Create Your Dream Channel

[Silverstar]

Goldstar and I have an idea for a dream channel called POP. It's a channel devoted to cartoons and comedy, targeting a dual audience: kids and teens during the day and adults at night. It's daytime schedule is called POP Bubbles and its' nighttime schedule is called POP Soda. (Think Nickelodeon/Nick@Nite).

Among POP's highlights:

POP would air all of the Looney Tunes shorts, as well as the Silver Age WB shows, some Hanna-Barbera shows and shorts, some MGM and DePatie-Freleng shorts.

It would air Mystery Science Theater 3000 every weeknight except for Friday, when it would air Friday Fun Zone, a premiere cartoon and comedy block. (Think TGIF meets Cartoon-Cartoon Fridays). There's also a Saturday Fun Zone which airs premieres on Saturday nights a la SNICK.

POP would air British comedies like Red Dwarf, The Young Ones, Black Adder, The Mighty Boosh, French & Saunders, Little Britain, etc. on a block called Brit Wit, which would air on Sunday nights.

It would feature original comedies as well as comedy shows like SCTV, Monty Python's Flying Circus, The State, Upright Citizens' Brigade, The Kids in the Hall, Cheap Seats, etc. generally we'd want to specialize in sketch and alternative comedies (like Rifftrax and Channel Awesome type shows) for the most part, generally avoiding stuff like typical sitcoms, though some sitcoms would air during non-peak hours like Saved By the Bell, Parker Lewis Can't Lose, Sabrina, the Teenage Witch and Weird Science would air during kids' time.

It would air some MTV cartoons such as Daria, Undergrads, Clone High, etc.

There's be a 60 minute nightly block called Toons at 10, showing adult cartoons like Duckman, The Oblongs, Mission Hill, Dilbert, etc. as well as amime like Outlaw Star, Rosario + Vampire, Lupin the 3rd, etc.

There'd be an action cartoon block called Kick! and a girl-centric cartoon block called Sparkle.

Cartoon Network's Toon Heads would be resurrected here, and there'd be a show called The 9th Dimension, specializing in art-house digital animated shorts, think MTV's Liquid Television meets TechTV's Eye Drops meets G4's Cinematech.

There'd be a block of older comedies on Sunday nights and a retro Saturday morning cartoon block on Saturday mornings.

POP would air the Milky Way and the Galaxy Girls series that Lauren Faust has been wanting to make, and Evan Dorkin's Welcome to Eltingville, which never got past the pilot on Adult Swim, would air as a series on POP.