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Nickelodeon sets Avatar: Last Airbender sequel for 2011

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it seemed like it was doing really well. 3 million viewers on average, and the big episodes pulling in over 5...

spongebob pulls in just over 3 million...

in the end, who cares. we are getting more, and that's awesome. and if it's just 12 episodes, all the more reason to not dwell too much on the past.
 
darthraidr said:
from the wiki:
Avatar Ratings

it seemed like it was doing really well. 3 million viewers on average, and the big episodes pulling in over 5...

spongebob pulls in just over 3 million...

in the end, who cares. we are getting more, and that's awesome. and if it's just 12 episodes, all the more reason to not dwell too much on the past.
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Spongebob almost always gets about 5 million actually. I have never seen it in the 3 million range.
 
Dream said:
Christopher said:
Dream said:
I agree that the show wasn't treated very well during it's last season. While checking schedule for season three, I noticed that they aired the entire second half of season 3 over one week.
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And that was after delaying it for months. A number of those episodes actually came out on DVD before they debuted on US television.
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I heard about that. Was there any reason the episodes were delayed for so long? Did the writer's strike have anything to do it or was it just bad planning? I noticed the first two seasons weren't streched out so much.
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It can't have been the writers' strike, because it takes something like 16 months to produce a season of an animated show, so the writing would've been completed long before the strike came.

And it's hardly unique to this show. Nickelodeon has done similar things with other shows, premiering and scheduling them erratically. Often I've found that their listed TV schedules have little to no correspondence to what they're actually showing. It's often been extremely hard to track down new episodes of their shows. I've had that experience not just with A:TLA, but with Danny Phantom, Fairly Oddparents, and the like. It's like they go out of their way to make it hard for viewers to find the shows they like.


Well, as much as network executives might like to base their decisions solely on quality, they have to make profit their highest priority. A:TLA was so gorgeously made that it had to cost a pretty penny. And maybe it wasn't bringing in the specific demographic that their advertisers most wanted the network to attract.
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I think Avatar was doing decently in the ratings. The series finale got something around 5.5 million viewers.
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Which is why I specified demographics rather than ratings. To advertisers, it isn't enough just to get a large number of people; they have to be the right kind of people. If a show's sponsors manufacture products aimed at 12-year-old boys and a show's main audience is women age 18 to 35, then even if there are 10 million women watching, that doesn't help the sponsors make enough profit to justify backing the show.
 
Christopher said:
If a show's sponsors manufacture products aimed at 12-year-old boys and a show's main audience is women age 18 to 35, then even if there are 10 million women watching, that doesn't help the sponsors make enough profit to justify backing the show.
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They should just go after different sponsors. Certainly, after a season-long track record, they should be able to find sponsors who are a better fit.
 
^It's easy to assume the answer is that simple when you don't actually have to do the job. You can't just say "I want a better sponsor" and have one magically appear. And it's not just about individual shows, it's about the whole lineup and the network's branding. There are a lot of factors I'm just guessing at myself, but if there were an easy way to fix the problem, I think they would've fixed it by now. Things get weird and complicated when decisions have to be based on money.
 
A good amount of Spongebob audience is supposedly made up of gay men over the age of 40, doesn't mean the show can't have children watching too. It also doesn't mean that they will start showing condom and underwear commercials.
 
I don't see what a point about Spongebob's ratings and demographics has to do with Avatar's ratings and demographics. Obviously each situation is different, because Nickelodeon treated the shows differently. I can only speculate about what factors might've affected their decisions, but the undeniable fact is, they made different decisions about A:TLA than they did about Spongebob. And they have reasons behind their decisions that come with their job responsibilities and business considerations.
 
They do the same thing with iCarly... they've been randomly premiering new episodes this summer at Friday or Saturday and often times it will be one new episode every three weeks or so.
 
Here she is:

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The voice cast has also been announced:

Janet Varney as KORRA
Kiernan Shipka as JINORA
Daniel Dae Kim as HIROSHI SATO
David Faustino as MAKO
Seychelle Gabriel as ASAMI
Lance Henriksen as LIEUTENANT
JK Simmons as TENZIN
 
Hard to judge from a still frame where much of the figure is obscured, but I think it's an effective design. She's clearly Water Tribe, but very distinct from Katara. At least in this pose, she comes off as a strong, aggressive character, a fighter by nature, unlike the previous Avatar, Aang. The combination of the rear ponytail and the two side tails gives her a distinctive appearance that will stand out in a crowd or from a distance, and they should certainly fly around eye-catchingly when she's in action, along with the fur skirt. The sleeveless look with patterned armbands is distinctive too. This is a character who should be interesting to watch in motion and who can't be mistaken for anyone else, and that's good character design.


Skywalker said:
The voice cast has also been announced:

Janet Varney as KORRA
Kiernan Shipka as JINORA
Daniel Dae Kim as HIROSHI SATO
David Faustino as MAKO
Seychelle Gabriel as ASAMI
Lance Henriksen as LIEUTENANT
JK Simmons as TENZIN
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I'm not familiar with Janet Varney, but at 35, she's significantly older than any of the core "hero" actors of A:TLA except for Dante Basco. How old is Korra supposed to be? From what I can tell behind the streaks of water, her shape appears to be, well, budding. Kiernan Shipka, on the other hand, is an 11-year-old girl, and a name I'd evidently recognize if I watched Mad Men.

Daniel Dae Kim and JK Simmons are good additions to the cast, and Lance Henriksen has a fairly interesting voice. Isn't Seychelle Gabriel the actress who played Princess Yue in The Live-Action Movie That Shall Not Be Named? Hopefully her participation in Korra will earn her back some karma points.

And it's a nice touch that they've named a character in honor of Mako, but not so much that he's being played by the kid from Married: With Children.
 
Christopher said:
Skywalker said:
The voice cast has also been announced:

Janet Varney as KORRA
Kiernan Shipka as JINORA
Daniel Dae Kim as HIROSHI SATO
David Faustino as MAKO
Seychelle Gabriel as ASAMI
Lance Henriksen as LIEUTENANT
JK Simmons as TENZIN
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I'm not familiar with Janet Varney, but at 35, she's significantly older than any of the core "hero" actors of A:TLA except for Dante Basco. How old is Korra supposed to be? From what I can tell behind the streaks of water, her shape appears to be, well, budding. Kiernan Shipka, on the other hand, is an 11-year-old girl, and a name I'd evidently recognize if I watched Mad Men.

Daniel Dae Kim and JK Simmons are good additions to the cast, and Lance Henriksen has a fairly interesting voice. Isn't Seychelle Gabriel the actress who played Princess Yue in The Live-Action Movie That Shall Not Be Named? Hopefully her participation in Korra will earn her back some karma points.

And it's a nice touch that they've named a character in honor of Mako, but not so much that he's being played by the kid from Married: With Children.
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Faustino has been a voice actor for several years now. He's ranged from What's New Scooby Doo, to The Batman, to American Dad.
 
Kiernan Shipka's awesome. Easily one of the most talented preteen actors working today.

I like the design, from what we see of it; distinct and athletic.
 
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