PM
There is a lot of confusion over who actually has the rights to He-Man and She-Ra. Mattel has surprised a lot of people by including in their Battle Sound He-Man and Skeletor figures coming out later this summer a video of an episode from the original series. Skeletor's figure comes with the very first episode of He-Man, "The Diamond Ray of Disappearance," and with He-Man's figure comes the episode that a lot of fans consider to be THE best He-Man episode ever, "The Problem With Power." In that one, Skeletor makes He-Man think he has killed somone, so Adam decides to give up being He-Man. A rather grown up episode and different from the other episodes of the series.
People are wondering if Mattel worked out some kind of deal with Hallmark to include these episodes. OR if Mattel has actually bought the rights for the entire series. There have been pictures of the Battle Sound figures packages with the words "collect other Masters of the Universe video's" or something to that nature on them. There have been conflicting reports saying that Hallmark themselves have said they no longer have the rights to people thinking that they do. And there have been conflicting reports that Hallmark's parent company Crown Media has the rights. No one really knows at this point who does actually own the rights and whoever does, isn't saying anything right now.
People are thinking what they want and I REALLY want to think that Mattel has bought the rights to both shows, and at some time in the the future, will air them. Since Mattel has a deal with Cartoon Network to air the new series, people like myself would like to think that Mattel and CN have or will make a deal to air the original series.
As for GI Joe, it's only the Sunbow episodes right? Not the episodes after GI Joe the movie? Who was the company that produced those episodes?
As for Thundercats, I was smart enough to tape them the very first time they came on Cartoon Network, so I have every single episode and they have their original openings to them. Not the crap they replaced it with.
The Clown Prince
mosszonedotcom
03-09-2002, 06:30 PM
It looks like we have some people in here with good cartoon tastes so I want to ask, does anyone know if there is any chance of ever seeing reairing of any of these shows...
Pirates of Dark Water
C.O.P.S.
Silverhawks
Bravestar
Count Duckula
80s Spiderman
...and others like them. There are so many great 80s/early 90s cartoons!
Also, I've just heard bits and pieces of news on the new Spiderman animated series. Are they going to do it right or is it going to be this stop-motion/abstract junk?
Joe Tully
03-09-2002, 07:24 PM
Originally posted by mosszonedotcom
It looks like we have some people in here with good cartoon tastes so I want to ask, does anyone know if there is any chance of ever seeing reairing of any of these shows...
Pirates of Dark Water
C.O.P.S.
Silverhawks
Bravestar
Count Duckula
80s Spiderman
...and others like them. There are so many great 80s/early 90s cartoons!
Also, I've just heard bits and pieces of news on the new Spiderman animated series. Are they going to do it right or is it going to be this stop-motion/abstract junk?
CN has rights to Pirates of Dark Water and Silverhawks. It aired Silverhawks on Toonami a couple of years ago. And Pirates has been on CN before.
Bravestarr is Filmation, so I am pretty sure that CN doesn't have rights to it. Duckula was made for Thames in the U.K. so CN probably doesn't have rights to it, but CN U.K. does show Danger Mouse, which was made by the same company, so I guess there's some chance of it.
COPS was a DIC production, Spider-Man was done by Marvel, I think. I doubt CN will get rights to these anytime soon.
mosszonedotcom
03-09-2002, 07:38 PM
Awesome, thanks! We need to get Silverhawks and Pirates of Dark Water back on CN too!
Patrick
03-10-2002, 01:37 AM
Originally posted by mosszonedotcom
Awesome, thanks! We need to get Silverhawks and Pirates of Dark Water back on CN too! CN needs to show the 80's carton Tigersharks made by Thundercats and Silverhawks or will they put it on Boomerang. :confused:
Mattashell
03-10-2002, 01:55 AM
Tigersharks was a segment of a series by Rankin/Bass (who produced Thundercats & Silverhawks) called The Comic Strip, other segments included Street Frogs, Mini Monsters and Karate Cat.
