Cartoon Network Studios and Warner Bros. Animation are consolidating into a single unit, and that's an ominous sign for the future of new, original Cartoon Network animation.
Good news for M I D D L E A M E R I C A :grillman: :solidarity: :porky-happy:
obviously Zaslav is a reactionary, a century earlier and he'd be in a room with Prescott Bush trying to woo Smedley Butler
that being said I see this as less of a culling of LGBT shows and more just a culling of new programing period. Anything that doesn't exist as a loss leader commercial/isn't Teen Titans Go reruns is going to vanish from the network. Look at Adult Swim's schedule tonight.
08:00 PM Bob's Burgers
08:30 PM Bob's Burgers
09:00 PM American Dad
09:30 PM American Dad
10:00 PM American Dad
10:30 PM Rick and Morty
11:00 PM Mike Tyson Mysteries
11:15 PM Mike Tyson Mysteries
11:30 PM Aqua Teen Hunger Force
11:45 PM Aqua Teen Hunger Force
12:00 AM The Boondocks
12:30 AM Rick and Morty
01:00 AM Futurama
01:30 AM Futurama
02:00 AM Lucy, The Daughter of the Devil
02:15 AM Mary Shelley's Frankenhole
02:30 AM The Shivering Truth
02:45 AM The Heart, She Holler
03:00 AM Bob's Burgers
03:30 AM Bob's Burgers
04:00 AM King of the Hill
04:30 AM King of the Hill
Mike Tyson Mysteries has been canceled for two years and Norm's dead. ATHF, despite a desire from the cast to continue, is dead. The Boondocks has been dead for almost a decade, the attempted revival was canned, and even if it wasn't season 4 was bad. Frankenhole's been gone for over a decade, and even when management was slightly more favorable to creators on the network, they're never giving Dino a blank check again (despite the fact that the last time they did, he made one of the best seasons of television ever). The other three have been off the air for at least a couple of years, and if you put a gun to my head I couldn't tell you a thing about them. The rest, making up a majority of the runtime, other than Rick and Morty (which prints money in a way will ensure it's continued airing, even if it ends up as a show that only exists to sell plastic garbage like The Simpsons) are syndicated shows. You're not getting anime dubs regularly airing again, you're certainly not getting Big O Season 2 on weeknights again (if at all). If they have something homegrown laying around to fill up the time slot, great, but otherwise there's enough content out there that they can rerun and probably get good enough ratings, especially for the cash they save.
To me, this is the encroachment of what we've seen from smaller cable channels in the past decade. As the costs of production get higher and rate of profit continues to decline, you're going to see the "G4ification" of what remains of cable. Original programing would need to pull in numbers that no show on cable could to survive, and even if it did, it'd still probably be less than reruns that the few remaining boomers who still use television tune in for out of habit. I don't think that they're going to start airing more Million Dollar Extremes or explicitly reactionary content (if that were the case, The History Channel would be airing the same wildly reactionary shit it did in 2005), I think it'll get to the point where channels have one or two new shows that still crank out merch money, and the rest is totally recycled. With how quickly we're seeing media contract and how these contractions (based off of 2008/late 70's) don't usually return to normal (the streaming service boom was a new revenue stream for capital and it's already dry to the point of dying itself), I could see new western animation stopping outright.
obviously Zaslav is a reactionary, a century earlier and he'd be in a room with Prescott Bush trying to woo Smedley Butler
that being said I see this as less of a culling of LGBT shows and more just a culling of new programing period. Anything that doesn't exist as a loss leader commercial/isn't Teen Titans Go reruns is going to vanish from the network. Look at Adult Swim's schedule tonight.
08:00 PM Bob's Burgers
08:30 PM Bob's Burgers
09:00 PM American Dad
09:30 PM American Dad
10:00 PM American Dad
10:30 PM Rick and Morty
11:00 PM Mike Tyson Mysteries
11:15 PM Mike Tyson Mysteries
11:30 PM Aqua Teen Hunger Force
11:45 PM Aqua Teen Hunger Force
12:00 AM The Boondocks
12:30 AM Rick and Morty
01:00 AM Futurama
01:30 AM Futurama
02:00 AM Lucy, The Daughter of the Devil
02:15 AM Mary Shelley's Frankenhole
02:30 AM The Shivering Truth
02:45 AM The Heart, She Holler
03:00 AM Bob's Burgers
03:30 AM Bob's Burgers
04:00 AM King of the Hill
04:30 AM King of the Hill
Mike Tyson Mysteries has been canceled for two years and Norm's dead. ATHF, despite a desire from the cast to continue, is dead. The Boondocks has been dead for almost a decade, the attempted revival was canned, and even if it wasn't season 4 was bad. Frankenhole's been gone for over a decade, and even when management was slightly more favorable to creators on the network, they're never giving Dino a blank check again (despite the fact that the last time they did, he made one of the best seasons of television ever). The other three have been off the air for at least a couple of years, and if you put a gun to my head I couldn't tell you a thing about them. The rest, making up a majority of the runtime, other than Rick and Morty (which prints money in a way will ensure it's continued airing, even if it ends up as a show that only exists to sell plastic garbage like The Simpsons) are syndicated shows. You're not getting anime dubs regularly airing again, you're certainly not getting Big O Season 2 on weeknights again (if at all). If they have something homegrown laying around to fill up the time slot, great, but otherwise there's enough content out there that they can rerun and probably get good enough ratings, especially for the cash they save.
To me, this is the encroachment of what we've seen from smaller cable channels in the past decade. As the costs of production get higher and rate of profit continues to decline, you're going to see the "G4ification" of what remains of cable. Original programing would need to pull in numbers that no show on cable could to survive, and even if it did, it'd still probably be less than reruns that the few remaining boomers who still use television tune in for out of habit. I don't think that they're going to start airing more Million Dollar Extremes or explicitly reactionary content (if that were the case, The History Channel would be airing the same wildly reactionary shit it did in 2005), I think it'll get to the point where channels have one or two new shows that still crank out merch money, and the rest is totally recycled. With how quickly we're seeing media contract and how these contractions (based off of 2008/late 70's) don't usually return to normal (the streaming service boom was a new revenue stream for capital and it's already dry to the point of dying itself), I could see new western animation stopping outright.
:yea:
And Cartoon Network produced the second season on its own dime back then, I think.