What the f**k have they done to the Dennis the Menace television series? The cartoon effect is so shit and generic compared with the older illustrations, the stories are a bit naff, and he's now a Mancs/Yorkshire cross and the Colonel doesn't have anything like the gravitas of his former presence and voice. Very disappointed.
Shit introduction tune as well. Why do they insist on doing this to so many cartoons and children's television series that had great appearance, storyline and personality in the 1990s and in so doing turn everything into a generic sea of "meh".
They did it to Thomas the Tank Engine, making it fully CGI and creating a really shit "they're 2 they're 4 they're 6 they're 8" song and stories which always involve utterly implausible railway situations and warped "be good" morals. So many shitty new obscure engines instead of making proper use of the original Rev Awdry's characters.
They did it to Postman Pat, with this shitty "can you see what's in his bag" song and suddenly deciding that what Greendale really needed was a helipad and a railway station being run by a token family of Sub-Continental origin. So clearly serves no purpose whatsoever
They did it to Fireman Sam, which is now CGI, and in so doing the whole appearance actually loses authentic character of the previous stop-motion techniques.
They did it to Noddy too. Why? Just why?
It makes me very sad that the pillars of my childhood are being raped and tortured by television producers with absolutely no imagination or sensitivity to the unique methods of production that made them so endearing.