Thoughtnami™

In a couple of days, Cartoon Network announces its plans to make sure they remain the number one animation outlet in the country. Notice I said ANIMATION outlet, not number one kids' network (one, that would be Nickelodeon, and two, since it was conceived, Cartoon Network has NEVER claimed that they were a kids' network until the current management stepped into place) nor the number one cable network, that would be USA, followed closely by ESPN, Nickelodeon, and FX, although Cartoon Network isn't too far. Their biggest animation-outlet competitors, Nicktoons Network and Toon Disney are slowly gaining mass audiences and growing households. In fact, Nicktoons Network is in more than three times as many households as Cartoon Network's own spinoff network Boomerang. You do know Boomerang, don't you? Your silence is deafening, so I'll get down to the point. You know how Cartoon Network is trying so hard not to be, well, Cartoon Network? If they actually knew what th...

It's been boring these last couple of weeks. Sure, that was that Oswald story, but that's a story for another site. Today, News Corp, those fine purveyors of fair and balanced programming, announced plans to launch a second network beginning on September 5, 2006, the day after The CW relaunches from the ashes of UPN and The WB. The network's name? My Network TV. Guess since they own My Space, they have to name a new network to attract the demographic that's drawn to that domain to them. Still doesn't excuse them from creating the stupidest network name since, well, The CW. At least The CW makes sense, considering the "C" is from CBS Corporation and the "W" is from Warner Bros. Television, the parent companies of UPN and The WB, respectedly. What does My Network TV have that other networks don't? Well, you can't say Telenovellas since every broadcast outlet is planning on producing one or two this fall. And you can't say reality shows...

Time's up. Earlier, I asked you readers what was wrong with the following paragraph: Reinterpreting the Superman mythology from its roots, SMALLVILLE was developed for television by Alfred Gough & Miles Millar (“Shanghai Noon,” “Spiderman 2”), based on the DC Comics characters. Gough and Millar serve as executive producers, along with Greg Beeman, Ken Horton, Mike Tollin, Brian Robbins and Joe Davola. The series is produced by Tollin/Robbins Productions, Millar/Gough Ink and Warner Bros. Television Production Inc. SUPERMAN was created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster. The answers were the unpunctuated name of a popular superhero and a misspelling of a creator of an iconic hero. Spiderman is supposed to be Spider-Man; otherwise, he's just a member of the Law Offices of Birdman, Spiderman, and Associates. And Joe Shuster's name is misspelled Schuster. Sure, you can easily blame it on proofreaders who are untrained in comic book history, but I like to blame it on one simpl...