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Keep CARTOONS on Cartoon Network

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Bob Higgins, Senior Vice President of Programming and Development, Cartoon Network
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Recently Cartoon Network has taken to sliding live action movies into their programming. While this is certainly not a life altering sort of thing, I find it distressing and wish for them to stick with the core programming as indicated in the name of the channel - CARTOONS.
Recently Cartoon Network has taken to sliding live action movies into their programming. While this is certainly not a life altering sort of thing, I find it distressing and wish for them to stick with the core programming as indicated in the name of the channel - CARTOONS.
We, the undersigned, love cartoons. We (usually) love Cartoon Network. But the recent selections of live action movies for the weekend Cartoon Theater feature (like The Goonies and Dumb & Dumber) seem to be a harbinger of bad things to come. Aside from being bad television programming choices in general, they are NOT ANIMATED! Animation and live action hybrid movies / shows work. But Cartoon Network needs to be showing cartoons.

Cartoon Network, please don't follow Music Television [now MTV] and Video Hits 1 [now VH1], among others, down the path of becoming distanced from your core programming and having to change your name. Cartoons need a home - and you've been doing an admirable job thus far. Don't screw it all up by adding in live action programming - it's not necessary. We'd like to continue loving Cartoon Network!

Besides, CN is not nearly a catchy enough name to use permanently.

Thank you for your consideration!
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# 974:
8:05 pm PST, Dec 31, Name not displayed, New York
I remember shows like swat kats johnny bravo and time squad those are the shows i want back.
# 973:
7:50 pm PST, Dec 31, Name not displayed, New York
I want shows like the powerpuff girls dexter laboretory johnny bravo looney toons and cow and chicken back on cartoon network.
# 972:
9:30 pm PST, Dec 30, Name not displayed, Connecticut
Taking away brilliant shows like Futurama and Dexter's Lab, and replacing them with second rate shows like Saul of the Mole Men and The Time and Eric Awesome Show is severely depressing. Cartoon network is severely lacking in quality of programming, catering more to the "I love randomness" anime kid crowd. There's more quality in modern comedy, something with substance and intelligence. Do your job cartoon network, and keep the original brilliant comedy akin to Luney Tunes and the Animaniacs which we all know and love.
# 971:
3:13 pm PST, Dec 16, Bilal Rabbani, Massachusetts
Ed,Edd,n Eddy
# 970:
9:50 am PST, Dec 13, Holly Sullivan, California
# 969:
10:52 pm PST, Dec 9, Kevin Adekayode, California
# 968:
5:27 pm PST, Dec 8, Kaykay Ryan, Ohio
i agree, out of jimmy's head is sooooo stupid!!!!!!!! and if you like teen titans please sign my petion!
# 967:
10:19 am PST, Dec 8, Marc Geppert, Germany
Kick out the Film's and show more Cartoons, like Freakazoid etc.
# 966:
9:48 am PST, Nov 30, Melissa Smith, Florida
Favourite show:Scooby-Doo. It's time Cartoon Network permanently stopped airing live action crap. I just don't undersrtand why a network dedicated to cartoons is doing this very odd and strange thing. Before you know it,Cartoon Network will be all live action shows. By the way-I'm waiting for Soap Opera Channel to start airing "Looney Toons","Woody Woodpecker" and "Ed,Edd and Eddy",and for the Womens' Entertainment Network to start airing "The Man Show",and for the Game Show Network to start airing live operas...
# 964:
8:50 pm PST, Nov 20, Michelle Moore, California
# 963:
5:35 am PST, Nov 14, Name not displayed, India
digimon
# 962:
12:39 am PST, Nov 8, Jennifer LaJoie, Illinois
I have loved this show since it came out,please put it back on.Thank You
# 961:
5:22 pm PDT, Oct 27, Darren Pound, North Carolina
# 960:
6:13 am PDT, Oct 24, Name not displayed, Colorado
Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
# 959:
5:07 pm PDT, Oct 22, Name not displayed, Minnesota
does anyone know what the show was called with the cells but they were like people. with the blue guy and the pill who were working in a little boy, like they were his cells. it was like osmosis jones but a show, not the movie. i was hoping i could rent it for my kids to watch.
# 958:
6:47 pm PDT, Oct 21, Name not displayed, Illinois
I believe that Cartoon network is only for the CARTOONS. First Hamtaro gets cancelled not this Stupid Out of Jimmy's head crap is on! THIS IS OUTRAGOUS!
