TV Schedule: November-December (Kids' WB!, CN, TV-Tokyo)

[Dogasu]

<November 2004>

[Dogasu]

December 2004

CN=Cartoon Network
WB=Kids' WB!
TT=TV-Tokyo

All times, except for TV-Tokyo airings, are ET.
Premieres appear in bold
When the dubbed title is unknown, the translation of the Japanese title is listed in italics.

All times are tentative and scheduled to change without notice.

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Wednesday, December 1st -

CN: 10:00am - "Pokémon 3 The Movie"
WB: 3:30pm - "A Ghost of a Chance"

Thursday, December 2nd -

WB: 3:30pm - "From Ghost to Ghost"

TT: 7:00pm - "Falling in Love with Mawile! Lombre's Flower Arrangement!"

Friday, December 3rd -

WB: 3:00pm - "Going for a Spinda"
WB: 3:30pm - "All Torkoal, No Play"

Saturday, December 4th -

WB: 8:00am - "Manetric Charge"
WB: 10:00am - "Delcatty Got Your Tongue"

Sunday, December 5th -

TT: 8:00am - "Pokemon Research #5!" - The Pokemon Research Team investigates how Santa Claus can get presents to all the children of the world. A special guest appears, and afterwards a kindegarten class is thrown into a panic concerning all the presents! Can Robert get to the bottom of the problem?

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Monday, December 6th -

WB: 3:30pm - "Island of the Giant Pokémon"

Tuesday, December 7th -

WB: 3:30pm - "The Pi-Kahuna"

Wednesday, December 8th -

WB: 3:30pm - "Talkin' Bout an Evolution"

Thursday, December 9th -

WB: 3:30pm - "Rage of Innocence"

TT: 7:00pm - "Trapinch & Vibrava! Lake of Illusion!"

Friday, December 10th -

WB: 3:00pm - "Manectric Charge!"
WB: 3:30pm - "Delcatty Got Your Tongue"

Saturday, December 11th -

WB: 8:00am - "Disaster of Disguise"
WB: 10:00am - "Disguise Da Limit

Sunday, December 12th -

TT: 8:00am - "Dues and Don'ts" (ENCORE)

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Kids' WB! will air Pokémon at 3:00pm now instead of at 3:30pm.
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Monday, December 13th -

WB: 3:00pm - "One Trick Phony"

Tuesday, December 14th -

WB: 3:00pm - "Fangs for Nothing"

Wednesday, December 15th -

WB: 3:00pm - "Great Bowls of Fire!"

Thursday, December 16th -

WB: 3:00pm - "Just Add Water"

TT: 7:00pm - "Absol! Creeping Shadow of Disaster!!"

Friday, December 17th -

WB: 3:00pm - "Disguise Da Limit"

Saturday, December 18th -

WB: 10:00am - TBA

Sunday, December 19th -

TT: 8:00am - TBA

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Monday, December 20th -

WB: 3:00pm - TBA
WB: 3:30pm - TBA

Tuesday, December 21st -

WB: 3:00pm - TBA
WB: 3:30pm - TBA

Wednesday, December 22nd -

WB: 3:00pm - TBA
WB: 3:30pm - TBA

Thursday, December 23rd -

WB: 3:00pm - TBA
WB: 3:30pm - TBA

TT: 7:00pm - "Catch Snorunt!"(title unconfirmed)

Friday, December 24th -

WB: 3:00pm - TBA
WB: 3:30pm - TBA

Saturday, December 25th -

WB: 10:00am - TBA

Sunday, December 26th -

TT: 8:00am - TBA

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Monday, December 27th -

WB: 3:00pm - TBA
WB: 3:30pm - TBA

Tuesday, December 28th -

WB: 3:00pm - TBA
WB: 3:30pm - TBA

Wednesday, December 29th -

WB: 3:00pm - TBA
WB: 3:30pm - TBA

Thursday, December 30th -

WB: 3:00pm - TBA
WB: 3:30pm - TBA

TT: 7:00pm - TBA

Friday, December 31st -

WB: 3:00pm - TBA
WB: 3:30pm - TBA

[Rocketboy]

Good work! but, I don't think you should've done December. I mean, there are no confirmed eps on kids WB, and the jap titles haven't been confirmed yet.

[Dogasu]

Starting this weekend, Kids' WB! is changing the airtimes of their premieres of Pokemon. The first episode will premiere at 8:00am while the second episode will premiere at its regular time, 10:00am. So make sure you set your alarms!

[Water Pokemon Master]

Cartoon Network has stopped showing Pokemon, right?

[Dogasu]

Yes. It's gone from the Cartoon Network (http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/tv_shows/all_shows/index.html) website, and from what I hear Kids' WB! has been bragging that they're the only network that airs Pokémon (especially since they've brought back the old "Who's That Pokémon" and have been airing old Kanto episodes lately).

Yu-Gi-Oh!'s off the network as well, so it looks like Kids' WB! just decided to take back all the shows they gave to Cartoon Network for some reason.

[mr_pikachu]

Yu-Gi-Oh!'s off the network as well, so it looks like Kids' WB! just decided to take back all the shows they gave to Cartoon Network for some reason.

Well, if they gave Cartoon Network some of the rights to those shows, could they legally just "take them back"? My guess is that CN decided that the shows weren't doing very well, and cancelled them from their own schedule.

[Water Pokemon Master]

Uh, no, just the opposite. The shows were extremely popular, which was why they were put on at 8 when most people are watching TV.

Also, CN and WB are owned by the same company, so all they did was move the shows.

[mr_pikachu]

Also, CN and WB are owned by the same company, so all they did was move the shows.

Oh, okay. That makes sense. The CN epis were taking too much away from WB, so they just moved all the Pokemon rights back to the WB, I guess. *shrugs*

[Dogasu]

Kids' WB! yanking the rights for Pokémon and Yu-Gi-Oh! wouldn't be the most extreme thing they've done.

Kids' WB! is the reason why Toonami wasn't (and why Miguzi isn't) able to air before 5:00pm--Kids' WB! didn't like the afternoon competition, so they made CN start their big action blocks to a later timeslot. That "rule" is still in effect today, which is why you won't be seeing Miguzi or any other high-profile action block airing while Kids' WB!'s afternoon block is still on.

It's the same reason Toonami's Saturday morning block ("The Rising Sun") vanished a few years ago--Kids' WB! didn't want the competition, so they made CN air low-rated programs instead (such as the Looney Tunes and the Cartoon Network originals that had already been rerun to death) as a sort of counter-programming. Honestly, it's not hard to be the #1 kids' network when you're airing brand new episodes while your competition is airing reruns of Dexter's Laboratory, now is it?

Believe it or not, Kids' WB! has a lot of control over the scheduling on Cartoon Network. They wanted to be the exclusive network for Pokémon and Yu-Gi-Oh! for some reason, and it looks like they got their way.

[PikaJames2004]

TIME CHANGE!

Starting next week (12/13), Pokemon reruns air @ 3 PM ET/PT Monday through Thrusday.