MeTv and Warner bros are making a new, 24/7 classic cartoon channel called MeTV Toons.
It will launch on June 25th.
Non-WBD owned properties will be present too, including Rocky and Bullwinkle, Woody Woodpecker, Casper, Betty Boop and Speed Racer.
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>Speed Racer.
WHO LET THIS WEEBSHIT INTO MY CHANNEL?
Anime always wins baby
Boomerang hasn't been true to its mission in years, and is just a place where CN dumps their unwanted shows
That explains Duck Dodgers
They had the VA for Digimon on METV and she was upfront about voicing Izzy. It seems they're okay with weeb stuff as long as it's not Isekai shit.
>It seems they're okay with weeb stuff as long as it's not Isekai shit.
>Uses Digimon as an example as something they're okay with
Zuh?
The VA for Izzy also voices Sheila on South Park. Cartoon boomers are okay with Digimon. I think it's more the monsters can talk giving them time to cut loose when they're not shilling Disney.
And Kari's dub VA is all over the place. You can always recognize her distinct falsetto.
Libby!
This is the terrible low-quality slop that MEtv is saving kids from
He was in some of the old Cartoon Network bumpers:
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(I only found the Spanish version of this one)
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Based Speed Racer
Does TBS still own the rights?
Speed Racer is considered honorary Hanna Barbera.
>Tatsunoko
>"Weebshit"
have a nice day
speed racer is fricking hilarious with how batshit insane it is
I can't wait
he's so fricking cool
Speed Racer is a well known race traitor allied with DA
>this promo is now relevant again
SPEED RACER ON METV
>"Dogs should not drive."
Speed Racer is beautiful.
It looks like they're finally realizing that free to air and ad supported free is the future, not streaming.
Better late than never, I wanted it for like 2 years
Why would anyone choose to watch free to air over youtube?
YouTube is killing itself, and was a flash in the pan that happened to work for a long time. It's ultimately a very long-term Quibi, same as the short form video kings and strreaming. It doesn't work as a business model, but free-to-air and free ad supported do alongside more premium options.
>YouTube is killing itself
>Youtube is filled to the brim with garbage
That's been true for over a decade now, the real news that should excite you is that it's finally true for Google as well.
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/
Youtube is filled to the brim with garbage and barely breaks even because so many videos get demonetized.
You mean television before cable?
Friendly reminder that cable originally ad-free, which was the whole point; pay a bit of money every month to get 24/7 programming without breaks.
Boomerang is owned by Warner, which only owns the rights to Hanna Barbera and (obviously) Warner Bros stuff.
Boomerang plays old Cartoon Cartoons now because nobody watched the old HB stuff anymore. So they're trying to appeal to 30-something millennials in the same way they were trying to appeal to 30-something Gen Xers back when they first created the channel.
CN used to air old Rocky and Bullwinkle and George of the Jungle shorts because the rights were cheap enough
Yeah, it's funny to see that we're back to the TV station broadcast model after the supposed disruption of cable. Also interesting to see that Fox and HBO were a novelty in the end as well. The host has rejected the transplant.
Cable killed itself in its hubris. If they had stuck with the original business model they'd still have a niche and be competitive against streaming services. But they didn't and now look at them.
It's not even just that they needed to stick to the original model; cable got super expensive later and people were actually cutting it out in favor of piracy and streaming. They could have won super easily if they had stayed the course, developed new streaming services as auxiliary offerings, and not immediately got in bed with Netflix. Starving them of content would have forestayed the rise of streaming, since Cox On Demand had actual shows even if it wasn't as convenient.
Even Netflix today can't make anything worthwhile or turn a profit, because this mega merger giant conglomerate system doesn't work. It just looks big, but it falls at the slightest inconvenience. The industry will have to divest and spin itself off into forty new companies to survive properly.
Commercials are what rung cable's death knell, just like it'll ring the knell for streaming. The reason streaming got so big in the first place is because, like cable originally, it had no adverts. Now that streaming services are decentralising and are getting stuff with commercials like cable did, people are abandoning them and just going back to piracy and using adblockers on YouTube.
Ted Turner bought MGM pretty much exclusively to get the rights to the old cartoons, same reason he bought Hanna Barbera. Always thought that was pretty funny.
Ted was such a funny character. He's probably done the most damage to American society of any media mogul (even Murdoch) but you have to admire the eccentricity and the guts to actually do that stuff to begin with. I only wish he had pulled people away from GE's New York and Disney's California to Atlanta, since that's the obvious next big place for movies and TV.
Still, though, I guess one good thing about Netflix is that it woke people up from cable's fleecing and has turned an entire nation into pirates.
Praytell, what makes Turner and Murdoch so damaging
>Nb4 "right wing neonazi enablers"
The former created a nice rarefied forum for the post-Watergate preacher-journalists to pat themselves on the back as suckers continued to take their opinions as fact even as their objectivity and even relatability dwindled, and the latter tried to transplant the British media caste system to America despite he himself being unable to benefit from it in Britain and Australia. It's not so much that they created right or left wingers as political orcs that refused to think about anything beyond what the media told them. They're Trotskyites, not nazi enablers.
The big three networks or public news aren't much better, but at least you have some more say with them than a conglomerate like CNN or Fox lets you have. They're the enablers that will cling to the madness of this age even as it comes crashing down around them because the future scares them more than it scares you.
If it weren't for Turner and Murdoch, television would consist of the Big Three (CBS, NBC, ABC), PBS, and PPV cable channels like HBO. Turner practically invented basic cable by creating a system that didn't rely on local affiliates, and Murdoch kicked open the door for viable alternative channels to the Big Three.
CNN of the 80s did nothing that national newspapers weren't already doing.
Their disruption was great, I'm not denying that, but the consequences of it were that society was poisoned by these neo-absolutist media conglomerates who had no desire to do good for the stakeholder. In other countries with more sensible media and society landscapes there's only the pre-CNN style of media, and it works. If you want to reform it, it's easier to go with that than CNN or Fox because those can accommodate new developments without collapsing.
Now I know you're full of shit. In other parts of the world, media is wholly owned and controlled by their central government and the public at large is held at gunpoint to fund the state propaganda apparatus through things such as television licenses. The american method is significantly more decentralised and thus less susceptible to lockstep biases. It took decades of government regulation and intervention before the American media landscape began to take on the machinations of the European one, wherein it's merely a vehicle to push whatever narrative the state is currently shilling for. That was the MO from day one in countries like France and the UK where commercial broadcasting was outright banned until fairly recently.
>Ted Turner bought MGM pretty much exclusively to get the rights to the old cartoons, same reason he bought Hanna Barbera. Always thought that was pretty funny.
No, he bought MGM because he legitimately wanted the studio.
Then he after he bought it, he realized he had blown basically all his money to get it, sold it and kept their whole back catalogue, not just their cartoons.
The big media companies were always going to try and kill off cable themselves anyway. Once infrastructure and service costs became manageable, why let a middleman service provider profit off of your content? Going direct-to-consumer also opened the door to mass global scale in a far easier way.
Disney in particular are obviously pushing their DTC stuff to hurt cable companies. There's no real reason they can't run their D+/Hulu originals on linear/TV Everywhere, but they choose against doing so to encourage people to ditch those services. They also culled hordes of their international channels, even if they were still relatively popular.
I guess that's fair, but the individual streaming service plus massive conglomerate model doesn't work more than when Netflix does it. It's not sustainable and the ads will never make it profitable, so the best they can do is free to air and ad supported free streaming, possibly linear. Unless they want to live in the world where over fifty percent of the market is pirating their shit a la India, Latin America, and Russia.
>Boomerang is owned by Warner, which only owns the rights to Hanna Barbera and (obviously) Warner Bros stuff.
well they also own the MGM animation library and a decent chunk of the Fleischer/Famous shorts too thanks to various buyouts and mergers
>Boomerang plays old Cartoon Cartoons now because nobody watched the old HB stuff anymore
It's funny, because I've seen a good handful of younger people on twitter talking about Hanna-Barbera and Looney Tunes characters over the past couple of years. There's even some "stan" and "simp" cultures towards certain characters, as weird as that sounds. WB must've realized the recent, untapped market, hence the team-up with MeTV.
Still unfortunate for Boomerang though.
There’s definitely a young online fandom for these, even the HB shows, and they could easily grow further this way
But there’s also a significant part that are into shipping the characters. You’re far more likely to find a Baffy or Snaggleberry shipper in those fandoms then not, and they might intensify if there’s more easy access to the originals
His audience are Boomers that distrust internet streaming and only know that cartoons in regular TV. Zoomers ignore there is a Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoon outside of that shitty CGI movie
So...basically Boomerang?