# 957:
1:26 pm PDT, Oct 21, Alexis Foxworthy, Florida
foster home
# 956:
10:24 am PDT, Oct 21, Jarreal Rivers, Michigan
rorouni kenshin
# 954:
2:57 pm PDT, Oct 17, Adela Di Camillo, Pennsylvania
# 953:
11:06 pm PDT, Oct 13, Carmina Rivera, Mexico
# 952:
7:15 pm PDT, Oct 4, Charlene Mcdaniel, North Carolina
# 951:
8:26 pm PDT, Sep 29, Maria Forgione, Florida
Looney Tunes
# 949:
10:25 am PDT, Sep 19, Name not displayed, Washington
The Venture Brothers
# 948:
5:17 pm PDT, Sep 16, Name not displayed, Massachusetts
The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy
# 947:
12:40 pm PDT, Sep 16, Rose Delong, Florida
What a shame it will be if the Cartoon Network doesn't have Cartoons! Terrible.
# 946:
9:39 am PDT, Sep 16, Michael K, Florida
Cartoon Network is trying to become the new Nickelodeon with this live action shows like Out of Jimmy's Head and reruns of Goosebumps (as if it wasn't bad enough the first time around), and in the end all they will do is lose there audience. Look at MTV, they show no music anymore and no one really watches them. G4 also started putting things that aren't game related on their channel and their ratings suffer. Cartoon Network needs to take a hint and only show cartoons. Cartoon Network is on a downward spiral with the way they have new cartoons then after a few years drop the production costs to barely anything and then they vanish from the face of the Earth. When's the last time you saw an episode of Cow & Chicken, Johnny Bravo, or Powerpuff Girls? It's simply that live action has no place on a channel dedicated to cartoons. They most likely wont listen but it's worth a shot. If I switch to a channel called Cartoon Network, I expect to see cartoons.
# 945:
8:04 pm PDT, Sep 14, Name not displayed, California
I love all the old shows Rave master, krypto the super dog, megas xlr, much lucha, ozzy&drix, a pup named scooby-Doo, static shock, tom&jerry kids, zatch bell, baby looney toons
# 944:
7:59 pm PDT, Sep 11, Britt M, Texas
Love storm hawks, code lyoko, fosters home, Dbz, teen titans, inuyasha, fullmetal alchemist,trinity blood, ed edd eddy plus old school shows like PPG, dexter's lab, samurai jack, yu-gi-oh(original), toonami, trigun, rurouni kenshin,totally spies, anything anime. pleaz NOOO live action shows!!!!
# 943:
4:11 am PDT, Sep 10, Priyanka Das, India
I love Winx Club, Scooby Doo and Powerpuff girls.
# 942:
7:58 am PDT, Sep 9, Kymberly Holland, North Carolina
I want to know why you would cancel The Winx Club! We want quality shows like this for our children! Please bring it back! reruns are better than none.
# 941:
6:55 pm PDT, Sep 8, Genna Shaknitz, Pennsylvania
I prefer old cartoon network like when I was growingup.
# 940:
8:07 pm PDT, Sep 7, Senda San, California
I love all Cartoons, what don't love is these Crappy-live-action SHows they're putting. So it's either Cartoonnetwork or Fartoonnetwork! Viva la Cartoon!!!! >3
# 939:
10:01 pm PDT, Aug 30, Name not displayed, Connecticut
My 2 facorite shows were The Powerpuff Girls, and Billy and Mandy. The old Cartoon Cartoon Fridays (hosted by cartoon characters) was my favorite, go back to being just cartoons!
# 938:
2:04 pm PDT, Aug 30, Matt Defibaugh, Pennsylvania
Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends is my favorite show, don't take time away for lame live action stuff!
# 937:
1:42 pm PDT, Aug 29, Juana Rodgers, California
i miss power puff girls, dexter's laboratory. Air the new ones on weekdays but the old cartoons can come back in saturday. So we can watch old and new
# 936:
9:50 am PDT, Aug 28, Name not displayed, Maryland
DAMN IT I HATE THESE LIVE ACTION SHOWS SO VERY BAD! PLEASE KEEP THEM OFF THE AIR! STOP SHOWING LIVE CRAP ON CARTOON NETWORK!
