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herbkir
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It looks like the original plan to have Saturday Adult Swim run from 11-2 is out the window. Now, I guess AS will be 12-2. I doubt they'd go 12-3. Even on Saturdays, most of us are going to be ready for bed by 2 a.m. so the viewership after that hour will fall off sharply.
Will the new Toonami sked change the AS plan to run 2 back-to-back Inuyasha episodes each Saturday? I wouldn't be surprised if they cut that back to one IY episode per week. (Bummer.) I'd bet the AS sked will look like this: Midnight - New - Wolf's Rain (and future anime premieres) 12:30 - New - Inuyasha (and future anime premieres) 1 a.m. - Other anime (WHRobin repeat?) 1:30 - Other anime (Big O repeat?) 2 a.m. -- Back to CN's classic cartoons. I really hope, though, that the Saturday AS does a nightly repeat like the weeknight AS has been doing. So if I miss an episode in the first run, I can still tape it in its second run. Also, from the news release, it looks like 9 of the 10 possible Saturday Toonami slots have been accounted for. That leaves only one slot open for a surprise, like having one episode of Inuyasha close out Toonami and then run a second one to open Adult Swim. (That would settle the perennial squabbles over whether IY belongs on Toonami or AS.) (^_*) |
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Swordfish_II
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The problem is, if AS ever wants to air movies, they'd need a minimum 3 hour block for 2 hour movies. Unless they'd cut 30 minutes out of a movie (they way they've been lately...
 ) or air it commercial free (HA!). And I doubt they'd go for a 12-3 block, because the ratings probably drop considerably even after midnight (of course they don't seem to care about the "action" audience anyway).
I'm still hoping that the Toonami 7 - 12 was a mistake (the PR contained a few: Inuyasha's "Jewel of Four Seasons" and a couple different spellings of the new weekday block) and Toonami will only last from 7-11. Adult Swim is supposed to make its own press release in a few weeks (and the April schedule should also be out by next week) so we should know by then. |
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Shorty22
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Is it just me, or does it seem weird with how they're handling this? I mean, I think it'd make more sense to leave Toonami there on weekdays and just change/rename their Saturday thing. Toonami already has bad connotations in the anime-fan world, so we should just leave it behind, finally. Why would they name their new block Miguzi anyway? The word sounds like it should be connected with an anime-block or something.
(Edit: I was thinking of Toonami as more of a time-slot than an 'action block' of programming, which is how CN labels it and in that aspect, it really wouldn't be changing with the lineup that it'll have on Saturday. Therefore, I can see why they'd move the name 'Toonami' for that reason.) Personally, I think it would be some weird inside joke/interesting irony if the Saturday block was called Mizugi/swimsuit and lead into Adult Swim. Heh. |
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emory
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This just in from AdultSwim.com . the Saturday night AS has been cancelled entirely now. the network decided Saturday night was doing too well with kids to put it at risk.
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Swordfish_II
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To fully expound:
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setzer
 Posts: 120 Location: Laputa, the Castle in the Sky |
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I like some shows on SVES, but the music is annoying.
 and from what i hear Toonami Saturdays will be even better then the current SvEs.
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lianncoop
Past ANN Contributor
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So, basically it's virutally the same schedule (being AS is Sun-Thurs?) and Toonami is moving to Saturdays?
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Nagisa
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The more things change, the more they stay the same. Cartoon Network's getting about like TechTV when it comes to scheduling their anime...making up new little rules here & there and making last-minute changes with little warning... Ah well. As long as they actually manage to show the stuff somehow (and SEED turns out relatively unscathed) I'll be happy. |
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okendri
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They are giving us a month and a half notice, which should give people plenty of time to adjust. |
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Nagisa
Moderator
Posts: 6128 Location: Atlanta-ish, Jawjuh |
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Hm, true. What I meant by "making up rules with little heads-up" was basically that they seem to keep dropping little press releases every week that hint at schedule changes that tend to contradict one another. The closer we get to the supposed airdate, the bigger, stranger, and more contradictory the changes. Reminds me of TechTV's current practices...
"Okay, on Mondays, Wednesdays, & Thursdays, we'll air it at 2 a.m., while Fridays it airs at 3 p.m., and Saturdays it starts at 1:33½ f.m. and ends around 10:65 p.a. On the night of the Equinox, we air it at 21:50 and continue airing it at that timeslot on every third day until the following month when we invent a brand new hour between Sunday and June. NONO! Scratch that, we're ditching the Sunday & June thing and just running it between Robot Wars & Adam Sessler's Aquaman conniption, which occur on opposite ends of Happy Hour on perpendcicular weeks. Simple as that." Basically, if they could just wait and hold off the press releases until they have the final, set-in-stone schedule (as opposed to "okay, this is how it is so far...no, wait, scratch that, THIS! NO! THIIIIS!!!"), and then give us the whole new lineup in one fell swoop, I'd be a lot happier and a lot less confused. |
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Meson
Posts: 219 Location: Buffalo, NY |
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I wonder where the viewer cards will go to. Maybe Wednesday.
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Swordfish_II
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Why does eveyone want to have some stupid card?
Random Dumba**: Blah blah, stupid crap, blah blah... [adult swim]: Dear Random Dumba**, [insert sarcastic comment and/or viewership insult here] |
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Luff-Chan
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Better than commercials, if you ask me. I think they should just shoot Toonami, but that's just me. I liked the Friday thing, and now they put on what I hate most about CN?! Miguzi? Does that have a meaning? Did they just make that up? Toonami...well, it has Toon in it, and is relativly relevant, but Miguzi seems a little random. I hope they made a mistake about the time slot for Toonami. But it appears they didn't, and now I must find something to do on Fridays between 7 and midnight
I like a few things on this "Miguzi" though, so nothing against that. But, this means less Toonami all week. With 2 or 3 hours a day through the week, thats about 10 to 13 hours of Toonami. But now, it is only 5 hours. So there is a plus. |
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Swordfish_II
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Apparently its Japanese for swimsuit. Understanable since its hosted from a sunken ship, ironic in the fact that the block will only contain American made shows and anime wannabees. |
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Godaistudios
Posts: 2075 Location: Albuquerque, NM (the land of entrapment) |
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Actually, that would be... Mizugi for the swimsuit reference.
Mizu=water gi=clothing, or garment. (think of a karate gi) Not miguzi... which I have no idea what that means actually... |
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