The only classic stuff Boomernang airs on the standard 60s HB stuff, Scooby Doo, Popeye at like 1AM, some Tom and Jerry, and a really really bad package of Looney Tunes cartoons.
On the Looney Tunes cartoons, only recently did they actually change the lineup to add in more pre-1945 stuff and black and white stuff
Why don’t they just fix boomerang and put all this on there?
This.
Everyone is well aware of this. And it makes zero fricking sense for BOOMERang to have all this the homosexual 00s shit on it.
Boomerang is dead, that channel is basically Nicktoons where they fart out all the shows they feel like they don't need, plus MeTV airs remastered shorts that not even WB bothers to release
Boomerang ever since 2023 had been better and airs more old shows
Based animators
It's all coming back to you.
So is it like Pluto TV or what
It's basically like the old Classic Toons channel on PlutoTV, but with less public domain stuff likely.
Which is a pity because I liked the public domain cartoons they aired there for the novelty of it.
Weigel runs old cartoons on Sundays and has a weekday cartoon show. Trust me, there will be public domain cartoons.
MeTV almost never airs the public domain Looney Tunes shorts
>Pluto TV
now that's a name i haven't heard in a long time.
Used to watch shit on my tablet about 14 years ago.
Over the air, meaning that you need an antenna or those portable tvs
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Sorry to say this but Weigel only deals in the U.S. only
>Make the modern Boomerang
>Unironically has better content lineup then every single channel that exists that airs animation immediately at launch
kids will not watch it either way because they're too busy consooming paw patrol and skibidi toilet
Current confirmed program lineup (mentioned more WB/HB toons will air then list below):
>Looney Tunes
>Scooby-Doo
>Tom & Jerry
>The Flintstones
>The Jetsons
>Yogi Bear
>Popeye
>Rocky and Bullwinkle
>Woody Woodpecker
>Casper the Friendly Ghost
>Betty Boop
>Speed Racer
So basically it is going to show classic hanna-barbera, some Warner brothers, and some 60s and 70s cartoons? Are there going show more cartons from the 80s, 90s, and the 2000s or no?
70s is the farthest they’d go with the slight potential of something from the 80s, wouldn’t do 90s or 2000s as that’s too far past what METV markets itself for
50s-60s is the sweet spot for them so it’ll focus there
the rumor is WB has licensed their entire animated library up until 2000 to use for this venture, but its not all rolling out at once
See the thing is I absolutely believe they offered it up, but that does not mean MeTV will actually air anything later
Even up with this set there's very little that extends beyond 1970 and I don't think anything beyond 50 years ago, which fits into the era of what they want to air which is mostly 50s-60s but a few things before and after that period too
It's possible they can get a 90s toon in but I don't think they will
Toon In With Me shows the 90s shorts like Carrotblanca and Chariots of Fur. But the idea is theatrical shorts.
>Police Academy
>The Mask
>Josie and the Pussycats
>Beetlejuice
>Freakzoid
>Baby Looney Tunes
>Duck Dodgers
>Krypto the Superdog
>Xiaolin Showdown
>Captain Planet
>Silverhawks
>Mr. T
>2 Stupid Dogs and Super Secret Secret Squirrel
>Heathcliff (HB version)
>Richie Rich (HB version)
>Frankenstein Jr.
>Wacky Racers
>The Smurfs
>Go-Bots
>Dyno-Mutt
>Taz-Mania
>Underdog
GODDAMN
sovlverload...
Frick off you tool!
EDIT: Plus Inspector Gadget!
>The Mask
>Beetlejuice
>Freakazoid
unfiltered kino I see
Trailer: https://twitter.com/ToonHive/status/1786087452521673195
>Joining MeTV Toons are noted animation author, historian and executive Jerry Beck and character voice actor Bob Bergen. Beck is well known for his numerous books on American animation and classic characters, including The 50 Greatest Cartoons, The Hanna-Barbera Treasury, Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to Warner Bros. Cartoons and many others. For MeTV Toons, he will help produce original content that will expand and enhance the viewing experience.
>Four-time Emmy nominee Bergen is a multi-talented voice actor and host, well known for voicing Warner Bros. characters Porky Pig, Tweety, Marvin the Martian and many others. For MeTV Toons, he will be the signature voice of the network, bringing the MeTV Toons brand and viewing experience to life with his announcing and acting prowess.
>The MeTV Toons network joins MeTV, Heroes & Icons, Start TV, Catchy Comedy, MOVIES!, Story Television, Dabl and MeTV+ in the Weigel family of national broadcast TV networks.
Why not just get Andy Merrill to be Brak for MeTV?
Shame C Martin Crocker couldn't live long enough to be part of this, considering he was a walking history book of old cartoons.
>>Baby Looney Tunes
An entire new generation gets to experience sick days.
THERES LOTS TO DO AT GRANNY'S HOUSE!
GAMES TO PLAY AND BALLS TO BOUNCE
>Taz-Mania
The forgotten 90s WB cartoon
hopefully its in good quality
Would they air this episode? it aired overseas without problem
Will they air the Ace Ventura Mask team up?
Will they air 2 Stupid Dogs strip club?
Instant sub
>Taz-Mania I swear I always imagined this show.
It's going to be focused on theatrical shorts and golden age of TV animation.
Kino, hope it will air in my country too
SIGH
Tunes
You already know it's going to be 90% Cuck Jones garbage
>>Tom & Jerry
Kino apart from the boring Cuck Jones cartoons.
10/10
Woodpeck
It's not without its charms.
the Friendly Ghost
Underrated.
Boop
Not a fan, personally.
-Doo
>>The Flintstones
>>The Jetsons
>>Yogi Bear
and Bullwinkle
Worthless slop.
I know they need content to fill out a schedule but Hanna-Barbera garbage is the worst possible choice, they'd be better off giving airtime to retro cartoons from the 1990s like
What is with you autistically hating on Chuck Jones on every single Looney Tunes thread?
Robert McKimson was the weakest Looney Tunes director on it's later years if anything and even then he was good enough, besides MeTV mostly airs Bob Clampett and Friz Freleng shorts, Hell they even air more DePatie–Freleng shorts than Jones'
They air "The Bashfull Buzzard" at least once a month
>What is with you autistically hating on Chuck Jones on every single Looney Tunes thread?
This is my first time on DA in years but it makes me glad that other people are coming around to an opinion I've held since I was 7 years old.
Jones was based, I think Daffy & the Dinosaur was great even if not many people bring up that short when talking about Looney Tunes' shorts
>Daffy & the Dinosaur was great even if not many people bring up that short when talking about Looney Tunes' shorts
That's because Prehistoric Porky was better in every single way.
It wasn't bad, but nah, only gets real good near the end
Someone at MeTV is obsessed with His Bitter Half/Hare Trimmed/Honey's Money/A Taste of Money, I'm sick of seeing four different slight variations of the same cartoon.
>Rocky and Bullwinkle
>Worthless slop
100% you've never seen this show also it's not HB
Bro, if you really think that fricking Rocky & Bullwinkle of all things is worthless slop, you aren't fit to be on this board
The Flintstones is peak comfiness you pleb
One of these things isn't like the others, I guess Speed Racer was the only Tatsunoko show that catched on in Murrica since it was one of their few shows without fanservice or nudity, stuff like Dash Kappei and Yatterman got popular outside Japan in Europe
The catalog of American boomer anime is more or less limited to Astroboy, Gigantor, Kimba the White Lion and Speed Racer. Go a little further to get Battle of the Planet and Star Blazers.
Sounds about right
>Astroboy, Gigantor, Kimba the White Lion and Speed Racer
Boomers
>Battle of the Planet and Star Blazers
Gen X
>Voltron, Robotech, Samurai Pizza Cats, Sailor Moon, Ronin Warriors
Millennials
>then Dragon Ball, Pokemon and onward
the frick is going on here
>the frick is going on here
Everytime Doronjo fails a mission, she is punished, that they she was overfeed Soda and her boobs got bigger
Gatchaman is also popular in America, but it was also scattered between four fricking localizations.
Which character would be the American equivalent of Doronjo? as in sexy female antagonist who is played for laughs and ends up getting beaten up in slapstick ways every single time
Females in media are too protected to be treated that viciously any more, especially when the current trend of female villains tend to be sympathetic. The closest I can think of is Meg Griffin, but she’s not really a villain.
The American equivalent of Doronbo is Team Rocket and thus the American Doronjo is Jessie, no I will not elaborate and yes I am 100% serious.
Can't you watch all of this on Tubi already?
Yattaman when?
Not dubbed, too much nudity courtesy of Doronjo
Where is he, bros...
theres no need to fear
We got shafted again, Under Dog. Go tell Atom Ant and Jabberjaw we're out of work, AGAIN.
