How the networks did in primetime this year (on average): 40: Nick@Nite (224k viewers) 50: Comedy Central / Nat Geo (182k) 53: Adult Swim (169k) 60: Nickelodeon (143k) 69: FXX (120k) 75: Disney Channel / BBC America (108k) 93: MeTV Toons / Golf/ VH1 (80k) 96: Disney Jr (73k)

It's official, Checkered Past is back, bumps and all. Dexter's Lab has the full 5pm hour on weekdays currently.

Home Movies is back on the Adult Swim schedule as of last night, doing what it does best... filling time freed up as the result of Adult Swim losing two Fox shows! It airs Sundays at 5:00a for an hour.

Cartoon Network year in review: The schedule's good... and that's it! End of thread!

Adult Swim year in review: Adult Swim had a great year for originals, a rough year for the schedule. Family Guy came back which presumably helped the network out a lot ratings-wise, even if it came at the severe cost of hurting the network's variety.

Futurama left Adult Swim for a second time last night. What replaces it starting tonight: Saturdays 3:30a - American Dad Saturdays 5:00a - Unicorn Warriors Eternal Sundays 5:00a - Home Movies Weekdays 5:00p - Dexter's Laboratory Weekdays 5:00a - Dragon Ball Z Kai

Warner Archive's next Looney Tunes release, Collector's Vault volume 2, releases March 24 for $25. 26 shorts never before released on DVD and 25 more shorts making their Blu-ray debut. Includes some audio commentaries, a first for a WA Looney Tunes release.

Over the Garden Wall appears to finally, FINALLY, be getting an American Blu-ray release in April. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/dvd-cartoo...

Some changes on the Canadian lineups next month: - YTV goes off the clock from 6a - 3p weekdays, lack of ads likely - CN Canada replaces Sidekick with live-action/"animated" "hybrid" The Stanley Dynamic - Boomerang Canada gets live-action YTV game show "Uh Oh!" at 6:45a

Today in unrelated news: WildBrain is selling its 41% stake in the Peanuts IP to Sony, who already owned 39%. The remaining 20% is still owned by the family of Charles M. Schulz. WildBrain will continue to produce Peanuts content, including the upcoming movie for Apple TV+.

Animation Domination's mid-season lineup will consist of: 8:00p - Family Guy (new season) 8:30p - Universal Basic Guys (new) 9:00p - American Dad (new season) 9:30p - Family Guy (also new) Starts 2/22. youtu.be/WDgrZHXfDYA?...

The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball has been renewed for another batch of 40 episodes, consisting of seasons 3 and 4 of the show. It'll air on Hulu in America and on CN internationally. www.televisual.com/news/cartoon...

Haha, You Clowns has been renewed for a second AND third season. Their mother would be proud. variety.com/2025/tv/news...

There appears to be a bizarre bug in the Adult Swim playout that keeps replacing the Rick and Morty episode "Rattlestar Ricklactica" (the snake Christmas episode) with "Promortyus" (the face hugger episode). Has been happening since July at least.

Codename: Kids Next Door returns to Boomerang's weekday lineup on Monday 1/5 at 8:00p, in the place of Jellystone (which moves to 7:00p) and Looney Tunes (which is still all over the lineup).

The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack returns to Cartoon Network's weekday schedule starting Monday 1/5 at 11:30a. It takes one half-hour slot away from Adventure Time, which keeps a half-hour slot at 12:00p.

Toonami enters 2026 expanding to 4:00a with this lineup: 12:00a - Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War 12:30a - Blue Exorcist 1:00a - Mashle: Magic and Muscles 1:30a - One Piece 2:00a - Dan Da Dan 2:30a - Dragon Ball DAIMA 3:00a - Zom 100 3:30a - Rick and Morty: The Anime

Toonami ends the year with a Dan Da Dan marathon that includes a "sneak peek" to season 2 (presumably they're just airing the first episode) at 12:00a and 3:00a. Episodes 8 - 12 of season 1 air in between.

HBO Max has launched a dozen "channels" that will automatically play continuous playlists. Channels include "Adult Animation", "Rick and Morty", "DC", "Big Bang Theory", "Friends", and so on.

Adult Swim rings in the new year on Wednesday 12/31 with a marathon of Smiling Friends season 3 at midnight, a marathon of Haha, You Clowns at 2:00a, repeats of the week's new Off the Air at 4:30a, and the usual hour of DBZ Kai at 5:00a. Fun, right?

Today in "I just found out about this" news: Philo has added HBO Max and Discovery+ (both with ads) to its $33 a month subscription. Nick (and its side channels), MeTV Toons, Discovery Family, HBO Max, Discovery+, AMC+, all in one subscription.

Today in unrelated news: Casper Kelly (Too Many Cooks, Adult Swim Yule Log, Scooby-Doo Project, Your Pretty Face) is directing his first theatrical film with "Buddy", in which a brave girl and her friends must escape a kids TV show. It will screen at Sundance in January.