Patrick
03-10-2002, 03:31 AM
Originally posted by Mattashell
Tigersharks was a segment of a series by Rankin/Bass (who produced Thundercats & Silverhawks) called The Comic Strip, other segments included Street Frogs, Mini Monsters and Karate Cat. Does anyone know when 4 kids will make the new Thundercats. Will it be on Kids WB,Fox or CN.
GL2k2
03-10-2002, 04:10 AM
I heard Disney owns DIC, is that true. If this is true, then they own Inspector Gadget, Garfield & Friends, and C.O.P.S. as well as a horde of other 80's cartoons. Who knows, they might show up on ABC Family or Toon Disney.
Also, does anyone know if that Nicktoon network will show MTV cartoons like Beavis and Butthead, the Head, The Maxx, Daria, Spygroove, Liquid Television, Aeon Flux? This would be ideal to show at night, like they do with Nick@Nite.
Killtacular
03-10-2002, 07:21 AM
From what I heard, TV ToonLand is the actual German company that owns the Sunbow library.
Turner got the full broadcasting rights for America, so that's why they have them listed. So I would imagine this is as confirmed as you can get.
DarkMaster
03-10-2002, 09:17 AM
Their aren't any thundercats shows in development. It was only suggested that they could make one if they so chose.
Auggie Doggie
03-10-2002, 09:33 AM
I see Matt Wilson is catching my drift, but it seems everyone else is kinda Niave.
GL2k2, DiC is now an independent company and Disney no longer owns them. However, they could make a deal and have Toon Disney or ABC Family air those shows, like they do with Gadget Boy (Syndicated, 1995) and the New Archies (NBC, 1987-88) on TD. Besides, they have a few DiC shows in their own library, like Kidd Video (NBC, 1984-87, CBS 1987), which el Dicco animated and Saban co-produced. Now, Saban owns the rights to the show.
Besides, Garfield and Friends (CBS, 1988-94) has nothing to do with DiC. The series was animated by Film Roman instead, who also produced the animation for The Simpsons (Fox, 1989-Date) since 1992 (before then, it was Rugrats studio, Klasky-Cuspo) and also happened to have connections with Sparky Schulz, Lee Mendelson, Bill Melendez and Peanuts, as Phil Roman, the guy who started it all, worked on the animation for a lot of their specials. Also, DiC does not own the library for the show, the Program Exchange does, which also happens to own some of DiC's library, like Captain N (NBC, 1989-92) and Dennis the Meanace (Syndicated, 1987).
BTW, Patrick, I would also like to see 4Kids make a new "Thundercats" series for Fox.
Killtacular
03-10-2002, 11:03 AM
We'll find out what 4Kids has planned for the rest of the block this week..
I'm pretty damn sure they're going to get the Megaman EXE anime that just came out in Japan.
spyke
03-10-2002, 03:24 PM
Do disney own the entire saban library of catoons like x-men and the silver surfer.
Joe Wagner
03-10-2002, 06:58 PM
Originally posted by spyke
Do disney own the entire saban library of catoons like x-men and the silver surfer.
Yep, Disney owns everything that was once Saban. Unfortunately they don't seem to be interested in actually doing anything different than they've already done with their own properties.
The upcoming Spidey DVD movie is actually snippets from the series pieced together to make an "all-new movie". At least they show X-Men and Spidey on ABC Family without any difficulties there.
-Joe!
Originally posted by Matt Wilson
We'll find out what 4Kids has planned for the rest of the block this week..
I'm pretty damn sure they're going to get the Megaman EXE anime that just came out in Japan.
I'm not sure that they will, but the series definitely looks interesting. I do know however that all the shows that will be picked up have licensing agreements already, i.e., they have/will have videogames, toys, etc. 4Kids is out to make $ and if it looks like they'll make money off of something, they'll pick it up. Also, according to Al Kahn, the president of 4Kids, there will be 52 episodes of every series on the block, NO REPEATS, EVER. This is to gain a following and be a must-see type of event, making it so the children can't miss an episode.
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