Why is it so freaking hard just to have classic cartoons on the air? I can't say they NEVER make any new cartoons that are good, but for the most part you can toss them all in a bag and leave them out by the curb where they belong.

It's maybe because they think:

"What's the point of airing classic cartoons if they are having DVD sales?" "The parents can buy the DVDs for their kids instead." "We need to show more new shows to new generation of kids."

Yeah but not everyone has internet, and not every DVD releases of classics are sold in stores. It's not fair! You need to keep airing re-runs on TV so kids will know who those characters are, and so those kids of yesterday can pass it to others. 🤦

But what about the old cartoons which aren't even ON DVD?

Yeah but not everyone has internet, and not every DVD releases of classics are sold in stores. It's not fair! You need to keep airing re-runs on TV so kids will know who those characters are, and so those kids of yesterday can pass it to others. #-o

I agree. Children can easily be introduced to classic cartoons through television. It's great Tom and Jerry and Looney Tunes are still on Boomerang. Those are two cartoons I believe aspiring cartoonists should take influence from. The main problem with Boomerang's schedule is they seem to re-air stuff like "What's New Scooby-Doo?" and "The Garfield Show" multiple times a day. (Is Jim Davis trying to make Turner reschedule "Garfield" over and over in order to make more moola?)

The Hanna-Barbera cartoons have little exposure these days. (Boomerang only airs "The Flintstones", "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?, and "The Smurfs", and that's it.) Also, I don't mind Boomerang airing the older Cartoon Network originals. However, they only seem to air only a few of those too. What they could do is revive the Boomerang Zoo (a collection of "funny animal" Hanna-Barbera shorts) and Cartoon Planet (a collection of episodes of Cartoon Network originals). Both "shows" only last about an hour, and I'm sure they could fit them somewhere in the schedule.

But what about the old cartoons which aren't even ON DVD?

Companies need to stop wasting time and just bring out more for us collectors. Don't they know the definition of "The costumer is always right"?

In Chile, Boomerang was rebooted almost six months ago. But in our case it is a good change since the Latin American Boomerang consisted in tween shows (back when these were popular).

P.S.: If anyone asks, I am the "SSouth American Correspondent". Nice to be back.

1. Ew.
2. Why is the announcer a little kid?
3. Why are the classic cartoons in the graveyard slot?

1. Ew.
2. Why is the announcer a little kid?
3. Why are the classic cartoons in the graveyard slot?

Here's how the rebrand should of been instead:
1. No gross out humor please!
2. The announcer should of been either a guy or just a cartoon character.
3. Give the classic cartoons their own slots.

I literally just gained access to Boomerang after all these years, and my own prophecy about the event came true. By the time I got Boomerang it had been ruined and turned into mostly garbage. For reasons I don't entirely understand every single cable network that I've ever liked has to follow a predictable and irresistible trajectory from "cool" to "suck". Why is it so freaking hard just to have classic cartoons on the air? I can't say they NEVER make any new cartoons that are good, but for the most part you can toss them all in a bag and leave them out by the curb where they belong.

Because it's the new 70s/80s, where most TV shows on the air suck, bar a few classics.

Because it's the new 70s/80s, where most TV shows on the air suck, bar a few classics.

Yup. You can't tell apart if it's 1983 or 2015, but enough OT for today.

To try put something uplifting to this thread, I do hope someday TCM puts a theatrical cartoon block on their channel. I know the rights are tied up to CN's channels somehow, but one can hope.

Yeah, let's try not to make this a "new cartoons suck" thread.

Anyway, it's apparent that Boomerang is no longer limited to classic/vintage cartoons only. However, instead of airing "The Garfield Show" eight times a day (yes, I did count), Turner has an entire library of cartoons they can air during those timeslots. They can still air some of the more "well-known" Hanna-Barbera cartoons (such as "Jetsons", "Yogi Bear", and "Huckleberry Hound") mixed with some of the older Cartoon Network originals (which happen to have a cult following as of now).

