Cartoon Network Gets 'Real' Again

[ZariusTwo]

Cartoon Network is getting back into live action, with the blessing of audiences. The network has made live-action shows in the past (never with huge success), but Ascheim said it is committing to the medium under his leadership. For some of his colleagues, he added, producing anything other than cartoons “felt like a bump.” But when they ran the idea of live-action shows on Cartoon Network by viewers, they embraced the idea “without a blink.”

Live action is partly a way to reach more girls. Ascheim’s data shows that girls “age out of animation earlier than boys” before returning to it as young adults. Live-action shows like the recently announced Family Mash-Up (from Hannah Montana creator Michael Poryes) were greenlit with that in mind. Animation that “does a stronger job of showing girls” is also on the cards.

https://www.cartoonbrew.com/business/tom-ascheims-kidscreen-qa-6-takeaways-on-warnermedias-kids-strategy-203242.html

[IMJ]

I loved the Cartoon Network way back in the day when it was a new thing - this is, I think maybe 20 years ago now.

They originally were showing all of those old shows I loved as a kid and this was before DVD really boomed in terms of old animation making it's way to disc.

And then they went all original after that I stopped following the channel completely. I think it wasn't until that amazing 2011 or so Thundercats show that I had a reason to turn it back on.

[Leo656]

Yeah, I really liked early CN a lot. I remember when "Adult Swim" was basically just "Obscure Stuff From the 70s" before it eventually morphed into a block for stoners.

The only live-action show of theirs I ever watched was Childrens Hospital, and that was only for Malin Ackerman. :lol: I don't remember a single thing about it, though. Just that Malin Ackerman is hot.

[ZariusTwo]

AKA Cartoon Network was awesome, and extremely rare to track down online.

Whoever thought of remixing Hannah Barbara cartoons with Blaxploitation movies and WCW promos deserves promotions only Doctor Robotnik could dream up

[Powder]

Have audiences really given their blessings to this? I don't buy it. :tlol:

[IMJ]

Have audiences really given their blessings to this? I don't buy it. :tlol:

:lol:

-"Our savvy viewers demand this content!"
-Show hangs on by a thread for a season and cancelled thereafter
-Stays on the air just long enough at the company's expense to save face and give plausible deniability to their narrative that "people want their content".

[drgon78]

God, I miss old CN(late 90's till about 2012).

[Coola Yagami]

Back in Mexico I missed the very early days of CN. When Dexter, PPG and Johnny Bravo were first introduced they were so new, dubbing wasn't available yet so they just played em in English. Eventually they would catch up so by the time they branched out into actual series, they'd be dubbed, but it was sweet watching English stuff on an otherwise Spanish channel.

I still remember the week or so where they would play an anime movie way past midnight, it's how I first saw Vampire Hunter D.

[GoldMutant]

Having grown up during that period in the 2000s and 2010s, why? Who thought this was a good idea?

Barring any movies, I don't get the point of live-action Cartoon Network. I'd go to Disney Channel, Nickelodeon, anything over Cartoon Network's live-action. It bordered on extreme, and most of the shows really don't hold up. Potentially some of its worst program offerings, honestly.

It ain't worth it. Definitely uninterested and annoyed by this.