Do you think Adult Swim will ever have Fridays as well?

[Master Moron]

Currently Adult Swim airs every day with the exception of Friday. As I understand it, William's Street wants to make Adult Swim more than just a television block and wants to make it the Nick at Night of Cartoon Network or something. So, I would assume that eventually they would get Fridays as well. I mean, currently there's Cartoon Cartoons on Fridays, but do kids really stay up past 11? Aren't there reruns on that late anyway?

[Youko Recca]

That wouldn't happen for awhile. Assuming something was gonna be on at midnight on Fridays, I'd rather have the Midnight Run back on at that time then.

[herbkir]

AS won't be getting Friday nights until their comedy and/or action ratings consistently exceed 650,000. The Friday cartoon block has been getting over 700,000 preteens each airing. AS has to be pulling near that in order to have a chance. So far, that just isn't happening. Yes, there are occasional nights where Family Guy or Futurama does get super ratings, but that's not good enough for AS to stake any claim to Fridays. (^_*)

[Killtacular]

Cartoon Network is not a channel for adults. It's a channel for all ages. Why do you have to be selfish and take away the one night kids have? Simply for more reruns of Futurama, Family Guy, Aqua Teens, Trigun, and Cowboy Bebop?

[GMB]

They're barely holding on to Saturday. They don't really have enough content to sustain an all-week run anyhow before serious rerun fatigue sets in.

[True Noir]

Neh... there are a lot more kids that stay home and watch cartoons till late than there are adults. I'm not an adult yet, but I'm pretty sure that adults like to go out and party on Fridays. I don't think it would really be worth it and why complain when AS already has six out of seven days of the week.

[Youko Recca]

All the more reason Toonami's Midnight Run would work on Firdays.

[Lord Dalek]

Likely no, but it could happen.

[The Landstander]

I really don't think they should bother. As mentioned, there really isn't enough material. And I'm betting ASA Saturdays' inconsistant ratings might involve the fact its on a night when a lot of the target audience is out...Friday would have the same problem.

[Master Moron]

Cartoon Network is not a channel for adults. It's a channel for all ages. Why do you have to be selfish and take away the one night kids have? Simply for more reruns of Futurama, Family Guy, Aqua Teens, Trigun, and Cowboy Bebop?

I'm not taking away anything. Personally, I think Adult Swim Saturday's is a bad idea. For all I care they can go back to airing Adult Swim Sundays and Thursdays, I'm just saying that they seem to want to make late nights adult fare. And I said eventually, meaning when they get more stuff, certainly I'm not expecting them to take over Fridays now. Besides, kids already have between 5AM and 11PM, that's 18 hours for kids programming, unless of course you don't count Toonami as kid's programming, but that's only on one day anyway.

[Andrew T. Hingson]

Yep better to leave it as is (but maybe air some better shows like Time Squad and Sheep in the Big City or make 12-4 Toonami TMR with Boomerang afterwords.

Most ASA fans at the adultswim.com message boards say they'd like it either for a movie night (possible but Saturday would work just as well given there are only 2 premieres) or what they refer to as "classics night" which would be the shows from the original ASA Saturday like Outlaw Star, Tenchi, Pilot Candidate, and Yu Yu Hakusho... which of course wouldn't be possible so neither work. The comedy viewers don't seem to be fighting for Fridays... I think it's because they actually have lives...

AS is on 1/4 of a day 6 days a week and half of that's just insta-repeats. Clearly they don't need more room, they just need to use the space they do have better.

[Rabi~en~Rose]

yeah insta-repeats need to go! :) :) :) and they should license the anime series for longer then the usual 2 year limit because they've had more anime then comedy series so even if it is reruns its still content that would work well instead of the insta-repeats!

[jeffrey 228]

Not likly, we already have 6 days a week that Adult Swim comes on, I think younger children of Cartoon Network need thier fridays, so this will not likly happen.

[Tienshin]

I think AS is as big as it will ever get regarding daily time slots. Friday isn't prime spot for any network, and the 18-35 demo just isn't going to justify a Friday timeslot with good ratings. Especially if it's just recycled material.

[Tapout]

I'm torn on Adult Swim Fridays. On one hand, there isn't anything else on. If I'm not asleep I've usually got AS on every other day of the week because reruns of Cowboy Bebop are better than 90% of everything else on TV, especially at 1 AM. But with all the constant moaning about reruns, most of it justified, do we really need another day of repeats? However, if they can acquire five or six new series (highly unlikely) and spread them out maybe it wouldn't be too bad.

What's the target for the current Fridays anyway? Like 7-12? They shouldn't be up that late anyway, even on a Friday, so it wouldn't be taking anything away from them.

[Wounded_Dragon]

I think half of Adult Swim Saturday's problem is that except for the first hour, it feels like just another weeknight of reruns. AS certainly doesn't need another night of that.

I've already got 95% of Family Guy episodes pegged in my head and about 35% of Futurama. Surprising since I watch Futurama maybe 1% of the time.

[Chad Bonin]

If Adult Swim's not fully maximizing the already 36 hours a week it has, it probably shouldn't have another 6.

[Mackaybear]

AS Friday is not needed. Make Friday night Toonami Midnight Run. Let it either repeat the previous Sat shows or bring in some older stuff that did well for Toonami. AS has so many hours of programming already. And we don't need more slots for the same Cartoon Cartoon shows that clog up the normal schedule.


Give Toonami one more night. It'd be cheap since they wouldn't necessarily need to get new shows. Replay the previous stuff for those who miss it.

[Happy]

Besides not needing more room AS has no chance at getting Frydays anyways. CCF (now just "Frydays" I guess) is a tradition it would seem and is favored above all other blocks of programming. I wouldn't mind them replacing the reruns with more Toonami. Just please call it Rising Sun instead of Midnight Run. (old Rising Sun was Batman and Superman at 2:00-3:00 a.m.)

