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Monday, August 31, 2015

Antenna TV announces new fall schedule

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 Antenna TV has announced their new fall line up ,which includes the addition of  80's sitcom "Family Ties"  which will air weeknights at 10pmET,  and Weekends 8pmet.   They are also adding 60's sitcom "My Mother the Car"  , which will air  Saturdays at 1PMET , followed by other short-lived 60's sitcom  "It's about  Time" which will air Saturdays at 2PMET.   Leaving the line up (though are most likely being rested) : McHale's Navy , Flipper, The Monkees  , Here Comes the Brides,  Patty Duke Show,
 Other shows  change time slots all this begins  September 14th.


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Thursday, August 13, 2015

The Lookback : Cartoon Cartoon Fridays

The Flashback 
 
    This time on Joshuaonline we take a lokback at  daytime sitcoms repeats because... (Wait! We got mail!)
   Hello authors of Joshuaonline , I was wondering if you could do a lookback of Cartoon Network's Cartoon Cartoon Fridays , that is something I grew up with but I hope maybe you could feature it.
   That was an email sent to us by a nice (we hope so) reader who thinks we should look back at Cartoon Cartoon Fridays. So thanks David for the idea.   (You can email us too mychiller@inbox.com)
      I too remember this program block well , so why not take a look back at it.  While most of the the network TV blocks we lookback at for Children's shows was  Saturday Morning. Cartoon Network had the freedom of a different time ,  Friday Night.   Nowadays, Friday TV is bleak nobody does anything anymore. (We mean it , besides Disney Channel)  The networks do put new programming on Fridays , but in many cases it's either shows they didn't have room for anywhere else or sometimes in Fox's case shows to kill.  But that wasn't always the case.
 Cartoon Cartoons were what they called their original series programming to difference it from  the repeats of shows they were airing.
    Cartoon Network carved 4 hours on a Friday  night starting at 7PM ET /PT and started on June 11th 1999.  Originally the interstitial segments were odd things like fake weather forecasts ,  It also  had live-action humans featured and it looked like a PBS station  during drives.
                                                     tar11
          Either that or Cartoon Network has lost it / watch some of the first day bumpers here 
       I  don't remember this style of presention as much I as remember the next (which we will get to in a second) .
       Cartoon Cartoon Fridays featured new episodes of CN's originals meaning we started with "Dexter's Laboratory" , "The Powerpuff Girls" , "Edd,Ed, n' Eddy", "Johnny Bravo" , and a few other shows that the network made themselves.
  By 2000 the block change to presentation I remember more where a character or 2  from a Cartoon Network show would "host" the block.
                  
                 Makes sense , plus you get some cool intro and apparently other cartoons in background.
  Not every show on the block was created by Cartoon Network ,well if there was a special occasion (like the month of December referenced above)   or  a new Cartoon Network show made by a corporate partner.   If you noticed unlike when I talked about "Disney's  One Saturday Morning" for example I talked about their schedule , well technically  CCF didn't have that it was 4 hours a mash up of Cartoon Cartoons  and it was more an event of TV for a Friday Night.
    Every summer from before the block launched to 2002, they had   big weekend called Cartoon Cartoon Weekend. For the 1997 and 1998 it ran around Thanksgiving , while 1999-2002 it ran in August.   They had a "Big Pick" where viewers could pick which pilot they saw on the air they think should be a new CN show.
  In 2000 viewers picked  "The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy" which then premiered in 2001.
In 2001 "Codename Kids Next Door " won.

                            
                          This is one of the shows that lost

    Though for as well as it did  changes were made (dun dun dun) with it renamed in 2003 to "Fridays" and hosted by humans.    In  May of 2003 , Cartoon Cartoon Fridays bowed out was replaced with Cartoon Cartoon Summer until October when the new format launched.  It did keep most of the spirit of the original and the whole point is the cartoons. (Yeah, I guess ....)
                             
