Now airing on Nick Toons

[Nigel]

I picked up the latest UK comic this morning and couldn't fail to miss the back cover ad for Animated - "airing every day at 4.30".

Checking, I have found that Nick Toons have already started broadcasting it. I thought it was on next month. Anybody know when it started?

I'm gutted that I missed the start - I've been looking forward to watching it on telly so haven't watched it online. I'll have to catch up now - where can I find it?


Incidentally, Jetix shows RID at 4pm, so there's a Transformers hour for those who want it.

[duffism1981]

The mini movie 3 parter started on tuesday, so if it is daily, you have missed the first 4 episodes. I only saw adverts from it when at a friends house, but I believe they aired the 3 parter in one go. If they have split it, you have only missed 2 episodes.

Starscream is just an angry Spongebob.

[primenova]

Ep 5 was todays

[Nigel]

I ended up just taping, rather than watching yesterday's (and will probably today, too) so that I can catch up with the first few online first.

[Bogatan]

I will start taping it if/when it gets ahead of the US airings but I'll keep dowloading it to keep till dvd arrives.

andy

[The Doctor]

Wow. So which Nick runs this channel? Davidson or Roche?

-Ralph

[Gav]

BOOM BOOM!

[The Doctor]

Thankyou, I'll be here all night.

-Ralph

[Gav]

Oh God, no!

[The Doctor]

God can't help you now.

-Ralph

[Nigel]

Thank the Matrix for Youtube.

I have now caught up with the episodes I missed and shall now spend the rest of the evening catching up on the four I've taped.

Unfortunately, only one person had uploaded Home is Where the Spark is (straight from a DVD, complete with menu and copyright notice on screen throughout) and the second of three segments refused to play properly.

On the basis of Transform and Roll Out: I love this series! Best series since Robots In Disguise.

[Nigel]

GRRAAAAARRRRGHHHHH!!!

I forgot about it today.

And after spending several hours catching up yesterday.

[Nigel]

Just to keep people up to date, today's episode was #12 Survival of the Fittest.

[primenova]

Anyone know anywhere that have a listing up of what nicktoons are actual showing - ep4 today so

www.transformersanimated.com/transformers-showtimes.php

maybe correct - but they are not following it now they have got to ep 14. No ep 15 today.

[Hero]

What's chance of Nicktoons airing season 2 first?

===KEN

[Nigel]

Episode 5 today. Why loop the episodes if they're not going to do it properly. Surely they have the episodic versions of 1-3, not just the feature length edit?

I was out yesterday afternoon, so had to use the video's timer. It's messed up my recordings - I now have episodes 5-14, 4. Harrumph.

I wish they'd put an actual synopsis on the Guide, not just a generic description.

[legios]

Apr 7, 2008 8:21:05 GMT Hero said:

What's chance of Nicktoons airing season 2 first?

===KEN

Fairly slim if they are looping I would have thought. After all, what they are calling "Season Two" starts this weekend in the US according to what I have heard. (Which makes me doubt it really is a second season as such - running straight from one to the other without even a slight mid-season break doesn't seem much like separate seasons to me. Besides - sixteen episodes in TV season? Seems a little short, more like an inflated OAV run than a TV season.)

Karl

[Andy Turnbull]

Animated seasons are much shorter than traditional tv - more often than not 13 episodes a pop.

Andy

[legios]

Apr 7, 2008 19:45:27 GMT Andy Turnbull said:

Animated seasons are much shorter than traditional tv - more often than not 13 episodes a pop.

Andy

I'm showing my age now. I'm used to thinking of animated shows in terms of single seasons of twenty to thirty episodes, with a clip show or two lobbed in if you just can't make an air date. But then, I am a bit of an old fossil aren't I?

Karl

[Andy Turnbull]

Well I wouldn't quite say that but tv scheduling has moved on.

Andy

[The Doctor]

Yeah, it seemed odd that Beast Wars* season 1 was 26 episodes, while the following 4 seasons were 13 episodes apiece.

-Ralph

*Beast Wars/Beast Machines is arguably one 5-season show. Leave me alone.

[The Doctor]

Apr 7, 2008 20:27:30 GMT legios said:

Apr 7, 2008 19:45:27 GMT Andy Turnbull said:

Animated seasons are much shorter than traditional tv - more often than not 13 episodes a pop.

Andy

I'm showing my age now. I'm used to thinking of animated shows in terms of single seasons of twenty to thirty episodes, with a clip show or two lobbed in if you just can't make an air date.

Karl

Seems to still be a pattern on Japanese TV, IIRC.

-Ralph

[legios]

Apr 7, 2008 20:52:48 GMT The Doctor said:

Seems to still be a pattern on Japanese TV, IIRC.

-Ralph

Indeed. Even the expensive stuff ("Stand Alone Complex" for example) tends to run in the high twenties of episodes a season, with the cheaper end ("Pocket Monsters" et al running longer) With the odd outliers like Galaxy Force and Superlink of course, which were of absurdly mammoth size by any reckoning.

Karl

[chrismcfeely]

See, 13 episodes (and multiples thereof) is a season because if you show one new episode a week, that's 13 weeks, which is one quarter of a year, which is a season of the year (spring, summer, autumn, winter). 13 episodes is a pretty standard number in animation, and it was even back in the 80s. Take G1 - Season 1 is made up of a three-episode pilot miniseries, plus a full standard seaons worth of episodes made under different production codes. It's the same for Animated - three-episode movie, plus a standard 13 more, and Season 2's set for 13 more too.

Often, once you got your first thirteen out of the way, making multiples of 13 went out the window and 65 total episodes became the target, because that's the magic syndication number, allowing for one episode to be shown every WEEKDAY over a thirteen-week programming season (65=13x5). Again, take G1 - with 16 eps in the can, Season 2 is a very arbitrary-seeming 49, but it makes 65 in total. Some shows just plunged into this setup head-first - He-Man, Thundercats and MASK, to name three, that I can think of off the top of my head, just went ahead and produced 65 episodes out of the gate (and then He-Man and Thundercats made 65 more for their next season). Thing usually wind up this way... even something like Gummi Bears, which was annually renewed over six years with different numbers of episodes made each season, still wound up totalling 65 eps at the end of its run.

Multiples of 13 are often the case in anime, too - a LOT of shows go for 26. Galaxy Force, Energon and Armada are 52 eps (13x4). You don't see a lot of 39ers (13x3), but "Robots in Disguise" is one. Of course, things don't always last that long, but they usually come close to one of the numbers.

[Deleted]

Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors also had a single 65 episode season and I'm guessing quite a few other 80's extended toy adverts cartoons did as well.

[primenova]

The current TFA can't be classed has a toy ad - when the toys are not in the shops - but at least with them repeating from 4 onwards - I get to retape ep7,10 which had bad transmission.

[Nigel]

No.7 is today's.

Which reminds me, I missed no.9.

[primenova]

Megatron rising was good at 18:00 - 19:00 tonight.

[karla]

i'm never in from work on time to watch animated sadly, but i'll just wait for the dvds!

[The Doctor]

They usually go up on youtube. Also, on bit torrent sites.

I would not hold your breath for a full series DVD release. Same rights holder as for Energon and Cybertron and only a few episodes were released for each series.

IIRC the Anmated pilot movie is getting an R1 release.

-Ralph