As Dreamers Do Part Deux

Ghibli agrees to an extension with Touchstone Pictures.
- The Hollywood Reporter
Yes.
Peacock acquires the multimedia rights previously held by Disney for the Dick Tracy franchise. Peacock's RKO division previously adapted the Chester Gould comic strip to film during the 1940's, including the movie serials with Ralph Byrd playing the titular role. Disney released their version in 1990 under the Fox label with Warren Beatty directing and starring as the title character. However, Disney's version was overshadowed by the Turtle and Simpson pandemonium of the time. The Dick Tracy Crimestoppers attraction at Disney-Fox Studios Theme Park will close in 2007 and be replaced with a new attraction by 2010.
- Variety
That's another blooming IP that NBC can use for their Saturday Morning prospects.
In politics
President Weinstein is inaugurated for his second term.
- The Washington Post
Good.
Here's a Run-Off poll for the new home for Alvin and the Chipmunks.
https://forms.gle/tet13fq82taMSCKTA
Voted.
 
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Here's how the WLAF will be realigned for 2006...

Pacific Conference
Coastal

Los Angeles Avengers
Oakland Condors
Portland Breakers
Spokane Steelheads
Vancouver Orcas

Frontier
Arizona Wranglers
Mexico City Luchadores
Oklahoma Outlaws
Rocky Mountain Extreme
San Antonio Texans

Atlantic Conference
Seaboard Division

Baltimore Ravens
Hartford Knights
Orlando Thunder
Philadelphia Stars
Toronto Huskies

Central
Birmingham Maulers
Chicago Blitz
Kentucky Stingers
Memphis Pharaohs
St. Louis Stallions

European Conference
Capitol or Metro

Berlin
Frankfurt Galaxy
Rhein Fire
Rome Centurions
Stockholm Kraken

Capitol or Metro
Amsterdam Admirals
Barcelona Dragons
London Monarchs
Paris Phantoms
Scottish Claymores

European Conference (Alternate alignment)
Division A

Amsterdam
Berlin
Frankfurt
Rhein
Stockholm

Division B
Barcelona
London
Paris
Rome
Scotland

Name ideas for Berlin: Zeppelins, Brewers, Trolls, Gatekeepers, Towers, Ogres, Goblins
 
@WB18 @TheMatthew25 @stratonapba

Here's how the WLAF will be realigned for 2006...

Pacific Conference
Coastal

Los Angeles Avengers
Oakland Condors
Portland Breakers
Spokane Steelheads
Vancouver Orcas

Frontier
Arizona Wranglers
Mexico City Luchadores
Oklahoma Outlaws
Rocky Mountain Extreme
San Antonio Texans

Atlantic Conference
Seaboard Division

Baltimore Ravens
Hartford Knights
Orlando Thunder
Philadelphia Stars
Toronto Huskies

Central
Birmingham Maulers
Chicago Blitz
Kentucky Stingers
Memphis Pharaohs
St. Louis Stallions

European Conference
Capitol or Metro

Berlin
Frankfurt Galaxy
Rhein Fire
Rome Centurions
Stockholm Kraken

Capitol or Metro
Amsterdam Admirals
Barcelona Dragons
London Monarchs
Paris Phantoms
Scottish Claymores

European Conference (Alternate alignment)
Division A

Amsterdam
Berlin
Frankfurt
Rhein
Stockholm

Division B
Barcelona
London
Paris
Rome
Scotland

Name ideas for Berlin: Zeppelins, Brewers, Trolls, Gatekeepers, Towers, Ogres, Goblins
Looks pretty good! For Berlin’s name, I’d go the IOTL Toronto Raptors route and pick Ogres considering the success of Shrek.
 
Ok. How is Toonami doing at this point?
Doing okay, but they still license stuff from other studios to fill timeslots. Right now, New Line is still licensing the syndication rights for Sailor Moon to Toonami. But there’s a catch; the syndication prints of SM are heavily edited for the 7 year old girl demographic.
Well, at least ATHF can keep the lights on at that block.
True. But Robot Chicken should be debuting in the new year.
 
Doing okay, but they still license stuff from other studios to fill timeslots. Right now, New Line is still licensing the syndication rights for Sailor Moon to Toonami. But there’s a catch; the syndication prints of SM are heavily edited for the 7 year old girl demographic.
Ok. Has the block moved to Saturday nights like OTL, or is it on both Weekday Afternoons and Saturday Nights?
True. But Robot Chicken should be debuting in the new year.
Also, Toonami has licensed Digimon from Fox.
Great!!
 
Not sure what that is.
IOTL, SVES was a short-lived Saturday night action block that ran on Cartoon Network from March 1st, 2003 until April 10th, 2004. It was CN's experiment with airing Saturday night primetime action premieres after the success of 2002's Adult Swim Action(AcTN) launch and the fact they quite literally started it with reruns of Samurai Jack, Justice League, Transformers: Armada and He-Man and the Masters of the Universe.

The block was successful, so that, and the fact they didn't want older audiences watching the network during the day anymore, is why they moved Toonami to Saturday nights and then eventually canned altogether only to be brought back on Adult Swim by 2012.

Here is a video and a article about it:

And just for fun, the TV Tropes page for it:

The block was for all ages, hence why you'd see Pikachu, Yugi, Jackie Chan, He-Man, The Transformers, the Teen Titans and other characters like those in the earlier hours while the stuff people actually cared about like the Justice League, Gundam, Zoids, the Z Fighters and the like later at night for older audiences.

Kinda a shame they didn't at least air The Big O and Inuyasha, nor picked up something interesting like Angelic Layer, Dai-Guard and other stuff just for the block(and later Toonami) IOTL.....

SVES was replaced with Toonami, while Toonami itself was replaced with Miguzi.
 
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