Re: Return of the Powerpuff Girls

On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 14:01:10 -0500, "Frank J. Lhota"
<FrankLho.NOSPAM@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>The Eternal Lost Lurker wrote:
>> "Don Del Grande" <del_grande_news@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>> news:v8tpq31hq2q3fsa5naptr48neljgcj8va3@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>> I think it would be neat if Cartoon Network could both run "Powerpuff
>>>> Girls" and "Powerpuff Girls Z". It would be interesting to do >
>>> side-by-side comparisons.
>>>
>>> Didn't CN say on one of their Adult Swim bumpers not too long ago that
>>> they weren't getting any more new anime for a while because what was
>>> out there was either too expensive, too sexy, or too violent?
>> 

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>
>> 3. Adult Swim is notorious for doing their best to piss off their
viewers,
>> especially the anime crowd. Hence why they're cutting the anime block
with a
>> mess of "comedy" starting this weekend despite it having been pure
anime for
>> the first time in YEARS for the last few weeks.
>
>Granted, a lot of recent Adult Swim fare such as "Saved By The Bell" and 
>"Assy McGee"have pissed off viewers. But it would be hard to make the 
>case that a commercial entity would purposely seek to alienate its 
>customer base. A much more plausible explanation for this is pure 
>incompetence: they actually thought that we'd /like/ these shows. 
>Hopefully, they've gotten the message that we expect more sophisticated 
>programming
>

   Let's still make clear the obvious reason they cut comedy into
Action again after an all-anime block again . . .:

ALL-ANIME SATURDAYS GET LOUSY RATINGS!

ALL-ANIME SATURDAYS GET LOUSY RATINGS!

ALL-ANIME SATURDAYS GET LOUSY RATINGS!


   Hope that was clear enough . . .



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