They already have a deal with Universal because Woody Woodpecker and Casper are part of this lineup.
If they create a dedicated 'superhero block,' they could fit him in.
Will these 2 be included?
>The New Adventures of Gilligan
>Gilligan's Planet
What stuff from the 80s could they show?
Transformers?
GI Joe?
Horse Show G1?
JEM?
Alvin & The Chipmunks? (I would LOVE to see this)
Robotech?
What about Inspector Gadget? The 80s DiC cartooons? Dennis the Menace, Heatcliff and the Catillac Cats? Rainbow Brite?
All of those 80s shows from pre Nicktoons Nickelodeon?
Wouldnt be nice ans awesome?
Danger Mouse, Mighty Mouse and Count Duckula are a most.
>Alvin & The Chipmunks? (I would LOVE to see this)
I think this one's in rights hell from all the music
Isnt that just the case for a home video release?
WB could give them Thundercats
Sony could give them Real Ghostbusters
Wildbrain could give them Inspector Gadget, Rainbow Brite, Heathcliff, Dennis the Menace,and the Nintendo cartoons like Mario, Zelda, Captain N and Sonic (most of that stuff is on PlutoTV tho)
Paramount could give them Garfield and TMNT
Hasbro/Shout Factory could give them GI Joe, Transformers, Pony and Jem
Outside of maybe Casper and Yogi, I'm excited for the channel.
>Coming home after school, just before dinner, got to catch one episode of Tom & Jerry or Scooby Doo.
Ah, now thats the best. Sometimes my Dad would come home and watch with me, since he used to watch back when he was my age.
Casper was fine
I bet they are but I never watched it as a kid, so I've no real connection to them. I'll give them a try.
It's time to get redpilled on Yogi it's a great show
So basically the original Cartoon Network when it launched?
Pretty much
Maybe this'll be the start of something good then.
Just as long as they never, ever air any original animation, I'm good.
This is literally just boomerang 20 years ago
Yea and it was the best era of Boomerang.
>every Non Disney studio join forces
>Disney STILL fetishizes its damn vault
Sucks that Disney was always VERY prohibitive about showing its shorts on their own channels after the mid 90s, let alone everywhere, evwn throwing it in our faces like this.
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What was that about? In the 80s, Disney had shit like Walt Disney's Mickey and Donald that show on ABC and latin american networks and that shit run for years.
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Sucks
Nobody's around to champion the Disney shorts anymore, not since they ended the Disney Treasures line.
Disney is very bizarre for its mystique with its brands and particularly its shorts. Disney doesn't even really want you to see them now, either due to thinking they are offensive or wanting to present its core characters in a different light so that they protect marketability the way they want it.
When the shorts are uploaded to Disney+ its a handful more to remind you "hey these characters exist go buy their merch".
Hell Disney is restrictive overall who they market from main brand. Really now it's the main six, Pete, Chip n Dale, Scrooge, HDL and Oswald for non-theatrical characters. Then they marketed a number of the animated film characters that have some likability. Outside that, literally nothing else exists to them
Nothing Disney says or does come close to Popeye committing premeditated murder against Shorty for being a screw up, or Bluto being a shit heel in the military.
is disney vault even a thing now that everything can be watched anytime on disney+ ?
They absolutely take things off streaming and back into the vault.
There's some DTVA shows they will refuse to acknowledge if that counts
>is disney vault even a thing now
The vast majority of classic Disney shorts are unavailable.
The true Disney Vault will always be
>Softcore Porn
>Song of The South
>Alice In Wonderland OJ simpson crossover
>lemmings
Song of the South is worthless. Nobody needs that racist tripe.
It's a real shame man. Honestly, I think the reason you don't hear people talk about the old Disney short anymore (unless there saying it's le racist or boring) is because the company has treated these shorts like a scare. Infact, ironically; the company didn't give a shit about promoting animation anymore. We all remember what chapek said when he was in charge...
The lefty Kewlkid reviewers from the late 2000s and earlt to mid 2010s always shat on Disney shorts because "NUT MUH LUUNEE TUNS" When in reality Disney shorts were far netter then shit like Famous Studios Popeye and Casper or Woody Woodpecker, not everything was a success in the Golden Age.
UPA stuff was absolute garbage, set the stage for the low budget HB stuff that would dominate in the 60s and 70s.
Kek, according to that lefturd KaizerBeamz, there were people who b***h about Disney Hyper realistic style of animation was ruining the medium of animated shorts.
Thank you really have gotten annoyed with kaizerbeams lefty dick sucking in his vids
I really like the content of his videos but every time he tries to insert his political agenda I instinctually thumbs down the video
I feel the same
The videos are good with the info
But man the ones when he has to jerk off his liberal crap it really makes it eye rolling
The whole "the loony tunes were better than the Disney toons" is such a normal dag, over played opinion. Both studios were trying to accomplish very different things. And frankly, loony tunes fell off when they made bugs op. Shit like that can only be funny for so long.
But that really doesn't matter anyway now. It's too cool to hate Disney right now.
Back in the day, the only studio who tried Full lenght animated films were the Fleischers and both Gulliver and Mr Bug were collossal bombs, and outside of that there was only the animated version of Animal Farm which was good but too grimm for the era and that was done by the brits, outside of it only the spaniards and japanese began in the late 50s and the 60s
Its ok to hate current Disney but not their fricking past.
Again, people are too ignorant. You show them an old Disney toon, and they'll either say that it's boring, or say that they hate it because "le Disney evil. So all there eras le evil". Most normies now will call you a Disney adult if you admit to enjoying Disney, even there newer stuff. You just can't win. Unfortunately, the public has took Disney's pass down with shitty modern Disney.
Filcher studios (quality wise) was the only studio that could compete with Disney. There stuff is great. They were at least ambitious enough to put there hat into the ring. And even though those two films are decent at best, the animation is still gorgeous.
Unfortunately, true. I also just don't think most teens and adults would care either, unless there hyper nerds. There too interesting in newer slop like the shitty 2010s tumbler toons and indie stuff.
Old Disney was pretty much Walt Disney, i even argue the Renaissance stuff, as overrated as might be sometimes. Still held the right to have the Full title, Walt Disney Pictures and The Walt Disney Company, after the 90s, it really became, just Disney.
>Filcher studios (quality wise) was the only studio that could compete with Disney. There stuff is great. They were at least ambitious enough to put there hat into the ring. And even though those two films are decent at best, the animation is still gorgeous.
Funny enough when people look at their 30s style of animation, lots of people only see these weird Super floaty spastic rubberhose style of animation that even Disney was starting to slowly but surely phased out, and around 1937 trough 1942 Disney was at its best with their "Hyper realistic style" and even some of their shorts got some of that treatment while still a bit more cartoony, all with Snow white, Pinocchio, Fantasia and Bambi, but sadly WWII happened and that become a burden since Fantasia and Bambi were box office flops at the time, hence Dumbo had more "standard short style animation", specially considering that Bambi came out aftetwards.
Meanwhile, the Fleischer Popeye color trilogy of Sinbad, 40 thieves and Magic Lamp, animation wise was still stuck in the early 30s betty boop floaty rubberhpuse style, kind to think of it, WB with Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies were still sorta in that spot outside of Chuck Jones early "sorta disney pastiche style" which even so it had its own look but wasnt working for the company andndint have as much fluidity and timing as 37-41 Disney, fleischer later got good with Superman because they had too for it, but even then, i would argue, the only ones who truly got close to Disney's 37-41 era were MGM with Happy Harmonies and then with Tom and Jerry which were their own beast and a very powerful one.
But, could you imagine if Betty Boop wasnt gutted bt the Hays code and we hot some Disney Style animation with her? or even Popeye?
The one who was mimicking tge Fleischer style of weirdness and madness was in fact, pre 40s Bob Camplett which was wacky but endearing, before in the 40s took this grotesque (but sometimes still funny) style in the 40s.
>could you imagine if Betty Boop wasnt gutted bt the Hays code and we hot some Disney Style animation with her? or even Popeye?
Frick man. A beautifully animated sexy Betty boop with the animation quality of golden age Disney would have been the best thing sense the wheel. The haze code ruined everything (not too mention comics). Bonus question. What would happen if we were to be forced into another thing like the haze code? Would people car enough too fight back?
Ok, me being horny for imaginary realistic Betty boop aside, filcher style wise, was very outdated by the time the late 30's came along. Even still, most people still think of the rubber hose style for most of the 30's today. Which is odd, because WB and Disney were becoming more successful because they were changing and evolving.
