Bizzaro Adult Swim

[THEMOONRULES]

I think this is appropriate for the forum, last night after Space Ghost I started flipping around and caught Comedy Central's Bizzaro Adult swim.

It opens with the show Gary and Mike, which was alright, the animation was pretty neat (reminded me of the PJs I wonder if there is any relation), and was alright followed by Graduates which, to me, reminded me strongly of Mission Hill. It wasn't that good a show, nothing to write home about.

Then they showed 2 epsiodes of the Critic, which was great definatley the highlight of my tv month, after that I went to sleep but I think they followed it with Duckman. Did anyone else watch this?

And does anyone else think it will last more than 3 weeks?

[Allen's Nickname.]

Originally posted by THEMOONRULES
(reminded me of the PJs I wonder if there is any relation) Both produced by Claymation creator Will Vinton.

[Millions Knives]

Is it actually called Bizzaro Adult Swim?

[THEMOONRULES]

Its called Late Night on Comedy Central, they use that show Insomniac as the lead in.

[Joe Tully]

Originally posted by Millions Knives
Is it actually called Bizzaro Adult Swim?

Heh. No, there would be some lawsuits involved if that were the case.

[i miss katy]

Comedy Central has been airing a Sunday night animation block on and off for a long time now, well before Adult Swim ever came along. So they can't really be accused of ripping off Adult Swim. Will it last more than three weeks? I don't know about Gary & Mike/Undergrads, but they've shown The Critic on Sunday Nights FOREVER, like for at least five years now (for a 22 episode series!). Duckman's been on a while now too.

[Calhoun07]

Undergrads is the name of the show you called "Graduates." It's actually really good, one of my favorite animated series of the last 5 years. It was on MTV, so it really didn't get the attention it deserved. I am glad it is on again.

Now, if you want a BIZZARO animated Sunday line up, forget Comedy Central (they used to do the aniamted line up a few years ago before AS premiered. I guess they decied to go back to it after seeing the numbers AS pulls in each week.) The BIZZARO line up for sure is on WE. Yes, on the women's channel. They are airing two episdes of Committed , up against Home Movies and the AS special that airs after it. I discovered Committed last night while flipping channels during a commercial break on Grooveinans, and was immediately curious. I went to IMDB to discover that the creative team behind it worked together on SCTV , and it's a Canadian series. The few minutes I caught wasn't that great, but I will probably opt to watch it next week rather than the Saddle Rash rerun. If it has the same humor style used in SCTV, it could be a winner. But they have it on WE??? I didn't think there were that many women tuning into Sunday night cartoons for them to try to compete with Comedy Central and Adult Swim. Now, when will TNN unveil their Sunday night line up? There is too much animation on Sunday night, that is for sure.

[stanteau]

The original CC Sunday lineup was aweosme.The Tick,Dr. Katz,The Critic,Duckman,South Park,it beat the pants off AS.I'm definately gonna watch Duckman over whatever AS has.

[The Landstander]

i watched most of that block yesterday, starting with Gary & Mike. CC used to have a Adult Swim-style Sunday night animation block. It actually had some good shows; dr. katz, the critic, south park, and some not so good shows (duckman).

Edit:
apparently staneau already posted that. o well.

[Zyzzybalubah]

Late Night on Comedy Central is a good block. I think Adult Swim better put something better than Ripping Friends on during that time, because I think Comedy Central just might beat Adult Swim during that hour in ratings. Gary and Mike is a pretty funny show and the Undergrads is an awesome show! Either in December, January, or February, someone reported that Undergrads and/or Gary and Mike is being removed and Dilbert will take its place. I'm not sure if it's a permanent stay or not, but it was reported Comedy Central will be playing Clerks: The Animated Series as a marathon.

I think we could have a battle of three networks in Sunday animation blocks (TNN, Comedy Central, and Adult Swim) if Comedy Central keeps continuing to do this Sunday animation block. AS and Comedy Central have a strong line-up, now to see TNN's in action.

By the way spaz, your avatar rules!

