What if Cartoon Network had picked up NBC's block?

[JM2]

Yes, we know that Discovery picked up NBCs kids block. Yes, we know it had to be educational. But throw all that out the window. What if Cartoon Network had picked up NBC's Saturday Morning Block instead of Discovery? Anyone think that the Cartoon Cartoon block would have been shown on Saturday Mornings or at least portions of it? Would have been cool to see Johnny Bravo on NBC. Sigh.

[PuffUncle]

Given the direction Saturday morning cartoons had gone by 1992, NBC was stuck in its "failsafe" mode, unleashing shows like Yo Yogi and Chip & Pepper's Cartoon Madness on us. It's been almost ten years since NBC said adios to cartoons, and if they acquired Cartoon Network shows you'd see them watered down. NBC would hire its own writers and turn the shows into the cookie-cutter fare Saturday morning has been hounded about for decades. It's best we keep CCF off the big four networks.

[Killtacular]

That's exactly why Cartoon Network won't allow Kids WB to air PPG.

They apparently don't want WB to edit it up and put it in Kids WB Toonami or something. I can imagine WB's standards are as stupid as YTV's, so I'd bet they would cut Down and Dirty, Rowdy Ruff Boys, and any other non-PC episode.

[CookieS]

Hell, one of the very first shots in the Powerpuff Girls introduction features blood. Next time you watch look for the part in which Buttercup kicks 'Him' in the face and knocks out some teeth. You'll see blood side by side with the loose teeth. That's an edit right there. Big Networks would treat these shows like crap. Hell, they have a wonderful slot right now on CCF, and are not really competing with other big networks either.

NBC had interesting shows, but to think...that was the 80s/early 90s when they had most of their stuff. You could have action with guns and lazers and people didn't flip out like today. Now its all about learning something or selling something. If your show isn't teaching kids, it better damn well be selling a toy.

[mbaker]

You don't want the Cartoon Cartoons on the big four (Or Six if you count UPN, and WB.) Broadcast TV has become so bland, and lifeless, that it's just not worth it anymore. Family Guy, and Futurama are the only broadcast shows that take risks anymore. (Animation wise) Plus, here's another good point. If Justice Leauge aired on Kids WB, they would want Bruce Timm, and crew to water it down so much it would be worse than that whole "Return Of The Joker" Debacle we went through. KidsWB guidelines now require animated shows to have children in the lead, or have a adult, and child connection. All seven members of the Justice Leauge are adults. So if anyone at the WB was smart, they would air it on prime time. So let's all be glad that we've got cable, because it looks like broadcast TV is't going to reclain it's glory days any time soon.

[Defiant1DS9]

what about on fox, they are more lenient about things like adult leads, kids with guns, and little blood.

[PuffUncle]

Fox is changing anyway this upcoming fall. They discontinued their weekday shows at the end of 2001 and they had planned to stop weekend shows. However, 4Kids Entertainment has bought the entire three-hour block of Fox Kids Saturday morning line-up and will program the time periods with its programming (which includes shows like Pokemon).

We do not get Fox Kids in Atlanta because when WAGA/ch. 5 here in Atlanta switched from CBS to Fox in 1994, they passed up the kids' shows, and the station that ran them, WUVG/ch. 34, just changed to Univision, so no Atlanta TV station runs Fox Kids.