Sorry for point out to shitty Dailymotion, but its the only place i could find this
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3osrcs
This show what i am talking about
Popeye would have thrived with this kind of animation quality. The smoother animation would have given the gags and scenes much more potential to set up interesting setups. I like too dumb the black and white rubber hose animations as the "stop and go" style. I call rubber hose that because characters would do this not like movement. They would do one big gesture, then stop, then do it again. Like, if Popeye were to point at something, he would do a quick snappy point, then stop, thendo the snappy point again. I'm not sure if that makes too much sense, but it's always how I saw it. With this Mickey cartoon here, instead of stopping and going, Mickey and Pluto flow much more naturally. They say they move wouldn't be too out of place too see in real life. And despite mick keeping a rubber hose each style, hes eyes and plush doll body give him more room too emote through his movements, rather then big exaggerated poses. Like you said before, loony tunes kind of did a mix of both the rubber hose style of animation, and the smoother, more realistic Disney style. Looney tunes characters would still do extreme big gestures, but the animation had more subtle touches of realism too them.
Me really trying to imagine Betty and Popeye with Disney animation is a real rough thing too visualize if I'm going to be frank. But it could absolutely work. So I think Betty boop in particular would have had to get a different character design for that to work.i guess you could still pull it off with her original character design, but I don't think it would have looked right. Popeye wouldn't have had much trouble transitioning though. Even with his exaggerated character design, you could still make it work. I think you would just have too tone down the arms a wee bit.
>Me really trying to imagine Betty and Popeye with Disney animation is a real rough thing too visualize if I'm going to be frank. But it could absolutely work. So I think Betty boop in particular would have had to get a different character design for that to work.i guess you could still pull it off with her original character design, but I don't think it would have looked right. Popeye wouldn't have had much trouble transitioning though. Even with his exaggerated character design, you could still make it work. I think you would just have too tone down the arms a wee bit.
Thread dies tomorrow, but i could try to visualize a fanart of Betty at least in this style.
Would be curious too see that. Might start a Betty boop thread later. If you like, you can share there.
Sure thing.
Ub Iwerks is great and anyone who would dismiss him would surely only do so out of ignorance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOGhAV-84iI
Especially in John k blog
What about terrytoons or the later screen gems cartoons?
I hope Garfield and Friends isn't too "new" to be on here. That show was the best 80s cartoon
They'd likely have to take it up with Viacom.
Viacom owns Garfield now, ask Nickelodeon to air it, plus MeTV has no problem airing 80s stuff, they already aired He-Man in the past
Paramount’s lending a hand in this venture so there may be some hope
Paramount doesn't appear to be involved.
It's a WB / MeTv joint venture
MeTV also has a deal with Universal for Woody Woodpecker. WB has been dancing around working more with Universal too.
Rocky & Bullwinkle is still owned by Jay Ward's estate, but managed by Wildbrain (aka Cookie Jar aka DiC)
The Betty Boop stuff they air is mostly public domain, but the Fleischer estate has been working with MeTv on restorations and making special premieres of the ones they still own.
Speed Racer is its own separate deal, but might be handled by Sony now? Sony works with MeTv for the Columbia Pictures/Screen Gems Cartoon Rhapsody airings
Paramount's only thing that would fit the criteria would be Mighty Mouse and the other Terry Toons. Maybe Garfield could slide in but Paramount's model seems to be 24/7 channels for Garfield, TMNT, Dora and Spongebob on PlutoTV
The Dora channel shows a lot of other Nick Jr. stuff and the TMNT one also airs Danny Phantom and ATLA.
So I'm guessing they're going to stop airing their Saturday morning cartoon block?
IT'S ALL COMING BACK TO YOU
ME AND MY FRIENDS GET NO RESPECT
Did Variety delete the article?
Yes, twice
Weigel sent out the press release without the embargo date and then told outlets to delete, lol.
Kek you're right
Don't know why they are pulling back announcing this again, the news is already out and we all know, what's waiting a few days going to do
>MeTv and Warner bros are making a new, 24/7 classic cartoon channel called MeTV Toons.
Why not just put it on Boomerang?
Is Boomerang free?
Because this is a cheaper way of doing it.
Weigel handles all the broadcast tech.
There's some kind of joint split on the ad revenue between WB and Weigel.
Boomerang is a cable channel wholly maintained by WB and cable is dying and carriage fees are going away. Even if WB maintained Boomerang exactly how you want it, it'd lose money over time.
It's the same reason they're pulling stuff from Max and licensing it back to Netflix and Tubi. It's easier and more cost effective to get paid a licensing fee for your archives than invest in maintaining a channel/platform on your own.
Cartoons boomers love their cheap cartoons and respect it more than millennials. METV seems genuine. Sure Walter Lantz sucks at cartooning, but he just seems like the kind of guy you'd make shorts with.
>This board and other social media don’t care about this, just then new FOP
No wonder animation is in the shitter
it looks alright.
>Woody Woodpecker
Woody chads can't stop winning
Bro who the frick wants this? The Flinstones and all that shit is boring af.
Give me a channel of obscure 1990's/2000's hidden gems, it's probably cheaper to license.
>Bro who the frick wants this?
The boomers who still watch traditionally distributed linear TV. The slop you want is more at home on a FAST channel.
Fricking air some of the Hanna Barbera super heroes, you fricking cowards.
Give it time, apparently Johnny Quest is on the lineup
I wouldn't be surprised to see the Superfriends show up. And then maybe that will lead to Space Ghost, Herculoids and onward
I hope it's the original Speed Racer, and not the crappy remake.
>Also hope the Warner Brothers and Woody Woodpecker stuff is UNCENSORED
I'm pretty sure all of the American produced Speed Racer spinoffs/remakes have officially been expunged after Tatsunoko won the rights back.
All except for the killer movie. That one can stay. Yes it's good. If anyone reading this has any takeaway from this post is that the movie is amazing. I swear to God it's better than you remember.
>>Also hope the Warner Brothers and Woody Woodpecker stuff is UNCENSORED
Lol c'mon anon.
They air some of the Looney Tunes shorts uncensored
, no idea about Woody
Yeah, Tatsunoko got the full rights to Speed Racer and Samurai Pizza Cats back, that's why no American company has done anything with the IP since Tatsunoko won't let any American touch Speed Racer again after what they did in the past, just air their shows
>no American company has done anything with the IP since Tatsunoko won't let any American touch Speed Racer again
What else is there to do? Funimation re-released Speed Racer and the '97 reboot. Discotek did Samurai Pizza Cats. None of Speed Racer Enterprise's weird original cartoons were successful, so I doubt there would be anymore after that abysmal Pajeet x Israel movie.
Both of those are on free streaming services:
https://www.justwatch.com/us/tv-show/babar
https://www.justwatch.com/us/tv-show/the-raccoons
anyone cap metv?
Great. A bunch of crusty ass boomer cartoons from the 60s that nobody cares for anymore. Bring back The Raccoons and Babar.
Looney Tunes, Tom & Jerry, Popeye, Woody Woodpecker and Betty Boop are from the 30s and 40s
And they have had decades of rerun syndication. Let stuff from the 90s and 2000s come back.
My nephews only know who Bugs Bunny is because of Space Jam, they don't know any of the Looney Toons
If they watched Space Jam then they know most of them
MeTV is only in major cities, right? I hope the new channel is bundled together with the regular channel.
my small city has metv
but not metv+
so im hoping philo picks up this new channel if my local station doesnt
If this goes through, what channel numbers are they going to be in like MeTV is channel 33 on Optimum?
That's going to depend on your region. This is a local broadcast network, not a cable channel. It might even take some time to get carriage on the traditional pay-TV providers.
https://archive.is/iLz1F
Top Cat and Jonny Quest also was confirmed before the Variety article was deleted as shows that will be aired on this channel
Nice, always room for some classic Jonny Quest.
Has MeTV ever aired a single classic Disney short or is that strictly off limits
It's almost certainly off-limits. Disney is stupidly protective of its mouse.
Off limits obviously, it is even worse outside of America where all the Disney cartoon and Fox cartoons are Disney Plus exclusive now
Damn, might actually get an antenna for this one. Stopped watching DA since it's all shit but I wouldn't mind leaving this on in the background while I do housework
First wave of affiliates: https://www.rabbitears.info/search.php?request=network_search&network=Me-TV+Toons
>a full time cartoon broadcast network
>no educational cartoons in sight
so does this only work because the ads will be aimed at boomers instead of kids
Did anyone else notice public television started having channels dedicated to shows that were in cable before? I noticed new televisions can tune in to a channel that just airs the good seasons of spongebob 24/7
I think you're referring to PlutoTV or Samsung TV's free channel thing. It's been a thing on YouTube for a while, even corporations got into it, so it's nothing new.
