Board Thread:Episodic and Issue Discussion/@comment-5008987-20130317001647/@comment-1895174-20130323004817

Zodisgod wrote: yeah adult swim took thundercats but they arent going to go near making a new series because like i said its a failed show. Again, it's not. The toyline failed. The show itself was a pretty big success. Zodisgod wrote: they dont have nearly as much exposure showing episodes already produced that they only paid for the right to air as they would making new ones that they would have to pay for production so they are able to do that no problem. I'll just be honest, I have no idea what you're trying to say. Zodisgod wrote: adult swim dont have the viewership or resources to do new episodes of something that would likely fail, that would more than likely wind up losing them money. Well that's just factually inaccurate. Not only does [adult swim] consistently beat every other network, but they're also on the upswing in terms of popularity.

It's also worth mentioning that their reruns of the Thundercats reboot, when it was still airing during a 1AM Saturday Night / Sunday Morning timeslot, was getting roughly the same number of viewers premiere episodes of Young Justice would get. Zodisgod wrote: from a network executives point of view there is no benefit to producing new episodes because it has failed somewhere else already, if they were mad enough to greenlight it and it was a horrible failure then they would be fired for their questionable judgement, so its better for them to not take the risk. Well, they were celebrated when they brought over Thundercats and Sym-Bionic Titan, so why would this be any different? From a network executive's viewpoint, they have every reason to go after the show. Premiere episodes of Young Justice were Cartoon Network's fifth most-watched broadcast in any given week. The only reason it "failed" was because it couldn't sell its toys, which is why its best for the show to move to a network where a show's success to not be measured by how many action figures it can ship.