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Disney to target boys with rebranded cable channel What does this mean for Power Rangers? On the surface, you'd think that PR fits right in to what Disney XD wants to do. But is it really "too old"? There's a good amount of the current Jetix inventory that could seemingly fit on XD. When you consider that all of those mid-day Toon Disney shows (Goof Troop, Recess, Proud Family, Kim Possible, etc.) are going to be gone, that's a lot of hours to fill. They're gonna need SOMETHING to show there. Could it mean a return of PRG? Could it mean they finally dip into the other toku adaptations in the Saban-era library -- Beetleborgs, VR Troopers, etc.? I'm sure there's much more to come on this and I'll do my darnedest to stay on top of it all.
Just imagine how the Schedule page is gonna look -- a whole lot of green and some days with nothing! This also means one of the longest gaps between new episodes we've seen in a while. After the Aug. 18 showing of "One Last Second Chance," there will be a five-week gap before we get "Don't Blow That Dough" (yeah, that's the title) on Sept. 29. To top that, there's only one new episode of ANY Jetix show (Monster Buster Club on Sept. 15) for the first four Mondays of the month. The "other shoe" drops on Sept. 29. Another siginificant switcharound with the addition of Avengers, Spider-Man Unlimited and Fantastic Four to full-time status and the departure of the new-episode slots of Digimon Dats Squad that still will have nine episodes left to show. And, for those of you who are getting the episodes with my torrents of Dekabroken's encodes, I'm complete through episode 24. Even though the show itself isn't in high-definition, Deka is now recording the show off Toon Disney's HD channel. I watched it and there's a clear difference. Very nice work, dekabroken! (And thanks for letting me do the torrents!) Now seems as good a time as any to announce that, come September, I'm going to discontinue two sections of PROAC. The first is the Saturday lineups page. It's enough of a challenge to keep up with the never-ending changes that happen on Toon Disney/Jetix and Disney Channel. Cartoon Network is almost as guilty and I've been way behind on updates there. And I don't know what's in store now that 4Kids is in charge of the scheduling of TWO network blocks. I'll post the first version of each of the new Fall lineups, but that will be all. The second has a whole lot of irony to it, as it's the page that caused me to start this site in the first place. And that's the ABC Stations page. Back when WF and NS were premiering on ABC Kids (and then getting shown on cable a few weeks later), it was important to know what the local ABC affiliates were doing. Now that Toon Disney is the lead outlet (and, if you want, you can count the times the episodes are posted on the Disney XD video site a week BEFORE they're shown on TD) and ABC Kids is almost two months behind (and they're all on the same airing schedule -- except Minneapolis), it seems like there's no need to track the information for the top 60 ABC affiliates. But that DOESN'T mean I'll stop tracking the PR schedule in the ABC Kids lineup! You'll still see that where it's always been on the Schedules grid. So, there's where some part of where the future of PROAC is headed. For the complete daily Jetix schedule on Toon Disney -- click here to go to the Toon Zone schedules, for which I am editor/collator.
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This one's pretty significant gang. What we know right now as Toon Disney is only going to exist for another six months. They're changing the channel to "Disney XD" in February 2009 and it looks like it will be a 24/7 channel targeting boys. In some sense, it's kinda like a full-time Jetix channel. Here's the story in the Los Angeles Times:
We're in a funk today because of the loss of my grandmother on Sunday. Will probably be away from any regular updates for a while. Just wanted to update the site with the new episode information, as well as the new schedules that are in store at the beginning and end of September.
September 1 brings the first of two significant shakeups of the schedule. The first, and this is the first time I can recall in the ~6 years I've done this site, is that PRJF will be the ONLY PR with a regular spot in the schedule. (PRDT and PROO are done as of Aug. 29) There are MANY random stacks in the new schedule (weekday mornings and Saturday nights) and there are a handful of PRNS, PRSPD and PRMF stacks throughout the month. There are going to be some weeks when there are no PR airings for more than 48 hours.