Cool. When I visit my dad, we usually end up watching MeTV. I hope they launch this cartoon branch where I live.
I knew a lot of kids in high school from broke ass Ghetto homes who would watch MeTV because it was free so i have a feeling like this station would do well in with those people too
>I knew a lot of kids in high school from broke ass Ghetto homes who would watch MeTV
I'm imagining kids from the ghetto having Svengoolie and Star Trek merchandise.
I forgot H&I took Star Trek.
Star Trek is still on MeTV. Saturdays at 11pm, after Batman & Svengoolie
Will it have my girl, So White?
what the frick is this drawing?
Warner parody of Snow White made in 1943, all the characters are hypersexual blacks shucking and jiving to jazz music because the story of SW is transplanted to wartime urban America
Built for Huge White wiener
WB doesn't even acknowledge it made Freakazoid since his crossover with Teen Titans Go and his entire series is on Tubi.
Freakazoid was supossed to have a segment in the Animaniacs reboot, but the VA wasn't available at the time
a blessing in disguise
finally the general public will have REAL cartoons on in the living rooms.
maybe gen alpha CAN be saved.
Sounds pretty cool. Been wanting to rewatch some old classic cartoons for a while now.
For all the people who might dislike this. Remember what you want is Tooncast. Which aired cartoons from all eras just before the 2010's so you can have more variety. This is its current line-up (which actually changes from time to time):
>What's New Scooby-Doo?
>Maguila Gorilla
>Krypto, the Superdog
>The Jetsons
>Thundercats
>Pinky and the Brain
>Frekazoid
>Hi Hi Puffy Amiyumi
>Foster's
>Super Hero Legion
>X-MEN: Evolution
>Justice League
>Teen Titans
>Top Cat
>Tom & Jerry Kids
>Baby Looney Tunes
>Looney Tunes
>Duck Dodgers
>Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries
Better than MeTV, in my opinion. Because they actually mix up some 90's, 80's and even beyond.
Nice list, puttng with an image as this is not a literature board thread
Here's an image.
How does one get tooncast
>How does one get tooncast
You don't, it is a LatAm only channel, just like the Adult Swim channel that doesn't air Fox shows
Damn
The only problem with that channel besides being only in LatAm is that WB Discovery LatAm only has one feed for all LatAm and due to Brazilian laws they have to air at least one hour of their shitty Brazilian cartoons no one likes like that shitty one with the bee, Brazilian cartoons are worse than anything Canada ever did, Brazilian people should be ashamed
yet WB Discovery has no problem having 3 Adult Swim feeds for LatAm
Oh no
When did he post this? Is he becoming like abeanimated?
Cause they literally are the Looney Tunes Shorts last breaths
He's not wrong. I mean they still have their charms, but they're janky as hell in terms of animation AND writing.
Mah homie needs to be hired as their animation stream curator.
Even if I agree, I can't take someone with a Jellystone profile pic seriously
Come on anon he's just happy to be voicing Brak again for a project
>Redd/int/er can’t take Andy Merrill seriously
This is why everyone hates you losers
Not even Cartoon Network took him seriously since "The Brak Show" was the first ever Adult Swim show to be cancelled, I liked it, it wasn't great but it had it's charm
This shit and their weird furry pedophile fanbase is why I avoided this show.
Like 95% of the characters in this show are adults
yet I always see them talk about the kids.
Also, pic related, this show can frick off.
I saw clips with Space Ghost and crew in it and it was nice to hear their voices, and it was even funny. That's all I need to see.
I never see talk about the kids outside one very specific autist here and even then they left
>Pic related
If you're just mad they added gay shit just say that, you aren’t going to be taken seriously moralgrandstanding about pedos while you are on DA where you nonstop spam Owlphibia
I would not miss Cool Cat cartoon if I never saw a Cool Cat cartoon ever again.
If it helps, he and his son are in the Tiny Toons reboot.
Reminds me of john k network
https://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/2009/11/if-i-had-to-schedule-kids-network.html
I welcome any reason to make Betty Boop noticed.
>Made the Disney animators so horny that they drew her nipples in the first version of Roger Rabbit and had to censor it after the LD release
I have been missing CN so much lately and have been loving toonami aftermath n twitch channels that stream toons! I for one welcome our new over lords.
MeTV is like OG Nick at Nite. Loved these ads:
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I'd like to see an early 90s, late 80s version. we obsesses over the boomer cartoons but there's alot of good stuff from those 'extreme radical' years. sure half of it was meant to sell toys but it's still good.
>live in an over the air dead zone
>MeTv already not available on any app
It's on Philo
>#MeToons
Cancelled in a month
The lineup appears to be:
>Looney Tunes
>tom and Jerry
>Flintstones
>Jetsons
>Yogi Bear
>Top Cat
>Johnny Quest
>Popeye
>Scooby Doo
^^ all from WB, then there's also
>Woody Woodpecker (Universal)
>Casper (Universal)
>Betty Boop (public domain + Fleischer estate)
>Rocky and Bullwinkle (this is new for MeTV)
>Speed Racer (new for MeTV)
currently missing out
>Pink Panther (Amazon ended their deal with MeTV)
>Underdog (Universal)
>Mighty Mouse (Paramount/Viacom)
most likely HB shows to be added:
>Wacky Racers
>Josie and the Pussycats
>Banana Splits
>Superfriends
>Space Ghost
>The Smurfs
If they are going to air Yogi Bear (which I’m not sure if that’s just Yogi Bear segments and not just Yogi Bear Show with Snagglepuss and Yakky Doodle) I hope they get the other guys in
Huckleberry and Quick Draw are a must, combine those three (and their constituting segments) along with Top Cat and you get a very solid 2 hour block
Back when TBS used to air Cartoon Planet they would package all of the Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Snagglepuss, other talking animal cartoons into one package show.
MeTV currently packages the entire MGM library (T&J, Spike & Tyke, Butch, Droopy, Barney Bear, Happy Harmonies, Screwy Squirrel and other Tex Avery one-offs) as "the Tom and Jerry show"
I could see them doing the same thing with a one hour "Yogi Bear Show" that has Yogi, Huckleberry, Snagglepuss, Augie & Daddy, Quick Draw, Yakkee, Pixie & Dixie, Snooper & Blabber, Magilla, Wally Gator
I don't think WB/HB can air Josie and the Pussycats anymore since they lost the rights and even removed the show from their streaming services, the only Josie and the Pussycats character they still own is Bleep since Hanna-Barbera created him and they always use the Teen Angels as stand-ins for Josie and the Pussycat even if shit like Scoob and Jellystone made them ugly instead of cute like the originals
>https ://www .metvtoons. com/
Nice, seems like Tooncast LatAm but without the awful Brazilian slop (so much better)
Tooncast also has Baby Looney Tunes, someone at WB really likes that show for some reason
WB was so fricking obsessed with making that stupid concept a reality that when they finally made it, they told CN that they could NEVER remove it from the line-up no matter how badly it did in ratings. The best CN could do to spare most from the saccharine misery was to put it on the midday timeslots when kids are at school (with condolences to those forced to stay home).
I'll probably watch it when bored, but MeTV made a lot of money from saterday morning cartoon runs. MeTV is all about getting classic shows for cheap and airing them with basic cable to get the most reach
SPEED RACER IS NOT A CARTOON
Why don't you throw voltron on there too
if it’s animated, it’s a cartoon. simple as.
>SPEED RACER IS NOT A CARTOON
Nobody knew the difference in the 60s, and then Speed Racer Enterprises kept pushing the narrative that they created and controlled the entire franchise. No doubt Tatsunoko was dancing with joy when they finally caught SRE on a breach of contract and were able to take everything back from them.
do you have it?
Don't they have a free live stream?
apparently that's the plan but no specific info has been released yet
>All in 480i
I know most of what they'll air won't have HD materials, but still.
Why would you want to watch Hanna-Barbera shows on 1080p anyways? unlike Tatsunoko's shows they don't have bare breasts so there's no reason to watch a cheaply animated show in HD, 480i seems fine
over-the-air sub channels are generally transmitted in 480i.
As someone with a CRT from '04 this is good news.
Uhhhhhh which one of these would also apply for the Philly area?
Another Phillychad
None, the affiliate would be WDPN in Wilmington. Contact them if you want this, they'll probably get to adding it soon enough
None. You have to get an actual cable plan like Comcast or Verizon to get MeTV in Philly.
Which show (and specific episode/short) should MeTV Toons launch with as first program to air?
>MeTv and Warner bros are making a new, 24/7 classic cartoon channel called MeTV Toons.
Isn't that what Boomerang used to be for?
