The Pagemaster.... And A Question

[DianaGohan]

In case you haven't heard, a total near out of left field annoucement about the life action/cartoon hybrid movie The Pagemaster coming to Cartoon Network has just been announced... by the commericals themselves. And so I ask you two questions:

1. How could this premiere slip under the radar so much that it wasn't even know by us till five days before.

2. I've been noticing a trend latley. It would be impossible for Cartoon Network to be a fully cartoon channel since it has to have ads right? Well, there was a time when only ads (and Space Ghost Coast To Coast) made up the live action portion of the channel. However, as Cartoon Network started to grow, there have been more and more live action ads. Sure, there were the occasional oddities (like say, Bannana Split), but it most mostly the new CN (some of them) that started to become live action. Or live action and animated hybrid ads. This was okay, but now it's more then just the ads. Whether it's the live action hosts on Cartoon Network Fridays, the Astronaut interview on Toonami, or even the movies that contain non-animated sections in them. Do you think that the use of live action is to much. or am I just paranoid. Oh, and also talk about the Pagemaster coming to CN as well.

[DianaGohan]

Or worse. Cartoon Network 2 could start to get live action/animation hybrids and shy away from all cartoons and then we'd get Cartoon Network Hits channel that played nothing but cartoons but only a few people had it. Well, I would be one of them at least.

[Cyber E.]

Or worse. Cartoon Network 2 could start to get live action/animation hybrids and shy away from all cartoons and then we'd get Cartoon Network Hits channel that played nothing but cartoons but only a few people had it. Well, I would be one of them at least.

Yeah.. I don't see that happening.

[Pilmedium]

1. How could this premiere slip under the radar so much that it wasn't even know by us till five days before.

That is strange. Even for non-events, seven days' notice is usually given on the cartoonnetwork.com schedule.

Do you think that the use of live action is to much. or am I just paranoid. Oh, and also talk about the Pagemaster coming to CN as well.

The use of any live-action is too much, except for maybe some commercials. It makes the name "Cartoon Network" a misnomer, and that is all there is to it.

[Chad Bonin]

It's just a movie...

Family Guy has had live-action segments, GI Joe did on Toonami, Toonami's interviewed that astronaut and the movies Osmosis Jones and The Pagemaster have 'em... but it's still Cartoon Network.

And CN2? Jeff Harris would have ANOTHER heart attack (First CNX in Britain, and then CN2 in America? He'd be suing then.)

Pagemaster? I think Mr. Wilson posted about it awhile ago, when the speculation of Totally Spies and TMNT becoming a third hour of Toonami happened.

[Discloner]

Pagemaster, huh?

Weird. If my memory serves me correctly thats a 20th Century Fox movie. (We have it around and I remember an extra long Power Rangers Movie thing in the beginning outlining the whole Ivan Ooze thing and interviewing the cast...which...at the time was a FOX show). Could this possibly mean that Titan A.E. and other 20th Century animated movies, like...Anistasia, could be coming to Cartoon Network? After all, Toonami was running that brief contest when A.E. was in theaters, which I signed up for and won a poster and T-shirt from.

As for the whole Live action woes. I wouldn't look to deeply into it. While the movies and shows you've mentioned above have had live action in them, their main focus is Animation.

MTV went from music channel to shows having nothing to do with music except playing it for background music. I don't see Cartoon Network funding a reality TV series where people have their room redecorated with a designer and a Cartoon VA, nor do I see them making a live action series where the main characters watch cartoons on TV, causing zany life problems.

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Don't get any ideas CN execs....I was only being sarcastic.

[Nin-Nin69]

MTV went from music channel to shows having nothing to do with music except playing it for background music. I don't see Cartoon Network funding a reality TV series where people have their room redecorated with a designer and a Cartoon VA, nor do I see them making a live action series where the main characters watch cartoons on TV, causing zany life problems.

If that happened we would get reality shows up the wazoo about kids comiting violent acts after watching cartoons. :rolleyes:

[Obi]

The use of any live-action is too much, except for maybe some commercials. It makes the name "Cartoon Network" a misnomer, and that is all there is to it.


What if it was, let's say, a documentary/behind-the-scenes-look at how Genndy works on Samurai Jack or how Craig McCracken works on PPG?


That would be live-action....but I would certainly still welcome it on Cartoon Network.

[Blue]

Yeah, I know...It came on like right before [as] or something and I was starring at the TV like :eek: because I hadn't read anything here about it. This was one of my favorite movies. I used to have it on VHS but it had a little encounter with the heater and melted :( Oh well now i can record it :D

[wrenchien]

the pagemaster. ohhhh god.

matt please shoot me if you haven't shot yourself already. @_@

[Nin-Nin69]

Your are in luck. Matt happens to have a bullet with your name on it. He would rather shoot himself, but since he knows that everyone would be happy about that, Matt will just take somebody else down.

[DianaGohan]

Maybe it was, maybe it wasn't. However, we'll see how CN plays with the ball in 2004 and if it's bouncing it into unwanted territory.

[wrenchien]

Your are in luck. Matt happens to have a bullet with your name on it. He would rather shoot himself, but since he knows that everyone would be happy about that, Matt will just take somebody else down.

with my luck it'll bounce right back into him and do me so little damage it won't be even funny, much less lethal.