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There will be two 'new' episodes in each of the first three weeks, after which it will settle down into the usual 'repeat'-at-noon, 'new'-at-12:30 cycle. They'll pause the new episodes in weeks where some/all time zones are pre-empted. The first three weeks' schedules can be found here -- as well as some "last seen" information. Here's the original press release announcing the project: Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers returns in 2010
There are two sports events in March and two in April, causing five weeks of pre-emptions on the West Coast and 'reruns' everywhere else. June and July will be chopped up pretty good for the 2010 World Cup soccer tournament from South Africa. My curiosity will be if any additional ABC affiliates stop showing what some programmers will regard as "16-year old reruns." I think we might see a good handful of affiliates decide to cut the cord and grab that hour for their own use. No way to know until we see some early grids, but that won't happen until late December. Now, the question also comes "How will these airings be seen/treated by Burg and PROAC?" I'm not quite sure. I know one thing. This ISN'T a new series and these AREN'T new episodes. For example, no matter how many times George Lucas fiddled with, remastered, edited Hayden Christensen into the end of "Return of the Jedi" and re-released the box sets, etc., there are still just six Star Wars movies. Here, there are still just 700 PR episodes. They'll still get counted as MMPR time slots, that's for sure. Maybe I'll launch a page in the tone of the BoPR/PRG pages and add to the BoPR counts as these episodes are aired, but with a second number for the number of times "MMv2" (which will be my shorthand for this "version 2" presentation) is aired. Maybe they'll give us some that haven't been seen for a VERY long while! NOTE: I just started that MMPRv2 page, so it's in its very early stages of development. I'm glad to see there will be a continued PR presence -- on TV as well as the toy shelves -- and maybe this will give the younger generation an appreciation of what it was that drew us into this show. I'm sure things will work themselves out over time. But that's it.
(By the way, the counter above is counting down to Noon on 12/19/09 on the East Coast. If you're in an area with a time-shifting affiliate, your wait is a few hours shorter).
WILL IT STAY OR WILL IT GO??? You know what? I think we've gotten as much of an answer to this that we're going to get -- at least for the near future. The brand stays alive with the remastered MMPR episodes, which will be shown on ABC Kids beginning in January 2010. Some questions about this are still out there -- most prevalent is whether they're doing one season of MM or all three. But I think the 'checklist' of stay-vs-go has run its course.
Does Disney have any plans for a 'revival' after a bit of an hiatus? Does the recent $4 BILLION acqusition of Marvel play ANY role in whatever future rendition of PR might come down the line? Who knows? THE LATEST EPISODES: October 3 -- "Control-Alt-Delete"/"Run Ziggy Run": I was much more into the first episode than the second. You knew Tenaya was headed down "Astronema Redux Boulevard." The "key" they shot into Scott reminded me of the Ultraman Tiga transformation device. RZR wasn't devoid of its moments, though. You can so tell K is jiggy for Ziggy. She almost blurted out his name. When K sat on Ziggy's lap, Olivia had a look on her face that was a perfect combination of surprise and that little something us older fans would recognize. *snicker* But, what's in the box??? RATINGS UPDATE: Ratings for Nov. 7 did nothing to disprove that the Great Break is a ratings disaster!
TORRENT UPDATE: (Posted 11/27) Another legal issues-triggered change -- this time, it's Mininova that has shuttered its torrent hosting service. All those torrents I had up there (for JF and RPM) have been removed. So, as it stands right now, the RPM torrents are being tracked on OpenBitTorrent and are posted to The Pirate Bay. (They're also searchable using IsoHunt) If they have another issue, I might just upload the torrents here! Click on the link below to find all the torrents. FYI, my first inclination is that I won't be doing the torrents for next year's MMv2 episodes.
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The date has been set. The remastered episodes of Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers will debut on ABC Kids on January 2, 2010. And, from the schedules we've received, it looks like they're going in order, with EVERY episode.
(updated 11/22/09) We can see the light at the end of this 10-week tunnel. The countdown clock is less than a month to go. We see the last week of the Break schedule in the three-weeks-at-a-glance schedule. Besides, you'll have holiday shopping to bide your time before then.
Power Morphicon 2 -- the second official fan convention of all things Power Rangers -- will be in Summer 2010 (word from the PMC staff is that there's going to be significant information released THIS week). If they can get anywhere close to the guest list they had for the first one in 2007, it's probably worth your while to save up and go. Or, commit next year's tax refund to the cause. The guest list is ALREADY quite substantial (Tommy, Zack, Bulk, Skull, Maya, Bridge, to name a few -- and executive producers Doug Sloan, Bruce Kalish and Judd Lynn) and there's a whole lotta time to go! (Heck, you might even see the Burgmeister, who didn't see the need to go to the first one ... until he saw the YouTube videos! If I'm there, I'll follow the long-standing PR wardrobe tradition and wear nothing but burgundy shirts and Redskins jerseys!) The link for the official PMC2 Web site can be found below. Once there, you can find the link to the PMC forums.
