Sabrblade wrote:Shadowman wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Dead Metal wrote:There is no deal with Viacom, Viacom is Nick's parent company, they own Nick.
Pretty sure the reason Nick airs TMNT is because they outright bought the entire franchize a few years ago and have invested heavily in it since.
Korra won't be airing on Nick, it will be streamed online like the last few really brutal episodes of book 3.
Thanks. Figured they'd be mishandling Korra again.
It's not "mishandling." The show has been much more successful online than it was on TV.
Yet, plenty were ticked off about Nick taking it off the air and moving it to being online only.
People were ticked off about the TF movies, look how successful they are.
And to be honest, I would much rather have it be online, than it being cut and or censored. Those episodes that went online only have been pretty heavy, even for Avatar standards. So I guess that was Nick's way of allowing them to be made.
I doubt that the adventure cartoon will die out, the Avatar shows have both been successful and popular, the current TMNT is popular and successful, Ben 10 is still around. Disney is making all those Marvel animated shows, although they are of questionable quality (god damn Ultimate Spider-Man), Batman is getting a new show (Beware while good, had its faults and it's understandable why it failed). There is interest and demand for adventure shows, it's just that a good deal of them is done by CN, who are really, really crappy with the handling of their stuff, the whole "we'll cancel Jung Justice because most of its huge viewership is girls, and they don't buy action figures" is proof of that.
And the whole "Adventure shows aren't popular anymore" thing was from the guys who made Beware the Batman, which they basically made because they realized that the show they made doesn't work with a mainly child orientated target demographic. So that was them attempting to guilt people into watching it.
If the big cartoon makers really didn't believe that Adventure shows have no future, why the hell do you think did Nick buy the entire TMNT franchise and imminently push for four huge (relatively speaking) projects surrounding them? Or order four seasons of Korra when the original plan was to just have a six episode miniseries?
There is also the upcoming TF RID series that's again, an adventure series.