Old School YTV

Old School YTV Apr 1, 2006 19:23:46 GMT -5

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Post by lightoracle on Apr 1, 2006 19:23:46 GMT -5

Sailor Moon put YTV into the big time but it killed the golden age at the same time. Anime is good stuff but the "otaku" community took over YTV and all the sudden YTV felt that every waking moment of programming had to appease this fandom that illegally bootlegged everything then and currently shown on YTV in subtitled form long before the network ever aired them. Frankly the "otaku" had no right to whine as hard as they have over the years but it is more ego infatuation on their part. YTV committed suicide with their credibility by trying to get this fanbase. One or two shows from Japan that appeal to the masses like Pokemon and the likes should have been as far as they went.

Another problem was the fact that YTV could get around the Canadian content laws, (the conterversial Broadcast Act of 1988,) by having Canadian voices for cartoons instead of producing live action shows and all the sudden the great live action programming they produced was gone. (Even the reruns, GONE.) During the dead years of 1999-2004 I went from loving anime to hating it and their fans.

Now I need to vent about Sugar. It has become painfully clear that she has a serious hand in the creative control at YTV, (or at least she used to anyway.) She was a major driving force in turing YTV into the otaku network. (The constant calling of anime, aniMAY made me sick to my stomach to boot.) All the sudden we got nothing but pointless anime segments of Sugar at conventions with the one thing worse than Trekkies, otaku in costumes with their egos going through the roof. Her very childish antics were worse than PJ Katie EVER was and as a result we haven't seen a live action show on The Zone since Phil was there.

Even the Hit List was axed for more anime during this era to appease Empress Sugar.

YTV has recently FINALLY ended the "Keep It Weird" era with none of the old ad stingers using this and I am very happy that their latest attempts at live action programming 15!Love and Dark Oracle have taken off because it proves the last era wrong that live action programming for kids still works. (The one reason to be thankful for Lizzie McGuire.) Now we have great late nite programs like What I Like About You and Smallville as well. So far, so good as far as I'm concerned but here's what I would do to complete the job of fixing the Mighy Y:

1. FIRE SUGAR NOW!!! Carlos isn't all that great either but Sugar is a cancer on YTV and has had way too much influence on programming there for too long. Fire her and a huge roadblock towards fixing the network is cleared.

2. Have a YTV News/kids news show on right before The Zone. This only needs to be 30 minutes long but it would be a good way to get YTV back to it's roots.

3. Eliminate 75% of the anime programming on YTV. Yu Gi Oh and Innu Yasha should be the very last animes standing after this is over. (I don't count the Puffy Ami Yumi show as anime.)

4. Produce at LEAST 3 new live action series's per year for YTV in the next 4 years. Dark Oracle isn't meant to last forever so coasting on DO's past episodes will not cut it when the show runs it's course. 15!Love will be lucky if it lasts more than one more full season so they need more shows. Prank Patrol is good too but there's 24 hours in a programming day and you need more shows.

5. The return of YAA! Kids need to be first and foremost with YTV again and YAA returning would do a lot to bring that spirit back. There was once a time when YTV was a living breathing network with a soul and this died with YAA.

6. Reruns of It's Alive would be brought back!