TELETOON
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- For the unrelated, similarly-formatted channel in France, see TéléTOON (France).
- For the French-Canadian version of this television channel, see TÉLÉTOON (Canada).
TELETOON is a Canadian cable television specialty channel which exclusively airs animation, not limited by age or nationality. Separate English and French versions of the station are available in different regions of Canada. It has been known as the Canada's answer to the American Cartoon Network, with which it shares several series. However, TELETOON is required to show a certain percentage of Canadian content.
The channel operates two timeshifted feeds, East (Eastern Time) and West (Pacific Time).
Ownership of TELETOON is divided between Corus Entertainment (50%), Astral Media (50%). It has no apparent connection to the television station in France of the same name. The name is a portmanteau of television and cartoon.
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[edit] History
When TELETOON first launched, it had several time blocks devoted to certain content and showed more mature fare as the day progressed, with a strong commitment to air diverse and international programming, as well as the ability to air a great majority of material uncut. A typical broadcast day would start with preschool content at 7:00 am and end with adult content after midnight, airing more adult cartoons such as Æon Flux, Duckman and various OVAs.
However, TELETOON had an incident during their first year when they accidentally broadcast adult content, including cartoon nudity, during a time normally devoted to preschoolers (thus outside of Watershed). The backlash from the government and parental groups resulted in TELETOON cutting back on almost all programming aimed at teens and adults, alienating those viewers. Teletoon is trying to regain that demographic, starting with the creation of the time block The Detour on TELETOON. Its newest teletoon presenting shows for the Detour on Teletoon 12 oz. Mouse, Squidbillies, Stroker and Hoop, Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Tripping the Rift, and Robot Chicken. Family Guy and Angela Anaconda are two of the oldest poplular shows. Family Guy is also presenting on Global on Sundays at 9:00pm.
[edit] Programming blocks
[edit] Cinetoon
Cinetoon is a block on Saturdays that airs animated movies, such as Tom and Jerry: The Movie, and in a few cases, live-action movies, such as the recent version of Scooby-Doo.The Cinetoon movies air on Saturday afternoons at 5:00 p.m.
[edit] KAPOW!
KAPOW! is an action type block, currently featuring the shows Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Spider Riders, and The Batman. KAPOW! is usually shown on weekend mornings in big sections, although it does show smaller sections during the weekdays.
[edit] TELETOON Retro
TELETOON Retro was a block which showed some older programming. Although these one-hour blocks have recently disappeared, The Flintstones and The Jetsons still remains in their timeslots, just without the bumps.
A new digital service of the same name has been approved in August 2005 by the CRTC ([1]) for broadcast in both French and English. The TELETOON Retro channel is scheduled to debut in spring 2007 ([2]), and will feature a mixture of older animated programming, including anime. More information on this should be forthcoming.
[edit] The Detour on TELETOON
The Detour on TELETOON is the name for the animated programming block targeted towards teen and adult audiences. Much of which is in the vein of Cartoon Network's Adult Swim; however, unlike Adult Swim, although there was a strong early commitment to air diverse and international programming, as well as the ability to air a great majority of material uncut, The Detour hasn't incorporate any anime series yet. This may be because Canada's other youth oriented channel, YTV, has licensed a large number of popular anime series for their Bionix block.
The Detour was an amalgamation of the old The Detour block, aimed at teenagers, and the former Teletoon Unleashed block, aimed at adults, which had been dropped due to lack of new content.
The "F-Night" line-up airs every Friday night starting at 9:00pm. It shows a different lineup. The "F" in the title stands for Friday but is likely also a reduced form of a well-known expletive, helping to reinforce that the programming block is intended for the watershed hours.
Here is a list of the programs currently airing on the English version of TELETOON.
- 12 oz. Mouse
- Aqua Teen Hunger Force
- The Brak Show
- The Boondocks
- Bromwell High
- Family Guy - The first three seasons, except for When You Wish upon a Weinstein.
- Futurama - All four seasons.
- Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law
- Hey Joel
- Robot Chicken
- Space Ghost Coast to Coast
- Sons of Butcher
- Squidbillies
- Stroker and Hoop
- Tom Goes To The Mayor
- Tripping the Rift
- The Venture Bros.
- The Wrong Coast
[edit] Current programming
The French version of TELETOON contains a different list of programs than the English version, some being a French-dubbed version of well-known television shows, such as South Park. For a full list of their programs, please see the article on the French version of this channel.
[edit] Fall 2006-2007 primetime schedule
Spin cycle is blue, Retro is green, The Detour is Orange, and Cinetoon is yellow.
[edit] All current programming (as of September 2006)
[edit] Past programming
These programs were formerly aired on TELETOON, or they are just not being aired right now.
[edit] Trivia
- In its second year, TELETOON was supposed to air the cult favorite series, Space Ghost: Coast to Coast, and even had the show referenced in many promotional materials. However, despite being printed in television listings for weeks, the show never actually aired on the station. The exact reason for the show's abrupt disappearance is unknown, but apparently it involved a royalty dispute with one of the actors interviewed on the show, which has also caused several episodes to be removed from the DVD release. It was though that TELETOON would never air the series, but in 2004 they did begin airing its spin-off, The Brak Show. The show finally began airing in the fall of 2006.
- TELETOON's licence requires that 90% of all programs on the network are animated (151.2 hours per week). If the network were to do non-animated stunt programming, such as when Adult Swim aired Saved by the Bell on their schedule, they could only do so for 16.8 hours per week, or 2.4 hours per day. [3]
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