Bad news

[Rayman]

Although the majority of the network's programming is animation, live-action programming has been a part of Cartoon Network over the years. Human-hosted shows like Carrot Top's (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrot_Top) A.M. Mayhem and the current Cartoon Network Fridays format had live actors introducing animated shows and shorts. In the mid-1990s, the Children's Television Workshop (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sesame_Workshop) co-produced Big Bag (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Big_Bag&action=edit), a series that featured a Muppet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muppet) character and a human counterpart. In mid-2004, Osmosis Jones (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osmosis_Jones), a film that was half live-action and half-animation, premiered on the network. The Phantom Tollbooth (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Phantom_Tollbooth), another film that featured live-action with animation, also aired on the network.

In November 2005, Cartoon Network began airing what network executives called "cartoon-inspired" live-action movies (including Who Framed Roger Rabbit (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Framed_Roger_Rabbit), Small Soldiers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Soldiers), The Goonies (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goonies), and Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey%2C_I_Shrunk_the_Kids)) as part of its Cartoon Theater movie show. The move was made in response to the slumping ratings compared to competing live-action shows on Nickelodeon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickelodeon_%28TV_channel%29) and Disney Channel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_Channel). The scheduled movies are mostly acquisitions for sibling Turner networks TBS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TBS_%28TV_Network%29) and TNT (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turner_Network_Television).

In the future, Cartoon Network will create shows that blend live-action with animation as well as cartoony live-action shows in the vein of Pee-wee's Playhouse (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pee-wee%27s_Playhouse), The Three Stooges (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Stooges), and Krofft brothers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_and_Marty_Krofft) shows, although the network maintains the dominant programming will remain animation.
The following info was from wikipedia.org

[Tak Mazé]

Most of that is like, common knowledge. Not sure about the last part though. When did they announce new series combining live-action and animation?
Wikipedia should NEVER be trusted.

[RoboDoobieDoo]

In the future, Cartoon Network will create shows that blend live-action with animation as well as cartoony live-action shows in the vein of Pee-wee's Playhouse (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pee-wee%27s_Playhouse), The Three Stooges (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Stooges), and Krofft brothers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_and_Marty_Krofft) shows, although the network maintains the dominant programming will remain animation.
The following info was from wikipedia.org
Holy moly... lets hope that it's closer to Pee-Wee's Playhouse and Krofft stuff and steer clear of The Three Stooges cartoons! Those are the WORST!

[Rayman]

sorry it was a bad idea.

[The Wolverine]

Wikipedia should NEVER be trusted.
Seeing as how I've gotten plenty of excellent info from Wikipedia...


well, you get the idea.

[Sketch]

CN has more hybrid programing coming in the future. Whatever they are... let's hope they flop.

[Knightfall]

Yeah, CN certainly is hoping that it will get some ratings from those movies. That's all they think about any more...

[One Radical Dude]

We won't really know until time progresses, or whenever we get any real information. Yeah, Wikipedia does have some beneficial information, and I do check from time to time for anything I needed to know. However, there have been cases where people post false information.

Still, this wouldn't be all that surprising, knowing what the network has been doing as of late.

[Tak Mazé]

Seeing as how I've gotten plenty of excellent info from Wikipedia...
Wikipedia... Home of the so-called Ed Edd n Eddy live-action movie, with Eddy being played by a 30 year old guy...
Sites that allow people to openly add and change information should never be used as a source for news.

[Daffy Dork]

:eek:

Let's hope it's just some ass fooling around on the site.

[The Wolverine]

Wikipedia... Home of the so-called Ed Edd n Eddy live-action movie, with Eddy being played by a 30 year old guy...
Sites that allow people to openly add and change information should never be used as a source for news.

False info is usually deleted within minutes, but there are cases of desperate people seeking for attention. I've deleted a lot of false info from there, and I have made darn sure it doesn't return.

[The Horcrux]

Well it looks like CN has sunk lower than dirt. They just did the one thing I hoped they never do. God they need to think alittle more about there shows and not the god forsaken rating. Yes I know rating mean everything now but this is just going to far and CN just keeps making more terrble desisons...

[I.R Joey]

I wouldn't be suprised, a person I corrispond with, who visited CN early this year told me that they are infact looking for live action programing. Needless to say we were both confused.

[Tak Mazé]

Hopefully technology will have advanced far enough by the end of next year that on-demand stuff will be the standard and we only watch what we want to watch. Looks like this could be the end... Maybe the entire network will change it's name as well!

[Zyzzybalubah]

Well we all know that a pilot is being prepared for Adult Swim that's live action and everybody and their family knew about the live action movies on CN, so I wouldn't be surprised if the network picked up a syndicated show for kids. Who knows, maybe they'll give the CN Fridays Hosts a show and try to make it like most new episodes of X-Play on G4 by making it a comedy, action/sci-fi pardoy show that's HORRIBLY, EXCRUTIATINGLY unfunny.

[Mr. Manager]

If CN has live-action/animation series to announce they would do it in February, but they have not made any public mention as of yet. They ARE going to be -syndicating- hybrid material in 2006. At the end of this month, in fact. What material are they looking at?