# 935:
10:43 pm PDT, Aug 12, Darryl Walaszek, New York
# 934:
10:26 pm PDT, Aug 10, Name not displayed, Arizona
DETHLOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
# 933:
4:21 pm PDT, Aug 9, Polly Odyssey, Missouri
Keep cartoons on there
# 932:
7:37 pm PDT, Aug 6, Allison Betus, New York
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
# 931:
7:33 pm PDT, Aug 6, Rachid Yahya, New York
# 930:
1:13 pm PDT, Aug 6, Davide Roman, New York
Having programming like Who Framed Roger Rabbits which includes animated characters mixed with live action is fine, as are shows like the Banana Splits which alternate between live action and animation; but programming that is entirely without animation, or in which animation is nothing more than special effects-- well, that simply doesn't make any sense. I've skipped over Cartoon Network several times while channel surfing because I didn't see cartoons on it, and didn't notice what channel it was as a consequence!
# 929:
7:55 am PDT, Aug 5, Yogarajah Suji, Bahrain
# 928:
3:54 pm PDT, Aug 4, Jasmine Theus, Illinois
dont cancel hamtaro put it back on cartoon net work
# 927:
12:47 pm PDT, Aug 3, Name not displayed, Canada
Samurai Jack!
# 926:
6:21 pm PDT, Aug 2, Antoine F., Michigan
Too many to name (during the pre-Adult Swim years 1992-2001), but I'd have to say the top favorite out of all the shows were Swat Kats. Anyway, just bring back all the MGM, Hanna Barbera Shows, DiC shows, Ruby-Spears Shows, pre-2001 original shows and PLEASE cancel My Gym Partner's a Monkey, Squirrel Boy and Camp Lazlo. IF I could make a suggestion, how about air your current shows throughout the week (including new ones), then air your old ones on Friday, Saturday and Sunday Oh, please re-air Space Ghost as well please and bring back some of the old Flashback bumpers for that weekend thing. You Can Call it a Boomerang Weekend. And like I told nick, don't worry about the times, jsut handle your business and give your fans what you pormised them (new AND Old Cartoons 24/7), not what TimeWarner and the Times Want. Thank You Very Much.
# 925:
4:36 pm PDT, Aug 2, Melissa Carrera, Texas
Oh boy the list could go on forever, so I'll just name some of the shows I MISS. Jonny Bravo, Powerpuff Girls, Dexters Lab, Samurai Jack I think I'll just stop there. And to comment on the live action, what makes ME angry, is that they showed dumb and dumber, no matter HOW much you edit that, its not for kids, yet we have to have seriously edited animes? To the point that they don't make sense? ( The way too edited Naruto kinda makes me mad ) bit hypocritical don't you think? How about this, no more live action movies that have NOTHING to do with cartoons ( Live action that does is acceptable, like Small soldiers and whatnot, fun for kids ) and leave live action out, and instead of messing up shows to " protect children " Then show something that has no place, we just let the animes and cartoons be, unedited and all.
# 924:
4:31 pm PDT, Aug 2, Freddie Cantu, Texas
It's true some lives movies like Dumb and Dumber should not show on CN.Though Live movies like Roger Rabbit and Small Soldiers and even Nina turtles can be seen.
# 922:
2:04 pm PDT, Jul 27, Name not displayed, Michigan
Samurai Jack was a great show. I also love Naruto (thank you for saving it from 4Kids). Ed, Edd and Eddy was funny and The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy was okay too. Please leave the live-action movies to another network.
# 920:
12:19 am PDT, Jul 21, Name not displayed, Maryland
dragonball z,
# 919:
1:12 pm PDT, Jul 20, Nicola Gielvigiev, Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic Of
My fave would have to be Samurai Jack. I realy like it and live action movies would totaly distrupt the CN image. We need more samurai Jack!
