OwlChemist81

Oh wow, Pop Team Epic rips on GHOSTBUSTERS this Saturday night!! And tomorrow night, we conclude this epic battle between Goku and Hit! Oh yeah, we WERE in Countdown at this point last year, huh?

I can't help but think of Jotaro battling Dio watching this, because his abilities are almost identical! I used to think Matt Mercer was a fine choice to play Hit, but now I know he was the PERFECT choice!! Yeah, KAIO-KEN BLUE!!

Cool! Watching now on CN West!

Well, it's showtime, but I'm not watching right now.

On Wednesday, Week 8 remained--not so great. Dragon Ball Super (repeat) (ADSM, 8:00 PM, 30 min.) • 0.417 million viewers (#84) • 0.28 HH (#80) • 0.15 A18-49 (#69) • 0.16 A18-34 (#43) • 0.14 A25-54 (#89) American Dad (repeat) (ADSM, 8:30 PM, 30 min.) • 0.417 million viewers (#84) • 0.30 HH (#78) • 0.18 A18-49 (#54) • 0.17 A18-34 (#36) • 0.17 A25-54 (#74) At least a tie with American Dad for total viewers!

Nothing wrong with that. I did watch most of the West Coast airing though. I guess that means I'm ready for Episode #39: 2 WEEKS!? That was torture! Thank goodness this episode will just be 8 PM tomorrow (Thursday)!

Tuesday night DBS: http://programminginsider.com/tuesday-final-ratings-msnbc-rises-to-most-watched-cable-network-in-prime-time-on-trump-scandal-news/ Dragon Ball Super (repeat) (ADSM, 8:00 PM, 30 min.) • 0.415 million viewers (#79) • 0.26 HH (#82) • 0.16 A18-49 (#66) • 0.16 A18-34 (#37) • 0.15 A25-54 (#84) American Dad (repeat) (ADSM, 8:30 PM, 30 min.) • 0.461 million viewers (#77) • 0.31 HH (#74) • 0.21 A18-49 (#52) • 0.20 A18-34 (#29) • 0.19 A25-54 (#64) Stan Smith gets another Flawless Victory...

That's ironic, because it's also by Yuuko Kanno, the same composer as Part 3! 4/DIU: https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=17832 3B/Egypt: https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=16303

How many times does 62 go into 21? About 1/3...

I didn't notice this Saturday night, but... Reminds me of a Hellsing Ultimate opening title card, but I can't remember which one. Episode I, I guess? Which would make sense since they're both set in 1999, I guess.

But we still get the same OP, right?? So it will look kinda like Kai from here on out??? Maybe that'll actually be good for ratings??

Actually, it WAS shortened. It's just that the short version only lacks about 15 seconds that's in the full version!

They also made it clear they probably weren't expanding from 3.5 hours permanently, but yeah, somehow that does seem less likely, UNLESS they air Miyazaki movies once again, and they CAN since they're now all under the same GKIDS umbrella they got Mind Game from, not the House of Mouse. But I'd say a whole month is unlikely, although by today's standards even Month of Movies II was a juggernaught!

Believe it or not, it wasn't me! I don't remember who it was, but it was first mentioned on the old ASMB. Well, this episode wasn't exactly a true dub premiere, since it was in theaters. I guess that had an effect. Next week's WILL be, but we do have to suffer through a rerun of this episode first, which just MIGHT do better in the ratings, so yay? Yeah, FLCL Alternative should help--except that in an interesting twist the Pre-Flight channel actually leaked the first episode online DUBBED. So it WON'T be a dub premiere either--and of course it also got sneak-previewed on April 1 in subtitles, so we pretty much have to wait until September 15th for that effect to kick in--but through yet another twist of fate, since the FLCL Alternative movie screens in theaters in Japan in early September, those won't actually be world premieres, but just dub premieres. Of course on September 29th BORUTO arrives, and THAT should be good.