Yes but then they turned it into H-B's newer sludge dump channel that ocassionally shows older cartoons
This is what Boomerang (and even CN back in the early 90s) exactly was back in the day before diversifying to newer stuff
Seems the plan is MeTV Toons is going to focus on 40s-70s while Boomerang focuses on 90s-2000s, with both sharing several of the big core programs
channel website just dropped
https ://www .metvtoons. com/
>Underdog
>Freakazoid
>FRICKING XIAOLIN SHOWDOWN
Picked upppp
if xiaolin showdown is on this channel, they need to air mucha lucha too. it's a year older.
Is Captain Planet going to be their E/I spam?
That and Baby Looney Tunes
Beetlejuice? Marine Boy? Gobots? Xiaolin Showdown? That's an interesting selection.
Seems it might also be available as a FAST channel?
>And it will be available for multi-platform distribution on over-the-air broadcast television, traditional MVPD’s and virtual MVPD’s, along with a complimentary offering for ad supported streaming services.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/marcberman1/2024/05/02/metv-toons-featuring-classic-cartoons-to-launch-in-june/?sh=1fee8ceb792e
The 2000s are back on the menu, boys
>Xiolin Showdown, Duck Dodgers, and Baby Looney Tunes are now old enough to be considered vintage METV boomer content
End me now
This is extreme boomer shit. My dads gonna love this
Finally. This is all I ever wanted after Cartoon Network shit the bed 20+ years ago. There's some zoomer shit in there like Krypto dog and xaolin whatever, but I'll deal with it if it means 95% good shit.
Wait until this inevitably gets to air Animaniacs and Tiny Toons down the line
They'll probably be available pretty quickly since they're airing Freakazoid, Beetlejuice, Taz-Mania, and The Mask on day 1.
Any chances for Space Ghost and Dinoboy? Birdman and the Galaxy Trio?Jabberjaw?
The presence of Xaolin Showdown worries me. The thing that made classic Cartoon Network so good was that I never, ever had to change the channel. But there's no way could leave it on if they're including 2000s trash.
>xiaolin showdown is classic
...Huh? N-no, that's a recent show, right? That wasn't that long ago?
What the frick do you mean it's been out for 20 years now?
>What's New Scooby-Doo is 20 years old
>Teen Titans is 20 years old
>Megas XLR is 20 years old
>The Batman will be 20 years old
>Boomers will be forced to watch Droopy, Master Detective
Kek based timeline
People are saying this'll kill Boomerang but honestly I think it'll kill CN too
There's no reason to watch anymore other than Adult Swim, might as well let Adult Swim take over
Good. Let it burn.
Is this a schedule for Atom Ant?
>1164x6163
no
zoom the image homie
>People are saying this'll kill Boomerang but honestly I think it'll kill CN too
They should have tried to grow their value instead of focusing on cutting costs.
I feel like CN and AS both had their heyday when they were liberal with letting people try stuff. Of course they couldn't do stuff that was too expensive, but being a little more liberal with your IPs helps creators make something appealing without breaking the bank.
But now that licensing hypothetically makes so much sense to hoard, you can't let some people in the promo department make neat bumpers out of some cheesy 60s superhero show.
On top of that, they fell into the same trap that Nickelodeon did where everyone had to reach the bar of their current breadwinner, so if you weren't Spongebob/Rick and Morty/Teen Titans Go, you were dead meat.
Bad times for cartoons now. Hope its better times for cartoons in the future with this.
https://twitter.com/pkrugg/status/1786096369100321173
For me it’s Snagglepuss
>Looney Tunes
>Tom and Jerry
>Flintstones
>Jetsons
>Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Snagglepuss, Magilla Gorilla, Wally Gator, Touche Turtle, Atom Ant
>Top Cat
>Johnny Quest
>Popeye
>Scooby Doo
>Woody Woodpecker
>Casper
>Underdog
>Betty Boop
>Rocky and Bullwinkle
>Inspector Gadget
>Speed Racer
>Josie and the Pussycats
>Captain Caveman
>Dyno-Mutt
>Heathcliff (HB version)
>Richie Rich (HB version)
>Frankenstein Jr.
>Wacky Racers
>The Smurfs
>Go-Bots
>Silverhawks
>Mr. T
>Police Academy
>Captain Planet
>2 Stupid Dogs and Super Secret Secret Squirrel
>Taz-Mania
>Droopy Master Detective
>Beetlejuice
>The Mask
>Freakazoid
>Baby Looney Tunes
>Duck Dodgers
>Krypto the Superdog
>Xiaolin Showdown
>Movie presentations
>Halloween specials
>Christmas specials
>Droopy Master Detective
It's just Tom & Jerry Kids with only the Droopy & Dripple segments and a small handful of new episodes.
The Screwy Squirrel segments were new at the time
You forgot to mention Breezly and Sneezly, both of which are on that pic in fact
Sneedzly
I knew about these guys before but I’m actually surprised they signaled them out in advertising and are actually bothering to air their show
They are in the running for most obscure thing airing on this channel
>Heathcliff
MY CHILDHOO--
>(HB version)
Well, not MY childhood, but still welcome. Maybe someday, if Gadget shows they have access to DIC.
Man, seeing these characters makes me realize they need to be in Multiversus. I know Shaggy, Velma, Bugs, Marvin, Taz, and Tom & Jerry are already in, but having Fred Flintstone, Popeye, The Mask, Secret Squirrel, Top Cat, Dick Dastardly, Wile, Yosemite Same, Freakazoid, Captain Planet, Oni, and Ricochet would be pretty damn neat too. Maybe Rocky & Bullwinkle and Woody Woodpecker too if they get the okay from Universal.
and the Pussycats
Damn, the last time these three git dragged out were those weird movies, guss they said frick it and figured the Scooby-Doo clone is watchable enough.
Hope they have the rights to air this CN Original Short https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEt3dKelbaU
CN’s current schedule is better
>and other great jokes to tell your friends
I'd rather watch static than what CN is currently playing.
This will last approximate 5 years before ratings fall off a cliff due to rerun fatigue and it revamps or shuts down
I think you're underestimating how many people just want boomer shows without having to sign up for a streaming service
you must be funny at parties
So we'll enjoy it while we can.
MeTV has been the #1 digital broadcast network for years off of constant boomer reruns, alongside it's various sister channels which also have constant boomer reruns with different flavors. "Toon In With Me" alone manages to pull about a million viewers per episode. That's a pretty impressive feat for a show that damn near airs at the ass crack of dawn.
This channel will do just fine. Now stop being a negative Nancy and be more of a positive Polly. okay, buddy? 🙂
I think the biggest issue they'll face is how much they'll rely on a single external partner (Warner) and the dearth of notable non-Disney or Warner boomer toons. If WB, for whatever reason, decides they want out of this venture, what would happen to this channel? They'd basically have to target the "newer" stuff and cut deals with smaller players or shutdown.
With live-action shows, there's a tonne of content, a bunch owned by indies and even the bigger companies don't necessarily see huge value in them.
>I think the biggest issue they'll face is how much they'll rely on a single external partner (Warner) and the dearth of notable non-Disney or Warner boomer toons. If WB, for whatever reason, decides they want out of this venture, what would happen to this channel? They'd basically have to target the "newer" stuff and cut deals with smaller players or shutdown.
If this was a decade ago I'd agree, but there's also another factor to consider:
WB has a lot of cartoons in the public domain.
A lot of Fleischer/Famous cartoons are in the public domain as well (various Popeyes, all of the Superman cartoons, etc).
By 2029 there will be more cartoons going PD. Even if Disney doesn't play ball there's at least 100 Disney shorts that will be PD by that time, a lot of them Mickey. And by 2029, works from 1933 go PD which includes the first year of Fleischer Popeye cartoons.
WB does have a lot riding on this because they want to raise money and get the characters out there because they finally realized people at WB fricked up by walling them behind a cable paywall. I assume the worst case scenario is that MeTV would give up on it and just air PD cartoons with cartoons from whichever licensor they're working with.
If it was a cable channel I would agree, but isn't this on the air?
Some dick named Paul Rugg is excited
https://x.com/pkrugg/status/1786096369100321173
Good for him
Freakazoid > Pinky & the Brain > Animaniacs >>>>>> Tiny Toons
This Anon's alright.
Eh, Freakazoid was kinda weak out the gate. It was mostly just Animaniacs material rewritten with a superhero slant.
While true, all four are great. Tiny Toons has some mighty high highs but some might low lows as well, bringing the show down.
