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First MTV stops showing music videos, now this? Cartoon Network is sticking with the "Network" portion of its name, but ditching the strictly "Cartoon" bit, the company announced today. Nineteen new projects were announced, and less than half will be hand-drawn.

"These exciting new projects represent the next phase in Cartoon Network's ambitious, ongoing strategy to re-invent the network and re-energize our youth business overall," said Stuart Snyder.

These new non-cartoons will start airing in the coming 2009-2010 season and feature reality and scripted programs, most of which sound like pint-sized versions of programs currently airing on other networks.

Highlights: The Othersiders is a mini-Ghost Hunters, with five friends exploring scary places; Destroy Build Destroy is like Human Wrecking Balls, with two teams blowing stuff up; Dude, What Would Happen is a Mythbusters clone; Bobb'e Says takes the ridiculously funny child actor Bobb'e J. Thompson (Human Giant, Role Models) in his own take of America's Funniest Home Videos.

Also announced was a live-action Ben 10: Alien Force movie, a Scooby-Doo! prequel telefilm, and a full CG movie titled Firebreather!

Don't worry all you glassy-eyed college students--it doesn't look like the late-night Adult Swim block will be affected by any of this.

http://www.tv.com/story/13415.html

I want adult swim to air Red Dwarf.

Thats all I have two say.

I want Cartoon Network to show f'ing cartoons.

That's all I'm going to say...

That's not a knock against Red Dwarf... love that show, and if they MUST show non-animated stuff then I'm fine with it. But really, Red Dwarf is something that SciFi should pick up instead of changing their name to SyFy so they can broaden their content.

Reality shows on cartoon network. Seriously, WTF? Pisses me off. I am a big fan of NARROW content ranges. I like to know exactly where to look for the shows I want to see. With this progression towards every channel being a broad-content provider, everything just get muddled up.

Well, I've seen previews on Adult Swim recently that they're going to be showing the British sketch comedy show The Mighty Boosh... and that's live-action.

I wish Cartoon Network would bring the old cartoons back. I used to enjoy shows like Ed, Edd, 'n' Eddy, Courage, the Cowardly Dog, Cow & Chicken, 2 Stupid Dogs, Scooby Doo, Where Are You!, Hanna-Barbera's Godzilla. The last time they played an episode was when I went to G-FEST XIII, on the day of my departure flight to Chicago, they had it playing in the morning, and that was just one episode.

does any channel show classic TMNT or Dinosaucers?

Out of left field, but I wish Cartoon Network had picked up Korgoth of Barbaria...