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Wikipedia-Article "Adult Swim"

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Adult Swim (usually rendered [adult swim] on bumps) is the name for the adult-oriented television programming block on Cartoon Network, which premiered on September 2, 2001. It has since become its own channel for ratings purposes, and shares its station number with CN in a night/day switchoff (see below).

Originally a Sunday only block (that also re-ran on Thursdays), Adult Swim now airs Saturday through Thursday nights at 11 PM (E/P) with an encore airing at 2 AM and then ending with an hour of older shows. Adult Swim programming may also be viewed on Friday nights via Friday Night Fix on AdultSwim.com. The block, programmed by Williams Street Studios, the same group that created Toonami and Miguzi, plays American animated series and shorts geared towards adults, and a wide variety of Japanese anime series and OVAs. Promotions for the show have been targeted towards the college age group (18-24) and young adults 18-34, which constitutes the majority of their viewers. According to a September 1, 2004 article in Promo magazine, this form of advertising is used for many of their shows. Representatives are sent to 30 universities across the U.S. to promote the Adult Swim lineup, including handing out posters for student's dorm rooms.

The block is named after the hours designated at public swimming pools for adults-only swimming.

Originally, all of the bumps shown in between shows featured footage (some taken from the Adventures of Pete and Pete) of senior citizens swimming in public pools with a lifeguard shouting through a megaphone. The current bumps feature black "cards" with white text on them, which discuss everything from news about the programming, to personal staff opinions on unrelated subjects. On Thursdays, Adult Swim airs cards which they pull from the Adult Swim message board and respond with their characteristic banter. For example, recently a man calling himself Charles J. McCarthy III has been actively campaigning to be hired by the network with marginal success. He posted a message on the Adult Swim message board that read, "Tell Adult Swim to hire me." Adult Swim responded with the message, "Sorry, we don't need any more janitors."

On March 28, 2005, Nielsen Media Research began treating the block as a separate channel from Cartoon Network for ratings purposes. While unusual, this is not new; Nickelodeon's Nick Jr. and Nick at Nite blocks are also considered as separate channels by Nielsen.

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Current Schedule

All times are Eastern. The programming block's encore begins at 2:00 AM. Premiere episodes in bold.

(As of November 22, 2005)

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Sunday

Sunday usually acts as a night to encore the new episodes of Family Guy and American Dad from the previous Thursday. Also, new episodes of some shows premiere on Sunday.

[As of December 4, 2005]

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Monday-Wednesday

[As of November 7, 2005]

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Thursday

New episodes of American Dad and Family Guy.

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Friday Night Fix

Cartoon Network runs a programming block called Fridays (formerly Cartoon Cartoon Fridays) on Friday night, which prevents Adult Swim from airing. With the handicap of being off the air, Friday Night Fix provides viewers with streaming episodes available on the Friday Night Fix Section of AdultSwim.com [1] from 11:00 PM to 6:00 AM. Many new episodes are premiered before they are shown on television.

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Saturday

This schedule varies week-to-week, but is dominated by anime programs, and on rare occasions Saturday's usual schedule will be partially or fully pre-empted to allow Adult Swim to air movies or OVAs. The following are the schedules in January 2006.


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Shows: Past, present, and future

Main article: List of programs broadcast by Adult Swim

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Single Episode Pilots and Specials

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Movies Played on Adult Swim

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Video on Demand

In mid-2004, Adult Swim launched a video on demand channel on various cable TV providers. The comedy section features several episodes from various Adult Swim original series, while the action section only features programs and movies licensed by Bandai Entertainment, some of which have never been broadcast on Adult Swim or CN. The anime series s-CRY-ed initially premiered on demand before debuting on the regular block in May 2005.

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Forum

Adult Swim has an active message board at its official Web site. Some quotes from the forum are used on the channel in weekly bumps aired Thursdays; including the now infamous "cus anime is teh s uck." Williams Street Studios staff also frequent the board to answer viewer questions and address comments about Adult Swim programming.

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Trivia

  • Despite lukewarm success in Japan, the series The Big O was given a second season due entirely to popularity in the U.S.A. and CN funding (although its creation and direction were still left to the Japanese creators). There are accusations that the show was cancelled (or more properly not renewed for a third season) because Mike Lazzo threatened to quit if it was not. There is debate over whether this is true or not.
  • As mentioned above, the third episode of Lupin III, "To Be or Nazi Be" was unaired by Geneon's request. This call may have been made to prevent bad taste in the United States. However, the episode is previewed at the end of the second episode.
  • In Latin America (Chile, specifically) Adult Swim’s debut sparked minor controversy, as CNT (National TV Council) deemed the contents of the block were not appropriate for a children’s channel, despite the fact that Adult Swim airs from 1 am forward. This policy was embraced by local cable companies, which moved the block to another channel frequency (a supposed “agreement” with Cartoon Network), while satellite TV companies kept the original broadcasts, as they offer parental control features. This situation was supposed to affect only the premiere of the block (7/10/2005), but has been subsequently enforced by cable companies so far. However Adult Swim continues to air as scheduled in Latin America on its English and Spanish broadcast feeds. Fridays to Sundays from 1am to 5am.
  • After Fox Broadcasting cancelled Family Guy, Adult Swim began airing reruns of the show beginning in the Spring of 2003. Unlike its days on Fox, Family Guy has had consistent time slots since, at either 11 PM or 11:30 PM Eastern time, with Futurama at the other slot. (Fox moved Family Guy around to as many as 28 different time slots before officially cancelling the show in 2002.) That, plus with the show being released on DVD at the same time, brought unexpected popularity to the series and eventually ended up convincing Fox to bring back the show, which began re-airing in May 2005. Under a special agreement with Fox, Adult Swim airs the new episodes at least two weeks after they debut on Fox, but Fox must have advertising for Adult Swim during the show's airing on its network. Included in the same deal was Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane's new series American Dad.
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