There are no all-animation channels

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Chloe R

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Anyone noticed how there's no all-animation channels?

Cartoon Network - They do show more cartoons than most basic cable channels but with various live action movies and series playing on the network, they aren't all-animation.

Nicktoons Network - There's currently a debate on whether or not Mr. Meaty can qualify as live action or not. But that's the show keeping the network from being all-animation.

Toon Disney - They often play live action movies from their library and let's not forget, Power Rangers.

The only thing left is Anime Network but that's just for Japanese animation and not any kind of animation.
 
Yeah, I guess technically that is true. I would like to see an MTV Toons channel that shows all the old MTV cartoons that they have the rights to from over the years, but the odds of that....
 
Well, the Anime Network does show videos and interviews with voice artists and producers, and I heard they're going to air some live-action Japanese movies in the future.

There is the Funimation Channel. They're still all animation.

For now.

I like puppets, but puppets aren't cartoons. Yes, they create motion from inanimate objects, but they're not drawn, rendered, or photographed one position at a time.

Puppets aren't cartoons. And anybody that says otherwise isn't well in the head.
 
I think so too. I don't see how or why they think this way. Aren't these network executives suppose to have a certain degree of education? Yet they place funny little live action shows with cartoons, it doesn't make sense.
 
Oh please.

In my opinion Nicktoons Network is still 100% cartoons. While Mr. Meaty isn't technically animated, it's not like living people appear in the show. In a way, puppetry is a form of animation, as it's giving life to an inanimate object, I suppose. And I'll wager the show won't be sticking around too much longer.

And what's wrong with Boomerang?
 
Well, we're losing all our cartoon channels... but don't worry. We still have channels for dogs to watch, channels for Babies to watch, entire networks devoted souly to infomercials, a game show network, and a network for people that live in Montana.

Why on Earth they can't fit a couple lousy NON-Children cartoon networks into the schedual (so they don't have to compete with other dopey kids programs) is beyond me.
 
So, you're saying the word "cartoon" is, at best, a fluid concept? Wonder how many puppeteers are in the animation unions in this country. There's probably a handful (no pun intended), but that's because they're in the animation industry as well. I know a number of folks at Jim Henson Productions who are also animators. Plus, they have used some of those Muppet innovations in 3D animation as well.

Puppetry is not a form of animation. If anything, puppetry is theater/performance art, like dancing, acting on stage, musicals, and the like.

But it's not cartoons.

And for the record, nobody intentionally forgot Boomerang. It's just that a lot of people don't have it. Oh, and Cartoon Network fails to acknowledge its existance unless something new premieres like The Batman or previews like the live-action Out of Jimmy's Head.

I know Teletoon exists too, but haven't they been airing a lot of live-action movies as of late like Beetlejuice and Batman as well as The Wrong Coast (another puppet show)? And I love Teletoon.

There is TELETOON Retro, which is all animation.
 
Nice post but I find it troubling. Your first words are "Oh please" which means you find something wrong with my post. All I said was, "There are no all-animation channels". Nothing to get upset about. Also, why do feel you need to say "And I'll wager the show won't be sticking around too much longer" for Mr. Meaty? Did I at any point lead you to believe I was bashing the show? I like Mr. Meaty but like Jeff Harris said, puppets aren't cartoons.



I did not mean to offend anyone, next time I'll make it clear which country or countries I'm referring to.
 
I don't remember Teletoon airing Batman (could be wrong though), but I know it did air Beetlejuice, Scooby-Doo and Space Jam. All of those are related to cartoons that they've shown though, and Space Jam is half animation.

The Wrong Coast is stop-motion animation, by the way.
 
Sad to say, it's mostly true.


Don't think MTV has a big enough library to do that. Combine MTV, Comedy Central, and certain cult NickToons, that might be able to happen.
 
And how many of these have more then just 13 episodes? Unless you want to go through the entire series of Downtown in 4 days, I wouldn't suggest this idea to be done.
 
Isn't Boomerang (in the US at least) all animation? Also I do consider NN to have never played live action because I consider puppets to be in a league of their own.
 
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