[Shnay]

I don't claim to know all that much about the television industry, so maybe someonee who does can answer something for me. If all these networks are, theoretically, after the same audience, then why are they all competing for the same night? I know I would watch the Comedy Central block if it were on another night, and I'd likely watch the TNN block if it were on another night.

I think it'd make a lot more sense for these networks to try and go uncontested on an alternate night rather than have everyone competing on Sunday. Hell, if they were on different nights, Comedy Central could advertise their block on AS, CN could advertise AS on TNN, etc.

[Idioteque]

I used to watch CC's animation block back when it was on, and I loved it. South Park, Bob and Margaret, Dr. Katz, The Critic, and Duckman.. oh god.. (orgasm) .. good to know that at least Critic and Duckman are back, along with CC airing undergrads, dilbert, and the greatest cartoon ever (clerks).. I should definitely set my TiVo to get most of CC's block.

[The Landstander]

Originally posted by Shnay
I don't claim to know all that much about the television industry, so maybe someonee who does can answer something for me. If all these networks are, theoretically, after the same audience, then why are they all competing for the same night? I know I would watch the Comedy Central block if it were on another night, and I'd likely watch the TNN block if it were on another night.

I think it'd make a lot more sense for these networks to try and go uncontested on an alternate night rather than have everyone competing on Sunday. Hell, if they were on different nights, Comedy Central could advertise their block on AS, CN could advertise AS on TNN, etc.

Competition. I think that CC's old sunday night spot did pretty well with adult audiences (considering the time slot). Then, Adult Swim comes along and takes alot of people away from CC. Now, CC is trying to get it's audience back, and TNN probably saw the success of Adult Swim and CC decided to get in on the action. The reason for keeping it in the same time slot is to try to get people who make a mental note of watching Adult Swim to instead turn over to CC or TNN.

For example, if I'm watching Adult Swim and something like The Ripping Friends come on, I'm not going to watch that. But hey, CC has Gary & Mike (something I wouldn't make a note to watch). That show is ok, so I'll watch that.

Well, something like that, anyway.

[Killtacular]

It doesn't really matter, because CC is taking these shows off the air in December, replaced by repeats of Comedy Central Presents.

Enjoy your 3 episodes of Undergrads and G&M.

[judgemightor]

Comedy Central can manage to get away with some pretty decent shows like Crank yankers ,The Critic and Duckman and now there getting Dilbert MAN THATS GONNA ROCK ! I've never seen Gary and Mike but it looks pretty good.Undergrads sucks in my opinion it just reminds me of that stupid spicy city and plus all undergrads is really is a crappy version of mission hill. I know a lot of people like undergrads but it just can't click with me.

[John Miles]

Originally posted by Matt Wilson
It doesn't really matter, because CC is taking these shows off the air in December, replaced by repeats of Comedy Central Presents.

Enjoy your 3 episodes of Undergrads and G&M.

Typical. I was really starting to enjoy Gary & Mike and The Critic reruns, too.

I guess this is all part of Comedy Central's master plan to make less people watch their channel.

[Shnay]

Originally posted by John Miles
Typical. I was really starting to enjoy Gary & Mike and The Critic reruns, too.

I guess this is all part of Comedy Central's master plan to make less people watch their channel.

Well, you really can't blame them for taking The Critic reruns off. As i miss katy said, they've been showing the 22 episode series for years now. I'd say it deserves a rest.

As for the other shows...that's another story.

[John Miles]

Originally posted by Shnay
Well, you really can't blame them for taking The Critic reruns off. As i miss katy said, they've been showing the 22 episode series for years now. I'd say it deserves a rest.

It's not like Comedy Central has anything better to show at 1 am on Sunday nights. Whatever it is, it'll be reruns. Do we really need more reruns of Comedy Central Presents?

[The Landstander]

Originally posted by John Miles
It's not like Comedy Central has anything better to show at 1 am on Sunday nights. Whatever it is, it'll be reruns. Do we really need more reruns of Comedy Central Presents?