                              That was one of the intros
  Fridays was hosted by  Tommy  Snider and Nzinga Blake, later on replaced by Tara Sands. They were featured between your cartoons with skits , guest stars and more. (Yay more!)  It ran 4 hours and then looped through out the evening. (As Adult Swim began take other nights) by it's end it was the only time of the week where Cartoon Network was broadcasting after 11PMET.  But as all things  in our lookbacks do .. it ended in February of 2007 ,after almost 10 years of Cartoon Cartoon and Fridays.   Fridays on Cartoon Network changed hands a few times before they gave up .

                               
                               We might not get into that...but don't say might.


But yes that's our lookback at what I think is great thing that  when networks on cable and broadcast still thought Friday was special. That hey  Friday Night could be the night to get new cartoons , not just Saturday Morning (which by 1999 was near death)  and that fun TV presentation could make a few hours of shows something special.
 
   Tune in next time when we try and make Wednesday the best night of the week for TV.   Thanks David.

Thursday, August 06, 2015

The Lookback : The Charlie Brown lookback :It's a Mystery Charlie Brown

Peanuts  The Lookback




  Our seventh installment  of our fun of (kind of ) celebrating  the 65th anniversary of  The Peanuts coming out.  As you know , our criteria is to not look at holiday specials  and thankyou August for not having a Holiday , I guess.
   Our special we are lookback at this time is  "It's a Mystery , Charlie Brown" (ahh why not It's Murder , Charlie Brown , it's not real but it should have been ).  This special came out on CBS  in February 1974.   Woodstock's nest goes  missing one afternoon (probably a Tuesday)  and he consults Snoopy to help him.

                                             
 He looks shocked / Copyrights Peanuts 

       Snoopy  does what Snoopy does and dresses like Sherlock Holmes and they go on a mission to search for the nest.  (hence the name of the special)    Charlie Brown  is the first to be integrated by the duo.  They continue searching for clues and questioning (as well as Snoopy can)  the others .  They discount  Pig-pen as a suspect.
                                                   
                                                  Poor Pigpen /Copyright Peanuts

  Then they visit Peppermint Patty , who thinks they are playing cops and robbers  and she plays the robber . This causes Snoopy and Woodstock to leave . (Never shoot your guests that makes them leave)    They then notice footprints at Woodstock's tree (open 24 hours)  and followed them to the school.  They enter the  school from an open window and see the nest labeled as 'Prehistoric Bird's Nest' they grab it and return it.   The next day Sally is unhappy, when she finds out her science experiment (can you guess what it was? ) is missing.  When she tells Charlie Brown  he figures out that  she took Woodstock's nest.   Charlie Brown doesn't want Sally to fight Snoopy ( because he knows Snoopy would win) and takes them to an objective person. (or Lucy , because they couldn't find one)

                                                     
                                              Judge Lucy , Weekdays at 5 on Channel 32 /Copyright peanuts

       Lucy hears  the case  , Snoopy becomes Woodstock's Lawyer   , and eventually finds in case of the bird (Woodstock).  Snoopy and Charlie Brown help out a sad Sally (we didn't mean the alliteration) and eventually Snoopy becomes part of her new experiment.  The experiment of Pavlov (the nervous system) , to prove if a dog will drool if you ring a bell.

     It's a good special , and it's fun to have  a  Snoopy and Woodstock driven episode for characters  who don't talk much, and dialogue added by the characters is fun.  Also the scenes of Snoopy's investigation were fun , like Macy not understanding dog talk so she slams the door , and Peppermint Patty wanting to play cops and robbers.   Also we love the use of a factual scientific thing.

      That's our look at "It's a Mystery Charlie Brown"  tune in next time for when Judge Lucy  looks after a case about  a man not paying his former friend  not paying $1000 for watching his cat.


Tuesday, August 04, 2015

Partridge Family Marathon on Antenna TV

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    Antenna TV   will be celebrating the  45th  anniversary of show's beginning. (It premiered  on September 25th ,1970) It starts  August 15th at 5PMET   and will run for 22 and half hours of  45 memorable episodes of the series.    "The Partridge Family" ran on ABC from 1970-1974 and  had 96 episodes.

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