The channel that said at its launch (when Ted Turner was still running things) that you would only see live human beings without cartoon characters during commercials rolls out Wednesday night a two-night-a- week summer lineup of first-run reality shows branded "Real" in an attempt to grab a slightly-older audience than their mainstay 6-to-11 kids (not to mention go after a genre competitors Nick and Disney have stayed away from, for the most part) but risk offending the channel's core audience (although the adult viewers probably gave up on CN about the time Warners and "Popeye" shorts and "Flintstones" reruns were shunted off to sister channel Boomerang):
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