We Need An Afternoon Block!

[pierre3000]

i think we need an afternoon block that start's at 4:00pm till 6 or 7!i'd pu shows like static shock the batman knd andmaybe justic leaque!what do u guy's think make a your own schedule think of your shows you would put!:D

[chdr]

Not really. The last one was utterly pointless, and CN currently doesn't have any current new action shows to strip for weekdays.

[Blackstar]

CN already had an afternoon block. It was called Funny For Your Face and it was dropped because it's ratings were mucho stinko. There'd be no point in CN attempting another afternoon block unless they had some new original programming to air on it. Bringing back a bunch of action shows that were canceled or have ended years ago wouldn't accomplish much.

Let's face it: Static Shock and Justice League are never coming back to Cartoon Network. They could go to Boomerang, maybe, but you'll never see them again on Cartoon Network. Ever. Deal with it.

[Silverstar]

Not really. The last one was utterly pointless, and CN currently doesn't have any current new action shows to strip for weekdays.

^This.

i think we need an afternoon block that start's at 4:00pm till 6 or 7!i'd pu shows like static shock the batman knd andmaybe justic leaque!

Basically, you're suggesting bringing back something like weekday Toonami or Miguzi, to which the obvious response is that if either of those blocks had continued to earn giant-sized ratings points for CN, they'd still be on now. Static Shock is a dead franchise whose ratings were never all that spectacular, Kids Next Door is technically considered a comedy, not an action show, Justice League is currently in a perpetual state of rerun on Boomerang and The Batman's ratings on CN were terrible, which is why they dropped it in the first place. The only action shows CN has right now are Ben 10, Transformers Animated and the shows on the You Are Here block, and like Cheddar said, there's not enough of them to stretch across five days a week.

[Draft]

Not really. The last one was utterly pointless, and CN currently doesn't have any current new action shows to strip for weekdays.
except for the ones airing on You Are Hear, but they won't weekday strip them until they have around 20 episodes, so that'd take around April, more than likely September since the block probably would be dumped for the Summer..

but ya, block would be nice, but wouldnt really fit cause CN randomly schedules marathons during that time right now I think

[J'onn J'onzz]

i think we need an afternoon block that start's at 4:00pm till 6 or 7!i'd pu shows like static shock the batman knd andmaybe justic leaque!what do u guy's think make a your own schedule think of your shows you would put!:D
Didn't CN try the "program your own block" thing about a year ago? I don't even remember what it was called. It was incredibly forgettable, and I think it bombed horribly. I'd love for a weekday action block like Toonami to come back, but the chances of CN doing that are slim to none.

[Racattack!Force]

I don't think there would be any real need for an afternoon block if it would just air comedy like they've been doing since Miguzi's end.

[chdr]

but ya, block would be nice, but wouldnt really fit cause CN randomly schedules marathons during that time right now I think

Actually, it's not so random. The afternoon schedule may change from day to day, but it has stayed the same for a while for the most part.

@J'onn J'onnz: The block was called Master Control.

[Light Lucario]

While a new afternoon block would be really cool and I woudln't mind at all if CN did decide to do that, I don't think that it's going to happen anytime soon. Static Shock ended years ago and Justice League is on Boomerang. If CN had more episodes of other more recent action series on their hands, then that could be possible. However, the fact that their two most recent blocks, Master Control and Funny for your Face, pretty much bombed, I don't think that CN will try for another afternoon block until they have a more soild idea of how to approach the block.

[Sketch]

Is a block going to succeed? Tough to say, CN seems content without having one but I say... do it anyway.

Some sort of afternoon distraction would be swell. Rotate in Storm Hawks, The Batman, Naruto, One Piece, Pokemon and maybe even Fantastic Four (yeah probably not it bombed... badly).

[Mickialla]

Is a block going to succeed? Tough to say, CN seems content without having one but I say... do it anyway.

Some sort of afternoon distraction would be swell. Rotate in Storm Hawks, The Batman, Naruto, One Piece, Pokemon and maybe even Fantastic Four (yeah probably not it bombed... badly).

