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Trump’s TMTG to launch streaming service (featuring “Non-Woke” programming and “Cancelled” shows)
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Link doesn't take me to the article, just a Deadline.com home page featuring unrelated articles,
I have updated the link. It works for me.
A lot of old cartoons would qualify for the new service. Stereotyping that's now generally considered offensive was common in the best and worst of them -- from Popeye to Bugs Bunny to The Flintstones to Deputy Dawg -- right through the '70s.
So you're suggesting they license content owned by Disney?
Looking forward to all those amused by the failure of CNN+ to be equally harsh on this one.
yeah, this will be another failed business formed by the former president, the guy loves to launch businesses to steal money and leave and left the place into bankruptcy ruins. see his casinos, the OG USFL, Trump Steaks, and most recently Truth Social and a few other businesses he founded.
They can call it the "Red, White and Blue Network":
Red Neck
White Trash
Blue Collar
Red Neck
White Trash
Blue Collar
They could run some of the older stuff that is in the public domain (which probably reflects the sort of money Trump would be willing to spend on program acquisition, which is to say nothing) -- but the chances of getting licensing deals for some of the classic material from Warner (which would include Bugs Bunny and The Flintstones) is probably pretty close to zero. I can't see Warner Media (or Warner Discovery or whatever they now are) wanting to associate those cartoons with any sort of political slant.
Well, if they manage to get Disney's copyrights from that era pulled LOL
Flintstones was a Hanna-Barbera show. There are animation snobs who would come down on you like an anvil dropped from the edge of a cliff for mentioning H-B in the same sentence as WB, such is the gulf in quality between the two. I'm one of them.
Trump sued to prevent the Warner merger with AT&T. He lost. Hanna-Barbera is owned by Warner.
Thanks. I keep forgetting that just about everything in recorded entertainment is owned by one of a half-dozen corporations.
Well, I enjoyed Hanna-Barbera cartoons as a child.Flintstones was a Hanna-Barbera show. There are animation snobs who would come down on you like an anvil dropped from the edge of a cliff for mentioning H-B in the same sentence as WB, such is the gulf in quality between the two. I'm one of them.
In the mid/late 1960s, H-B cartoons were better than what was left of Warner Brothers, either from DePatie-Freleng or their own feeble studio restart. All the animation was bad in those days, but I'll take Yogi Bear and Snagglepuss over Merlin the Magic Mouse and Cool Cat any day of the week.Flintstones was a Hanna-Barbera show. There are animation snobs who would come down on you like an anvil dropped from the edge of a cliff for mentioning H-B in the same sentence as WB, such is the gulf in quality between the two. I'm one of them.
Actually the possibilities are endless...especially with a bit of creative editing. This new network could take movies like the Mel Brooks classic "Blazing Saddles" and keep all the racial epithets and the parts that poke fun at the gays, but say it was edited for time to fit in the TV slot and end the movie where the townspeople are still lashing out at Sheriff Bart, primarily because of the color of his skin. Possibly include some bits from the end of the movie where the town is saved and the marauders run off, but edit it to imply it was solely the idea of the townspeople and it was their ingenuity that ultimately saved the day.
They could also show old episodes of All in the Family, but say they're "edited for time" and cut out certain parts to show that Archie Bunker in his ultimate bigotry is always right (as a reminder, Carroll O'Connor who played the part of Archie considered himself a "bleeding heart liberal" and the opposite of what Archie was and what he stood for. O'Connor even did a few PSAs that ran during that time, explaining that Archie's ideas were in the wrong).
TCM sill shows Blazing Saddles in the original unedited version, but they usually have some kind of commentary explaining why it is still there, that it was to show the ignorance of the townspeople.
DePatie-Freleng's Pink Panther was well executed, IMO.
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