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Apple Inks Deal With DHX Media to Produce and Release All-New 'Peanuts' Content
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I think the board just realized they have another Marissa Mayer running the company. The momentum created by Jobs hid systemic problems with Cook's approach.
Many of the Jewish faith (my family included) grew up watching and enjoying Peanuts, and never once did it come up that, "hey, they are a different religion than me...WTF???". If anything I'm glad Schultz didn't toss some token Jewish character in there just to be PC. Being offended by a show that expressly demonstrates the characters' enjoyment of a Christian holiday is like being offended by a football game on TV because one likes baseball.
Sorry, but Peanuts is passé. Nostalgic for the Boomers and Gen X’ers. Foreign and disinteresting to the kids of today.
Next Apple should ink a deal with itself to get back into the computer business with new Airports, Time Capsules, displays and maybe even a new Mac Pro that is regularly updated. The new mini is terrific. I know they can do it.
Fortunately the “kids of today” don’t singlehandedly dictate programming for us Xers and boomers that also like to buy and use Apple products.
I feel sorry for today's children, for the media overload is something they shouldn't have to go through. Everyone has to find something wrong with everything and they need a participation trophy when they compete in a sporting event or contest.
The Peanuts characters had an innocence to them and it was comical when good old Charlie Brown would take the pitcher's mound with hopes in winning just one game. I don't think I ever saw a strip of the Peanuts where he did win a game, but you always saw Charlie Brown taking the mound and trying. Was the Peanuts comic strip / cartoons perfect? No, but nothing is "perfect" and the only thing anyone can do is strive for perfection. I just wish the minority wouldn't try to ruin something that is good and try to stamp their "morality" or perceived "morality" on things that they shouldn't.
Agree but I don’t think the cartoon resonates with kids today. I have 2 kids (5 and 3) and 8 nieces and nephews under 9, and none of them have any interest in Snoopy, Charlie Brown and the gang. It’s sad but times do change.
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No, but the “kids of today” will drive Apple towards future devices and software releases, whether we want it or not.
Reading a comic about appreciating moments of joy where you can find them and using them to find purpose in a lifetime of disapointment, depression and lingering existential crisis is for mature people anyway at this point.
If you can even find three kids that will put down the controller long enough to read, they can’t handle anything more than comics of hokey good and evil caricatures, where great strongmen with supernatural abilities are the only ones who can “save” the world, by returning it back to the status quo. ...by blowing things up and killing just the right people. Raise an entire generation on that and social media, and the results are starting to show.
Nostalgia unnecessary. Peanuts and Calvin & Hobbes are practically 17th century French literature compared to the vast sea of mindless junk kids are raised on at this point.
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Kanye already leaked iPlane.
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The great thing is that parents still have an opportunity to share this with their children before the internet tries to convince them that everything sucks.
Out of all the shows that Apple is working on, in my opinion the one above is the only one with any entertainment value what-so-ever.
Seriously, I grew up watching the various Charlie Brown holiday specials and I loved them as a child and I enjoyed reading the Peanuts comic strip in my local newspaper. However, like many T.V. shows of the past, I don't know how well they translate into modern times.
Not arguing. Only pointing out a sad reality as you so poignantly stated.
Awesome, I can't wait to see some new Charlie Brown and Snoopy! This will be a fairly important test for Apple in terms of how they handle creating their own content (or new story lines for beloved cartoons)
Most Christians don't have much of a Christian message these days.
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I agree.
Peanuts used to reflect lifestyle for kids when I was a kid.
Today, they have very little in common.
That said, The Peanuts Movie was very well done. Problem is that I'm too old now to really appreciate it.
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Apple should try to buy the rights to Peanuts and make it the iconic mascot of the company, they so fit together.
Why would a company that prides it’s self on innovation, creativity, and experimentation, revive one of the most synical, pessimistic, and intellectually oppressive series ever created. What next an Eeyor spinoff of winnie the poo? Focus on seignfeld, rick and morty, and battlebots, and if you’re going to revive anything, let it be Xeena or Stargate.
The television specials had some controversy (even back then) over the religious messaging but Shultz was quite religious and worked it into his comics fairly regularly (not constantly). He and Bill Melendez stood their ground against the networks and that ended up on the air. The other interesting thing about those specials was the use of actual children for the voice acting (I find the fact that it hadn't happened prior more interesting than any of the religious overtones)
Here's an article if any of you are interested. Seems like the author has a particular perspective to begin with but this was just the first Google result, I'm sure there are other accountings of Schultz' religious influences within Peanuts.
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/04/the-spirituality-of-snoopy/479664/
So 560 of his 17,800 works had religious reference (some as subtle as a character saying “Amen”). That is 3%. So 97% of his works did NOT contain references. Given the subtle religious tones of even a majority of those 560 works, and that 97% of the body of his work didn’t contain any, I maintain my original position: this is not a show that I, or anyone I know, would label as “Christian”. The beliefs of the artist, are not evidence of the religiousness of his works. Stephen King is Christian too - his quote: “I choose to believe God exists”. But that doesn’t make his body of work Christian.