One last one for the night: Monday's Dragon Ball Super and American Dad (lead-out) ratings: http://programminginsider.com/monday-final-ratings-original-telecast-of-mtv-video-music-awards-sinks-to-a-22-year-low-in-total-viewers/ Dragon Ball Super (repeat) (ADSM, 8:00 PM, 30 min.) • 0.363 million viewers (#88) • 0.25 HH (#85) • 0.14 A18-49 (#76) • 0.13 A18-34 (#54) • 0.12 A25-54 (#95) American Dad (repeat) (ADSM, 8:30 PM, 30 min.) • 0.425 million viewers (#83) • 0.30 HH (#73) • 0.18 A18-49 (#56) • 0.20 A18-34 (#34) • 0.16 A25-54 (#76) Week 8 starts out with a pretty resounding thud, with the lowest number of total viewers yet for a weeknight DBS episode and a tie for the lowest 18-34 number yet. Plus American Dad grew on it significantly in every category. Ouch; I guess that's just what happens when you go up against the VMAs.

Ok, so the first part isn't so crazy: Dragon Ball Super as we now know it will air new episodes on Toonami for a total of 3 years. It has a total of 131 episodes, and last year we finished with Episode 44. That leaves 87 episodes, but we may get as high as 90 this year, which only leaves 41 for next year. It will be interesting to see how they compensate for that. One possibility is a December 2019 return of the Month of Movies, which would logically feature the TV premiere of the new Broly movie. But that's not certain either. It could also be that new episodes air internationally in January 2020, starting with a TV cut of the new Broly movie, then advancing to all-new episodes of Dragon Ball Super by April. There is also "Dragon Ball Heroes". It will be interesting to see if that comes to Toonami.

PROGRAM Viewers (000) A1849 rating A1849 (000) 10:00 My Hero Academia (r) 567 0.24 307 10:30 Dragon Ball Super 704 0.32 415 11:00 Attack on Titan 517 0.21 275 11:30 FLCL: Progressive (r) 346 0.13 172 12:00a Pop Team Epic 341 0.14 183 12:30a Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable (p) 361 0.16 204 1:00a Hunter X Hunter (r) 379 0.16 203 1:30a Black Clover (r) 366 0.15 194 2:00a Naruto: Shippuden (r) 320 0.14 185 2:30a One-Punch Man (r) 287 0.13 174 3:00a Lupin the 3rd: Part 4 (r) 245 0.11 146 3:30a Cowboy Bebop (r) 230 0.10 130 8/18/18 - Adults 18-49 Show Viewers Retention MHA 307,000 100.00% DBS 415,000 135.18% AOT 275,000 66.27% FLCL2 172,000 62.55% PTE 183,000 106.40% JoJo 204,000 111.48% HxH 203,000 99.51% B. Clover 194,000 95.57% Shippuden 185,000 95.36% Punchy 174,000 94.05% Lupin 146,000 83.91% Bebop 130,000 89.04% AVERAGE 215,667 33rd of 33 Half the block was under 200K Adults 18-49. Man, the "Unholy Megabomb" back in December 2014 looks fantastic compared to this epic fail! And yet, THIS time I seriously doubt there will be any adverse effect on the block. 10-4 is here to stay, baby! But pre-Toonami, the shows being re-arranged, yeah, I COULD see that. But I don't know what the hell they're gonna do when they lose the Cleveland Show in a month or two! I suppose I could see Bob's Burgers x2 at 8 at Family Guy x2 at 9 leading-in to MHA. You could argue that BB is needed elsewhere, but they gotta do something like that. More originals or even Toonami reruns on weeknights would lead to lower ratings, but it may be the only answer.

Didn't they say on Adam Ruins Everything that Beta males were really children?

Eh, his clueless comedy is kind of an asset! Tomorrow evening, the fight continues: What a silly still-frame though! I probably won't be watching until 10 PM, so enjoy!

