Idiotic Network Decisions/Promotions

>That time CN added a block of Live-Action shows

>new episode bomb weeks

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>>79129847
>tfw you realize marketing alone tricked you into believing that Where's Gary, Truth or Square, and Pest of the West were anything more significant than normal episodes

>>79129868
>that time CN hyped up a TDI music video
>it's just random scenes played in a loop with a color filter over it

>that time. Nick decided to air fagboy and cum cum instead of fagventure time

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>>79129868
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fwlb2gGEk54


This is curse upon mankind that will be forever known as "the dark times"

>>79129911
hey hey
wheres gary was alright, the rest were shit

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>>79129868
>that time Adult Swim added a block of live-action shows

>>79129911
I think Truth or Square had the stop motion intro and those live action segments where Patchy is doing a live show celebrating the show's anniversary that was the one time the large amount of promotion was appropriate

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>Canceling a Scooby Doo or Looney Tunes reprise just to commission yet another one

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>>79129847
>Dropping Fox Kids for Fox Box
All of it was severely bad foreign dubs TMNT (which was pretty good admittedly). I don't think it lasted more than a year before they dropped most of their shows and just became 4kids TV

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>>79130090
>canceling the actually good continuations
>"This one's different from the other shows because the art style's different!"
>doing it TWICE IN THE SAME YEAR

>>79130090
What Scooby Doo has gotten cancelled recently?

>>79130232
Mystery Inc. But it just wasn't renewed.

>>79129868
I actually liked Tower Prep.

>>79130257
It concluded, it was supposed to end there. Anything else would have been nice I guess, but it wasn't cancelled.

>>79130132
What happened to Kids WB and Fox Kids is criminal

>That time CN decided to make 70% of their aired material Teen Titans Go

>That time Nicktoons became Nicktoons Network

>That time when Nicktoons Network became modern Nicktoons

It hurts

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>That time Nickelodeon decided to let Dan "Cum inside Her" Schneider make tween sitcoms

>>79129901
>month long hiatuses in between

>>79130276
Despite being the only good CN Real show, it was ironically the one CN hated because it attracted too many girls so they canceled it.
Yet another brilliant CN decision

>>79130879
someone post the image where he got 78 kids to post their soles

>Stevenbombs

>>79131503
I sure love wathing 5 episodes every 5 months

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>>79129847
>Episodes of shows are released in "bombs" instead of weekly episodes.

>>79129847
Canceling Green Lantern because it didn't move toys.

Every horror story Timm and Dini have of dealing with coke head network execs.

>>79129847
Everything about Beware the Batman

>producers come with pitch for a No Man's Land Batfamily show; only one exec hates it because it's violent, so it gets canned
>producers come with a pitch for a fun Batman/Superman show; execs reject it because the "timing wasn't right"
>Beware the Batman gets made
>after Colorado Shootings, WB execs do damage control and force the crew to censor all guns, costing them lots of time and money to go back and do that
>no toy line or merchandise, which are vital to shows like this
>no premier date until literally the month it premieres
>no trailers, previews, or ads until literally the week before it premieres
>only one slot on Saturday and one on Sunday, both in the morning and no regular reruns
>one commercial that barely airs is the only thing that promotes it
>after the 11th episode, it gets pulled immediately and at the last second before the next premiere
>comic tie-in suddenly cancelled at six issues
>CN doesn't plan on airing it anymore, even though they have worse performing shows
>Toonami buys it, airs reruns before new ones at a shit time
>ratings in Toonami do OK, gets slowly moved up the slots, things look bright
>suddenly, CN wrote it off for as a financial loss for taxes, didn't tell Toonami
>Toonami scrambles at the last minute to have a mini-marathon to finish airing it right before the rights expire
>creators have a gag order and can't talk about the show to the press for a good while

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>>79131524
Have they even said when the episodes are going to come back yet

>>79131742
Is Cartoon Network the Konami of cartoons?

>>79129961
This whole song sounds like a desperate plea for people to accept CN Real.

I hope Andrew W.K. had fun, at least.

>>79131742
I've heard people say that Stuart Snyder's handling of DC's cartoons, especially Beware the Batman, is what made WB fired him. I don't know if it's true, but I sure hope it is

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>>79129961
>that part where he lists all the live action shows

oh god

please god don't remind me

>>79131742
>>no toy line or merchandise, which are vital to shows like this
That's not CN's fault. That's DC's fault, at least, I think it is. I'm pretty sure one of the reasons CN doesn't care about DC shows is because they get no merch money from it.

>>79129847
To this day I'm still baffled by all the hype Best Day Ever got.

>>79131800
>I hope Andrew W.K. had fun, at least.
I don't think he's capable of not having fun

>>79130279
They were set up for another season. But you're right. At least we got a good ending.

>>79130879c
>Dan "Cum inside Her" Schneider
I hear this all the time.
Other then looking like a total scumbag, what has he done?

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>Premieres new episodes Sundays at midnight
I will never not be mad. You have to want to kill a show to give it a timeslot like that.

>>79130879
Except that worked out alright.
Drake & Josh was great, iCarly was good, I can't say much good about Zoey101.
What else am I missing?

>>79133285
i think this guy had a documented foot fetish, to the point where to promote one of his shows, he asked people to write a hastag on their feet.

>>79131601
>the network that was ruined because of a bomb scare
>calls their blocks 'bombs'

It's like poultry.

>>79133439
There's also evidence to suggest he's a pedophile, isn't there?

>>79133439
The only problem with that would be underaged feet. And i'm pretty sure that isn't illegal.

>>79129847
>that time Cartoon Network's Thursday night lineup consisted of new episodes of Robotomy, Problem Solverz and fucking Secret Mountain Fort Awesome

>>79131742
>no toy line or merchandise,
I actually remember seeing a Batman toy that looked like it was the same Batman from Beware the Bat like months after the Toonami marathon but it was part of the Batman Unlimited line though.

>>79133404
Before Drake and Josh was The Amanda Show. Also there was Victorious I think and Sam And Kat.

>>79133404

His sitcoms aren't the problems.

It's the shitty copycats that Nickelodeon made, because they thought they had lightning in a bottle.

Wait, ADULTS are watching our cartoon!?!? CANCEL IT!!

Ace Ventura Jr

>>79134595
Wait, GIRLS are watching out cartoon!?!? CANCEL IT!!

>>79134661
Wait, DOGS are watching our cartoon!?!? CANCEL IT!!

>>79130132
Fox Box was mediocre but FZero and Kirby were fucking god tier. Ultimate Muscle had an amazingly catchy theme too, though I had a hell of a time trying to follow the show.

>>79133586
Yeah those transitory years were fucking rough

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It's down to 35% this week, but still..

>>79135175
>YOUR NEW FAVORITE SHOW

>>79134516
So, it's not Schneider shows that are the problem, it's the sitcoms that AREN"T by Dan "the man with the plan"?

>>79135175

Has Cn found their Spongebob?

>>79136098
They aren't doing anything they didn't do with Johnny Test a few years ago. And probably Adventure Time a few years before that.

>>79133404
Actually yeah.
Victorious was actually pretty decent and Sam and Cat was ok until Ariana and Jenette went full batshit mode and nuked each other.

>>79131781
NOPE.

Speculation is Feb. Which would make it a good month for TV, sorta, with Walking Dead an Saul.

>>79136278
>nuked each other
What?

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>Never getting Complete Series box sets of shows like Motorcity, Generator Rex, Megas XLR, Static Shock, From Uprising, etc. Because they think that since people have internet, they don't need dvds or blu rays.

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>>79135175
Jesus christ, i don't live in America and I always thought you guys were joking/exaggerating the amount of teen titan's go they air

>>79136572
Rumor has it that the guy that played the retard got paid way more that MacCurdy. And things went South from there.

There's something like four episodes that never aired.

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>>79130879

>>79133076
Andrew W.K.'s entire existence is a party.

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>>79136826

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4OVok7cUvU

What do I win?

>that time when one major cartoon TV station replaces cartoons with live action sitcoms
>that time when the other major cartoon TV station replaces most of its cartoons with Teen Titans Go

>>79136655
>tfw I will never see Motor city because can't torrent and don't know of any direct download like mega for it

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>>79136826

>>79137130
Use a service like zbigz which downloads the torrent for you and then you can direct download from them. Not the fastest solutiin, but it works.

>>79136836
He's one of the few celebs who can't die from drugs

>>79135175
>YOUR NEW FAVORITE SHOW


I fucking hate this so much. The show is so fucking bad

I get it, it's made for kids, but the other series at least was at least made for teens

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>>79136826
Jesus fucking Christ

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>>79130132
>Fox Kids
>Kids WB
>YTV back when it ran cartoons

I miss Saturday/Sunday morning and after school programming blocks. What happened?

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CN did two retarded things that pissed me off.

They scheduled the last two episodes of Generator Rex to air, but replaced them with Ninjago, not airing the finale of GR until like 2 years later, unannounced, at 7 AM.

Luckily they leaked.

The most egregious is when they did the same thing to YJ and GLTAS.

>>79131742
Jesus fucking christ execs get your shit together. Beware the Batman was actually a pretty good show too. The only complaint I really had was the retarded looking nerf guns everyone used, and now I know even that was a stupid exec decision.

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>>79136826
Schneider's a fucking creep.
Is it true he used to be a sleazy porn director before he got a job at Nickelodeon?

>>79139747
Following TV shows here in Canada is a bit of a crapshoot too.

I used to set my DVR to record Thundercats 2012 episodes which worked well for a while, but suddenly stopped at episode 9. Checked the schedules and apparently they just stopped showing it completely. Same thing with Steven Universe, only we just got like 6 episodes of that sandwiched in between Johnny Test episodes. It still shows up on the Teletoon website despite them never airing it anymore.

Another time I was recording Gravity Falls episodes, but they started showing reruns instead of new episodes. Found out later the new episodes were moved to a new splinter channel from the original.

So basically I just torrent everything now. Fuck TV networks.

>>79129961
Oh god.
I blocked this out.

>>79129868
Nothing will ever top this.

I'd also add CN cancelling Toonami back in the day and cancelling DC Nation too.

>>79139904
Is this true?

>>79134844
Fighting Foodons was good too.
Sunny Pig too.

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>>79135175
This is next-level monotony.

>>79140441
I wouldn't be surprised if it was, honestly.
This entire twitter showcase just adds to it.

>>79140564
Tokyo Pig I mean.

>>79137850
Thanks, I'll have to look it up after work.

>>79139904
If he was, I'm sure it would be much more widely known or documented.

>>79133285
All of his shows (Victorious especially) have some sort of extremely creepy Sexualsation of underage girls

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>Have several high rated animated shows.
>Start putting them on lengthy, seemingly random hiatuses.
>Shift them over to secondary network to boost ratings for that network.
>Keep irregular schedule.
>Doesn't work.
>Shows end and the creator for one of them goes to a different network.
>Got nothing for either channel.

>>79142316
They've been around for a thousand years. You'd think they'd have this shit locked down.

>>79139904
The guy who created Bella and the Bulldogs directed cuckold porn.

>>79133105
I wouldn't say they were set up for a new season at all. Them getting another mystery at the end was basically a way of showing that even with the world reset, there was always going to be mysteries for them. But from the very first episode, to the very last the show was about one over-arching mystery which they were trying to solve, and the show ended when they solved it.

