Adored by the Network: Difference between revisions
Rescuing 1 sources and tagging 0 as dead.) #IABot (v2.0.8
(Rescuing 1 sources and tagging 0 as dead.) #IABot (v2.0.8) |
(Rescuing 1 sources and tagging 0 as dead.) #IABot (v2.0.8) |
||
Line 204:
* For [[Cartoon Network]] it was ''[[Dude, What Would Happen?]]''. This wasn't the first time the station tried to get over a Live Action show, but it was definitely the show they put the most effort into trying to become popular. It started when Cartoon Network launched an entire block of Live Action shows, CN Real, in an effort to rebrand their network into being closer to Disney Channel and Nickelodeon. [[Internet Backdraft|It went over about as well as you can think]] and the ratings for the entire Network tanked hard. After dropping CN Real, the network was still determined to put over Dude What Would Happen, and continued airing it for '''Two Years''' despite horrible ratings and ''overwhelming'' negative viewer response before finally getting cancelled.
** Lately [[Cartoon Network]] has REALLY been hyping up ''[[Level Up]]'', first the movie and then the series. The show has been getting ads big in number and in length, you'll be hard-pressed to go through a commercial break that DOESN'T have an ad for the show.
** Not only that, after ''Level Up'' premiered, they've rerun it every weeknight even though only ''one episode'' had premiered. Plus, the second episode aired ''commercial-free'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20190613231330/http://www.nickandmore.com/2012/02/01/level-up-goes-commercial-free-for-second-and-third-episodes/ as will the third.] [[Cartoon Network|CN's]] cartoons could only dream of this kind of attention.
* If you turn on G4 at any given time, you can expect to find reruns of ''[[COPS (series)|COPS]]'' or ''Cheaters''. In some cases, they've even played the exact same episode twice in a row.
** [[Word of God|According to Kevin Pereira,]] the shows are an easy way for the network to fund its original programming, despite having almost nothing in common demographically.
| |||