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I just won't believe all of this until I see next month's bill and hope it does turn out to be too good to be true. But that won't stop my torrent'ing of dekabroken's PRJF encodes. I started it, I'll see it through to the end. And as soon as I save this update, that's what I'm doing next.
The sections are now categorized. PRG is dormant, since there's nothing to do but it'll be revived if Disney brings back the old incarnations. I'm not holding my breath, though. The Saturday TV lineups page is close to getting its last update. Once I see a new Qubo schedule, that'll be it for that page. And the ABC grid is still clickable because many of the top 60 haven't changed what they do. But if I'd suggest you go to a listings site like tv.yahoo.com, input YOUR local zip code and check the schedule yourself.
The Schedule page just looks so different now -- a whole lot of green and some days with nothing!
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 wants to do with XD. 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. And, for those of you who are getting the episodes with my torrents of Dekabroken's encodes, I have episode 25 posted. Now, we know ep #26 isn't due to be shown on Jetix until Sept. 26 but, a glitch in the On Demand scheduling (only available on Verizon's FiOS TV service, AFAIK) has already put #27 into the system! It'll be available, I'm sure, but I'm sticking to the episode order and will have it up when it gets shown on Jetix/TD. 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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I can't believe I'm saying this ... but my 13-month exile from being able to watch Toon Disney is over! (At least long enough to see the end of PRJF) I got a card from Comcast explaining an upcoming rate hike (no surprise there, right?). But -- and here's what might happen if you read the WHOLE think -- I saw that they were now offering a basic digital service at THE SAME RATE as basic analog, which is what I've been on since Aug. 2007. So, I go to the office, merely to make the switch to digital, get the HD channels and make much better use of my 32-inch LCD TV. But karma must have been smiling on me because, in explaining my "need to keep the costs down" situation, the teller clued me in on some promotions where I'm getting an upper tier of channels (including TD, but not TDHD) free for three months and an HD/DVR for a year.
Waiting for the next nugget if info about PRRPM -- which is confirmed as the title of next year's incarnation.
Today is the day the second part of the two-part schedule shakeup takes effect. Two "new" shows in the Monday night lineup. The addition of a prime-time movie at 9:00 on every weeknight except Monday. More randomness to the morning stacks. The addition of a "Classic Toon Disney" stack in the afternoons. The resumption of new Digimon Data Squad episodes on weekend evenings at 6:30 p.m. Click the Jetix page to see the new grid.
The face of the channel we know now as Toon Disney is five months from a major change. 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:
