Pokemon Diamond and Pearl premieres Monday June 4th at 7:30PM

[Sketch]

Yes a date and time rather than just "June" or "June 4th" like previous promos. Caught it during the XS credits roll.

So more Pokemon premieres in weekday PT I guess. But it'll probably move to Saturday morning soon after.

[Rabi~en~Rose]

why 7:30 thats a weird time :confused: they can't possibly have enough episodes for it to air daily so maybe it will only last a week and then go to saturday?

[CyberCubed]

After Cartoon Network rushed through Battle Frontier, who knows what they're doing.

[D Dubbs]

After Cartoon Network rushed through Battle Frontier, who knows what they're doing.

Yeah, no kidding. Unless CN decides to change their ways, we can probably expect that they'll air the episodes as soon as they get them.

[CyberCubed]

Yeah, no kidding. Unless CN decides to change their ways, we can probably expect that they'll air the episodes as soon as they get them.

The thing is that Japan is only roughly 35 episodes ahead of the U.S. at this point, so CN can't very well rush through the season or they'll catch up to the Japanese run.

It really makes you wonder if PUSA gets these episodes as soon as they come out in Japan, because we're the closest we've ever been to its Japanese run with only 35 eps behind.

[Sketch]

I believe the 4kids dub of GX is about that close to Japan's airings as well. It's not entirely uncommon but it makes you think they get episodes in either very small batches or they get them one at a time. Then they dub and edit them for CN and give them to CN in small batches or one at a time. Quite a turn around. No doubt PUSA could do just that because they're part of Nintendo.

[Lazerboy5000]

So, does anyone have any thoughts on how CN will air these episodes since they will be premiering on a Monday?

I also should note that I was looking forward to this season, but after thinking about it for a minuet, I’m starting to get the felling that it will just be your standard ark, littered with filler episodes and ending with probably the same result with Ash making it to a least the Top 8 in the Sinnoh league championships.
But I’ll still watch it to see how Dawn will progress with her training.
And Paul. He spices things up a bit.

[Duke]

The plan is to premiere half the season on weekdays (ending mid-July I believe), then rerun that half, then premiere the second half in September.

Whether that plan actually works, I have no clue...

[Mr. Ralph]

The plan is to premiere half the season on weekdays (ending mid-July I believe), then rerun that half, then premiere the second half in September.

Whether that plan actually works, I have no clue...

damn it. i wish they would run it once a week like they do naruto to minimize rerun time. :sad:

[Lazerboy5000]

The plan is to premiere half the season on weekdays (ending mid-July I believe), then rerun that half, then premiere the second half in September.

Well this has got to be CN’s worst idea yet.

[Sketch]

By half the season do you mean 26 episodes or less?

They really should keep it on Saturday mornings if they don't want that block to bite the big one.

Bets on the previous day's episode encoring on Miguzi. That seems like exactly the kind of thing they would do.

[Duke]

By half the season do you mean 26 episodes or less?
Since each season is 52 episodes, then yes, I do mean 26 episodes.

[CyberCubed]

So then what's going to air Saturday mornings?

Are we still going to get two D/P episodes every Saturday morning?

CN is really horrible. I almost wish Pokemon was back on KidsWb after hearing this.

[D Dubbs]

The plan is to premiere half the season on weekdays (ending mid-July I believe), then rerun that half, then premiere the second half in September.

Whether that plan actually works, I have no clue...

You have to be kidding me. While it sucks that half the summer will be reruns, it'll sucks even more once CN finishes the entire season. I'm thinking that there'll be at least a 6 month waiting period for new episodes in the '07-'08 season.

[Anime Freak]

whats the big deal? :confused: No one complained when they did this with DragonballZ....

[CyberCubed]

whats the big deal? :confused: No one complained when they did this with DragonballZ....

I guess because we're not used to Pokemon airing like this, especially after 9ish seasons of new episodes being on Saturdays.

[RomanMack]

Not to mention, DBZ already ended in Japan when CN picked it up, meaning, they had the entire series to work with.

Whereas with PKMN D/P... There's only 30 or so episodes out SO FAR. Meaning, we'll run out of episodes MUCH quicker. After all, we can't surpass Japan.

[Master Moltar]

They probably chose 7:30 because CN is doing the 7 PM premiere slot like they did last summer, and therefore want to capitalize on that.