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Seems like Ellison just has a bug up his ass because he's not getting his way right now so he's doubling down but as for why he wanted WB in the first place... because Paramount wasn't a big enough deal I guess and the company wants even bigger IPs to exploit.

From my current understanding though it’s not conclusive, Cartoon Network Studios under WB Animation owns all the shows made for CN and AS including the Williams Street shows but Cartoon Network Incorporated which will be part of the dumping ground owns the brands Adult Swim, Boomerang and Toonami and the channel can keep the name Cartoon Network despite losing the studio to WB. So if they can keep their heads above water and if Discovery Global sees fit to keep them funded, then Adult Swim and even Toonami can continue after this sale clears. So we’re basically back to the clock ticking down to the ultimate demise of cable but the deal itself won’t necessarily kill the network faster. However, they will have to pay to keep playing their current breadwinning original series. Whether or not they can do that largely depends on money and if Netflix will play ball in 2027 and onwards.

Everything I’m hearing about Ellison now makes me glad Skydance didn’t get WB. They certainly would have a ton of redundancy so CN was doomed either way and now we avoid Rick & Morty simultaneously on Comedy Central and Adult Swim. But can Adult Swim even keep using that brand without licensing it? Is the Toonami brand going to be locked away now because Netflix owns it and doesn’t want to use it? Or are those particular brands owned by the Discovery half now?

His resume looks considerably worse after the string of flops he co-produced so best of luck to him… Really wondering what this means for all of the WB owned CN and AS programming currently on the network. They always had to pay Warner for WBA productions, Looney Tunes, Scooby-Doo, DC shows and the like but now will they have to license Smiling Friends, Rick & Morty and Primal? Even stuff like Aqua Teen, Squidbillies, Metalocalypse, Venture Bros, Samurai Jack, Billy and Mandy, Dexter, PPG, Courage, Adventure Time, Regular Show and Gumball? Or do those remain in the channel library at no additional cost? If they have to pay Netflix in order to air those shows then they’ll let most of them go. If you think the AS schedule lacks variety now, just you wait. What will the CN side even do if they have to pay to play Gumball reruns? That’s like half their hours.

Oh man… Netflix is winning Cartoon Network (probably not AS) is so screwed

Not for a second when I saw that after credits bit did I think "that's kinda transphobic" because of the cross-play. It's skewering inappropriate behavior at anime conventions which is all too common.

I was also pondering the logistics of airing Call of the Night if this is a contractual mandate.

There might be a contractual obligation for not editing Creepy Nuts songs.

Well hot dang. They actually got three cours of Bleach right out of the gate and no break on 11/29. 12/20 is a bit early for Christmas so maybe they will run a normal lineup that night as well. 12/27 is definitely a break and probably 01/03. I’m gonna guess Primal starts the 2nd week of January.

December 1st (a Monday) has Futurama at 5pm-6pm too followed by Bob's Burgers and Family Guy blocks. I"m all for seeing Futurama in the daylight again but have they really just been keeping it in reserves and intend to use it effectively now that King of the Hill is gone? I guess we'll see and perhaps they'll air American Dad before 1am again as well.

They missed out on Solo Leveling and now they get what's left I guess. Gotta figure all of these will be animated outside of the US as the latest way to produce cheap programming for HBO Max. Maybe some will show up on Toonami eventually depending on who owns the network by then.

With the amount of Family Guy airing on Thanksgiving weekend, it's making some folks wonder if Family Guy is leaving before 2026 and Futurama probably would too. Can you imagine an AS with only Bob's Burgers and American Dad to rely on before 11pm? It really would be time to consider ending the network.

I think whether or not they have more Bleach or another show or nothing they will take that weekend off so they can extent what they currently have 1 more week.

Blank schedule after midnight on Thanksgiving day weekend. Probably a marathon.

GOOD. I was looking forward to being able to watch One Piece live again and if it was still at 2am EST I probably would not have been able to stay up that extra half hour to watch it when I work early on Sundays. I guess Bleach really could continue but I don't see it moving up as a definitive sign that was the plan. Maybe they just had nothing better to do and didn't want to stick Primal season 2 on the top for 2 full months (not that they aren't above doing that). Really solid line-up if Bleach continues though, even if it crushes my hopes for OPM S3's dub premiering on Toonami in December.

