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Maybe they read this forum lol

They can’t for whatever reason. I think they got wise to the “better schedule site

I’m really hoping whatever the legal issues are, it’s really worth it to take this long. They strongly hinted that this show could also expand the block whenever it’s cleared up.

Figured as much. I’ve only been able to look at that on a desktop. We’ll probably get some kind of an announcement this week hopefully! Thanks!

I can’t see it where I am currently. Does it show any type of schedule replacement for Outlaw Star or is the schedule blank as per usual?

Can’t wait to see how Super stacked up against the rest of primetime Last week it got #2 18-34 in prime time against the rest of cable!

That’s the main factor in how well the rest of the night does. It seems to be the thing most all over the place retention wise. You can sort of count on the rest of the shows retaining the way they do, but it all depends on how Super starts the night and how well Kai retains

Because the new show wasn’t needed until the end of January, it’s certainly possible that it was paid for using the 2018 budget. Champloo was needed first thing in 2016 on the 2nd of January PLUS they needed a promo for it, so that was bought with the 2015 budget. But who knows how the accounting works over there. It’s probabky not anything like we think. Do they amortize the costs on a per episode basis or is it all expensed out at once? They picked up Black Clover at the end of the year so who knows how it all works!

I’m going with something new to Toonami at 2, but maybe an older catalog title from Funimation. Escaflowne would be interesting since Toonami wanted it back in the old days. Also, possibly the Lupin replacement show could come in at anytime as an expansion show at 11:00 PM, Pushing the DB hour back to the 10:00 hour.

There’s your April Fools prank. All 6 FLCLs with a special look at season 2 interspersed

You have to wonder how aware they are of it.

That’s probably going to replace IBO. The timing works out just right

I guess it would’ve been a cool theme, but I’d rather they didn’t especially since you know they could preempt the block post midnight on 3/31 with some April Fools gag.

I guess it would’ve been a cool theme, but I’d rather they didn’t especially since you know they could preempt the block post midnight on 3/31 with some April Fools gag.

The thing is that back when he made that tweet, he had no idea how long it was going to take to clear the legal issues. He just threw that out there as a possibility. Also: since XML was updated today, it looks like no St.Patricks Day marathon like some of us were speculating! Whew!

It could be that they will both debut the new show, expand the block, AND replace Outlaw Star with something else (which could either be a rerun or something new to the block). Makes more sense to do it all at once at this point

Still 3 weeks out, things have and can change at a moments notice. But, it could also be that this won’t replace Outlaw Star either and could still be an expansion show whenever. We should get an anncouncenent about that replacement very soon!

We won’t know specifically. I assumed that based on AS being still considered a high rated cable network and Demarcos statements that their decline is not happening as fast as other networks leads me to believe it’s an across the board thing. The numbers are obviously not the same thing, but as Alchemist said, it’s about what the network considers valuable in the current market. Advertisers and networks have to accept the new reality with viewership decline and if said decline is across the board everyone has an overall smaller pie to have a piece of. It’s still about outpacing other similar targeted demographics on other networks. Obviously these numbers would be horrible a few years ago. But now Family Guy can barely get over a million on Saturday and it was getting nearly 2 million a few years ago. I also think delayed viewing is more of a thing now than ever before (a few weeks ago Super rose up to a 0.8 18-49 in Live 7!).its probably more of a thing for the block than with those comedy reruns! But yeah, I was mostly going for perceived value to the network and what realistic viewing figures

According to Facebook, the Toonami stream is getting an update. They’ll mix in the current episode of Preflight with the marathon, I thought they did that already? Monday they’ll be streaming Outlaw Star! Maybe they’ll either be going beyond 5 episodes or they’ll switch the show out more often. We’ll see...

Did you guys know that if you go back through programming insider, you can follow the links to the exact week a year prior? It also has the statistic of how much the network is down or up a year ago. Clicking back to 2015, the network as a whole is down 43 percent! That means a show that got around 1 million viewers in 2015 is more likely to get around 570,000 today. There are other factors of course (the shows and time slots are different from them so it’s not all equal) but if you only take the drop in network viewership into account these are the number “adjusted for deflation” Super-1,757,894 Kai-1,366,666 Clover-1,101,754 Jojo-908,772 IBO- 784,2111 HxH-771,923 Naruto-801,754 Outlaw-615,790 Dandy-535,088 Bebop-533,333 Ghost-514,035 Also consider that the block airs earlier now. The ratings seem to follow wherever the block moves and the drops generally follow the same pattern depending on the shows position in the lineup so we’d probavly have something similar even if the block was at midnight. This isn’t an exact science, it’s just some perspective.

Here's something interesting: despite Clover streaming the closed caption subtitles are for Lupin the 3rd. Thats probably what they were supposed to stream this week.

Toonami just isn’t the main destination for things like it used to be because of the availability of simulcasts. Back when DBZ first aired, most viewers were all only getting it from Toonami and were experiencing it the same way. We followed the story only through the dub broadcast because that’s all that was available. Because of the way things are distributed now, things can never be that way again except for World Premeires. It was so strange to me last year talking with my friends at work about a show currently airing on the block (Titan) and none of them were watching Toonami nor has any interest in waiting for the dub. It’s becoming more of a second run theater for things since more people have no issue watching the subs. But it’s still a great way for a different audience to see things they may not have watched other wise. It’s just for the really popular things, you lose a lot of the potential audience (people who are really into anime)to the sub and it’s not new to them anymore. What you have left are casual viewers, but you also get people who care about the Toonami experience who will watch it again in English. The block serves slot of different audiences, but people just have more options now than before, which isn’t a bad thing at all! What the block can do is more things like Jack and FLCL mixed in with some popular shows, potential diamonds in the rough, and some classics. Demarco has indicated this is the direction they are headed in, but it would be great to get some announcements soon about what may be coming. I hope we get another original announced soon!

It’s a cost vs. benefit thing. Taking ad space away on their own networks hurts them a little but outside the networks probably costs more than what they think the minimum return would be. Toonami’s strategy has always seemed to get shows as cheap as possible for minimal promotion for the most profit. If they started running ads all over the place outside the network,it’s more money spent and could put the block in the red. That being said it would be great if the distributors could promote the shows a little more via banners/YouTube in places where anime fans go. For instance, there was an ad for Lupin at the recent screening of Castle and it said episodes where airing dubbed on Toonami. No one had no idea in the audience there was a new show and it was airing on TV here. It would be to the distributors advantage to promote since it would increase awareness of their product and their pockets for advertising are probably deeper than ToonamisToonami’s

It looks even better when you take out things that didn’t even air in Toonami. Its cool we are seeing how Two and a Half Men is doing since it’s treated as a premiere right now and is one of the things actually going head to head with the block!

Unfortunately getting ads where they really count (outside the network) costs more than they are willing to spend