Off topic AMC rant

[jmc]

This is off-topic the original off-topic, but I hate that Cartoon Network has added Futurama, because it seems like they've gotten rid of Harvey Birdman and Space Ghost Coast to Coast to make room for it.....personally, I have never liked Futurama--it's more for animation geeks than people who just want a funny show with good characters--it's all about stuff in the background and in-jokes.  Everything is is just tossed in as an afterthought.  

BTW, AMC does totally blow now.  It's more like a TNT or a TBS.

[Squishy]

Well, everyone's entitled to their opinion, and different strokes for different folks and all that. I find "Futurama" to be just that--a funny, funny show with terrific characters. The background stuff and in-jokes are just gravy.

I can't, however, imagine "Space Ghost" and "Birdman" are permanently gone--maybe on a hold while reshuffling, but surely not gone! They're still popular (although "Futurama"s Cartoon Network ratings just  blasted off into the stratosphere). They're still on the Adult Swim list of shows, perhaps they're in rotation now. As more and more shows join the lineup, that's bound to happen.

(The Harvey Bridman "Jailbirdman" game at AdultSwim.com is a howl.)

[Vermin Boy]

Don't worry, Cartoon Network shuffles their Adult Swim schedule every few months. Birdman is one of the few AS shows that uses all-new animation for each episode, so it takes longer to make, and it'd get boring if they just played the same 7 episodes over and over. As for Space Ghost, I think it's on hiatus while the creators develop the new shows, but it'll be back.

[Flangepart]

Here here!
Harvey Birdman, Sealab 2021,Space Ghost, C to C, Futureama, ....humm...ya know...with all the animation out there, why does no one create a Toon network just for adults? Not Porn adult, just the full range of stories that animation is capable of doing , and doing well?
Would seem like a no brainer to me.....

[Vermin Boy]

It might be tough to flesh out at this point; most networks start out with reruns of existing shows, and adult cartoons are a relatively new phenomenon (were there any on TV before the Simpsons?). Still, with all the anime out there, it could be done. A few years down the road, I could definitely see it happening (though I might get tired of the Ralph Bakshi marathons after a while. :)

[Bernie]

I got no problem with AMC wanting to make money -- don't we all -- but how the hell are they going to do that by showing sh*tty movies with as many or MORE commercials than on the broadcast networks?  Are we living in the Bizarro World? ("Viewers hate us!  Us must be successful!")  Or is some big shadow corporation just looking for a tax write-off?  ("Look, we're still making too much money!  You gotta p**s off more people so we can start to show a loss!")

That's why the better half and I finally gave in and went to digital cable -- now we have access to TCM (Yummmm!), Sundance, Independent, Trio, Ovation -- you know, INTERESTING stations.

Re: Adult Swim:  does anyone know if HOME MOVIES is coming back?  We LOVE that show!

[JohnL]

>I went to that amcfeedback.com place they keep advertising, and said pretty
>much the same thing everyone's been saying around here. I figure if they keep
>running ads saying "Tell us what you think!" then they can't be totally married to
>the changes. Tell 'em what you think, maybe, just maybe, they'll decide to stop
>sucking.

I tried to send them my comments, but it wouldn't go through.

>Trio,

Do they still have that freaking HUGE bar across the bottom of the screen? Someone posted some vidcaps from a show on Trio and I couldn't believe the size of the black band they put across the bottom. THat makes two channels doing that now, TNN and Trio. How long before the idiot execs at other channel think it's a good idea and start putting a bad across the bottom of the picture?