Does an afternoon block ALWAYS have to be action??

[Racattack!Force]

Does an afternoon block ALWAYS have to be action??
Well, Toonami started it and it was successful. Miguzi continued it and...it was a modest success. Master Control and Funny For Your Face, both comedy blocks, failed horribly. So yeah. :sweat:

[Mickialla]

Well, Toonami started it and it was successful. Miguzi continued it and...it was a modest success. Master Control and Funny For Your Face, both comedy blocks, failed horribly. So yeah. :sweat:

Well, I'd like to say that both FFYF and Master Control were executed horribly, and that was the reason they failed. The shows that aired on them weren't bad at all though, for the most part. Not that I object an afternoon action block, I like the idea of one. Toonami on weekdays was probably some of my best memories of watching Cartoon Network.

[kid rabbit]

yes nothings better for a kid after school than a action
I toonami should come back as an afternoon block new anime like naruto and zatchbell work better with 5 day new episodes than the once a week satarday block

[Blackstar]

yes nothings better for a kid after school than a action
I toonami should come back as an afternoon block new anime like naruto and zatchbell work better with 5 day new episodes than the once a week satarday block

Where is it carved in stone that the afternoon action block has to be all anime? There are plenty of decent USAnimated action series that could be shown. I'd love to see Megas XLR again, even in reruns. I'd take Megas over Zatch Bell anyday.

Personally, I'd have no problem whatsoever with an afternoon comedy block, provided there was something on the block that was worth watching. Unfortunately, the recent failures of Funny For Your Face and Master Control pretty much insures that if CN does create a new afternoon block, it would most likely be action oriented, though in their defense, those blocks failed because they were poorly handled, not because they were comedy oriented.

[Sketch]

Does an afternoon block ALWAYS have to be action??

No, but in the case of CN they're usually playing comedy any given part of the day and perfer to air acton either on a whim or in a block of some kind. So... may as well be an action block for variety sake. I'm all for a block of less played comedies though but if it's going to be what they usually play during the rest of the day then there's no point in changing what they have now.

I'd rather have action in prme time and comedy in the afternoon but generally speaking comedy has done it's best in prime time and action has had a relatively good history in being a stable afternoon block.

The point of making a BLOCK is to make something a bit different than what CN plays in prime time and other hours of the day. Since CN is most notably targeted a boys because they know they can't beat Disney for girls or even Nick it makes the most sense to have an action block in the after school hours. And since CN mostly plays comedy any given day that works out to fulfil the obligation to make a block different from the rest of CN in some fasion.

[Ace Goodheart]

Weekday afternoon action blocks have been a part of Cartoon Network's history since day one in 1992, when "Super Adventures" (basically what became "Toonami Roulette" except 2 hours long and sprinkled with some '60's-'90's Hanna Barbera & Ruby-Spears series i.e Thundarr, Centurions) debuted, all the way up until...........well I stopped keeping count, was it the cancellation of Miguzi or the forgettable placeholder action blocks after it???

It seems that with the demise of the long-gone weekday afternoon TV blocks such as Fox Kids and Kids WB (which all of CN's afternoon blocks competed with during the '90's) and the shift to comedy on the part of Nick & Disney, the tradition of a weekday afternoon block of action cartoons, be it syndicated, nationally broadcasted or cable, has come to an end. Comedy is in vogue now, while action has become niche and/or taken a backseat.

[Jayngfet]

We need some stability on weekdays. CN has a huge library of stuff still too new for boomerang and a schedule barren and chaotic. A weekday block lasting four hours would be horrendously easy. All you need is a distinctive nood(red and blue divided down the middle?) and you're done.

[Sketch]

We need some stability on weekdays. CN has a huge library of stuff still too new for boomerang and a schedule barren and chaotic. A weekday block lasting four hours would be horrendously easy. All you need is a distinctive nood(red and blue divided down the middle?) and you're done.

4 hours is a bit excessive, 2-3 would suffice.

[Jayngfet]

Excessive but easy to do, eight shows?

