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gareth robinson

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I hope you may all forgive me but, there's that needs to solved here:

Inspired by another thread here, I saw that live action show like The Power rangers and Saved by the Bell, et al, were listed, along animated shows. Just because those live shows were included in the programming of such stations like NBC, tec., doesn't meant SBTB qualifies as a cartoon. It's live action, and were're, no offense, in a forum for cartoons. Live action show , I was tautght to believe, ain't toons. So there is a difference. Maybe someone can invent a forum for live action Saturday morning shows like TPR and SBTB, all the Krofft shows, an so forth. But I doubt it.
 
What do you mean? I don’t believe anybody has said that “Saved By The Bell” is a cartoon, so I’m not quite sure why you felt the urgency to make this thread. Besides, Toon Zone already has rules regarding live-action shows and how they can be discussed in the animation forums; it’s why you don’t see Hannah Montana talkbacks in the Disney Animation Forum. I’m sure there are some exceptions to this, such as in the [Adult Swim] forum, but I don’t think you have anything to worry about.
 
Speaking on behalf of the staff at Toon Zone, we would be more than happy to address whatever concerns you have about mixing in live-action shows with animated ones, but we're going to need a lot more information about what you're looking for because "I saw that live action show like The Power rangers and Saved by the Bell, et al, were listed, along animated shows" tells us nothing. What are you talking about and where?

Live-action shows tend to congregate on the Entertainment Board and we're happy to move threads where they belong if you use the "Report Post" button to let us know a thread is in the wrong spot. There are exceptions, like the live-action Adult Swim shows staying on the AS board, but that's the only real exception I can think of off the top of my head.

If you are referring to something on a schedule page, then we're really just providing complete programming information because it's too much work to excise all the non-animated programming. From a usability standpoint, I think it's better to show the full blocks rather than leaving gaps. There's no way to tell from the outside looking in if the gaps are because we have incomplete or incorrect information or because we're blocking out non-animated programming. I'm pretty sure we don't list blocks that are ALL live-action, but I could be wrong about that.

-- Ed
 
Hey, there's the Entertainment Forum, where this stuff would fit right at home. It's pretty much the place to go to discuss anything live action. So a forum just for Saturday morning live action shows would be pretty pointless.

Wolf, I really don't understand the point of this thread, although I know exactly what prompted you to start it. Saved by the Bell and Power Rangers aren't live action shows but they were scheduled on Saturday mornings among various cartoon shows. Obviously they not cartoons. You'd have to not even know what a cartoon was to not understand that.

This is like starting a thread about your local pizza place and complaining that they sell chicken fingers to the kids. Yes, we know chicken fingers aren't pizza. The point...?
 
I believe what he's referring to is the 'Test your memory: Tell us your first cartoon lineup' thread a few threads below this, where some of us listed SBtB and PR in the lineups listed.

No one in said thread EVER said that those were animated shows, they were just referred to as being part of the lineups we got into, PR being a part of the Fox Kids schedule, and SBtB being on NBC's Saturday Morning lineup, and later syndicated alongside TMNT, the Disney Afternoon and Scooby Doo in the before/after school cartoon blocks.

Like it or not, there were live action shows that were tossed into animation blocks, dating all the way back Howdy Doody, and continuing through today with Out of Jimmy's Head. No, they're not animated, but you can't ignore that those shows were an essential part of said lineups.
 
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