# 918:
4:20 am PDT, Jul 20, Name not displayed, New York
my favorite show that i love alots are invader zim , camplazol , fosters , drangon ball z , meagsxlr , zoids , nar , codeloko , parss of tenns , zachball , one peces i`m bigest fan of the show`s invader zim because i love almighty tallest the pruple on how singel ,and very sexy , hotie pans , cuties time two ,coolest , neetest , and i would love to do almighty tallest i love porfassormambrain because he is the hotie one on the show invader zim and i`m bigest fan of camplazol beacuses it`s make me fell very happy , it`s very to me it`s make me laft alots i love lazlo , clam , raz , slink man and even a big fan of foster`s why because i love blue , mac , willt and all of thoes friend`s , and bigest fan of drangon ball z beacuse i know that all good guys are very hotie ,cutie , cool , neet , funny ,sexy and i`m big fan meagsxlr because its funny , cool , and its have very good look good guys like coop , jamie , kayva & meagsxlr and all so bigest fan`s of zoids because i love all good guy`s because they were good looking and hotie , coolest , neetest , cutest , funny and bigest fan`s of nar because all good guy`d were very sexy , cutie , hotie , funny , and bigest fan of codeloko now because i love good guy odd because he love sports , swimming , very very , coolest , funnyest , hotie pans , cutie pie and bigest fan of prass of tenns because it`s very intratin show to which but not a big tenns fan ? and big fan of zacthball because it`s very very ackion , fun to which on tv and bigest fan of onepeces becuase i all good guys are looking , and very spechel in there own ways in them safe and diffent to !!!!!!!!!!!!! love kaitlin agosh
# 917:
6:57 pm PDT, Jul 17, Zanzibar Dukfuu, California
all the anime on cartoon network is taking over, they need to give rid of most of it cept for dbz and a couple others. put old school toons on like Lonney Tunes and the Tex Avery Show and change adult swim back to good American made cartoons and bring back MEGAS XLR, that show was jesus
# 916:
12:26 am PDT, Jul 17, Lazy Happy, California
ed, edd n' eddy, camp lazlo, my gym partner's a monkey, Grim adventures of billy and mandy, courage the cowardly dog, one piece, DBZ, zatch bell, naruto, bobobo-bobo-bobo, ect ^^
# 915:
11:52 pm PDT, Jul 16, Kinshuk Don, India
# 914:
7:39 pm PDT, Jul 15, Name not displayed, Texas
# 913:
1:29 pm PDT, Jul 14, Name not displayed, Minnesota
rurouni kenshin, yu yu hakusho, gundam seed, prince of tennis, hamtaro, dexters laboratory.... once they took those away, i dont even look at that channel anymore.
# 912:
6:57 am PDT, Jul 9, Name not displayed, California
personlaly i think they should bring back tiny toons and cancel storm hauks jim partners a monkey camplazlo billy and mandy and all the new shows that came after 2003
# 911:
6:35 am PDT, Jul 7, John Barry, Florida
I hate all the stupid shows CN now has. I liked the good old shows like the jetsons, flinstones, tom and jerry, cow and chicken, johnny bravo, samurai jack, and dexter's laboratory. Toonami has stupid shows now I liked the old shows like yu yu haka show, gundam wing, dragon ball z, dragon ball, and that show about the samurai in the red clothes I don't remember the name but I liked it. Please but it back on CN sucks now the only good show you guys have is pokemon and that's it. You guys are going downhill and losing viewers because of this. Also change back the logo and don't put any movies or shows without cartoons. Please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Change back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
# 910:
3:17 pm PDT, Jul 6, Elizabeth Musser, Florida
yugioh why can,t tehy keep it on there and yugioh g/x i want them to play winx club too and w.i.t.c.h and shinzo too
# 909:
5:00 pm PDT, Jul 5, Mina Lopez, Maryland
Megas XLR,Samurai jack,Sailor moon,and Power Puff Girls should be on cartoon network...and Atomic Betty and Totally Spies
# 908:
5:28 pm PDT, Jul 4, Bonita Martin, Oklahoma
# 907:
12:20 pm PDT, Jul 4, Veronika Arman, Lithuania
# 906:
2:16 pm PDT, Jul 3, Vincent Stolden, Texas
ed, edd, and eddy
# 905:
12:41 pm PDT, Jun 30, Briana Fortunato, Kentucky
# 904:
12:56 pm PDT, Jun 29, Devin Stack, Florida
I honestly think Yu Yu Hakusho impacted my life in a major way. Its a classic and I don't think it should of been removed.
# 903:
6:35 am PDT, Jun 29, Name not displayed, California
Hamtaro
# 902:
1:08 pm PDT, Jun 26, Name not displayed, Colorado
Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
# 901:
5:39 pm PDT, Jun 24, Name not displayed, California
ed edd n eddy
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