Action: Teen Titans, Megas, Juniper lee, Naruto, Transformers, Zatch, Kiba, Robotboy, Lyoko, Igpx, Bobobo.

Comedy is harder without outdoing HHT unless you use classics.

[Sketch]

Excessive but easy to do, eight shows?

Action: Teen Titans, Megas, Juniper lee, Naruto, Transformers, Zatch, Kiba, Robotboy, Lyoko, Igpx, Bobobo.

Comedy is harder without outdoing HHT unless you use classics.

I don't foresee IGPX, Megas or even Juniper holding down a slot all that long. Kiba isn't ready for weekdays yet either.

But with 4 hours of action with plenty of rotation.

03:00 - Powerpuff Girls / Juniper Lee
03:30 - Team Galaxy / Totally Spies
04:00 - Code LYOKO / Storm Hawks
04:30 - Teen Titans / The Batman
05:00 - MAR / Zatch / PoT / various rotation
05:30 - Naruto
06:00 - One Piece
06:30 - Bobobo-Bo Bo-Bobo / Megas XLR / Samurai Jack

4 hours of older CN originals

03:00 - Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
03:30 - Courage the Cowardly Dog
04:00 - The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy
04:30 - Dexter's Labratory
05:00 - The Powerpuff Girls
05:30 - Megas XLR / Samurai Jack
06:00 - Johnny Bravo
06:30 - Ed, Edd n Eddy

But 4 hours for a block is excessive. So I make this suggestion...

A general PG oriented later afternoon block

05:00 - Naruto
05:30 - FUNimation One Piece
06:00 - 6 Teen
06:30 - Total Drama Island

Rotate in The Prince of Tennis perhaps? Yeah it bombed because CN played it sparatically at first but it and MAR deserve another shot but it's more teen oriented than MAR due to being about young people playing sports. Megas XLR and Samurai Jack aren't really PG but they may as well by today's standards. Eventually Star Wars and KIBA could rotate in.

[Racattack!Force]

Weekday afternoon action blocks have been a part of Cartoon Network's history since day one in 1992, when "Super Adventures" (basically what became "Toonami Roulette" except 2 hours long and sprinkled with some '60's-'90's Hanna Barbera & Ruby-Spears series i.e Thundarr, Centurions) debuted, all the way up until...........well I stopped keeping count, was it the cancellation of Miguzi or the forgettable placeholder action blocks after it???
Cancellation of Miguzi.

[Sammie]

I think a afternoon block would be a fine idea. I would love to see The Powerpuff Girls back and airing every afternoon.

[Mickialla]

We need some stability on weekdays. CN has a huge library of stuff still too new for boomerang and a schedule barren and chaotic. A weekday block lasting four hours would be horrendously easy. All you need is a distinctive nood(red and blue divided down the middle?) and you're done.

Kind of a cool idea. The red and blue divided down the middle reminds me of cold fusion for some reason, which gives me probably one of the COOLEST names for a block (that I can come up with off the top of my head at least)

ACTION REACTION

What do you guys think?? An afternoon block on Mondays through Fridays from 4-7. I'll come up with a lineup later (darn AP European History homework!)

[chdr]

Cool idea. Here's mine...

THE SPACE

Mega-Movie Monday
5:00 Movie (sometimes Flicks encore)
6:30 Flapjack (if needed)

Topsy-Turvy Tuesday
5:00 Online pick
5:30 Online pick
6:00 Online pick
6:30 Random show

Warner Bros. Wednesday
5:00 Johnny Test
5:30 Tom And Jerry Tales (new)
6:00 Shaggy And Scooby-Doo (new)
6:30 Skunk Fu

Totally Extreme Thursday
5:00 Yugioh 5Ds (new)
5:30 Storm Hawks (new)
6:00 Spectacular Spiderman (new)
6:30 TMNT (new)

Really Funny Friday
5:00 Chop Socky Chooks (new)
5:30 Robotboy
6:00 Chowder
6:30 6teen (NEW)

The block would be hosted by 5 different respectively colored Noods with different personalities.

