Boomerang International News and Discussion Thread 4.0

[zQwmy]

well uh. Boomerang MENA.

 

[Daffyrocks]

Also, a bit off-topic, but....

Taffy, will continue airing new episodes on Disney Channel feeds in Europe. This September, the second season will start airing on Disney Channel Romania / Bulgaria and also on the Hungary / Czechia feed, from 11th September on weekdays (at 16:55 CET in HU / CZ and 14:55 EET in RO / BG). The important thing is that, Disney will show the entire season 2 of the series, which includes even the rest of the episodes that were cancelled by Boomerang! While the second season as a whole will start over from 11th September, the part that was not aired by WarnerMedia will resume from 19th September, up until they will air the final episode at the beginning of October. Also, Disney Channel in Europe will be airing the episode which was banned by most of the Boomerang feeds, which is S2E15 ("Collared").

So, it only took for another company to acquire a purged show for it to survive. At least we will get to have the series finished with their respective dubbings. Most of the episodes titles from the rest of the season can be viewed here Taffy: Episodenguide

What I am curious now is if the cancelled episodes will have the same Boomerang dubbings (that if they managed to dub all of em before the write-off), or if new ones were ordered by Disney.

 

[Markus Nelis]

Just get over about Mr Bean and Tom and Jerry airing on Cartoonito. Cartoonito in Europe is the family entertainment channel while it also targets preschoolers at the same time. While you can share your opinion, you have already said that so many times. We get it, ok?

 

[J10]

Boomerang MENA has rebranded to Cartoonito MENA right now, and before that, rather than Tom & Jerry Show bumper for Boomerang, Grizzy and the Lemmings, the last program on the channel, Next Bumper was being aired before the switch and then it switched over.

The DOG was disappeared when the filler aired and Cartoonito DOG was shown after a minute later.

Still, we're waiting for Boomerang Turkiye to rebrand.

Also, today is the last day for Mr. Magoo on Boomerang MENA before it rebrands, and Scooby Doo & Looney Tunes now went to CN MENA, and it was aired last year.

EDIT: Boomerang Turkiye is rebranded to Cartoonito with a huge DOG, and their first prgram was Grizzy and the Lemmings.

 

[zQwmy]

So far so good! Did someone record it?

Boomerang Turkey now rebranded too:

 

[J10]

So far so good! Did someone record it?

Boomerang Turkey now rebranded too:
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For me, just screenshotting the channel after it launches.

I already announced it few minutes after it reached 6:00 AM, but thanks for the recording.

Sadly, Boomerang Turkiye and Boomerang Africa were the ones that doesn't use the newer fillers before the start of the program, unlike Boomerang MENA, Boomerang Portugal, and Boomerang CEE.

 

[J10]

Boomerang Nordic became Cartoonito, but the DOG dissapeared.

UPDATE: Boomerang DOG appeared. I guess they're like Boing France, which kept their DOG and then it changed.

 

[Francisque]

as well as the last days of the MENA and Turkish feeds.... Yeah, they will turn into something way more nonsensical and stupid

Have you ever looked at the schedules of Boomerang MENA and Turkey?

If anything, they're giving these channels a direction

 

[Daffyrocks]

Have you ever looked at the schedules of Boomerang MENA and Turkey?

If anything, they're giving these channels a direction

they already have a direction just being preschool channels now.

 

[Cézar_Delacierra]

Tooncast will have some changes in the schedule in October with the highlight being the return of some shows , such as Teen Titans and Duck Dodgers , while all Cartoons Cartoons will be removed.

New schedule starting October 1st:
06:00 Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines
06:30 The Perils of Penelope Pitstop
07:00 Wacky Races
07:30 The Jetsons
08:30 Tom & Jerry
09:00 Tom and Jerry Tales
09:30 Looney Tunes
10:30 Loonatics Unleashed
11:00 Duck Dodgers
11:30 The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries
12:00 Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!
12:30 The Scooby-Doo Show
13:00 Top Cat
13:30 Krypto the Superdog
14:00 Legion of Super Heroes
14:30 Teen Titans
15:30 Pink and the Brian
16:00 Freakzoid!
16:30 Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi
17:00 Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
17:30 Zuzubalandia
18:00 Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines
18:30 The Perils of Penelope Pitstop
19:00 Wacky Races
19:30 The Jetsons
20:30 Tom & Jerry
21:00 Tom and Jerry Tales
21:30 Looney Tunes
22:30 Loonatics Unleashed
23:00 Duck Dodgers
23:30 The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries
00:00 Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!
00:30 The Scooby-Doo Show
01:00 Top Cat
01:30 Krypto the Superdog
02:00 Legion of Super Heroes
02:30 Teen Titans
03:30 Pink and the Brian
04:00 Freakzoid!
04:30 Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi
05:00 Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
05:30 Zuzubalandia

Shows returning : Tom and Jerry Tales , Loonatics Unleashed, Duck Dodgers ,Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! , Teen Titans ,Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi ,Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends

Shows that will be removed : The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy , Courage the Cowardly Dog , Generator Rex , Sym-Bionic Titan , Dexter's Laboratory , Ed, Edd n Eddy and Cow and Chicken.

 

[Markus Nelis]

Tooncast will have some changes in the schedule in October with the highlight being the return of some shows , such as Teen Titans and Duck Dodgers , while all Cartoons Cartoons will be removed.