Next time:

Sure, ultimately Vegeta had to go Blue to beat him, It would be really cool if Cabba came back at some point after performing the 6-Saiyan Ritual and becoming a Super Saiyan Blue himself!

Before the break, Cabba was no match for Vegeta, but now??

This is the wrong threat for this, but we've just found out the problem turned out to be that Venture Bros. rerun. The sooner this albatross of a series ends, the better. Or they could just play replays on another night besides Saturdays. Or just NOT play it on Saturdays. Yeah, THAT one. The Black Dynamite effect is in full play. BACK ON TOPIC: Wow, I had forgotten that they extended the size of the ring after the Vegeta/Magetta fight beat the hell out of it!

Fixed it. Believe it or not, MHA lost very little from the 2nd Family Guy. The problem was, well, just look... http://programminginsider.com/saturday-final-ratings-ae-leads-key-adult-prime-time-demos/ The Cleveland Show (repeat) (ADSM, 8:00 PM, 30 min.) • 0.462 million viewers (#78) • 0.31 HH (#69) • 0.20 A18-49 (#26) • 0.18 A18-34 (#18) • 0.18 A25-54 (#57) Family Guy (repeat) (ADSM, 8:30 PM, 30 min.) • 0.622 million viewers (#49) • 0.46 HH (#41) • 0.27 A18-49 (#16) • 0.27 A18-34 (#5) • 0.25 A25-54 (#25) Venture Brothers (repeat) (ADSM, 9:00 PM, 30 min.) • 0.454 million viewers (#81) • 0.34 HH (#61) • 0.20 A18-49 (#26) • 0.17 A18-34 (#19) • 0.18 A25-54 (#57) Family Guy (repeat) (ADSM, 9:30 PM, 30 min.) • 0.577 million viewers (#53) • 0.44 HH (#43) • 0.24 A18-49 (#20) • 0.23 A18-34 (#10) • 0.23 A25-54 (#32) My Hero Academia (repeat) (ADSM, 10:00 PM, 30 min.) • 0.567 million viewers (#56) • 0.43 HH (#45) • 0.24 A18-49 (#20) • 0.22 A18-34 (#12) • 0.21 A25-54 (#44) Dragon Ball Super (ADSM, 10:30 PM, 30 min.) • 0.704 million viewers (#40) • 0.50 HH (#35) • 0.32 A18-49 (#11) • 0.32 A18-34 (#3) • 0.30 A25-54 (#19)

Actually, he added it, and I'm really hoping there's some kind of dyslexia here, or that they flip-flop the 2 shows again: "Adult Swim’s late-night line-up had some more shifts, and performed as follows: MY HERO ACADEMIA down 0.03 to 0.24/567K, DRAGON BALL down 0.06 to 0.32, ATTACK ON TITAN at 0.21, FLCL down 0.08 to 0.13/346K, POP TEAM EPIC down 0.05 to 0.14, JOJO’S BIZARRE ADVENTURES down 0.03 to 0.16, HUNTER X HUNTER down 0.03 to 0.16/379K, BLACK CLOVER down 0.03 to 0.15/366K, NARUTO down 0.05 to 0.14/320K, ONE PUNCH MAN down 0.03 to 0.14/287K, LUPIN THE 3RD down 0.06 to 0.11/245K, and COWBOY BEBOP down 0.06 to 0.10/230K." Wow, just...wow. I'm at a loss for words. 8/18/18 - Total Viewers 8/18/18 - Total Viewers Show Viewers Retention MHA 567,000 DBS 704,000 124.16% AOT 517,000 73.44% FLCL2 346,000 66.92% PTE 340,000 98.27% JoJo 361,000 106.18% HxH 379,000 104.99% B. Clover 366,000 96.57% Shippuden 320,000 87.43% Punchy 287,000 89.69% Lupin 245,000 85.37% Bebop 230,000 93.88% AVERAGE 388,500 32nd of 33 Strangely enough, even with the expansion, these were STILL only the 2nd-worst ratings of all time in total viewers!