>>79130132
KIRBY KIRBY KIRBY

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>>79136826
I don't care man, that man is living the dream

>>79135366
More like Dan "The man with the van"

>>79129989
bitch dont you fucking diss eric andre and your pretty face and black jesus and neon joe
>>79129911
well truth or square was an hour long. even longer on the inital airing and the DVD.
>>79129953
nick would've fucked over AT anyway or prevent it from becoming the greatness it was from S2-S4
>>79130090
Wabbit is a fucking accident that needs to be aborted
>>79139644
FCC forced stations to air more E/I programming and they all found it easier to just have Litton do their own shitty blocks (execpt for NBC which just airs Sprout programming)
>>79130540
thank god its gone down from that
>>79133485
they dont call them bombs officially. it was a phrase coined by the SU crew on tumblr that everybody started using. other storyboarders found the name nice too, like workers from TTG and Clarence.
>>79131859
he "left" but that seems likely
>>79133372
venture bros.??????
>>79133586
i miss their experimental phase with all those PG/PG-V shows and a generally darker tone for all their shows

>>79131524
Ugh, I hated that when Dreamworks did it for their Netflix shows, I can't imagine having to wait that for a TV broadcast.

>>79135175
http://1drv.ms/1JY0VVB

here's the updated schedule. Interesting notes include, well, yesterday's AT marathon and Tom and Jerry getting 1.5 hours rather than the normal 1 hour.

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>>79136826

Holy shit. Holy shit.

>>79143102
Jeezus, showing off dat rack more than some asian idols do.

>>79135175
I'm so fucking glad I'm not a child right now.

>>79129989
they're still doing that but the quality of the live action shows are much better now.

Not exactly /co/, but
>>Next Lost
>>You better not miss the episode that everyone will be talking about!
>>It was Hurley fixing a van.

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>>79146892

>not wanting to be a child in the age of Toon Boom Titans

>what happened to samurai jack. >what happened to Avengers EMH. >what happened to Symbiotic Titan. >what happened to YJ. YES I STILL MAD

>>79129961
>comments and rating disabled

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>>79129961

Studio executives are terrible people, aren't they?

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>Struggling for ratings behind a high rated show
>Let's move it to 1 AM, without telling anyone
>Let's just fill its slot with a rerun of the show that just aired
I don't think the murder of a show has ever been so blatant.

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>>79133372
>"I know, we'll put it on Disney XD!"

>>79143536
>greatness it was from S2-S4
S2 was neat. in S3 the decline started. s4 wnt from meh to bad

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>that time when CN let all the old guys go, and transformed channel into Tumblr Network

>>79143102

Who is she and is he fucking her?

>>79149052
Oh Fuchur, you scamp. Is nothing safe from him?

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>>79149089
No, and I'm glad it isn't

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The way this show was handled was a fucking travesty.

>>79149214
We should sue Adult Swim for $10,000,000.

>>79129847
>>79129911
Kid's are dumb and spongebob is for kids

>>79149229
It was ABC

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Children channels should once again gather a bunch of people and give money to each come up with a pilot and see what new series they could produce. I think that the reason so many of us loved CN and Nick and Fox Kids was because they had so many different series for each time slot. Nowadays it's either 20 year old series still going or 2-3 new series looping forever.

>>79149597
But anon, a lot of them were shit

>>79149628
But at least we had a lot of them, and thanks to our taste being non existent as children we enjoyed and still remember many of them. What do children have today? 12 hours of the same cartoon, and the other 12 split between 3 cartoons? It used to be a different show every half hour, and if you didn't like it there was Nickelodeon, Fox Kids, Disney, and I think there was another one, all with different shows every 30 minutes.

>>79149628
Couldn't hurt to have more to choose from, right?

>>79143102
Who the hell is that?

>>79140395
Cancelling toonami made sense though. Nobody watches anime on tv anymore. Yeah it's great that they are bringing back samurai jack but that could have been broadcasted on adult swim anyway.

>>79143536
Thanks you for replying to every single post

>>79150749
the only time watching toonami mattered in this decade was when Space Dandy was airing the new episodes before Japan aired them. They should do that more but there's no anime that would be worth it for the network except maybe Dragon Ball Super airing at the times Kai airs (because i think 8:00pm EST would be the same time the episode airs in japan). It's a garbage dump of animation but it's Dragon Ball.

>>79144146
Why the fuck are they airing Baby Looney Tunes instead of the original LT shorts?

>>79150670
Catalina Taylor

>>79146982

>it's a Jack's tattoos episode

>>79149214
Why the fuck did ABC even pay for the episodes to be made if they didn't want them?
Stupid porch monkies.

