Will cartoons will ever be syndicated again?

[nomadcowatbk]

Please US congress please put cartoons back on Fox/MNTV/CW affiliates? Please reconsider?

First of all, It's not likely that "US Congress" reads our lovely little board and has nothing to do with programming..Second, for the reasons already stated, Cartoons are not coming back to broadcast tv, except on some digital subchannels

Cartoons are coming back to broadcast television. Because cartoons are the essence of broadcast television and US Congress will realized what have done 16 Years ago taking kids Programming from broadcst television

cartoons would be gong from broadcast TV without E/I, and most E/I programs aren't even animated, they'd be more infomercials without E/I, how many kids actually watch E/I programs (other than PBS)?

[Bob1370]

"Cartoons are coming back to broadcast television."

Maybe, but the cartoons you'll see will be aimed for an 18-49 audience rather than for kids.

Think The Simpsons, Family Guy, American Dad, The Cleveland Show, Futurama, South Park, and other similar shows that are essentially slapstick sitcoms with a measure of social or cultural satire--shows that can portray more outlandish situations than you can feasibly film in live action, and also convey a more iconoclastic message. Nothing wrong with that--The Simpsons stretched the creative boundaries of comedy TV at  the turn of the 1990s in ways that a live action show might never have accomplished. 

The Flintstones may also one day return with new episodes since Fox TV has commissioned Seth MacFarlane to work up a new series for the stone-agers...but that's going to wait for a while given how busy he's been with his current shows and with his hit film Ted.

[joebtsflk1]

No!  Leave the Flintstones be!  They belong to the 60s.  The Jetsons redux in the 80s was pretty weak.

[anotherguy]

Although I'm not a fan of E/I, and I believe it's caused the networks to go to more live action programming, I believe if it didn't exist Saturday mornings would have already gone to more news and sports at best or trash talk and infomercials at the worst. It's already happened on Fox stations since they've left local stations on their own to fill the requirements and replaced their Saturday morning schedule with infomercials.

The biggest factors in why there are no more kid's shows though are the move of most kid's shows to cable channels like Disney and Nick, and change in daytime programming on local stations to news, trash talk, courtroom shows, and infomercials.

I miss when Saturday morning was filled with cartoons, and daytime was filled with cartoons, game shows, and sitcom reruns. But I know that there's no turning back now. At least we have options on cable that come close (sometimes).

[TexasTom]

No!  Leave the Flintstones be!  They belong to the 60s.  The Jetsons redux in the 80s was pretty weak.

A big part of the problem with the Jetsons episodes from the 80s is that they were produced for a daytime kids audience, whereas the originals from the sixties were produced as a family show in prime time.   A Flinstones reboot will definitely not just be targetted to kids, so it is unlikely to suffer from the same weaknesses as did the additional Jetsons episodes.  On the contrary, some of us are worried that Seth MacFarlane might go to far in the opposite direction and give us a version of the Flinstones filled with crude humor.

[TexasTom]

The biggest factors in why there are no more kid's shows though are the move of most kid's shows to cable channels like Disney and Nick, and change in daytime programming on local stations to news, trash talk, courtroom shows, and infomercials.

I miss when Saturday morning was filled with cartoons, and daytime was filled with cartoons, game shows, and sitcom reruns. But I know that there's no turning back now. At least we have options on cable that come close (sometimes).

Well said.  I too miss those days...and while I wish there was a way to bring that back to broadcast television, I really can't see it happening, either.  The only way it would change is if cable/satellite penetration drops dramatically.  And even that would be no guarantee, since it seems that kids are starting to favor online programming over the linear cable networks.