Well if you think they won’t put Mash at midnight again then what do you suppose they will do if Bleach doesn’t continue into December? Double up Blue Ex at midnight for 3-4 weeks? I’m sure we all would prefer to avoid Primal season 2 reruns at midnight in December. If they don’t have a good headliner to fill till Primal season 3 then that’s all the more reason to take Thanksgiving weekend off since it’s the weekend after Bleach TYBW’s 2nd part ends.

They lead with Mash early this year so they might do it again for 3 weeks but that would mean Mash goes from 1am to midnight then soon after that is either back at 1am or bumped to 12:30 when Primal takes the top slot. I guess I’m alone in my prediction that OPM will start in December and either be slightly behind the dub on Hulu or less than a day ahead of Hulu premieres on Sundays.

I'm not gonna believe it until it airs but I guess they could be trying to have a Creepy Nuts hour with Mashle next to Dan Da Dan or after just one airing at 2:30am they think Dan Da Dan will do better than One Piece (kinda not fair given OP was in a stupid filler arc that night). It really screws over One Piece right as a new arc begins though so I hope they're not screwing around with this. So now we wonder what will happen with Bleach. There's a non-zero chance it continues to the 3rd part but I have a hard time believing they got all but the last quarter secured in the initial deal. What's the rush when they can't show the 4th part any time soon? And maybe they can get more mileage out of the deal by rerunning the first 26 eps in the back. I'm holding out hope that prior contracts are worth a damn for once and One-Punch Man season 3 replaces Bleach at the top of the block in December. They could certainly stall with doubling up something or adding a rerun but is it so much to ask for the timing to work out for once?

If they had to pick an FLCL, at least it was the 3rd maybe 2nd best. 2-4 openings on November 11th. That will either rock or suck depending on what they have on deck.

While an unrelated magic is not out of the question, I feel the zombie plague episode has to have something to do with Spear’s resurrection. January is a bit surprising. They really couldn’t get this on by November? Well whatever.

The marathon could be ep 1-whatever with the DST hour extension but I think they would instead do a marathon of the second half of the show give or take. Either way they would still restart the rerun with ep 1 because marathons basically never affect which episodes they start a rerun on. If the marathon is the later portion of the series then restarting from ep 1 would at least feel fresher.

This regularly happens when a show reruns in the back. People think new eps are suddenly at 2:30am. To be fair, that has happened but come on people use your brains a bit. Sam from Toonami Squad got me thinking they will do a Daima marathon after the final ep on November 1st. And I agree with Guy’s notion that they decided to rerun Dan once a week rather than all at once. Though I wasn’t gonna put it past them to do both and fully expecting they will do both with Daima. And also maaaaaybe they will get One-Punch Man to replace Daima up front, especially if they can’t get Bleach yet. That largely depends on the original contract for OPM but there’s basically no chance Toonami gets the dub premiere all to themselves. So maybe November looks like this. 12:00 - One-Punch Man 12:30 - Bleach 01:00 - Mashle 01:30 - Blue Exorcist 02:00 - One Piece 02:30 - Dan Da Dan Rerun 03:00 - Naruto or Daima

The OP ep airing on 10/18 will be the 51st ep to air this year and the 3rd ep of the 4 ep filler arc after Dressrosa. They probably will air 52-60 eps this year which either means they start Zou and can double it up a few weeks or they have one ep left in November. However if they had just 1 ep left in this year’s deal then it would make more sense to air that on 10/18 instead of doubling up Blue Exorcist. So that also has me leaning toward more than 52 eps airing this year. But I won’t also rule out the possibility that before 10/18 they will pull OP from the schedule and they merely miscounted. Kinda surprised they aren’t stalling with Daima or Bleach and I’m somewhat hopeful Mashle or another cheaper show will start in November. Bleach probably moves up again when Daima ends and they stick Daima reruns in the back. i was kinda expecting a Dan Da Dan marathon on 10/18 but the first Saturday of November makes for a better night to do that due to the extra hour. So maybe that’s what they have in mind for November 1st on Halloween weekend.

Fixed was a passion project and Sony did not really want it in the end.

I swear everyone wants to own Warner except the people who currently own it.