It seems whenever I watch Comedy Central Presents, it's that jim gaffigan guy or wanda sykes. they need another mitch hedburg episode, or lewis black.

[Idioteque]

You're sure that the CC block is going to be replaced by stand-up permanently? Becuase according to the schedule it's only like that for one week, then it goes back to critic and duckman..

Then again, the schedule doesn't go quite long enough for me to really know. All I saw was that stand-up only replaced the CC block once in the little schedule that is on the CC website.

[EightOh]

It's pretty nice to have an alternative to the Ripping Friends and Oblongs. I don't hate The Oblongs, I'd just prefer to watch something else, but I despise the Ripping Friends. I was never a huge Ren and Stimpy fan(I could tolerate it, and watched every once in a while, but it wasn't "my bag," so to speak), but three minutes into the first episode of Ripping Friends and I was ready to change the channel or break the TV. Now I can spare the TV and change the channel! It was getting expensive, buying new TV's every Monday...

I now just watch Adult Swim from 9 to 11(Central), then flip it over to CC and watch three more hours' worth of quality shows. I didn't know what to expect from Gary & Mike, but I've been pleasantly surprised, and Undergrads is pretty entertaining so far, too. I've been a fan of The Critic and Duckman for years, so I'm definitely there.

I have no clue if it's going to be anywhere near a permanent fixture on the CC late night lineup, but I hope they at least run G&M and Undergrads in their entirities before pulling them. They're a nice compliment to Adult Swim.

[zimbach]

Originally posted by Shnay
I don't claim to know all that much about the television industry, so maybe someonee who does can answer something for me. If all these networks are, theoretically, after the same audience, then why are they all competing for the same night? I know I would watch the Comedy Central block if it were on another night, and I'd likely watch the TNN block if it were on another night.

I think it'd make a lot more sense for these networks to try and go uncontested on an alternate night rather than have everyone competing on Sunday. Hell, if they were on different nights, Comedy Central could advertise their block on AS, CN could advertise AS on TNN, etc. There are two methods thet TV networks use to compete over audiences with programming.

1. Counter-programming. This is the smart way. It makes the assumption that no matter how popular the programs are on the other channels at a given time, there will still be a lot of people woh are not interested in them. Therefore, you put something completely different on your channel at that time. This may not get the highest ratings, but it will draw in a sufficiently distinct demographic to be valuable to advertisers. This "narrowcasting" puts smaller channels at an advantage, and rewards viewers with diverse programming.
Also, when competing networks counter-program with similar programs, the audience gets distributed among the various channels at different times. Of course, this means that your audience is watching another channel some of the time, and, well, some people can't have that. This thinking leads to the other more common method.

2. Fighting over the same audience. This is what happens more often in reality. The broadcast networks are more guilty of this, but it happens on the cable networks as well, as in this example, and back in the days of the WWF Raw v. WCW Nitro war. Competing networks will often put similar programs on at the same time to corner the biggest share of the audience. This often results in very high ratings for one show, and such low ratings for the others that they are not viable to continue. This is a high-stakes, high-risk game, but it's how the big boys play.

[zimbach]

I think it'd make a lot more sense for these networks to try and go uncontested on an alternate night rather than have everyone competing on Sunday. Hell, if they were on different nights, Comedy Central could advertise their block on AS, CN could advertise AS on TNN, etc.
Most cable providers have a program to put local advertising on basic cable channels, including their own promotions. Where I am, AT&T cable has been pushing digital service by running ads for Toon Disney on Cartoon Network.
I doubt that Cartoon Network would allow that on a national basis.

[THEMOONRULES]

I realize Comedy Central has been doing Cartoon line ups for awhile, but dude the Critic hasn't been on the air for maybe 6 months or more? I was pissed especially during the summer because thats the only time i can feasibly stay up till 2 on sunday mornings watching the critic. And i wouldn't be surprised if Matt Wilson's right, and its true, if their gonna rerun something why rerun the stuff they rerun practically every night of the week and rerun a hilarious cartoon.