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  MeTV TOONS  has officially revealed its launch schedule, which starts on Tuesday, June 25, 2024. You can see it in full right here .  As it is, it's a pretty solid lineup of classic cartoons from the golden age of theatrical shorts to the birth of television animation to the Saturday morning era of cartoons up to the turn of the century.  Looking at the full launch lineup, the most recent series present is 2003's Duck Dodgers, which is great for folks who appreciate older, classic cartoons without having to sit through a lot of modern shows to get to the good stuff, which has been disappearing from the airwaves and still largely absent from streaming platforms.  This lineup has variety. Like, a crazy amount of variety that isn't found on linear cable networks these days. You have Looney Tunes in the form of Bugs Bunny and Friends for an hour every weekday and for two full hours weeknights and Saturdays in primetime. You have Rocky and Bullwinkle every night ...

We're a little under a month away from the launch of Weigel's all-classic-animation over-the-air broadcast channel MeTV TOONS in the United States. The network, aimed towards older audiences rather than kids, is a joint venture with Warner Bros Discovery and will present classic cartoon titles from many studios and distributors, including NBC Universal, Sony Pictures Television, WildBrain, SHOUT! Studios, Fleischer Studios, Jay Ward Productions, Gerry Anderson Productions, and others. Even companies like Amazon MGM and Paramount Global are rumored to bring some of their classic animation libraries to the channel. Nearly every major animation studio who made an impact in the golden age of theatrical shorts and television animation will be represented on MeTV TOONS.  Except one.  The Walt Disney Company will likely have no presence on MeTV TOONS of any kind. It's not that unsurprising that they wouldn't want to be a part of the channel's roster of studio libraries. If...

 I was not prepared for the announcement of Adult Swim returning Toonami to daylight hours. No, the Saturday night (technically Sunday morning) Toonami block isn't going anywhere. It remains intact every Saturday starting at Midnight E/P. Adult Swim officially announced they're putting a weekly block of retro Toonami shows on Friday afternoons from 5 PM to 7 PM E/P starting on May 31, 2024. They're calling it Toonami Rewind . In the tradition of the Checkered Past block of Cartoon Network originals, Toonami Rewind will have selected shows from Toonami's past incarnations on Cartoon Network. The inaugural lineup will consist of Sailor Moon (the recent Viz redub which is making its linear television debut on the block), Dragon Ball Z Kai (a more accurate reedit of Dragon Ball Z , Akira Toriyama's legendary continuation of his Dragon Ball series), and Naruto (which hasn't aired on television in a decade).  It's a fine weekly block, definitely filled with show...

  Previously , I broke down a bit of my thoughts about the upcoming launch of MeTV TOONS, an over-the-air broadcast network dedicated to classic animation launching on June 25, 2024 , in the United States (and fringe markets near the US border). Needless to say, I'm a fan.  And like so many classic animation fans, I I know what I want to see and what I don't want MeTV TOONS to air. Everybody has their thoughts on what should and shouldn't be there, and apparently, I'm no different, so, let me bore you to tears with what I want to see from a classic animation broadcast network in 2024: WHAT I WANT TO SEE on MeTV TOONS: Retro anime titles from the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s: When MeTV TOONS was officially announced, the network revealed a pair of classic anime titles, Speed Racer and Marine Bo y, will be part of the network's launch. Anime from the 1960s and 1970s have rarely been seen on mainstream television. The fact that Marine Boy, which hasn't been on televisio...

  On June 25, 2024, Weigel Broadcasting and Warner Bros Discovery are launching MeTV TOONS, an over-the-air broadcast network devoted to classic animation featuring the best of the best.  You'll have the usual suspects from the Warrner Bros library including Looney Tunes, Tom and Jerry, Scooby-Doo, The Flintstones, Yogi Bear, Top Cat, The Jetsons, The Smurfs, Jonny Quest, and Wacky Races .  You'll also find some shows that rarely get the airplay or shine from the studio like Silverhawks, Police Academy, Challenge of the Go-Bots, The Mask, and Beetlejuice and surprising shows like Freakazoid. In addition, you'll have some popular shows from other studios like Woody Woodpecker, Betty Boop, Casper the Friendly Ghost, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Underdog, Speed Racer, Thunderbirds, and The Real Ghostbusters. With a lot of support from historians like Jerry Beck and talent like Bob Bergen, MeTV TOONS is a dream come true for older classic animation fans who felt abandoned by kid-...