It looks like Popeye's getting taken off Boomerang

[Surenity]

I looked at their upcoming TV schedule and it looks like they're moving things around in January, adding a few cartoons they didn't have on before (like some really bad 60's action cartoons...and pound puppies...>.< ), and removing others. Looks like they're only showing MGM once a day now too. But what irks me is it looks like they took Popeye right off their whole schedule! Well, they might still have it on Late Night Black and White...hopefully. They can't keep showing the same 11 episodes of Captain and the Kids every week can they?

[Snowpeck II]

Late Night B&W is gone too... as are Pink Panther and Batfink.


Greg

[dandu]

OH NO!! I don't have cable, but I can see where this is going...Can anyone say Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends is going to be on Boomerang?

[nickramer]

OH NO!! I don't have cable, but I can see where this is going...Can anyone say Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends is going to be on Boomerang?

First of all, I happen to like Fosters(please don't shoot me) and consider it to be the only good original that is still running on CN.

Second of all, even though CN dumped some of it's old orginal show on Boomerang, Fosters is still too new to be on Boomerang as it hasn't been cancelled yet.

Although I, unforunantly, see this show and others on Boomerang someday if management dosen't change, I doubt Fosters will be on next year.

Of course, I could be wrong, you know.

[dandu]

I've never seen it myself, but a lot of GACer's beef about it, so I made that remark, I might like it myself, i usually like what most GACer's don't anyway...

[Surenity]

This stinks, now I won't have anything to watch late at night, I usually looked forward to the MGM and Popeye block right before I went to bed. (I'm on the west coast, so I got it 3 hours earlier)



*sends Popeye to knock out Boomerang's management*

[Popeye!]

Does this mean... Popeye's not on tv anymore? (I don't have cable, so i wouldn't know).

I wonder when Popeye: Volume 2 is coming out. July, 2008?

[Surenity]

Does this mean... Popeye's not on tv anymore? (I don't have cable, so i wouldn't know).

I wonder when Popeye: Volume 2 is coming out. July, 2008?

Pretty much...except for possibly on Late Night Black and White, which actually survived being cancelled

[ebrand11]

Well lets hope Late Night Black and White continues to be aired but on the other hand it pretty much dosent matter when they keep showing the same Captain and the kids cartoons over and over. There are several Popeyes that were never shown in black and white on the popeye show. Plus a few weeks ago I taped Late Night Black and White and they actually showed a colorized version of "Beware of Barnacle Bill". And finally is the reason that they don't show any black and white Warner bros. cartoons is that its not airing on Boomerang anytime else and MGM is.

[nickramer]

Well actually, they are still airing the colorized Popeyes or color Famous Studio Popeyes as filters before the next schedule show, which is better than showing those newer international shorts that don't belong on Boomerang.

[ebrand11]

Yes I actually just posted them on the cartoon Highligts thread.

[MF TOON]

watching cartoons on tv has become pretty pointless and redundant in the modern home video world.

[Acme]

Boomerang still shows cartoons between other programs like a Popeye short sometimes. So typically they still show it. The Smurfs are also gone from the schdule.

[Bobby Bickert]

Plus a few weeks ago I taped Late Night Black and White and they actually showed a colorized version of "Beware of Barnacle Bill".

When Late Night Black & White was still on Cartoon Network, they once showed the redrawn version of "The Spinach Roadster". (They've also showed the computer-colorized "Porky's Duck Hunt", and even a Technicolor MGM cartoon!)

[Studio Toledo]

watching cartoons on tv has become pretty pointless and redundant in the modern home video world.
It's sad really when you think about it sometimes. 25 years ago, it was very common to catch all the classics on any UHF station in the country, it was never a thought in our mind that one day it would be all over. Now it's like, I don't even care since they've already drained the fun out of me!

[Surenity]

It's sad really when you think about it sometimes. 25 years ago, it was very common to catch all the classics on any UHF station in the country, it was never a thought in our mind that one day it would be all over. Now it's like, I don't even care since they've already drained the fun out of me!

It's like that for almost everything, but I seriously thought Looney Tunes would always be on TV when I was a kid and I took them for granted, and when I finally get interested in classic cartoons they're gone -_-
There are DVD sets...but I'm poor >.<

[MF TOON]

Part of the problem is that in this age of high-speed internet and digital downloads and streaming video and multi-cable channels, satelite packages and recorded television with TiVO's that allow you to program your own scheduled shows/episodes to watch at select times... the entire scope of what made your local network and public access shows Sunday morning syndicated package of cartoons so appealing and endearing to us growing up, is completely lost. And it's indeed a shame that future generations of kids growing up won't be able to experience these same memories that once seemed so integral to our youth. Tuning in to a channel like Boomerang in the middle of the day, for me, just isn't the same as waking up early on a weekend and tip-toeing over to the tube set with a bowl of your favorite cereal to watch the pre-'48 packages of Looney Tunes and Woody Woodpecker shorts on TBS and TNT. It's the same way I get little enjoyment from loading up an iTunes playlist with five hundred mp3's as opposed to the excitement and anticipation of saving up my weekly allowance and taking the bus downtown to buy records, and the feeling of that great unexpected find that just can't be replicated from filesharing and the disposable music premise commonplace today. It's a different world... but thank god for home video preservation and obsessive-nostalgic GAC geeks!

