FOX cashing in with "Simpsons," "Family Guy," inspiring more cartoons

from variety

telenovels...

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WHO is writing this article??? Futuruma and Family Guy were *also* DOA

David Levy...

Do you know what "DOA" stands for?

(canceled). It was only because they were given a second chance that
they were able to be revived. Perhaps if shows like Dilbert (very
funny) were given a second chance, they too would succeed.

Either way, to say canceled shows are "successful" is a strange view by
the author???

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I also question the comment made about South Park's "crude" animation
being "faster and cheaper". The original episode was made of Paper
which is definitely NOT faster. And even the later episodes made with

David Levy...

Even the pilot episode took only three months to produce.

computers still require a lot of time to generate.

David Levy...

...except, of course, for the fact that an episode can be produced in
less than a week.

Whoever wrote this article for Variety shows a lack of understanding of
his/her subject.
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Toon title wave animates nets
Fox's success colors webs' plans for more projects
By MICHAEL SCHNEIDER, JOSEF ADALIAN

"The Simpsons" has made News Corp. as much as $2 billion over the past
17 years, while "Family Guy" is fast approaching the eight-figure mark
for the conglom.

Those figures make the profits behind "Friends" and "Seinfeld" look
like chump change. It's no surprise, then, that network execs are
anxious to give the animated genre a shot despite high-priced failures
of the past.

Fox is casting a wide net , with two pilot presentations already in
the works and several more in development.

And CBS is next up at bat, bowing the Stateside version of hit U.K.
animated skein "Creature Comforts" -- from Aardman, creator of
"Wallace & Gromit" -- later this season.

Still, it won't be easy. Few toon shows have successfully launched in
the years since "The Simpsons" made it OK for the nets to go animated