New schedule starting October 1st:
06:00 Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines
06:30 The Perils of Penelope Pitstop
07:00 Wacky Races
07:30 The Jetsons
08:30 Tom & Jerry
09:00 Tom and Jerry Tales
09:30 Looney Tunes
10:30 Loonatics Unleashed
11:00 Duck Dodgers
11:30 The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries
12:00 Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!
12:30 The Scooby-Doo Show
13:00 Top Cat
13:30 Krypto the Superdog
14:00 Legion of Super Heroes
14:30 Teen Titans
15:30 Pink and the Brian
16:00 Freakzoid!
16:30 Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi
17:00 Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
17:30 Zuzubalandia
18:00 Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines
18:30 The Perils of Penelope Pitstop
19:00 Wacky Races
19:30 The Jetsons
20:30 Tom & Jerry
21:00 Tom and Jerry Tales
21:30 Looney Tunes
22:30 Loonatics Unleashed
23:00 Duck Dodgers
23:30 The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries
00:00 Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!
00:30 The Scooby-Doo Show
01:00 Top Cat
01:30 Krypto the Superdog
02:00 Legion of Super Heroes
02:30 Teen Titans
03:30 Pink and the Brian
04:00 Freakzoid!
04:30 Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi
05:00 Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
05:30 Zuzubalandia

Shows returning : Tom and Jerry Tales , Loonatics Unleashed, Duck Dodgers ,Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! , Teen Titans ,Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi ,Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends

Shows that will be removed : The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy , Courage the Cowardly Dog , Generator Rex , Sym-Bionic Titan , Dexter's Laboratory , Ed, Edd n Eddy and Cow and Chicken.

Gosh, I'm jealous. The only old show I can watch is What's New Scooby-Doo on linear television. Tooncast Global would've been a good idea. They should've tried for a few years because I'm sure nostalgia brings in viewers. They just don't want to try risky stuff.

 

[Francisque]

It's about time a channel Boomerang UK and local Cartoon Network's offered a "classic" block such as the American one (albeit under the name Checkered Past), also possibly to revive the very very sad state of affairs also known as late night schedule.

But, EMEA, doesn't seem to care these days.

Given the fact TV is more and more watched by an older audience, they could only gain from that.

 

[RegularCapital]

It's about time a channel Boomerang UK and local Cartoon Network's offered a "classic" block such as the American one (albeit under the name Checkered Past), also possibly to revive the very very sad state of affairs also known as late night schedule.

But, EMEA, doesn't seem to care these days.

Given the fact TV is more and more watched by an older audience, they could only gain from that.

I think the separate Kids TV side-package* on Sky and Virgin are not helping the channels and preventing casual older viewers from watching them, I have an old legacy Virgin package which why I still have them, and will also keep TNT Sports. The package should've been scrapped with the closure of the Disney Channels. NOW had the right idea by having a singular Entertainment package, which BT TV uses.

Boomerang's purpose is now a mix of modern classic remakes and acquisitions, especially Lego.

* Kids Channels are included in the very top package in the newer package structure.

 

[Cool_Cat]

In Italy we had a late night schedule back in 2016, with The Flintstones and Wacky Races. Then they moved them over CN for a while. The one that worked best imo was the Ka Boom slot on the French Boomerang.

In any case, isn't an entire channel aimed at preschoolers a bit overkill these days? If you look up at the Sky family package in Italy, all channels are aimed at preschoolers, besides Nick and CN. Boomerang now is a de-facto Cartoonito, even though they can't rebrand it, as there's already the FTA channel.

I think Cartoonito would have worked better as a preschool block in the morning on Boomerang.

 

[Francisque]

But, in the real world like it or not, preschoolers are an important source of income for channels these days.

They watch a lot of TV due to parents sticking their toddlers in front of the telly, hence the rise of channels such as Nick Jr, Disney junior and Cartoonito.
Having a channel catering different demographics often doesn't work, or just doesn't work as much, one category tends to take over the other.
Especially in this age, Cartoonito makes a lot of sense, older children just are more used to On Demand service, the Internet and so on, while.preschoolers depend ironically on parents, often still used to linear channels, although probably not for long.

Boomerang was not anymore what it was in the early 2000s, its raison d'être has vanished.
I expect Boomerang UK and France to become more like CN Too then channels with an established identity

 

[Daffyrocks]

At the same time, though, here in Romania at least, most of the preschoolers are watching animated content on the tablets or phones alone very often. Their parents are used to not take that much care of what they watch

 

[Francisque]

Yes, and you can only imagine what older children are doing, if even toddlers are moving elsewhere

 

[Markus Nelis]

At the same time, though, here in Romania at least, most of the preschoolers are watching animated content on the tablets or phones alone very often. Their parents are used to not take that much care of what they watch

It's like that pretty much everywhere. Wouldn't be suprised if preschoolers parents leave a safe television channel like Cartoonito on, kids would watch alone as parents most likely have to do other stuff at home like cooking, cleaning etc.

 

[Daffyrocks]

It's like that pretty much everywhere. Wouldn't be suprised if preschoolers parents leave a safe television channel like Cartoonito on, kids would watch alone as parents most likely have to do other stuff at home like cooking, cleaning etc.

yet not every show on Cartoonito in Europe is safe enough to just leave the channel on indefinetly.... But I won't go further into the discussion.

 

[Markus Nelis]

yet not every show on Cartoonito in Europe is safe enough to just leave the channel on indefinetly.... But I won't go further into the discussion.

You've been dealing with this for over 6 months. I thought you moved on like I asked you to do.