>>79150906
I dunno. They swap out stuff in the school time very often, usually swapping out Baby Looney Tunes with either classic Looney Tunes or Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries. sometimes additional Tom & Jerry stuff air, like the 2006 or 2013 series.
>>79146987
thats flash yo
>>79150852
no problem??

>>79129847
>Nickelodeon hypes up a "special" Spongebob episode all month and dedicates special bumpers and such to it
>>It's just an average 15 minute episode with 15 minutes of Patchy the Pirate they shit together at the last minute

fixed

>>79131742

i hope WB uses their Teen Titans Go leverage to get good contracts with CN for any future shows they make. At least demand a few rerun slots through the week

>>79130132
>Fox Box
Ooooooh man I didn't want to remember this

I still remember how devastated I got when this happened

>>79133593
I remember they made Happy Meal toys for Beware the Batman. I have one of them somewhere...

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>People in this thread surprised that stuff they don't like happens on networks
>Not understanding that Cartoon Network and Nick and Disney are also businesses, ones in a market that are rapidly losing money due to Netflix and streaming
>Not realizing that shows that are rapidly popular with their intended demographic, like Teen Titans Go, will be promoted while ones that cater only to a few hundred /co/lleagues and tumblrites aren't seen as important

Not saying these things aren't bad, but you guys have to understand that this stuff is routine, even for networks that aren't for kids. We are the minority.

>>79152774
The very first reply was about CN Real, a decision made by an guy who got hired by Cartoon Network while thinking cartoons are dumb and should be replaced by live-action, and was universally reviled.

I don't think you can play the "eh they know their business" card here.

>>79152883
CN Real admittedly was a problem. But at the time, Disney and Nick were both trouncing CN in ratings. And guess what they had.

Just playing devil's advocate here, since regurgitating the same opinions over and over in here will eventually make /co/ a self-approving hugbox.

>>79150777
gee who would have the least impact

>>79139455
You got it backwards mate

>>79131742
While we're at it,
>Ted Turner comes up with a scheme to make his company look more profitable than it is
>Different departments pay licensing fees to each other.
>On paper, this means money is being made when it's just moved around.
>In practice, it makes each department antagonistic and completely in competition with each other.
>Cartoon Network cancels all their DC shows on the cusp of a series of major film releases because they have to pay licensing fees to DC.

Meanwhile, Disney is a well-oiled synergy machine that includes Marvel and Star Wars in everything and gives no fucks.

>>79129989

>Geta loada this guy
>Didn't like Saul of the Molemen

Pathetic.

>>79142542
Wait- he did? So apparently he's grooming the lead there to be like Dan's girls then.

>>79150777
>not talking about ratings traps.

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>>79149214
>ABC pays stupid amount of money for it
>Airs THE SECOND EPISODE FIRST
>Second episode references stuff from first
>ABC cans it
>Holds rights hostage now.

I don't understand studio execs and I never will. I'd probably go postal just from all the inane shit they probably spew on a daily basis.

>>79149214
The director's commentary for that is pretty telling, and Silent Bob has some pretty good insight as to why ABC blew it with that show which was ahead of its time.

If I remember correctly, it was originally going to air on UPN (hence the UPN references in the early episodes), but they got an offer from ABC and went with them. But then ABC got super popular because of Survivor or some shit, and Clerks was too edgy and not in line with what ABC was doing.

Silent Bob concludes it with "Be the big fish in the small pond," reference how he would have had incredible freedom on UPN and something like 20 garunteed episodes.

>>79144146

I love how most of the non-TTG stuff is being aired during school hours.

>>79129989
Tim and Eric
Eric Andre
Children's Hospital
Triumph

Or would you prefer living in a world where these shows don't exist?

>>79130879
>the weak should fear the strong.jpg

The way Nickelodeon handled Korra and its schedule, and fucking over Bryke because they kept thinking each season would be the last

When they turned HUB into Discovery Family

>>79157710
Yes, I very much would.

ITT: (Mostly) Successful Decisions that were very profitable for the Networks that made them.