Reality Programming on Cartoon Network?

[D'Snowth]

I'm surprised that I'm surprised at Cartoon Network doing their own reality series.

How could I not see this coming? It's a wonder it didn't happen sooner.

Makes me glad I don't watch CN anymore.

 

[frogboy4]

Is this an Elmo program? I don't understand. Isn't Cartoon Network already running live action reality programming?

 

[Beauregard]

I think Elmo was used as a placeholder here, much as Heck has been used in the past.

So how's this show gunna work? Put a bunch of cartoons into a house and see how they fare?

 

[frogboy4]

I think Elmo was used as a placeholder here, much as Heck has been used in the past.

So how's this show gunna work? Put a bunch of cartoons into a house and see how they fare?

Ah. Like frog for me.

 

[Beauregard]

Ah. Like frog for me.

Exactly. Or "Fraggle ROCK!" for me.

 

[Drtooth]

They've had their own "reality shows" since last summer. Most of them flopped badly, and a LOT of people were really annoyed with it. If they're going back on their word and making more CN Real trash, they really need to fire EVERYONE that works at that network and get all the people from the glory days back in and restructure it back to the way it was. The network has had abominable management for years, all since the insipid Mooninite Gate fiasco in Boston (I still hate the Mayor for that. If I was in that area, I would vote for anyone running against him, even if it was a conservative). Whatever idiot decided it was a kid's network should have been banned from running a network job completely.

The thesis of the network was that animation is for everyone. And now they thing they're a kid's network and they think they have to compete with Disney and Nick, meaning they have to come up with what they think kids like... and apparently, they have no freaking idea what kids like... unless it's bad movies from the 90's and shows stolen directly from Discovery Kids that haven't even been on the air since 2004.

I've said it before... Reality TV is a pox to humanity. A POX, I say. I flipped through the channels Monday Night and stumbled upon ABC's latest depressed single female secretary offering "Love on a Conveyor Belt." I could go on an 8 paragraph rant about that alone. I wish I knew where the guy who came up with that one resides, so I could give him a gift of flaming dog poo in a brown bag.

To me, animation is thiiiis close to dying in this country... closer to dying than everything else on TV... and we all know the factors... but now we have the cheap, easy and sleazy reality programs kicking it to death as well. If I ever even want an assistant to the assistant to the storyboard artist, I'm gonna have to learn French.

 

[D'Snowth]

Ah. Like frog for me.

You STOLE that from ME.

Personally, I think "Oh Elmo No!" was a much funnier title for this thread anyway, lol.

I know I shouldn't be surprised that CN is doing this, but I am... it was inevitable.

 

[dwmckim]

Is is that surprising? Reality stars like Paris Hilton and Anna Nicole Smith are cartoons themselves so why not put that ilk on the cartoon network?

 

[D'Snowth]

Is is that surprising?

No, which is why I'm saying I'm surprised that I am surprised.

 

[dwmckim]

Hmm...maybe you just need something else to occupy your mind (contemplates throwing a surprise party)