Because it's the new 70s/80s, where most TV shows on the air suck, bar a few classics.

Uh, I will say to me there were still quite a few good animated shows in the 70s and 80s, but that's just me. There were still some I found to be bad or boring, and there were even some like that in the 90s, too!
But back on topic, Boomerang could easily make themselves be like the new Hub by drawing on Turner's large library of cartoons, with making it a healthy blend of classic and contemporary stuff, like CN was in the late 90s and the early 2000s, along with SOME new stuff.
"The Garfield Show" seems to be one of those "adored by the network" cases, like Spongebob is to Nick. They could easily cut it down to four, maybe two showings a day, and that would leave some room open. I'm reminded of how in the early 2000s, Nick was hogging up a good bulk of the timeslots with Rugrats and Spongebob, and canceling shows just to make room for showing them more!

But back on topic, Boomerang could easily make themselves be like the new Hub by drawing on Turner's large library of cartoons, with making it a healthy blend of classic and contemporary stuff, like CN was in the late 90s and the early 2000s, along with SOME new stuff.

This.

Because it's the new 70s/80s, where most TV shows on the air suck, bar a few classics.

Uh, I will say to me there were still quite a few good animated shows in the 70s and 80s, but that's just me. There were still some I found to be bad or boring, and there were even some like that in the 90s, too!
But back on topic, Boomerang could easily make themselves be like the new Hub by drawing on Turner's large library of cartoons, with making it a healthy blend of classic and contemporary stuff, like CN was in the late 90s and the early 2000s, along with SOME new stuff.
"The Garfield Show" seems to be one of those "adored by the network" cases, like Spongebob is to Nick. They could easily cut it down to four, maybe two showings a day, and that would leave some room open. I'm reminded of how in the early 2000s, Nick was hogging up a good bulk of the timeslots with Rugrats and Spongebob, and canceling shows just to make room for showing them more!

I just mean that there were quite a lot of bad 70s and early 80s cartoons on the air, like there are a lot of bad ones now. The difference is what makes it bad. Spongebob is bad because it's just being forced down everyone's throats, while the bad shows in the 70s and early 80s were just... bad.

We need executives which want to widen children's horizons, instead of showing the same old stuff over and over. I got sick of Recess because they'd only air that on Toon Disney after a while. It's like they want to loose money by making kids sick of cartoons or something.

We need executives which want to widen children's horizons, instead of showing the same old stuff over and over. I got sick of Recess because they'd only air that on Toon Disney after a while. It's like they want to loose money by making kids sick of cartoons or something.

Finally, Someone that understands the woes of Kids TV today

Sir, I concur wholeheartedly
Execs of Kids TV in the US today are dumb as dip, They always have this mantra of Kids are Stupid
I'm sick of execs relying on rubbish from canada (save for Max and Ruby and Scaredy Squirrel) instead of quality shows like Geronimo Stilton, Hey Duggee, Moomin, Rastamouse, Yoohoo and Friends, Kikoriki, Canimals, Bing, Sooty, The Dreamstone and others

Kids TV in the US is a trainwreck since the Kids TV act went into effect - that and "Kids are Idiots" mindset is sadly the majority (save for Sprout due to Boj, Clangers and Poppy Cat)

While rerunning popular shows are a drag, We could [and should] motivate the public into supporting quality shows
MLP and LPS are stepping stones but we can use good imports like those i mentioned to motivate people to stop supporting rubbish like Grojband, Numb Chucks, EVERY iteration of Total Drama and Breadwinners

Once upon a time US Kids TV is full of risk taking, We had imports from not only Canada (back when they HAD talent with shows like The Raccoons for instance) but from Japan and UK as well
Nowadays, Canada is sausage factory for money happy US kids execs.. pumping out demographic ghetto garbage instead of quality content they used to do in the '70s, '80s, '90s and the early 2000s
All awhile quality kid shows from Japan and UK are being ignored, You know US Kids TV is pitiful when they shunned THE Kid show that carries the world record of Longest Running Kid Show in the World (Sooty) throughout it's lifespan (of which Sooty is still active today under Richard Cadell)

