Is it time for Adult Swim to change?

[Avaitor]

Really curious. Does Disney not find the show as profitable as Family Guy, or are they willing to sell their shows back, FG included?

[Dr. Insomniac]

Yeah, it's weird. They have Freeform, FXX, and several other channels they could use to rerun Fox cartoons. What about the AS deal is more lucrative for Disney?

[Avaitor]

That's the thing, I'm not sure what is more profitable to Disney- Warner purchasing the rights to air these shows or the ad revenue they'll receive by airing them on their own channels.

But with the recent announcement that FXX and Freeform are among the Disney channels that Spectrum will lose, they might see syndication as more profitable once again and [as] could reclaim Family Guy... or not, since it's likely that these channels were on the cutting board in the first place.

[Avaitor]

It's official- season 9 of Bob's Burgers starts airing in October.

Since they've clearly renewed their contract, I wonder what's next. Trying to get Family Guy back makes the most sense, but I have a feeling that Disney may still want to hold onto it. So I have another theory- what if [as] picks up Archer instead?

[Daikun]

Samurai Jack is joining Checkered Past.

[Dr. Insomniac]

I haven't been paying attention to ACME Night, but I noticed a few days ago they were airing the 1992 Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie, and that led me to a wormhole showing just how unfocused their movie selection was, such as the example above. I don't normally care all that much about CN's branding, but it's hard not to think how sloppy it's gotten. Just the imagery of all these kids' movies like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Elf with the Adult Swim logo on the bottom right is hilarious.

[Avaitor]

Acme Night has been a weird spot for CN/[as]. It was initially supposed to be a block meant for families, and it just became a dumping ground for whatever movies they could get the rights to or the occasional Futurama or Samurai Jack marathon.

[Dr. Insomniac]

I guess on the plus side, it hearkens back to whenever networks like Disney Channel would just air whatever random movie they had in their backlog in the 90s. But that was because they had a lack of direction, not out of any intentional aim. It's no coincidence that Nick and Disney narrowing their imports and licensed shows happened around the time they found more success.

And as a whole, ACME Night, Checkered Past, Toonami Rewind, while the appeal to nostalgia is nice on a surface level, they all reek of CN struggling to buy time and desperately hoping that going "Remember this old show you watched as a kid?! Please pay attention to this!" can keep them afloat. But it all reeks of stagnancy instead of a direction. Even CN Real, and we can all say a lot of awful things about CN Real, that still felt like a direction. It was an awful path, but it was still the network pushing itself somewhere. While the current course appears to be turtling up and hoping for the best.