Insider here, I’m sick of it all. In roughly 6 months, me and most of the rest of the staff is going to be unemployed so I have no desire to keep secrets.
I’m sure you all know Joe, Debras and a bunch of other shit has been cancelled. Well guess what? It’s ALL cancelled. Tuca and Bertie, Birdgirl, Eric Andre, Robot Chicken, it’s all done. Discovery canned everything. The only courtesy given was any series in progress could finish its current season. That’s why you saw stuff like 3BD pushed hard then canned. The one outlier is Rick and Morty because they have so many episodes on their contract. But it’s not an issue since they have deals with other services that may end up with the show in the event Discovery cans it when the contract finishes.
The plans for AS are pretty bleak. It’s going to pretty much just be fox reruns 7 days a week on autopilot. As it is now, the network is already mostly on autopilot mode.
Toonami is going to stick around until Ninja Kamui airs next summer. It’s not going to get any new content though besides Attack on Titan next year since we already have that contract. We bought 150 episodes of One Piece in January, so that’s staying till we get through those. Naruto on the other hand, we had been buying in batches of 60 every year. We won’t be able to again, which means Naruto will abruptly end next year. We had this years 60 + about 40 backlog episodes from prior years purchases. I don’t know exactly what episode it’s going to end on but it won’t be the last one.
Yashahime was a deal we started back in February, we actually intended for it to air way back in March but Viz was being obtuse about it which is why we are just starting it now. In a way it’s a blessing, it makes it look like the block got something, but don’t be fooled, Discovery put an end to us buying shows almost immediately and the odds of them letting it happen again are basically zero.
Now I’m going back to my job hunt.