I watched a LOT of cartoons in the 80s, saw all the classics from 50s-70s, all the theatricals, and continued to see most of the popular American afternoon and weekend series in the 90s, and have some passing familiarity with the mostly dreck that has been airing on cable since about 2002. No offense but I don't think you mentioned a single cartoon I have EVER even heard of.

I'd want back the Cartoon Network of the 90s. Predominantly anchored by various eras of classic H-B, R-S and other television cartoons, a few good blocks of classic theatricals (Popeye, Looney Tunes, T&J and other MGM, Toonheads) and still room to make original and sometimes even GOOD new cartoons (what-a-cartoon stuff, Johnny Bravo, Dexter's Lab, Jonny Quest, etc). Most programs lasted an hour at most and moved on to something else (what a concept!).

Adult Swim came along and most of that no-class trash has almost no redeeming qualities and has just gotten worse and worse, some of that crap people should probably be punished for creating it, but given how twisted and sick their minds are they probably already are. CN used to be a channel kids could safely plunk down in front of any time, now half of it isn't even fit for polite adult company. Oh but there's sucky Boomerang over here for all us silly prudes who think things like basic decency matter at all, except nobody even receives it anyway. Thanks for nothing Time-Warner. Some people apparently like to watch garbage and filth so all the rest of us can count on seeing a half-decent program of good or entertaining animation cartoons basically NEVER.

Everything on cable now is so out of balance and out of whack off the deep end. You don't like what's airing on a given channel? Well too bad, because it's going to be on for like 4 hours straight, and we're only going to air episodes of maybe 6 distinct programs all day long. Thus Boomerang doing about 8 hours of that horrible incarnation of Garfield most days of the week, what a complete freaking waste. That thing doesn't even look like it was worth making. I don't know why they don't just get it over with and make the channel 23 hours of non-stop Garfield 3D and one lousy hour of the worn-out T&J prints they never seem to get tired of. Rant over.

Everything on cable now is so out of balance and out of whack off the deep end. You don't like what's airing on a given channel? Well too bad, because it's going to be on for like 4 hours straight, and we're only going to air episodes of maybe 6 distinct programs all day long. Thus Boomerang doing about 8 hours of that horrible incarnation of Garfield most days of the week, what a complete freaking waste. That thing doesn't even look like it was worth making. I don't know why they don't just get it over with and make the channel 23 hours of non-stop Garfield 3D and one lousy hour of the worn-out T&J prints they never seem to get tired of. Rant over.

Horrible, my eye. I don't think this "Garfield" show is bad. Granted, it's not as good as the earlier show and the 3D animation is a little weak (not like the limited animation on the previous show was perfect either and they poke fun of it a couple of times), but I can't say no to something Mark worked on. I admit, they should cut down on the show like maybe show it four times a week (probably not on Monday). What I also don't understand is why they haven't finish showing all the episodes. I think there are some that haven't been on the US yet.

Also, you should really calm down.

Also, you should really calm down.

I'm hardly apoplectic, its just words. Little harsh on Garfield I guess but I won't give yet more gimmicky sterile poorly done 3D a chance. It sticks out like a sore thumb and they do air it way too much.

Also, you should really calm down.

I'm hardly apoplectic, its just words. Little harsh on Garfield I guess but I won't give yet more gimmicky sterile poorly done 3D a chance. It sticks out like a sore thumb and they do air it way too much.

At least the animation is a step above from the three Direct-to-DVD movies that preceded it (i.e. no distracting outlines).

I had to resort to Amazon Prime, as that way I can watch old cartoons and they have quite a variety of them, too! (At least way more than what's on TV, anyway)