The block's negative reception and low ratings prompted its cancellation after less than a year, and by 2014, Cartoon Network would formally abandon live-action programming. These efforts came to a head with the creation of the CN Real block, a block composed entirely of live-action programming. The cancellation of a number of animated originals causing many former creators to leave, as well as that of Toonami, is blamed by the network's fans on this shifting focus. There's also Boomerang, which became the de facto home for classic animation as the network's original programming lineup expanded.Īround the late-2000s, the network began to incorporate live action shows as it attempted to compete directly with Nickelodeon and Disney Channel. Cartoon Network is also known among anime fans for Toonami, a block that's considered a key factor in increasing the popularity of Japanese animation in America during the turn of the millennia. But unlike Adult Swim, is dependent on syndicated reruns.
note Nick Nite, launched in July of 1985, fufills the same purpose for Nickelodeon and the two are currently the only American programming blocks to be formatted as such. We'd be remiss not to show you this bumper featuring an excessive Cluster F-Bomb.Īnd this is all without delving into Adult Swim, once a normal programming block created in 2001 to showcase adult animation that now controls the entirety of the network's watershed hours.
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CN has and continues to push the envelope on what a kids' channel can show: over the years, it has aired several TV-14rated animated films (such as the Hellboy series and Justice League: The New Frontier) and TV-PG series (like both Clone Wars series), resulting in that aforementioned huge Periphery Demographic. Much of Cartoon Network's original programming has been critically praised, with most considering them to be superior to cartoons shown on broadcast networks, especially as more and more broadcast networks began abandoning their animated programming blocks outright. Discovery) in 1996, in turn also giving the channel access to the rest of the Warner Bros. note Cartoon Network, Hanna-Barbera and the rest of Turner Broadcasting had merged with Time Warner (now Warner Bros.
seized control over Hanna-Barbera's "classic" properties. took over the operations of Hanna-Barbera, while spinning off Cartoon Network Studios into a separate company under the Turner banner CNS kept ownership of the programming it produced, while Warner Bros. In 2001, upon the death of H-B co-founder Bill Hanna, Warner Bros. The latter program would lead to the creation of various television series (originally known as Cartoon Cartoons) produced under a new H-B division called Cartoon Network Studios. The most notable of these early projects were the spoof talk show Space Ghost Coast to Coast and the animated anthology series What A Cartoon! Show a year later. The channel started off purely as a rerun station for the 8,500+ hours worth of animation in the Turner library, including newer Hanna-Barbera shows made for TBS and syndication that saw reruns here, before slowly developing its own original programming. If the name didn't tip you off, Cartoon Network is a television channel primarily focused around animation, with the initial pitch for what started as the 24-hour animation station being predicated on this simple, yet undeniable fact: animation is for more than just children, meaning that there is an absolutely HUGE Periphery Demographic of adults that would watch cartoons at any hour of the day, right alongside any children that happen to be in the room. Turner Broadcasting launched this cable channel on Octonote Fun fact: it was the first Turner network not to launch with a rendition of The Star-Spangled Banner- even the shortlived Cable Music Channel did- instead opting for an animated montage and voiceover (with the 1812 Overture playing underneath) subsequent Turner network launches also forewent the national anthem, after acquiring the extensive Hanna-Barbera animation library the year before (and even before this, Turner owned some animation, by way of the 1986 MGM/UA deal and his production of Captain Planet and the Planeteers).
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