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Perry White
03-26-2002, 02:02 PM
Just in case you missed the Fancy Anvil Awards on Cartoon Network this past weekend, here is the list of winners:

Cartoon Lifetime Achievement Award: Scooby-Doo
Best Cartoon Female: Bubbles from The Powerpuff Girls
Best Cartoon Male: Dexter from Dexter's Laboratory
Worst Cartoon Villain: Mandark from Dexter's Laboratory
Best Cartoon Team: Ed, Edd and Eddy from Ed, Edd n Eddy
Best Musical Performance: Bugs Bunny & Elmer Fudd from Rabbit of Seville
Best Cartoon: "Mock 5," special episode from Dexter's Laboratory

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Cartoon Network Wins Ratings Gold with Saturday Night Oscar® Spoof The 1st 13th Annual Fancy Anvil Award Show Program Special...Live!...In Stereo

Academy Awards® Parody #1 in Kids 2-11 Among All Basic Cable Programming
<a href="http://www.toonzone.net/shows/images/cartoon-network/fancyanvils-title.jpg" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="http://www.toonzone.net/shows/images/cartoon-network/t-fancyanvils-title.jpg" alt="Fancy Anvils" align="right" hspace="5" vspace="3" width="150" height="119"></a>     The folks in Hollywood weren't the only ones strutting down a red carpet and popping champagne corks this weekend. Cartoon Network walked away with ratings gold on Saturday night (March 23, 7-9 p.m.) with its own star-studded event, The 1st 13th Annual Fancy Anvil Award Show Program Special...Live!...In Stereo. The two-hour telecast scored the following:

<ul><li>#1 in delivery and ratings among kids 2-11 (1,588,000/5.2)</li>
<li>Significant delivery increases with tweens 9-14 (+25 percent/542,000) and teens 12-17 (+108 percent/287,000)</li>
<li>5,130,000 different persons tuned in to the Saturday night program</li>
<li>#1 for households (2.1) in its time period among all ad-supported cable networks</li></ul>
<a href="http://www.toonzone.net/shows/images/cartoon-network/fancyanvils/bravo.jpg" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="http://www.toonzone.net/shows/images/cartoon-network/fancyanvils/t-bravo.jpg" alt="Johnny Bravo" align="left" hspace="5" vspace="3" width="125" height="103"></a>     The ultimate parody of the "kudocast," The 1st 13th Annual Fancy Anvil Award Show Program Special...Live!...In Stereo gathered the world's top animated stars for an unforgettable night honoring outstanding achievements in cartoon excellence and quirkiness. Host Johnny Bravo was joined by a cavalcade of stars for the first-ever Fancy Anvil awards ceremony, including Charles Barkley, N'Sync's Chris Kirkpatrick, Al Roker, Debbie Allen and Jonathan Lipnicky. Actress/Entertainer Sandy Duncan presented the Lifetime Achievement Award to the hardest working dog in show business, Scooby-Doo. Co-stars Jonathan Winters, Tim Conway, Don Knotts, Phyllis Diller and Davy Jones also provided personal reflections on Scooby for the special tribute.

     Cartoon Network also enjoyed additional ratings highlights during the week:

<ul><li>Sunday night's Adult Swim (10 p.m.-1 a.m.) averaged a 0.5 rating among adults 18-34, an increase of 67 percent vs. last year. Delivery also improved by 86 percent to 244,000 viewers.</li>
<li>Toonami, the weekday afternoon action-adventure block (5-7 p.m.), grew delivery of tweens 9-14 (587,000) by 111 percent and ratings (3.1 average) by 94 percent. Boys 9-14 delivery (471,000) grew by 126 percent and ratings (4.9) by 104 percent.</li></ul>
     Cartoon Network, currently seen in more than 79.9 million U.S. homes and 145 countries around the world, is Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.’s 24-hour, ad-supported cable service offering the best in animated entertainment.