>This plush of Minerva Mink seems to be a prototype sample of a previously unreleased plush.No company has ever produced any plushes of her making this plush incredibly rare.It was obtained from a factory worker selling off old factory assets/stock.She stands roughly 10cm tall and and is very soft.She has very light wear from storage.No tags on the plush.
rare.collectionhero.com/view_item.php?id=19321
Why do you always spam random shit
Go back:
What
This show is not on MeTV Toons
Freakazoid and Taz-Mania are, both show up on Animaniacs, plus they're airing the same shows as Tooncast and Tooncast aired all the 90s WB shows but Tiny Toons (Freakazoid,Taz-Mania.Pinky & the Brain, Animaniacs, that awful Hysteria show, etc...) so it's a matter of time before they add it or Pinky and the Brain since both are the longest running 90s WB shows after Batman the animated series
Wait, is it just a streaming channel or will it have it's own dedicated channel?
>new free-to-air network
It's the latter, anon.
Well shit, kick ass.
It is a broadcast network. Carried free, over-the-air on regular TV and on some cable/satellite/IPTV carriers. Some of the language suggests it might also be available as a FAST channel, but nothing concrete on that.
ok but is this going to be in the UK? we don't even have a proper Boomerang here anymore as that has been turned into a channel for the recent Scooby-Doo and Tom and Jerry shows with Mr Bean and some shitty French bear show
It's broadcast. Over-the-air. Do you get CBS or NBC there?
United States only
Hope there's an online stream of it that'll make the internationals get to see it
I hope they add in the Famous Studios and Screen Gems cartoons as well. They are likely public domain.
Just add in as many public domain cartoons as you can. Even obscure shit like Bubble and Squeaks which I'm sure not a single person ITT have ever seen
This may actually get me to pick up cable again. If that is the only way of getting it.
Just buy a 20 dollar digital antenna, if you're near an area that carries it.
I don't get MeTV on a cheap antenna. I've got to shell out to Verizon for something like that.
Frndly streams MeTV for $6.99 a month, though there's no guarantee they'll pick up MeTV Toons.
>Frndly streams MeTV for $6.99 a month, though there's no guarantee they'll pick up MeTV Toons.
I hope they pick it up
>Advertises Secret Squirrel as one of the highlight toons
>But only the SSSS version
I love that even the retro channel knows that it's the definite version of the character and show, and the original is not even worth airing
>the original is not even worth airing
The original only now exists to be mocked in shows like Harvey Birdman.
So guessing there's an anime block with Speed Racer and Marine Boy?
Going by 1960s rules, they're considered as American a cartoon as Bugs and Mickey, so no need for any specific blocks.
They had Gigantor and Astroboy on Adult Swim, I can see them airing that someday
What other shows could make it onto this channel?
>Extreme Dinosaurs
>Swat Katz
>Mummies Alive
>Justice League and Unlimited
>Any classic Hanna Barbera action hero show
>any show WB wants to share
Freakazoid and Taz-Mania as launch titles are insane obvious precursors to in a few years when they want to make a ratings boost with new content and add Animaniacs
Screw Animaniacs, Batman the Animated Series.
With the sequel being shipped out to Amazon I doubt rights will be given to anyone but them
I was just thinking Mummies Alive would be a good fit
Ozzy & Drix for the E/I keks
GI Joe
Super Friends
George of the Jungle
Gumby
>>Any classic Hanna Barbera action hero show
The presence of Frankenstein Jr.suggests the possibility of Space Ghost, The Herculoids, the Galaxy Trio, etc. down the road.
I'm hoping they take their time and at least try to keep a nice mix though. The main channel has had the same problem with decade creep that ruined TVland..
This is already starting out with decade creep.
We have Freakazoid, Duck Dodgers, Xiaolin Showdown. Quite far from what MeTV's core is age-wise
Freakazoid is from 1995, they previously aired Looney Tunes shorts from the 90s, Duck Dodgers and Xialon Showdown are both from 2003 so those are some of the most recent shows on the lineup
>Xialon Showdown are both from 2003
Say it ain't so Black person...
Toon In With Me has the cartoons for 50+ year olds locked down, it's fine for them to experiment a bit to see if they can get more 30-40s.
Like I said, as long as they keep it a mix and not completely ditch/hide the older stuff over time. Obviously they need to made room for fresh content now and then but they can still keep the blocks balanced.
adult swim just says frick it and kicks toonami off to metv toons
Nah Toonami's chained to AS permanently by now
But I can see MeTV getting the boomer anime Toonami won't air anymore
>Frick it, Lets Make it the New Cartoon Network with EVERYONE's Content Sans Nicktoons Cartoon Cartoons and Disney!
I think you guys are missing the point
WB and CN have had a strained relationship for quite some time so I'm not surprised they just said "screw it"
I mean their starting lineup is better then what the big three's lineup has been in the past decade. I for one hope it succeeds and supplants them.
So Hanna Barbera, Warner Brothers, MGM, Filmation. We're really just missing Nickolodeon, DiC, and Disney.
DiC is a possibility that i hope happens. But Nick's original shows (Nicktoons. Oh and Beavis and Butthead, South Park, Daria and Comedy Central stuff) among CN original content (Everything starting Dexter's Lab) and ALL OF DISNEY, is off.
I can see Cartoon Cartoons happening, but only if Weigel is willing to pay. Those are massively popular and are center on Adult Swim's block now, so outside maybe the center programs here in Looney Tunes and Tom and Jerry they are probably the most expensive out of any show here to acquire rights for
Obviously anything Viacom or Disney is out, so is Pink Panther since Amazon yanked it away
What about the stuff that Nickelodeon used to air in tge 80s and early 90s before Nicktoons exploded in popularity? You know, Dic shows, Sunbow productions shows. Early Saban/Harmony Gold dubs, Canadian/Brit shows like Victor & Hugo, Count Duckula? Etc?
Oh and old Saban cartoons, or are those STILL owned by Disney outside of Power Rangers
>Oh and old Saban cartoons, or are those STILL owned by Disney outside of Power Rangers
For the most part, yes.
So, No misterious Cities of Gold? But what about early anime dubs like Pizza Cats, Grimms Fairy Tales (a staole of early 90s nickeolodeon before nicktoons)
I would samurai pizza cats and grrinms fairy tales be ok
I would ne surprised if they are able to get the bob the genie Saban dub
%3D
The anime's all reverted to their Japanese rights holders. Discotek has re-released both of the latter shows you mentioned on Blu-Ray.
Mysterious Cities of Gold is a weird one. I'm not sure who owns the rights to the original series in North America.
>The anime's all reverted to their Japanese rights holders.
Toei owns the English Digimon dub? That's cool
Yes, outside of a brief period when Saban's second media company acquired the rights with Fusion, Toei's had the Digimon shows for over a decade now.
Discotek is doing AI upscaled releases of the TV show and plan to release new uncut dubs of the movie compilation Fox did.
>Uncut dubs
>Discotek
Sorry to burst your bubble but those new dubs are DOOOOOMED.
The Samurai Pizza Cats subs for the official Discotek Japanese dub release were censored too, they censored all dialogue of the Guru making fun of Polly's small breast and censored all the dialogue making fun of Big Cheese for being gay
What troony or "Nazi" stuff is in those Digimon movies for them to seethe over?
>Ai upscale
NOPE. NO NO NO NO, can they use a non AI upscaler that wont make things look uncanny?
Yeah but who cares, the dub is trash, and Discoc°u°ck "NEW" dubs for the movies keep fricking around with the whole "OH YES, ITS UNCUT, BUT UH. IT USES THE SABAN CAST, BUT ITS NOT AS GOOFY AS BEFORE GUYS, WE SWEEAR, BUT ON SECOND TOUGHT, WERE FINE WITH SOME CAMP QHIPS, WE MIGHT RETOUCH IT A LITTLE, MAYBE, BEST OF BOTH WORLDS GUYS!!!.
Considering the pajeetshit Discotek dig theselves up with JelloApocalypse and their localizers, its a fricking lost cause.
Even worsex the Latino Cloverway dubs. Have NOT been preserved properly like they should, Toei only posseses degraded Mono mixes of those dubs,m heard on Fox Kids and Unicable, while the hi-fi stereo mixes heard on Canal 5, Televisa were destroyed by the latter, and Tamers and Frontier were dubbed in CuernaCaCa so those dubs are horrible
>Original content is also planned, though nothing has currently been revealed surrounding it.
What will be the "original content" DA
Toonheads successor.
What it be possible to re-air ToonHeads or is that series in rights hell?
Expect compilation series like Toon In With Me or documentaries. Jerry Beck said they have no plans to make new animation:
>The are NO PLANS for this channel to ever produce new animation (as Cartoon Network did). This is a Classic Cartoon channel devoted to the history of animation.
https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/here-comes-metv-toons/
Depending on how successful it is they'll cave.