[Racattack!Force]

Cool idea. Here's mine...

THE SPACE

Mega-Movie Monday
5:00 Movie (sometimes Flicks encore)
6:30 Flapjack (if needed)

Topsy-Turvy Tuesday
5:00 Online pick
5:30 Online pick
6:00 Online pick
6:30 Random show

Warner Bros. Wednesday
5:00 Johnny Test
5:30 Tom And Jerry Tales (new)
6:00 Shaggy And Scooby-Doo (new)
6:30 Skunk Fu

Totally Extreme Thursday
5:00 Yugioh 5Ds (new)
5:30 Storm Hawks (new)
6:00 Spectacular Spiderman (new)
6:30 TMNT (new)

Really Funny Friday
5:00 Chop Socky Chooks (new)
5:30 Robotboy
6:00 Chowder
6:30 6teen (NEW)

The block would be hosted by 5 different respectively colored Noods with different personalities.
If you may, could I send that to the Cartoon Network V.P. via email? :D

[Jayngfet]

How is it we can come up with all this in a few minutes but the execs rerun J Test over again when they pay people to do this all day?

[Sketch]

Kind of a cool idea. The red and blue divided down the middle reminds me of cold fusion for some reason, which gives me probably one of the COOLEST names for a block (that I can come up with off the top of my head at least)

ACTION REACTION

What do you guys think?? An afternoon block on Mondays through Fridays from 4-7. I'll come up with a lineup later (darn AP European History homework!)

Action Reaction? Interesting name. Works for me.

04:00 - Storm Hawks
04:30 - Teen Titans
05:00 - The Batman
05:30 - Naruto
06:00 - One Piece
06:30 - Samurai Jack

[Silverstar]

How is it we can come up with all this in a few minutes but the execs rerun J Test over again when they pay people to do this all day?


'Cause our brains are wired differently. We think like creative people who love all forms of animation; execs think in terms of what will make them the most money and ratings so they can keep their private parking spaces, expensive massage therapists and 20-room mansions.

[Sketch]

Sadly... that's the jist of it. As someone who hates cartoons but has some kind of previous experience in children's television is considered far more qualified to work at CN than someone who loves cartoons and has yet to work in children's television. That's just the way things work.

And admitedly some of us do come up with schedules that simply aren't pratical due to what each of us want to see on CN. But I try to be reasonable... at least as reasonable as a fantasy schedule can be to begin with.

[Jayngfet]

Why do people that hate animation go into it in the first place?

[Sketch]

Because it might actually be easier to get into than other parts of the entertainment industry...

But that's neither here nor there.

I'd like to see an action block on weekdays again and it's entirely do-able but if not an action block that some kind of themed block with it's own Nood would be nice.

[Racattack!Force]

Because it might actually be easier to get into than other parts of the entertainment industry...
From what I heard from my times on the AWN board, the animation biz is actually one of the hardest businesses to get into, and it's pretty hard to survive there for more than a year. If you end up getting a stable job at a studio for a few years, you're pretty lucky. :sweat:

[Sketch]

I more so meant management. To get a job as an artist though... yeah good luck with that.

[soundmonkey44]

I think an afternoon block showing classic CN shows would be good. Or mabye a Action block with reruns of Some of the Superhero & anime SHows CN still has liscense to.:sweat:

[Mickialla]

How is it we can come up with all this in a few minutes but the execs rerun J Test over again when they pay people to do this all day?

So true. Heck, if I had a job where I just sat around making schedules and accepting show ideas and thinking of block names and themes, I'd love my job. And it's not always necessarily so that all our schedules are unrealistic. Though some of mines have been off the wall and go extreme on the "fantasy" part, I and others have made awesome schedules that'd probably be liked by kids and would be successful as well.

[Sketch]

Yeah I'd love that job though I guess it would get bothersome at some points but that's like any job you deal with the bad in order to enjoy the rest.

[Jayngfet]

I'd pay them for a job like that.


Seriously, I really would.