Spent part of my morning at Cartoon Network in Burbank, where a staffer told me things were quieter than normal (although I deduced that from the empty offices) ...
"There's only three shows going on right now: Ben 10, Adventure Time and The Regular Show." ...
I said it was always good to have projects in development for ... you know ... future work. I was told the company is doing a new shorts pilot program, but that higher ups aren't keen on all the production costs involved for a passel of individual shorts.
"So why not just develop new projects to the animatics stage? See what works and do series orders from those?"
I was informed that animatics was under consideration as a way to develop properties more inexpensively before greenlighting them to full series. (The making of cartoons appears to be a roller-coaster kind of business. CN was doing half a dozen series just... what? ... a year and a half ago?)
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Isn't Ne-Yo developing a cartoon series, to be released this summer or fall?
That's quite depressing . . . I mean, given how much Cartoon Network's upper management has given the medium that makes up their first name over the last six months on-air (not to mention the wall-to-wall advertising for their live-action endeavors at that time and adjusting lineups to make their current live-action series [which has aired commercial-free since it began] look good by comparison), one shouldn't be surprised the animated offerings at the channel are slim to middling.
And they don't seem to be in any rush to correct that, unfortunately.
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