[Paul_Cousins]

Well within two years, Adult Swim has gone from being on only 1 night a week to 6 nights a week, so it is possible.

[PaQ]

I agree with many in this thread.. AS shouldn't get Fridays anytime soon.. It is the one night that's really just for the kiddies. And really we don't need more FG, Futurama repeats because that would happen with adding Friday.

[Lord Dalek]

Apparantly, some anime is going to appear on Friday night, starting this week. Is this teh beginning I wonder?

[Killtacular]

Apparantly, some anime is going to appear on Friday night, starting this week. Is this teh beginning I wonder?
Geez, what is with all the unnecessary jumping to conclusions?

What part of 'test run' don't people understand? If it were a block for either Adult Swim or Toonami, there would've been:

a) a promo
b) a show page on CN.com, Toonami.com, or AdultSwim.com
c) mention on boards.adultswim.com

[Tienshin]

a) a promo
b) a show page on CN.com, Toonami.com, or AdultSwim.com
c) mention on boards.adultswim.com

d) Not late Friday night.

[Chad Bonin]

Aw, come on, it's not like an enitre Toonami block has gone with nary an advertisement (Rising Sun), or programming not get any promos until a few minutes before (Rave Master, Astro Boy, Jackie Chan Adventures)...

[Killtacular]

Aw, come on, it's not like an enitre Toonami block has gone with nary an advertisement (Rising Sun)
Was mentioned online.


or programming not get any promos until a few minutes before (Rave Master, Astro Boy, Jackie Chan Adventures)...
Was mentioned online.

[Chad Bonin]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Knux Five
Aw, come on, it's not like an enitre Toonami block has gone with nary an advertisement (Rising Sun)


Was mentioned online. Not beforehand. I certainly remember staying up late that night (what was it, the first AS on Saturdays or something?), almost headed off to bed... and then minor shock as the logo popped up. I think I even IMed Tyler at that point...

[William C. Maune]

The last Toonami Rising Sun block was not mentioned online before it initially aired. It was a complete surprise at the time. It wasn't added to the schedule at Toonami.com until afterwards.

[Nekoris]

They were on Fridays but now that's been taken off, if I remember right. I don't know if they were on Fridays but my memory is rusty.

[chevy citation]

Adult swim shouldn't have Saturday let alone Friday.

JMHO i think they should keep Fridays as it is and give AS Saturday's time slot to Toonami.

[RD!]

Apparantly, some anime is going to appear on Friday night, starting this week. Is this teh beginning I wonder?

Considering which animes they are, I wouldn't count on it being any indication for future AS programming. AS should stay far, far away from Fridays. What they already have now is a mildly entertaining block which is more or less where Adult Swim is now except it already has the other 6 days.

[#1inDAHoodG]

I don't think so. The little ones will complain and since they are the ones who actually care about Cartoon Cartoon Fridays and actually stay home to watch it rather than teen going out, they might actually win their case.:sad:

[RD!]

I don't think so. The little ones will complain and since they are the ones who actually care about Cartoon Cartoon Fridays and actually stay home to watch it rather than teen going out, they might actually win their case.:sad:

What?:sad:

[Andrew T. Hingson]

Kids like Adult Swim (because it's "adult" and "cool") and that's why they don't air it on the night that kids are most likely to be up the latest.

[bigddan11]

With them using Fridays night to debut Cyborg 009 season 2 and .Hack//Legend of the Twilight after Fridays (and that's not until 1 AM), then no, I don't see them getting Fridays anytime soon. Toonami Friday nights/ Saturday mornings would be much more likely if these 2 succeed here though.

[the Amanda]

Adult Swim shouldn't have Fridays. It's one day that older kids can stay up late and watch fun cartoons :D

[Bigdaddy83]

I must concur. AS shouldn't have Friday nights, let alone Saturdays as well. As others have said, it's the only night of the week where kids can watch their shows during the evening hours. In my opinion, it should stay the way it is, but for AS on Saturdays, they should deep six it. Who the heck is home on Saturdays, the lowest rated night for TV anyways?

[James Bester]

toonami may already have 12-2. evil con carne and courage are all action shows in some sort of way. i could imagine cn doing that if ppg was on toonami before. i know it's weird, but cn does do stupid stuff like that sometimes.

[guinaevere]

I think half of Adult Swim Saturday's problem is that except for the first hour, it feels like just another weeknight of reruns. Not for me. For the most part, I'm only tuning in AS Saturdays, as the weekday is either comedy that I don't find funny, or reruns. (The exception of course, being Case Closed, and I'm still having issues adjusting to those Ferengi ears that the characters are drawn with.)


If Adult Swim's not fully maximizing the already 36 hours a week it has, it probably shouldn't have another 6. oooh. Knux, you were the one in class who always tattled, weren't you? :p

[Eddy]

Now, I love Adult Swim, but I don't think they should get Friday. Let the kids keep Fridays, let Friday be their night.

We already got Adult Swim Mon-Thu and Sat-Sun. We don't need to see more Futurama, Family Guy and Bebop repeats for the millionth time.

Let Fridays be for the Cartoon Cartoons. To tell the truth, I'd rather have a Midnight Run over more Adult Swim.

[Agaetis Byrjun]

just give them all the week days and weekends back
and adult swim gets a channel of their own

[blitzkrieg]

If Adult Swim's not fully maximizing the already 36 hours a week it has, it probably shouldn't have another 6.

How is AS exactly not "maximizing" it's 36 hours a week?

[livingfruitvirus]

How is AS exactly not "maximizing" it's 36 hours a week?
I think he's referring to the encores.