Even Teletoon's doing Live Action.

Yes, but they always allowed for limited live-action or live shows that are comic book or animation in origin. Ex. The live Scooby or super hero movies...

There's nothing wrong with getting more viewers, especially when a lot of them stay to watch the animated programs that precede or follow.
 
I read a little about that pilot, Cartoon Gene, and it actually sounds like it might be a little better than Out of Jimmy's Head (of course, that wouldn't take much), at least in case of the former, cartoons and animation play a major role in the series' premise. I mean, if Cartoon Network and Teletoon really must have live action, it should at least be live action that's about animation, I say.

Speaking of OOJH, didn't Teletoon air that show at one time?
 
Their license with the CRTC obligates them to air no more than 10% of live-action programming on any given day. Of course, it's up for renewal in August, so I'll be interesting to see if they'll try to drop that condition.



They still air it on Saturdays paired up with the aforementioned Majority Rules. :sweat:
 
Cartoon Network could use a regulation like that. There'd be considerably less complaining about the live-action on the network with such a stipulation in place.
 
Or animated series, in the beginnings of Teletoon, they broadcasted the puppet-animated series Fireball XL5 from Gerry Anderson who also created Stingray and Thunderbirds.
 
Canada, unlike the US, requires a license to run a cable TV channel, just like a license to have an over-the-air radio or TV station. Thus, their CRTC requires the cable channels to meet various requirements, including Canadian content laws (like the other broadcast media there---a minimum amount of Canadian-made content) and adhering to the channel's designated purpose. Thus, Teletoon can't pull a Cartoon Network and air live-action junk by the metric ton....

The US doesn't regulate cable TV the way it does broadcast TV, since cable's viewed as a privately-run enterprise you're intentionally paying for, and thus they have much greater freedom (hence the existence of South Park, Sopranos, Queer as Folk, etc. on cable) under the first amendment (freedom of speech and all)...

-B.
 
huh...guessed I missed that one. Actually it looks more fun than Jimmy's Head. 'cartoon DNA' makes at least some inkling of sense (if you accept the existance of a cartoon parallele universe) whereas a BRAIN TRANSPLANT just makes you groan in disgust at the blatant disregard for such basic biology. Plus there's no annoying little critter that are suppose to remind me of old cartoon shorts I actually don't find funny in the first place ><

Plus it got Karen Cliche from Mutant X in red leather! ;):anime:
 
So you believe in alternate dimensions where videogames are cartoons are real and interact with humans from the "real" world yet a cartoon brain can not be transplanted into a human skull? Really?

I think the leather is affecting your "judgement".
 
Well, they've been a little live-action for a couple of years now, even showing live-action films and such. Not really news. Just, sadly, the same old same old.
 
I've almost completely blocked out ReAnimated from my mind (and I never watched a single episode of Out of Jimmy's Head), but I recall that the idea of Jimmy getting a brain transplant that allowed him to see cartoons was absurd because I don't think they ever bothered to explain how all of Jimmy's memories/thoughts/functions/etc were transferred over. It would've made sense if, like, some certain part of the brain had to be transplanted or something, but no, they implied that the entire brain was transplanted.

And we're talking about a world that, other than Jimmy's psychotic hallucinations and the fact that his sister was an alien, seemed completely normal.
 
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