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Nick Cancelling Invader Zim

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the why-does-all-the-best-tv-get-cancelled dept.

orn writes "Lots of my slashdotting friends turned me on to Invader Zim not so long ago. Well, aintitcool.com is reporting that the show is being cancelled." Now that really sucks. Zim was absolute genius in terms of art, use of CG, and just flat out hilarious writing. I'll miss this one a lot.

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  1. Nickelodeon ruins everything they touch... by Nonesuch · · Score: 5, Interesting
    The few good shows Nick gets, they destroy.

    The article suggests that Nick is pulling Zim due to poor ratings- yet how can they expect good ratings when they randomly move the show to a new time slot every week? When they randomly show 'Wild Thornberries' in the slot Invader Zim was scheduled for, causing my Tivo to waste valuable recoding time? When they fail to supply episode descriptions 90% of the time?

    In my opinion, the worst sin of Nicktoons is the 'splitting' of episodes, where they take the individual segments that make up a 30-minute episode of Zim, CatDog, etc and package it with some live action slime game or other filler into a fifteen minute slot.

    Worse than that, they tend to start shows early and end them late, especially with these 15-minute half-episodes, so TiVo misses large portions of the cartoon.

    With the cancellation of Zim, I have one less reason to bother turning on the TV anymore.

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  2. IZ cancelled due to union organizing drive. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The reason Invader Zim, Spongebob, and 2 other shows are being dropped has everything to do with 16 out of 19 writers signing union cards.

    There is no unionization in the animation industry, and Nickelodeon means to keep it that way.

    Nick staffers demand union representation

    There was a story on yahoo! news last week that made the link clearer, but I can no longer find it.
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  3. I spose I'll just rant a little here... by ebbomega · · Score: 5, Interesting

    So. Who buys the ratings bullshit?

    Honestly. There's a lot more shows that pull in worse ratings than Invader Zim and that don't have the same cult following that Zim has behind it.

    I think Nickelodeon didn't think when they gave a man who happened to author a comic called "Johnny The Homicidal Maniac" a Children's TV Show.

    Go watch Dark Harvest. What kind of Kid wouldn't get nightmares from watching that episode? Honestly... just whenever he opens his mouth and you see all the guts inside.

    Not to mention the unaired FBI Warning episode, which is as such simply because it was apparently too controversial (Anybody care to shed some light behind why? I think it had something to do with Sept11...).

    This is a Viacom move, I'm guessing... and thusly political. Nickelodeon is Viacom's Kids Network, and being that Zim, much like Undergrads, The Oblongs, The Simpsons (so far the only one out of that list that was actually promoted _right_) and a pantheon of other cartoons aren't geared towards kids, were promoted as kids' shows, of course it's going to get pulled...

    The problem is the only more recent controversial cartoon that actually managed to survive through all of it got worn out in the first year (*coughSouthParkcough*) and after that it wasn't really funny anymore...

    So it's not a kids show. I honestly think Viacom should look around at its other channels (MTV?) for support of Zim.

    And while they're at it, they should push someone in Canada to pick it up. I hate having to watch all the episodes on my computer.

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