Why is it hard for submit to Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network?

[tony6]

Lots of animators submit to Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network and Disney Channel in the past. They submit it. Some become successful and some gets rejected. Now, it's hard for today's animators to get their pilots out there and gets rejected. This has to change. Why can't have our pilots be out there? Why is that?

 

[RegularCapital]

Lots of animators submit to Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network and Disney Channel in the past. They submit it. Some become successful and some gets rejected. Now, it's hard for today's animators to get their pilots out there and gets rejected. This has to change. Why can't have our pilots be out there? Why is that?

It depends on when studios are actively inviting potential show creators which usually happens when they host a shorts programme, but even then they gets tons of submissions and a lot of these are internal.

Even in normal times, they get loads of project proposals, they're still accepting pilot ideas, but they still get a lot and if the pitch bible isn't good enough or the premise of the show isn't what they're looking for in the opinion of the execs, they instantly reject it.

I wouldn't take rejection to heart and it doesn't necessarily mean the show idea is good enough, the studio can only make so many shows at one time, even if it makes it to pilot stage.

 

[tony6]

It depends on when studios are actively inviting potential show creators which usually happens when they host a shorts programme, but even then they gets tons of submissions and a lot of these are internal.

Even in normal times, they get loads of project proposals, they're still accepting pilot ideas, but they still get a lot and if the pitch bible isn't good enough or the premise of the show isn't what they're looking for in the opinion of the execs, they instantly reject it.

I wouldn't take rejection to heart and it doesn't necessarily mean the show idea is good enough, the studio can only make so many shows at one time, even if it makes it to pilot stage.

Why is that they didn't want the others of the eight pilots besides Rugrats, Doug and Ren and Stimpy back then?

 

[Goldstar!]

Why is that they didn't want the others of the eight pilots besides Rugrats, Doug and Ren and Stimpy back then?

There's no one concrete answer for that. Networks reject pilots for various reasons on a case by case basis. It's for the exact same reason(s) every time. It mostly depends on what type of show the network is looking for at the time.

Phineas & Ferb was rejected by both Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon before Dan Povenmire and Jeff Marsh pitched the series to Disney Channel. The Proud Family only went to Disney Channel after Nickelodeon rejected it. Nickelodeon supposedly passed on Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy before Danny Antonucci took the series to Cartoon Network. And of course Adventure Time originally aired as a short on Nickelodeon's Random Cartoons, but ended up airing on Cartoon Network.

 

[the greenman]

Why is that they didn't want the others of the eight pilots besides Rugrats, Doug and Ren and Stimpy back then?

It was certainly a different time period back then. Different regime. I know for a fact the studios (specifically Nickelodeon would practically accept anything.

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[tony6]

It was certainly a different time period back then. Different regime. I know for a fact the studios (specifically Nickelodeon would practically accept anything.

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