If it's a massive success they very well might get someone to make an adaption of one of the major series they hold. They said the same for CN
MeTV had "original" live action segments with a host talking about the shows you were about to see, but they never had an original animation
I have no idea what kind of original show you could even do to please the audience of a channel who only airs reruns of old cartoons without pissing them off
Question, does this channel has SAP audio for LatAm dubs? or what i just saw is just syncs done by fans?
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I don't think WB owns that show anymore
They never did, but I'm sure they could negotiate
They could air the 80s Thundercats since they have Inspector Gadget and WB actually owns Thundercats
This is the best news ever and really shows the state of networks when a smaller groups showing reruns of classics drum up more interest.
I liked Katnappe, too bad she wasn't on the show all that much and Xiaolin Showdown was pretty mediocre overall, the follow up was even worse and I seriously hope they don't air it
Who is the most frickable character on Metv Toons?
Lydia
Who
From the Beetlejuice cartoon
Hard to believe this show ran for 109 episodes
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Ok now I get it
josie
Betty rubble and wilma Flintstone
Don't see proof they are airing Taz-Mania specifically and not just Taz LT shorts
The art they used for Taz on the website is from Taz-Mania.
They have the same shows who aired on Tooncast. Taz-Mania aired on Tooncast and the Taz' artwork they're using on the site is from that show too
its been over a decade
If you love this thank the gays who actually watched the saturday morning block like we said to
>In a presentation yesterday, Neal Sabin, vice-chairman of Weigel Broadcasting Co., explained the reason for launching this new network, and it largely has to do with the popularity of the Saturday morning animation block on the existing MeTV channel. In the fourth quarter of 2023, he reported that MeTV’s cartoon block outperformed Seinfeld and The Office on Comedy Central, Law & Order on USA, and Friends on Nick at Nite in the 25-54-year-old demo.
Always was wild to me as a kid when Kids WB and Foxkids just vanished. I remember vividly it was replaced by some random nature show.
The moment they said they couldn't advertise to kids during the morning shows, it all stopped.
25-54 explains some of the 00s cartoons.
>If you love this thank the gays who actually watched the saturday morning block like we said to
And I was the ones, I also watch sunday night cartoons more tbh.
youre welcome
I would watch, but I don't have cable or a basic television plan.
Anunody knows how to stream the signal on the PC
assuming MeTV and/or MeTV+ are available in your area you can get a Digital TV Antenna for between 20 and 75 bucks(depending on how powerful a model you go for) that should be able to receive it, I went with a $20 and it received both channels easily(and should with Toons when that launches since I'm able to get the channel space it's gonna occupy*)
*currently one of those shopping channels
Hmmmm.
That may be worth it then.
It has been ages since I actually sat down and watched television. The History Channel, MeTV, Sci-Fi, The WB(I will never call it The CW, what does it even stand for?), Cartoon Network, Boomeraang, Nickelodeon, Jetix, COLOR's Anime Block from 7-to-12... Mhmm...
I miss those days. When me and the family would gather around and watched Angel, Charmed, House, Master Chef, How Its Made, Loony Tunes...
>I will never call it The CW, what does it even stand for?
CBS and Warner, the two owners of the channel.
Oh. So thats why its called that. A question I always wonedered has now been answered. Thank you stranger.
My big hope is they eventually get Twisted Tales
oh frick yes
and throw in some eek the cat
Will they show micro shorts like this in between shows?
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Neat choice!
Tooncast had old anime for a while before they moved everything to Adult Swim, I can see this new channel airing older Japanese stuff beside Speed Racer, but I won't mind it they never do, the cartoons they got are more than good enough
Inspector Gadget means we can get more DIC shows, I'm hoping for stuff like Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors
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The ending theme was also great
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You could get this instead
Why did this show exist?
According to the people at DIC "we wanted to make a tribute to Tex Avery's work"
Tribute in what way? It's like someone took the worst parts of Animaniacs and Ren & Stimpy, and slapped Tex Avery's name on it for some reason.
Apparently the family of tex avrey were having financial issues at the time so they license his name to ...that
Ah, that explains everything. Still doesn't excuse DiC for not knowing shit.
And Chuck Jones had to step in and demand that DiC pay more money to the Averys.
Everytime I go to my parents' house MeTV is on. I've caught more episodes of The Rifleman, Wagon Train, and Adam-12 than I've ever expected to.
>Thread almost over
sad, but It was a good one.
The fun is just beginning on June 25 : )
>Josie and the Pussycats
Anyone else remembering seeing this promo?
Only saw it one time on Boomerang years ago.
That's the first time I've ever seen that, usually it's the other bumper
You know the one
honestly? based. people will watch it and more classic cartoons will be added. FREE TV keeps winning.
It'll probably have many medicine and retirement home commercials for the target audience
You need medicine and retirement homes already?
What shows are getting the graveyard slot?
Go-Bots maybe
That's when they'll play all their late 90s and 00s shows
It'll be their version of adult swim
It is absolutely essential that Looney Tunes and/or Tom & Jerry air between 11 to 1
Will we have watch threads for the first couple of days
If Checkered Past could last 6 months with threads until they died off we should get a solid week out of this if we have access to a stream of the channel
it might be difficult since the threads would be 24/7 since it's a whole channel and not just a two hour block daily like checkered past
Boomerang’s current schedule is unironically better
Well I like their schedule better back in early april where they have wally gator, jabber jaw, and top cat.
I hope both Cartoon Network and Boomerang burn and go away forever and Ted Turner pisses on the ashes. They've both sucked for longer than most people on this board have been alive.
Kill Boomerang then, let this MeTV channel thrive.
>Me TV Toons marathon of Snagglepuss to celebrate pride month
Surely they would be respectful of his creator's thoughts on the matter.
>One time, Mr. Barbera playfully threatened one of our writers, Steve Marmel, after he insinuated that Snagglepuss was gay.
>“He was modeled after Bert Lahr. He was anything but gay. He beat his wife.” Mr. Barbera retorted.
>After that, Butch Hartman started egging Mr. Barbera on saying, “Are you gonna take that from Steve? He’s calling one of your character’s gay!”
>Mr. Barbera calmly said, “Don’t be surprised if you wake up one morning and… (Mr. Barbera makes a slitting of the throat gesture) Remember. A Sicilian never forgets.”
When was the last time anyone sincerely gave a shit what Hanna Barbera thought especially after the shit they put though in the mid 60s-80s and only got reversed in the 90s when HB staff stopped listening to them?
only ran the first thirteen seasons of the anime on loop each year (Indigo League to Sinnoh League Victors)
>Only
Boys we have officially fricking won.
I’ll believe it when I see Quick Draw McGraw (which appears to have been blanket banned) aired
>blanket banned) aired
What is this is this like the johnny bravo situation?
Somewhat similar
The character of Quick Draw himself isn’t banned, he appears in merch and shows (with some variations) still. But it appears (and I’m rumoring since no one discusses about this) the original show itself has gotten banned due to a rather large list of things that piss off the execs
>Heavy gun usage
>Occasional typical 50s Native American usage
>Mexican stereotypes
>Clear foreign white guy larping as a Latino character
>Even the occasional Bravo-type flirting
For Jellystone they got around this by only making him Kabong, and then making him Latino. Seems for modern adaptions if he’s Kabong he has to be explicitly Latino now, and if he’s still sheriff he can’t have guns.
But I haven’t seen the original show available for a long time, and he’s a pretty major character as far as HB goes and more then a lot that are going to be on this channel, so him not being available here is really suspect.
Why would quickdraw be banned
read the thread homie
I love Jerry Beck and I always have.
I wanna have sex with jerry beck
what's his twitter? will they air spanish dubs?
He doesn't have a Twitter account
What was the list he was responding to?
I wonder how spumdonor and other spumlite will react to this
Who
STFU
I'm a zoomer and I remember some of these oddities lol. I always wondered why I never grew up with Popeye and Tex Avery despite how popular they are. Do you remember when they'd calk up the schedule with some of the classic cartoon cartoons mainly Dexter, Cow and Chicken, and Powerpuff Girls. Seeing anything from the 00s felt like a rarity on the network.
KND never aired on classic Boomerang until the rebrand but Ben 10, Camp Lazlo, Chowder, Flapjack, and Fosters did
>Inspector Gadget Confirmed
DiC confirmed, i hope Heathcliff turns out to be the DiC version too
They need to put Thundercats or Dinosaucers in there to make up for not being able to put TMNT in there thanks to Viacom
https://x.com/autumn09289/status/1786395859397054516?s=46
https://x.com/autumn09289/status/1786395859397054516?s=46
That's not on topic...
have a nice day Augie you spamming pedophile
Interview with one of Weigel's employees. They have all of the Gerry Anderson shows, too. They're planning an all-Bugs Bunny day in July to celebrate his birthday with an original documentary.