But be warned, this is not be like another Boomerang or worse, Teletoon Retro which the premise to ran 24/7 only classic animated shows was compromised by be a family-friendly one, that has shutdown around two years after the network's newer tag.
Since the main Me-TV beginning to ran classic cartoons shorts from the Warner library in January 2021, it gives them much of a bigger prestige than what it used to ran on Cartoon Network, Boomerang or elsewhere since decades. Boomerang in the USA getting back to its roots last year by shown classic Warner-owned materials and it's something that put me in tears that the Canadian Boomerang didn't achieving it, yet. Furthermore, the Canadian Boomerang is more on a gap to what is meant timeless and classic and what is contemporary, if the only actual "classic" cartoon airing there since its first day of operation (March 27th 2023) was... the Canadian fan-favorite staple The Raccoons!
Besides to ran the entire Warnermedia library that include of course, Warner Bros. cartoons, MGM, the Fleischer/Famous Popeyes still owned by the corporation since the A.A.P purchase by Ted Turner, back in the mid-1980s and the entire Hanna-Barbera studio library, they would push the enveloppe with more classic vaults like those Universal owned (The Walter Lantz filmography, Harveytoons, Rocky and Bullwinkle, etc.) and those from Sony that features lots of 30s/40s classic films from the Columbia studio and UPA as well.
All that would be a pipe dream if it wasn't by the expertise and aknowledgement of animation historians and enthusiasts curators like Jerry Beck and voice-artist Bob Bergen who would be the off-screen host for various promos and spots, like as promised by the PR. It's a mircale that Weigel Broadcasting Co. has responded positive for a 24/7 sister channel dedicated only for cartoons at something it using to be seen as kiddie fodders back in the early era of TV.
Only times will tell us if like with Warner Bros. Discovery, Universal and Sony, no mention the entire Fleischer library which a project was in hand to restored the remainings shorts producing by the two Flesicher Bros. in the 1930s and early-40s (I don't need to tell how it have all finished!), that the classic Disney and Pixar shorts and also, the entire Terrytoons library would be possessed by the pre-born new TV service. Let's all remember that this is not meant to be another Boomerang or Teletoon Retro, that the premise of some original productions will be made to make it like a real enhanced experience. Me-TV did fair efforts with Toon In With Me to shown classic shorts while a live-action host and his puppet made comments like in the very skirmish kind of show that only showing classic cartoons from the Public Domain from the 1960s and onward.
You know what is worse? I live in Canada, and Me-TV is not even available on any Canadian dishes by some absurd CRTC regulations. While they do almost anything in order to tame Netflix, Prime, Disney+, Hulu, and others to make business here without investing anything on Canadian content neither to pay taxes like all our broadcasters are "forced" to do, we are deprived to the Me-TV outlets by be a conventional National Television that plays classic shows from every eras and genres (Yeah, that include long hours of B-lists Western shows!) and that surely, Canadian audiences will be pleased to own it, even if cord-cutters only decrease chances to made it available legally.
The launch of Me-TV Toons is for June 25th.
P.S.: I known this blog is meant to be themed about Brandy & Mr. Whiskers, but as a longtime classic animation fan and consumer, that would be tedious if I'll take it all litteral by only mention anything about a show that is not guarantee people would want to get it back.
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