Adult Swim Monday 12/29: 5:00p - Dexter's Laboratory (replaces Futurama) 6:00p - Bob's Burgers 8:30p - Family Guy 11:00p - Rick and Morty 12:30a - Adult Swim Smalls (replaces Haha, You Clowns) 1:00a - China, IL (replaces Joe Pera) 1:30a - American Dad 3:30a - Rick and Morty (repeat)

Some Cartoon Network schedule changes to report for the Cartoon Network schedule account on Bluesky: - Ben 10's back at 4:00p Sundays starting 12/28 - Be Cool replaces Mystery Inc weekdays at 9:30a starting 12/29 There ya go.

Losing King of the Hill and Futurama has led Adult Swim to experiment again with both the starting 5p and closing 5a hours. We got: - Dexter's Lab (maybe Checkered Past as a whole?) 5p weekdays - Dragon Ball Z Kai 5a weekdays - Unicorn Warriors Eternal 5a Saturdays - Home Movies 5a Sundays

Dragon Ball Z Kai takes the 5am hour on Adult Swim's weekday lineup starting Monday, December 29th, replacing the now gone Futurama.

Off the Air returns with two more guest-curated episodes Monday, December 29 at 4:30a: "Growth", from Vernon Chatman (Xavier, Wonder Showzen, PFFR) "VR", from Mike Diva (that one OTA segment that scared Karens in 2020, SNL) and Dimitri Simakis (Everything is Terrible)

The bidding war for Warner Bros. Discovery is now expected to take months, thanks to Paramount Skydance's hostile takeover bid. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Dexter's Laboratory has an hour on Monday, December 29 at 5:00p. Checkered Past's return? Primal season 3 promo? Both?

Home Movies returns to the Adult Swim lineup for the first time since late 2021 Sunday, December 28 at 5:00a.

Toonami is blank for Saturday, December 27, but there appears to be a 5 hour marathon happening that night. Probably Primal. Unicorn: Warriors Eternal takes the 5am hour, which helps back that theory up imo.

Futurama is leaving Adult Swim on Friday, December 26.

Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos says HBO won't have to do "gymnastics to make themselves into a general entertainment brand": "We’re already a well established general entertainment brand, and we want HBO to double down on the things that people have loved for 50 years about HBO."

The snakes at Paramount are just bluntly talking about eliminating "duplicative operations" here: deadline.com/2025/12/para...

Promo for American Dad's return to Fox. It returns Sunday, February 22 at 9:00p, streaming next day on Hulu.

Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos promises that Warner Bros. Television will continue making shows for rival streamers and networks. "We were never in that business. We are now. When you we get under the hood, that’s a really healthy business." deadline.com/2025/12/netf...

Paramount Skydance is attempting a hostile takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery valued at $108.4b. www.strongerhollywood.com

Uncle Grandpa and The Powerpuff Girls 2016, both of which left Hulu a few months back, have returned to Hulu.

Zaslav doesn't expect sweeping layoffs after Netflix nabs Warner: "The intention is that they want to keep most people, because they don’t have a lot; they don’t have a motion picture studio, they don’t have a big gaming business. And so the fit feels very good for our employees"

We still don't know what the splitting off of Cartoon Network and Adult Swim under Discovery Global will mean for the network's rights to their own series. CN Studios, a sub-label for Warner Bros. Animation these days and not its own thing, is going with WB to Netflix.

The splitting off of Warner Bros. Discovery's cable networks into Discovery Global was briefly paused during all this merger talk, but is back on. It is expected to be completed in the third quarter of 2023, before the WB/Netflix merger finishes. deadline.com/2025/12/netf...

Netflix claims it will "maintain Warner Bros.’ current operations" and "build on its strengths, including theatrical releases for films". It also, rather surprisingly, states that HBO Max will continue to be a standalone service... for now. variety.com/2025/tv/news...

Maybe I'm being too generous but I can't see Netflix make WB Pictures stop releasing films in theaters and stop making DVDs and Blu-rays. I think Netflix is going to be the one that changes its ways more than Warner Bros. in this merger.

Netflix won. They are now entering exclusive talks with Warner Bros. Discovery to finalize a deal for the streaming / studios division (aka the Warner Bros. part) of the company. deadline.com/2025/12/netf...

Got some Adult Swim Smalls airing on TV Sunday nights starting 12/14 at 12:00a: 12/14: Lil Daddy / Floor 999 12/21: Chips / Munch Rexford

Per CNBC, Netflix is currently in the lead in the war for Warner Bros. Discovery, but Paramount Skydance is definitely still there and definitely still wants it. A winning bid may be declared next week. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmYP...

Christmas Eve on Cartoon Network: 6:00a - Regular Show "Christmas Special / White Elephant Gift Exchange / Merry Christmas Mordecai" 7:00a - Bugs Bunny Builders "Looneyburg Lights" 7:28a - Tiny Toons Looniversity "Winter Blunderland"

Bob's Burgers Christmas marathon on Christmas Eve. 13 episodes from 5:00p - 11:30p, repeating from 11:30p - 6:00a.

More information on the three acquisition bids for Warner Bros.: - Netflix now has an almost all-cash bid and seemingly has warmed WBD's hearts - Paramount is an all-cash bid with help from private equity group Apollo and unknown Middle East sovereign wealth funds

The encore / behind the scenes special for The Elephant actually seems to be airing overnight on Friday 12/19, rather than Saturday. So in short: 11:00p - The Elephant (commercial free premiere) 4:00a - Behind the Elephant 4:30a - The Elephant (repeat)