[Studio Toledo]

It's like that for almost everything, but I seriously thought Looney Tunes would always be on TV when I was a kid and I took them for granted, and when I finally get interested in classic cartoons they're gone -_-
There are DVD sets...but I'm poor >.<
Heh, I used to thought Woody Woodpecker will always be on TV but I guess I was wrong too! Really, the things that happen in two decades time just stuns me!

[PeppeRaskell1]

Pity that Popeye and Batfink won't be on Boomerang for a while...

But at least we'll have their respective DVDs to watch whenever we want (and wherever we can find them).

Just ordered the Popeye the Sailor 1933-1938 DVD from Columbia House, and am still waiting for juuuuust the right online sale for Batfink.

I miss his cute little Myron Waldman-animated face....:(

[shadejford]

I saw this coming for I noticed that Boomerang was gradually phasing out pre-l960 cartoons. 'Might as well call Boomerang "Hanna-Barbera--Old School." This is just another manifestation of the media thinking that today's youth have short attention spans and therefore won't be interested in watching and enjoying the complexities of pre-l960 cartoons. Personally, everytime I've seen kids and teenagers watch a pre-l960 cartoon, they thought it was cool.

[Bugsy-Kun]

I know here they aired Popeye but unfortunately it's the 1978's re-incarnation. Not the original cartoons. :(

[frizfrelengfan]

I like watching my cartoon DVDs, but the great thing about television is the element of surprise. You don't know what you're going to see next. That element is missing from DVDs.

[ltnut]

I've seen Popeye cartoons start to show up as filler on TCM's schedule, and I get the impression that they will become the only place to see them, like it is now with Looney Tunes. Unfortunately TCM has dropped Cartoon Alley, so that means seeing them even less. :mad:

[Jon Cooke]

I've seen Popeye cartoons start to show up as filler on TCM's schedule, and I get the impression that they will become the only place to see them, like it is now with Looney Tunes. Unfortunately TCM has dropped Cartoon Alley, so that means seeing them even less. :mad:

The first LNB&W for Feb. is all B&W Popeyes on Boomerang. So, we may be seeing more there.

Whoever is programming Boomerang lately seems to be on an '80s nostalgia kick (stuff like Pound Puppies and The Snorks seem to be on whenever I flip by).

[ebrand11]

4 more B&W popeyes on next weeks LNBW, with Blunder Below, one of the few I don't have in B&W, hopefully this will continue.

[BloodyChamp]

I like watching my cartoon DVDs, but the great thing about television is the element of surprise. You don't know what you're going to see next. That element is missing from DVDs.

Seeing a cartoon like these on TV is like hearing a vaulted song on the radio. I have have all of Black Sabbaths CDs of course, but when Warpigs sneaks onto the radio every few months late at night, it's a special moment.

[Bobby Bickert]

4 more B&W popeyes on next weeks LNBW, with Blunder Below, one of the few I don't have in B&W, hopefully this will continue.

The copy of "Blunder Below" used for Late Night Black & White while it was still on CN was edited (very sloppily too).

[Marty26]

May be they'll be replaced with The New Popeye Hour and The New Pink Panther Show.

Oh wait. I forgot. Even THOSE cartoons are now considered "old hat" amongst today's youth (1978 and 1993, respectively).

[David Gerstein]

May be they'll be replaced with The New Popeye Hour and The New Pink Panther Show.

Oh wait. I forgot. Even THOSE cartoons are now considered "old hat" amongst today's youth (1978 and 1993, respectively).Hey, don't jump to conclusions.
When a vintage cartoon is removed from the air today, it often has nothing to do with actual popularity. It is often, instead, because the broadcaster sees more ancillary revenue from broadcasting something on which it has merchandising rights (CN sees no such revenue from Popeye; nor did it from Looney Tunes, another franchise it treated badly for this reason).
At other times, ancillary revenue may not be involved—but ego may be. When an old cartoon gets significantly better ratings than new cartoons on which certain execs' egos are riding, it's easier to deep-six the old cartoon and hide the evidence before anyone catches on.
Not saying this is going on now, but I'm nearly certain it has on some networks in the past.

[Mike]

When an old cartoon gets significantly better ratings than new cartoons on which certain execs' egos are riding, it's easier to deep-six the old cartoon and hide the evidence before anyone catches on.
Not saying this is going on now, but I'm nearly certain it has on some networks in the past.

Isn't Tom and Jerry still among the higher-rated shows on CN? (Of course, CN does make money of T&J, so the point's more moot than it might be otherwise, but still.)

Mike

[David Gerstein]

I suspect Tom and Jerry would be gone from CN—ratings notwithstanding—if TOM AND JERRY TALES were not sweeping Saturday mornings right now. The characters are too high-profile at the moment for a CN exec to risk being seen damaging the brand.
(But I could be wrong. For all I know, Tom and Jerry will leave CN tomorrow; I know I've seen someone saying it's going to depart later this month?)

[Jon Cooke]

I suspect Tom and Jerry would be gone from CN—ratings notwithstanding—if TOM AND JERRY TALES were not sweeping Saturday mornings right now. The characters are too high-profile at the moment for a CN exec to risk being seen damaging the brand.
(But I could be wrong. For all I know, Tom and Jerry will leave CN tomorrow; I know I've seen someone saying it's going to depart later this month?)

Actually, CN has *added* Tom & Jerry timeslots on Saturdays and Sundays this month... T&J now broadcast 7 days a week on CN (for now).