[The Horcrux]

... Maybe the entire network will change it's name as well!
I bet there just itching to rename it Tickle U!!!!

Or "The New Home Of the Power Rangers Ripoff" :D

[Fan of Sponge]

CN can just rename the c in cartoons as c in children's. Yeah that's what they should rename Cartoon Network, the Children's Network. It's fine with me if their just have live action on CN for now on.

[bigddan11]

CN can just rename the c in cartoons as c in children's. Yeah that's what they should rename Cartoon Network, the Children's Network. It's fine with me if their just have live action on CN for now on.
Um, no. The Children's Network & Adult Swim really wouldn't co-exsist together. How about AS- The Animation Station and Adult Swim. They could claim to have animation in all their shows and movies (yes, Honey I Shrunk the Kids did have claymation, a type of animation, and The Goonies did have a cartoon on the TV at one time), and they could probably get away with it.

[moumantai]

i like that name the animation station it sounds so cool

[herbkir]

CN is just following the trend of other networks that moved away from their original concepts in order to expand their audiences and post better ratings. Everybody in these companies is under the same sort of performance pressure: "Okay, so yesterday you saved us from bankruptcy, doubled our market share and tripled our profits. But what have you done for us today?"

Trouble is everybody targeting the kid audience is going to adopt the same sort of approach so kid networks like CN and Nick will end up looking just like one another as the execs copy each other's moves.

Soon, Cartoon Network will evolve into "The CN." Going live-action vastly expands the pool of shows they can buy or produce. Cost goes down because there are more companies vying to sell their shows to CN, which still appears in the basic tier in the vast majority of cable households.

Oh, well. If the recent live-action movies posted good ratings then the all-cartoon CN we knew will forever be history. Best we could hope for then is that they keep some animation and anime shows in their lineup. (^_*)

[TRobot]

Although the majority of the network's programming is animation, live-action programming has been a part of Cartoon Network over the years. Human-hosted shows like Carrot Top's (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrot_Top) A.M. Mayhem and the current Cartoon Network Fridays format had live actors introducing animated shows and shorts. In the mid-1990s, the Children's Television Workshop (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sesame_Workshop) co-produced Big Bag (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Big_Bag&action=edit), a series that featured a Muppet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muppet) character and a human counterpart. In mid-2004, Osmosis Jones (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osmosis_Jones), a film that was half live-action and half-animation, premiered on the network. The Phantom Tollbooth (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Phantom_Tollbooth), another film that featured live-action with animation, also aired on the network.

In November 2005, Cartoon Network began airing what network executives called "cartoon-inspired" live-action movies (including Who Framed Roger Rabbit (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Framed_Roger_Rabbit), Small Soldiers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Soldiers), The Goonies (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goonies), and Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey%2C_I_Shrunk_the_Kids)) as part of its Cartoon Theater movie show. The move was made in response to the slumping ratings compared to competing live-action shows on Nickelodeon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickelodeon_%28TV_channel%29) and Disney Channel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_Channel). The scheduled movies are mostly acquisitions for sibling Turner networks TBS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TBS_%28TV_Network%29) and TNT (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turner_Network_Television).

In the future, Cartoon Network will create shows that blend live-action with animation as well as cartoony live-action shows in the vein of Pee-wee's Playhouse (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pee-wee%27s_Playhouse), The Three Stooges (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Stooges), and Krofft brothers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_and_Marty_Krofft) shows, although the network maintains the dominant programming will remain animation.
The following info was from wikipedia.org
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Knightfall]

corporate jerks...all after money and stuff. Don't you love a world where 99 percent of life is about making money...and 1 percent is about values and being a good person?

[Gary L Thompson]

CN is just following the trend of other networks that moved away from their original concepts in order to expand their audiences and post better ratings. Everybody in these companies is under the same sort of performance pressure: "Okay, so yesterday you saved us from bankruptcy, doubled our market share and tripled our profits. But what have you done for us today?"

Trouble is everybody targeting the kid audience is going to adopt the same sort of approach so kid networks like CN and Nick will end up looking just like one another as the execs copy each other's moves.

Soon, Cartoon Network will evolve into "The CN." Going live-action vastly expands the pool of shows they can buy or produce. Cost goes down because there are more companies vying to sell their shows to CN, which still appears in the basic tier in the vast majority of cable households.

Oh, well. If the recent live-action movies posted good ratings then the all-cartoon CN we knew will forever be history. Best we could hope for then is that they keep some animation and anime shows in their lineup. (^_*)
In the long run, the only way you're going to sell your product is by branding yourself to the customer. The Sci-Fi Channel should show science fiction, Classic Sports Channel should show the greatest sports events of the past, Disney Channel should show Disney, American Movie Classics should show Golden Age Hollywood, MTV should show music, Weather Channel should show weather forecasts, the Learning Channel should show educational programming, Cartoon Network should show cartoons. To constantly destroy channel identities for a short-term ratings fix is just going to cut down total cable audience in the long run.

[InfinityBlade]

I didn't have a problem with Roger Rabbit, but everything else and what could be forthcoming? Oy.