Okay, if you haven’t seen Golgo with a hooker yet, umm, well it’s pretty self-explanatory. It borders on soft-core porn, in fact.
But for the most part it’s no worse than your average CSI, NCIS, or whatnot.
Just because something was originally made in 1969 or whatever doesn’t mean it hasn’t since been reviewed and rated, or even edited (the woman’s voice in Tom & Jerry cartoons is a good example of editing).
BEST.PRANK.EVER. Does anyone know where I can rewatch it??
I’d be more excited about Toonami coming back if I didn’t know their line up was going to suck, as it did in their last days and As Adult Swim’s has done for several years now.
Meh…
With that lineup…meh…
I’ll say it again…
Meh…
Jiggity Jig - Happy Dance - Jiggity Jig.
Not worried about their line-up. This is being spun up fairly fast, so it will not have had time for anything new or original to be added just yet.
Give them a little time.
Anything is generally better than nothing.
Mark Gosdin
Well, apparently AS hinted that they were at least considering two new anime shows. http://img.ly/aI9A
Most people seem to think it’s High School of the Dead and Angel Beats that are blotted out. That would be pretty cool, though I have to question how likely it would be. I would be pissed if they would just tease us like that though.
posted on 2012-05-16 21:39 EDT
Press release also reveals that return of block will be aired on Saturdays from 12-6 a.m.
What is “original anime programming”? Cartoon Network called crap like “Tom goes to the Mayor” “original programming”, so I’m scared. If they do mean Angel Beats, or other anime shows that have already been released, then I’m officially calling shenanigans over the misuse of the term “original”.
When Toonami went exclusively to Saturday night, it went there to die. As a true Toonami fan, it can’t be Toonami until it is run primarily on weekday afternoons. I know all of you who saw Toonami in its prime know it to be true 
posted on 2012-05-18 21:20 EDT
Looks like they added Casshern Sins and Deadman Wonderland to the schedule.
Which may mean the Block would be Funimation paid for. Sentai and their former self almost always seem to miss out on getting stuff on TV. I think the last thing Sentai’s former self had on normal TV was NGE. There is some room left there which I’m expecting Viz might fill with Inuyasha The Final Act or Tiger & Bunny.
Um, PP, it’s usually the other way around. AS would be paying Funi for the rights to air the programs. If Funi paid AS, then it would have control of the block and its advertising. Either that, or Funi has terrible negotiators working for them.
IMHO, I think the reason Sentai may not be that anxious about getting on a linear network is that, since the TAN linear channel went dark, they don’t see an upside to being on a linear channel. As I’ve argued before, I think the problem with TAN’s linear channel, as well as Funi’s, is that by limiting the content to the one distributor you’re not going to have enough really good programming to put on without endless reruns. That’s why I believe an independent anime channel (along the lines of CN, AS or Boomerang) that draws from all the distributors (Sentai/S23, Funi, Nozomi, Viz, AnimEgo, etc.) would be more successful than any distributor-owned channel.
Actually its been the way I said for a while now when it comes to AS. It was mentioned before by someone I believe at Funimation or it may have been Geneon or Viz that said they had to pay CN to get their shows on TV now. Shame Dragoon is MIA he knew more about it.
I’ve always been a little leery of those claims, because CN has claimed that they do pay to air the shows. In fact, they’ve said the primary reason they air anime is because it’s so cheap to acquire. However, we will likely never know the real truth.
I guess I was right about a disappointing line up. I figured it would be nothing ground breaking or exciting and it appears I was right.
[size=20]Adult Swim’s Toonami Block to Air Casshern Sins, Deadman Wonderland[/size]
posted on 2012-05-21 13:34 EDT
Both shows to premiere on Toonami on May 27
Adult Swim, the cable and satellite network that is paired with Cartoon Network, is listing on its schedule that it will air the Deadman Wonderland and Casshern Sins television anime series on Sunday, May 27 at 12:30 a.m. ET and 1:00 a.m. ET, respectively. The schedule lists that both series will then air again at 3:30 a.m. ET and 4:00 a.m. ET.
Jason DeMarco, former Toonami producer and recently promoted vice president of strategic marketing and promotions for Cartoon Network and Adult Swim, confirmed this schedule on Monday via his Twitter account.
Adult Swim had announced last Wednesday that it would bring back its Toonami programming block starting on Saturday, May 26.
[Via Toonami Podcast]
Update: Adult Swim’s entire anime schedule for early morning May 27 is as follows:
12:00 a.m. - Bleach
12:30 a.m. - Deadman Wonderland
1:00 a.m. - Casshern Sins
1:30 a.m. - Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
2:00 a.m. - Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG
2:30 a.m. - Cowboy Bebop
The schedule then repeats between 3:00 a.m. - 6:00 a.m. (ET)
DeMarco added that Toonami will not be showing Naruto, Dragon Ball Z, and similar titles since “the rights to those shows are owned by our competition or are out of our price range.” He continued, “Something you should know about THIS Toonami: We have very, very little $$. This experiment will need ratings success to receive more funding for new shows, more [mascot character] Tom animation, etc. I’m thankful for the $$ we’ve gotten, but it isn’t a lot.”
DeMarco confirmed that Steven Blum will reprise his role of Tom, which “will be an updated hi-res version of Tom 3.0” aboard a slightly different but almost identical version of the spaceship Absolution.
B) FUCK YEAH! it’s about dam time, welcome back toonami HELL YEAH! :woohoo:
That runs counter to everything I know about television programming. One of any network’s greatest expenses is the cost of programming. Very few networks actually get paid to run non-advertising programming.
Usually, the network buys the rights to air the programming outright. In almost all cases, those rights run for a specific period of time. That’s why, when a new syndicated show is a ratings flop in any one market, it gets shoved over to late night until the contract is up. When the network buys the rights to air the show, they then own all the advertising time.
Many syndicated shows are run on a barter basis. The network pays little or no money for the series and the advertising time is split between the program syndicator and the network. The network gets low cost or free programming and makes money on the advertising and the synducator makes money by selling the advertising time they keep.
Usually, the only time a network is paid for a program is when it is an infomercial or programming from a non-profit group. In the case of an infomercial, the network usually gets a PI, or per inquiry of a certain amount for every one that calls in response to the program (which is why the same program may have different phone numbers on different networks.) They also get a cut of the profit from any product sold through the program.
When you buy a block of time you get at least 28:30 of a half hour, if not the whole 30 minutes. You can run a show commercial-free or sell your own advertising, but the network’s only income is the sale of that 30 minute block. Therefore, unless the station exists to let people buy time to air what they want, this is usually the most expensive way to get a program on air. Also, unless it’s specified in the contract, the network can’t do any branding during that brokered time.
Perhaps it was Funimation talking about their linear channel, not programming on AS. If you’re trying to get a new network on a cable or satellite system, often you’ll offer to pay for the space until you get enough ratings to warrant the system paying you for your channel. As before, the payer has control of the advertising slots in that time.
what does that have to do with toonami returns?
It’s part of a sub-discussion from the top of the page.
if lucky it means things like Big O, that i recall got a second season in part because of backing from CN, and IGPX was also helped in some way by CN.
and Toonami is replacing Adult Swim? what is the point in that. there is already shows in those slots…Toonami should be another night, or lead-up into Adult Swim like when it was last 10-midnight.
as for “Tom goes to the mayor” all that is just trash and has no place on a CARTOON network, like that Vermillion Pleasure Nights garbage had no place on the ANIME network, and wrasslin has no place on a SciFi network.
