CN is the New MTV
Posted on October 29th, 2005
Filed under: General — Karl Olson @ 8:15 pm
Remember when MTV ran music videos? And I mean, not ran them all the time, but also ran a wide variety of them? All sorts of genres and visual styles and from pretty much anywhere English was intelligible? Remember how it all started with one non-music show, and before you knew it, they were garbage 24/7, including the few music videos they aired? The M doesn’t even mean anything any more.
Cartoon Network (CN) is the new MTV. This is because they’ve just announced that they’ll be running 3 effectively live action films through out November: Small Soldiers, Honey I Shrunk The Kids and The Goonies. Now, I won’t call them bad movies (ok, Small Soldiers is meh, but Honey I Shrunk The Kids and The Goonies are enjoyable,) but they have absolutely no business being on a Cartoon Network. And maybe if no one watches it, they’ll see the error of their ways. Actually, they’ll probably just keep running them even they get horrible ratings (and they’ll probably do passably.) And if it’s successful, well, pretty soon I’ll be saying the same thing about CN that I said about MTV.
Remember when CN ran music cartoons? And I mean, not ran them all the time, but also ran a wide variety of them? All sorts of genres and visual styles from pretty much anywhere as long as it had an English audio track? Remember how it all started with a few live-action movies, and before you knew it, they were garbage 24/7, including the few animated series they aired? The C doesn’t even mean anything any more.
Or atleast it won’t soon enough.
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You’re completely right Karl. Let’s just hope that it doesn’t come to what MTV did, making an MTV 2. At first they were running music videos but now all they run is Pimp My Ride.
Comment by Zoe — November 8, 2005 @ 4:58 pm
In an sense, CN’s already got an MTV2 in Boomerang, and considering they are already looking at repurposing Boomerang into a Tickle U network, it seems they are going to bring that into jump the shark territory soon enough. Isn’t cable management “brilliant.”
Comment by Karl Olson — November 8, 2005 @ 6:15 pm
I was wondering why I saw a live action batman movie on CN. I was very confused. Liked the rap by the way. I can’t believe they are doing this. it sucks.
Comment by Sam — November 17, 2005 @ 8:50 pm