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August 18, 2009 1:03 am
I nominate this exchange between director/illustrator Ward Jenkins and his daughter, Ava, as the best animation-related tweet of the day:
14 Comments » posted in Bad Ideas, TV 
August 17, 2009 6:15 pm
Nick-at-Nite’s new animated series, the one produced by Michael Eisner, made it’s debut tonight. Anyone catch it? I did, and despite the near unanimous negative reviews, I must confess… I liked it. The script was on par with typical (re: Fox) animated series these days, but I found the animation, produced by Eric Fogel (Celebrity Deathmatch) refreshing. What did you think? 15 Comments » posted in TV
August 17, 2009 11:00 am
The LA Times has a huge front page story in it’s Business section today, reporting on The new shows haven’t reversed the slide. In July, the network had the fewest viewers in that target age range since May 2000 and its least-watched month overall since June 1998. If the ratings on CN were bad before, they are worse now. As an example of some of the actual numbers, courtesy of Nielsen Media Research Data, here are final K6-11 Ratings for Saturday, August, 8, 2009, Cable Networks only (Live + Same Day Data): NICKELODEON – 4.1/25 Avg. (7a-1p) To our friends at Cartoon Network, we want you to succeed. We know we’re not in your demographic, but I and hundreds of thousands of others like me actually care about what you’re doing. We love cartoons and we want them back. To paraphrase 14-year-old Ashley Rosario, quoted in the LA Times article, we’re open to new things as long as they’re not crummy. Stop looking at market research and viewer surveys – you clearly don’t understand them. Or us. What might work at AMC or SYFY or USA and TBS won’t work here. Cartoon Network is a niche channel and you must give the viewers what you promise. I don’t want mustard coming from my ketchup bottle. As long as you are content to follow your competitors, and to recycle worn out ideas, you won’t succeed. You must lead with new ideas, new concepts, new animation. You are programming Cartoon Network as a run-of-the-mill cable kids channel, instead of using the incredible opportunity you have to lead and bond with the animation community – where there is a wealth of talented creators and an abundance of original ideas just waiting to happen. I strongly believe in the potential of Cartoon Network – otherwise I wouldn’t post so much about it. I am heartened by the recent announcement of the two new animated shows and the ongoing production of Pen Ward’s Adventure Time. So until the day you drop the “Cartoon” from your channel’s name and dive completely into obscurity, I’ll be keeping tabs on you. And our readers will let you know what they think. 84 Comments » posted in TV
August 15, 2009 9:30 am
The trend toward remaking animated shows into live action, taken to its most illogical extreme: (Thanks, Adam Blake) 53 Comments » posted in Bad Ideas, Disney, TV
August 10, 2009 12:05 am
Today’s episode of (Thanks, Charles Brubaker) 13 Comments » posted in TV
July 31, 2009 7:00 am
Filmmaker Gavin Freitas found this notice on Craigslist: Cartoon Network seeks Teens (12-18) for new competition show! (Los Angeles) 36 Comments » posted in TV
July 29, 2009 12:05 am
Welcome to Cartoon Brew – where rejected pilots from Here is what the creator, Lincoln Peirce, had to say about it: “Spang Ho is the latest of several pilots of mine Cartoon Network has rejected over the years. No, it wasn’t for Cartoonstitute; that program hadn’t officially been launched when CN bought Spang Ho. Frankly, I’m not sure exactly why they bought it, since nobody there seemed too sanguine about its prospects as a CN series. There was a lot of turmoil going on in the CN programming and development depts at the time (as there continues to be), and CN actually fired Spang Ho’s in-house producer when we were about halfway done without telling us. (When I say “us” I’m referring to myself, my director Rich Ferguson-Hull, and the crew of Global Mechanic, the house that did the animation.) But they allowed us to finish it, and then they focus-grouped it. The kids were only luke-warm about it, and that was the end of that. It was likely my last TV writing stint for awhile, since I’m working on some kids books for Harper Collins right now featuring my comic strip character, Big Nate.” (Thanks, Joshua Bailey) 31 Comments » posted in TV
July 28, 2009 2:00 pm
One of the saddest things about the current deconstruction of Little Rikke was co-directed by Rikke Asbjorn and Chris Garbutt |
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