Does anyone think it's time for Adult Swim to leave Cartoon Netowrk?

[Toonami Tom]

((Dang, I messed up the title of this topic.))

Since the Adult Swim topic has not had an activity lately, I thought this would be seen better posted on it's own.

I have enjoyed Adult Swim over the years, but it seems like things are going down hill. Or at least it is for me. Mostly the only shows on Adult Swim I watch are Aqua Teen Hunger Force and Frisky Dingo. On top of this, most of the time I am watching episodes online at adultswim.com, instead of on tv.

Then there's the whole element of lame programming such as Assy Mcgee and Squidbillies.

So this is what I think should be done: remove Adult Swim from the Cartoon Network channel, and replace it with a mix of Toonami and classic 'Cartoon Cartoon' toons from the 1990s, such as Dexter's Lab. I wouldn't completely get rid of Adult Swim, I would just make their shows online exclusives at adultswim.com

So, what do you guys think? I'm crazy, right?

[Hero]

Maybe Adult Swim could move to another channel. We have it on Bravo in the UK and works out fine considering the now dead UK version of Toonami was a terrible joke.

===HERO

[Drtooth]

In a world of Puppys, rainbows and kitty cats... yeah, maybe Adult swim can be its own network. But there are multiple reasons why it's not so.

One is, and let's repeat it all together people, the idiotic notion that Animation is a child only medium. And I'm not making this one up, I've been given this reason multiple times. Afternoon cartoons would be percieved as a "children's TV network" by the masses, no matter how many big bold red warning lables they would put on it. Somewhere, some kid would turn the TV on and watch it, and their parents would start whining to the network that they're trying to push Assy McGassy or whatever it is onto children.

Secondly, AS is basically the only success that CN has right now. Sure, Ben 10 is doing alright, and I hear good things about Chowder, but CN is losing kiddy TV ground to the Disney Channel. basically that explains their backwards idea of putting live action on that network (much as I'd like to see Kamen Rider, It's CARTOON network, by George). Oddly enough, ratingwise AS counts as a sepperate network, not just a block of programming. Similar to how Nick at Nite is counted differently to Nickelodeon.

Thirdly, Time Warner would have to have an extra channel to toss the shows onto, all the while deleting that channel's previous programming. Like how Viacom split Noggin and the N, but only after getting rid of Nick GAS. In a perfect world, there would be Cartoon Network, Cartoon Cartoons (or cartoon Network Classic), Boomarang, Toonami, and AS all as sepperate channels. But finanically, that would be impossible.

So, as bad as the programming could get, it hits hard in the ratings. They definately got the drunken frat boy crowd.

[Spike Spiegel]

Originally Posted by Drtooth

In a world of Puppys, rainbows and kitty cats... yeah, maybe Adult swim can be its own network. But there are multiple reasons why it's not so.

One is, and let's repeat it all together people, the idiotic notion that Animation is a child only medium. And I'm not making this one up, I've been given this reason multiple times. Afternoon cartoons would be percieved as a "children's TV network" by the masses, no matter how many big bold red warning lables they would put on it. Somewhere, some kid would turn the TV on and watch it, and their parents would start whining to the network that they're trying to push Assy McGassy or whatever it is onto children.


Time Warner would have to have an extra channel to toss the shows onto, all the while deleting that channel's previous programming. Like how Viacom split Noggin and the N, but only after getting rid of Nick GAS. In a perfect world, there would be Cartoon Network, Cartoon Cartoons (or cartoon Network Classic), Boomarang, Toonami, and AS all as sepperate channels. But finanically, that would be impossible.

So, as bad as the programming could get, it hits hard in the ratings. They definately got the drunken frat boy crowd.

There's just so much unused potential in those old shows...that could bring back the audience that they have lost.

[Drtooth]

Originally Posted by Marty McFly

There's just so much unused potential in those old shows...that could bring back the audience that they have lost.

Unused potential is what Time Warner is all about. I'm surprised they didn't have another classic HB action show based TV parody or something like that. But apparently they want to move away from that and work with stoner humor.