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Cartoon Network Is DEAD

It's on its last leg.

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"Back in the day, Cartoon Network had "original programming" which was overseen by CN President Jim Samples. This basically means that they conceived the ideas for these cartoons that would later have the possibility to be made into shows." - Tristan Braswell

Jim Samples stepped down in Feb 2007, and ever since then Cartoon Network has never been the same. Stuart Snyder took up his role, and could never quite fill his shoes. Cartoon Network's original programming lost a lot of creativity and with it a lot of good shows. For example, Cartoon network actually started airing shows that weren't even cartoons. Trying to figure out why they started airing live-action shows will leave you dumbfounded.

We all loved shows like "Code Name: Kids Next Door," "Dexter's Lab," "Ed, Eddy, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends," "Billy and Mandy," and even "Courage the Cowardly Dog." Off of the top your head, can you name a live-action show from the late 2000's ? Probably not, and I doubt anyone would want to wake up early in the morning to watch them like kids use to.

There are the few exceptions, like "Adventure Time," "Steven Universe," "Regular Show," "The Amazing World of Gumball," or even "Gravity Falls." These shows actually have some potential. They have some possibility in giving the early and late 2000s generation of kids something that has some kind of substance and give kids something that isn't mindless drivel like "Uncle Grandpa." Some of you may like that show, along with all the other short, but not very memorable, shows Cartoon Network has put out over the recent years. That may be the case, but it's clear as day that Cartoon Network prefers quantity over quality. I mean, that is what sells.

What I seriously don't understand is why Cartoon Network continues to reimburse and revamp 90's and early 2000's cartoons with new art styles, and new plots. It's obvious that they're trying to appeal to the 90's generation to get them back into watching Cartoon Network again. It's all about business, and they're using this tactic to gain back the audience they once had. Now they're continuing to reiterate shows like "Ben 10," "The PowerPuff Girls" and "Teen Titans". These shows are an abomination to this earth and the human race. Why? because they ruin the memory of the shows for the people who grew up with them. But this is why we have Boomerang, so people can watch reruns of their favorite cartoons from back in the day. Is that not the point of boomerang? to be a channel for the most popular shows of the past generation to run, while the newer shows air on Cartoon Network? The problem here isn't even that they continue airing the shows, it's that they keep recreating them from Scratch just to fit a new audience with the possibility of regaining the old one.

Example:

Why? Just why?

Lets just hope they don't screw up Samurai Jack.

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