Absolutely Brilliant - so many childhood memories bringing right up to date. You can tell that there was a big change in animation commissions in the mid - late 90's with programme's such as Cow & Chicken, Johnny Bravo, Dexter's Lab & Powerpuff Girls, etc. but it regenerated the channel, and led to many more fantastic creations over the years.
Is it the 20th anniversary in the UK, in the US, or both?
Absolutely Brilliant - so many childhood memories bringing right up to date. You can tell that there was a big change in animation commissions in the mid - late 90's with programme's such as Cow & Chicken, Johnny Bravo, Dexter's Lab & Powerpuff Girls, etc. but it regenerated the channel, and led to many more fantastic creations over the years.
Is it the 20th anniversary in the UK, in the US, or both?
Those were amongst the first commissions I think? Cartoon Network originally just took advantage of the Hanna-Barbera archive which Turner had acquired, the commissions came off the back of the network's success reshowing archive programming.
Absolutely Brilliant - so many childhood memories bringing right up to date. You can tell that there was a big change in animation commissions in the mid - late 90's with programme's such as Cow & Chicken, Johnny Bravo, Dexter's Lab & Powerpuff Girls, etc. but it regenerated the channel, and led to many more fantastic creations over the years.
Is it the 20th anniversary in the UK, in the US, or both?
Those were amongst the first commissions I think? Cartoon Network originally just took advantage of the Hanna-Barbera archive which Turner had acquired, the commissions came off the back of the network's success reshowing archive programming.
The best thing shown by not just Cartoon Network but possibly on the whole of TV in the late 1990s was a gloriously random show called 'Cult Toons', which would take an old Hanna-Barbera cartoon and basically screw it up, adding weird effects and noises and cuts to other cartoons and back (the sort of thing you see on Youtube today) all linked together by celebrities or musicians of the day. Hearing one of the Super Furry Animals say the word "****" (albeit bleeped) on Cartoon Network of all channels was surreal if somewhat glorious. Appears to have been a special commission made only for the UK channel and was buried away at about 8:30pm, the last thing shown on the channel before TNT would take over at 9pm. Obscure as hell but was the highlight of my evening as a young'un, and stood out massively from the usual American imported fare. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_Toons is one of the only pages about it online, mostly written by me a few years back.
Silly for anyone to judge if the channel's gone "downhill" since as simply the viewers grow up and change with the times, but from 1999 to 2002-3ish it was definitely the channel of choice for me, Nickelodeon (which I believe is also 20 years old?) a close second.
