dragonzatch wrote:Constant Payne never got made because of fights over wages for artists with Nickelodeon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7fR6gLQ2C8
Hikaru wrote: It's crazy that they'd cancell it just because it didn't sell enough toys. It's not a show for kids! It's just...aaugh! Anywho, I miss it.
Nate wrote:It's not because it didn't sell enough toys, it was because they had too many girls watching. To quote Paul Dini:
DINI: "That's the thing, you know I hate being Mr. Sour Grapes here, but I'll just lay it on the line: that's the thing that got us cancelled on Tower Prep, honest-to-God was, like, 'we need boys, but we need girls right there, right one step behind the boys'—this is the network talking—'one step behind the boys, not as smart as the boys, not as interesting as the boys, but right there.' And then we began writing stories that got into the two girls' back stories, and they were really interesting. And suddenly we had families and girls watching, and girls really became a big part of our audience, in sort of like they picked up that Harry Potter type of serialized way, which is what The Batman and [indistinct]'s really gonna kill. But, the Cartoon Network was saying, 'F***, no, we want the boys' action, it's boys' action, this goofy boy humor we've gotta get that in there. And we can't—' and I'd say, but look at the numbers, we've got parents watching, with the families, and then when you break it down—'Yeah, but the—so many—we've got too many girls. We need more boys.'"
SMITH: "That's heart-breaking."
DINI: "And then that's why they cancelled us, and they put on a show called Level Up, which is, you know, goofy nerds fighting CG monsters. It's like, 'We don't want the girls because the girls won't buy toys.'
Xeno wrote:Also Clone High was really good and way too short. I miss it. =(
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