AS part of the drive to try and get more details on TV live wiki, I thought a TV thread about lots of Minor things or questions etc would be useful. Hopeful Other people will chuck in questions aswell.
First Off:
Why did Boomerang change its output from Pure classic Cartoons to more morden and even Live action stuff?
Last edited by A former member on 13 January 2013 8:05pm
Toonami also radically changed its output from anime to more live action and science related programming for some reason, about a year before it closed.
Bare in mind that a child probably won't want to watch anything that looks old. I mean, I used to watch Tom and Jerry and the likes (hell, I still do) but a channel devoted to old children's cartoons will only probably appeal to nostalgic older people, and when your company is based around children's cartoons, it's not a wise move.
That's my theory, anyway.
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A former member
Within a year of it launch it was the second most wanted ached kids channel .
Bare in mind that a child probably won't want to watch anything that looks old. I mean, I used to watch Tom and Jerry and the likes (hell, I still do) but a channel devoted to old children's cartoons will only probably appeal to nostalgic older people, and when your company is based around children's cartoons, it's not a wise move.
That's my theory, anyway.
With regards to animation, if it's animated properly it should be timeless anyway. Look at Loony Tunes, Tom & Jerry and anything made animation wise by Disney within Walt's lifetime. Even Pokemon, when it isn't generating epileptic fits in its viewers, looks like it's stuck in the 1980s with its fashion sense, yet the show is is mysteriously popular (750+ episodes) and I fail to see why.
My 3 year old daughter watches and enjoys button moon, rainbow, playbox and many more shows even though they look very crude.
She loves all the Warner bros stuff too.
Kids like cartoons but they do like to see the live action stuff with other children they can identify with.
So I don't think it's got anything to do with the age of the shows, young kids don't really notice but more of a realisation that to keep children watching they need to mix animated and live action.
Of all the kids to channels, the BBC really shines, cbeebies really is an excellent mix of entertainment and educational programming.
Even Pokemon, when it isn't generating epileptic fits in its viewers, looks like it's stuck in the 1980s with its fashion sense, yet the show is is mysteriously popular (750+ episodes) and I fail to see why.
The fact it's a video game tie-in? It's a multi-billion dollar franchise. Hardly mysterious. And if you think it's only famous for that banned Porygon episode that never aired outside Japan, your impression of it is seriously out of date. They've revamped it three times (when new games come out), replacing at least one of Ash Ketchum's travelling companions, changing the setting and Ash's clothes (and Brock's the first two times, but he was dropped with the most recent revamp last year), and sending all of his Pokemon back to Professor Oak except for Pikachu, so that his journey in each region matches the games. Those are good jumping on points for new viewers. I'm not quite sure how he managed to go through five regions in less than a year though (characters don't age, and there's no negative continuity like The Simpsons)! Seriously, 10 year old Ash should be 24 by now!
Even Pokemon, when it isn't generating epileptic fits in its viewers, looks like it's stuck in the 1980s with its fashion sense, yet the show is is mysteriously popular (750+ episodes) and I fail to see why.
The fact it's a video game tie-in? It's a multi-billion dollar franchise. Hardly mysterious. And if you think it's only famous for that banned Porygon episode that never aired outside Japan, your impression of it is seriously out of date. They've revamped it three times (when new games come out), replacing at least one of Ash Ketchum's travelling companions, changing the setting and Ash's clothes (and Brock's the first two times, but he was dropped with the most recent revamp last year), and sending all of his Pokemon back to Professor Oak except for Pikachu, so that his journey in each region matches the games. Those are good jumping on points for new viewers. I'm not quite sure how he managed to go through five regions in less than a year though (characters don't age, and there's no negative continuity like The Simpsons)! Seriously, 10 year old Ash should be 24 by now!
Speaking of that, will Hasbro's recent efforts with its properties be succeeded? They created a television production subsidiary, launched a dedicated TV channel in the U.S. (not a case outside the U.S., though), and gained an unexpected fandom.
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A former member
That the first time a company has gone for an actually TV channel, before there were deals with station like He-man, Transformer was a toy before a series was it not? During the Late 90s, ealry 00 Fox Kids/Jetix. made umpteen deals with Toy companies to help create series for some toys.
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On another note:
* Can anyone remember Bravo from the 1980s? was it all Old Films?
HVC was available on Cable in our area, we got cable in 1997 and HVC was a subscription channel only, I think it was bundled in with The Adult Channel, with HVC broadcasting from 8pm to 12am daily. From what I remember it showed mainly third rate films and horror movies. It ended in May or June in 1999 when Playboy TV I believe was bought by the Adult Channel and I believe it took HVC's time slot.
Unless HVC was a FTA service it was doomed anyway, but I guess it must have done okay as it was around for several years, but at that time it was £6 p/m, same as Film4 and I know what I'd rather spend £6 on.
HVC was available on Cable in our area, we got cable in 1997 and HVC was a subscription channel only, I think it was bundled in with The Adult Channel, with HVC broadcasting from 8pm to 12am daily. From what I remember it showed mainly third rate films and horror movies. It ended in May or June in 1999 when Playboy TV I believe was bought by the Adult Channel and I believe it took HVC's time slot.
Unless HVC was a FTA service it was doomed anyway, but I guess it must have done okay as it was around for several years, but at that time it was £6 p/m, same as Film4 and I know what I'd rather spend £6 on.
Cheers for that, so it did stay at that time slot for most of its life. It seems the only reason it was kept on was the Adult channel come including, so you got porn channel.
