Boomerang International News and Discussion Thread 4.0

[Daffyrocks]

Scooby-Doo, Where Are You currently airs on Boomerang France every night at 2:35a.

the rest of the Boomerang European feeds like always, caring for the classic incarnations of "the big three"

 

[Francisque]

the rest of the Boomerang European feeds like always, caring for the classic incarnations of "the big three"

At 2:35am, with a lot of people watching

 

[Markus Nelis]

At 2:35am, with a lot of people watching

Better than nothing. People have a chance to stay up at that time on weekends. For many it's hard but the true classic fans will stay up for it.

 

[Francisque]

What I mean it's there not for viewing pleasure but until their repeat fees or something don't run out

Not your average viewer is going to care that much at what is shown on weekends at 2:35am, although it's nice to have it there

Better than nothing. People have a chance to stay up at that time on weekends. For many it's hard but the true classic fans will stay up for it.

 

[Markus Nelis]

Not your average viewer is going to care that much at what is shown on weekends at 2:35am, although it's nice to have it there

No need to care. I'm just here to inform cause this stuff happens rarely. In fact this is only the second classic show after Ca Boom block was removed a few years ago so it's pretty big deal. I was surprised even if it's one of the absolute worse timeslots.

 

[Underleón]

Boomerang Latin America bumpers from February-September 2014, back when they finally started to air cartoons again but still kept the teen era branding

 

[themidnightlore]

Boomerang Latin America bumpers from February-September 2014, back when they finally started to air cartoons again but still kept the teen era branding

What's up with LATAM and turning channels into teen oriented ones? Since Boomerang wasn't alone (Animax... But at least, that did gift some other countries a cool branding.) in that.

 

[Underleón]

What's up with LATAM and turning channels into teen oriented ones? Since Boomerang wasn't alone (Animax... But at least, that did gift some other countries a cool branding.) in that.

I'm not sure but I agree with the branding part, they did a really good job in that aspect at least

 

[thetellyweb]

The UK has also done a similar thing.
TCC (The Childrens Channel) closed down partially due to FlexTech wanting to focus on Teen programming.
Then Turner tried with it on Toonami only to then close the channel less than a year after.
And of course Boomerang UK went through a teen-based live-action phase for a few years, until switching it's focus to family/younger viewing.

(Honestly there's so much I've known and witnessed from Boomerang UK, I felt like doing a "Retrospective?" type video, going through it's many brand changes and programming)

 

[Daffyrocks]

The UK has also done a similar thing.
TCC (The Childrens Channel) closed down partially due to FlexTech wanting to focus on Teen programming.
Then Turner tried with it on Toonami only to then close the channel less than a year after.
And of course Boomerang UK went through a teen-based live-action phase for a few years, until switching it's focus to family/younger viewing.

(Honestly there's so much I've known and witnessed from Boomerang UK, I felt like doing a "Retrospective?" type video, going through it's many brand changes and programming)

though Boomerang still aired some animated series with classic series during its teen phase

 

[thetellyweb]

though Boomerang still aired some animated series with classic series during its teen phase

But at that point that were kind of on the side, showing either in the daytime or late at night, while most of the former hits were being promoted over on CN Too.

 

[Daffyrocks]

But at that point that were kind of on the side, showing either in the daytime or late at night, while most of the former hits were being promoted over on CN Too.

Yeah, CN Too was the new place for most of the classics. At that point, they combined the old with some of the (at that time) brand new, it was kind of an interesting blend of how the old 2000s CN was like.

Also, you say they were on Boomerang UK in the daytime at that time. Shouldn't this be a good thing?

 

[PinkieLopBun]

Also, you say they were on Boomerang UK in the daytime at that time. Shouldn't this be a good thing?

He can correct me if I’m wrong, but I took that as when kids are in school.

 

[Francisque]

Daytime especially in British English, is considered morning/early afternoon, basically when no kid is watching TV LOL

Except for the weekend

 

[RegularCapital]

He can correct me if I’m wrong, but I took that as when kids are in school.

Daytime especially in British English, is considered morning/early afternoon, basically when no kid is watching TV LOL

Except for the weekend

On weekdays, school kids usually watch between 7am-9am (7.30am-8.30am peak) and 3pm-7pm (4pm-6pm peak).

 

[thetellyweb]

And in some cases, 9am to 12pm would be taken by a Pre-school block, occasionally under the Cartoonito label.

 

[thetellyweb]

John Cleese: "And Now for something completely different"

I finally gathered the stuff I recorded back in 2008/2009, and compiled them into a couple videos. I merely grabbed a mix of idents, promos and end credit squeezers just to show what the look of the channel was like after the "semi-live action" takeover.
They will be up some time next week.