People may not like David Zaslav right now given that he has slashed a whole bunch of animation and has allowed a new Batman animated series to be shopped elsewhere other than the WarnerMedia-owned HBO MAX, but the one type of people who may come to love the longtime exec is cable execs. Why? Because, David still believes in cable television ratings whole-heartedly, especially when it’s prime-time and late-night because that’s where most of the Discovery catalog makes its bread. So, for fans of Adult Swim, you should be alright for a while. Yes, the budgets will shrink a bit, but with a network that has always prided itself on quarter-hour victories anyway, network viewers should be hopeful about the future.
Enter Adult Swim’s much maligned Toonami late-night action toon block, at one point the only way to get English dubbed anime, nowadays a relic in the face of streamers that are increasingly ordering international productions on a scale that Adult Swim will probably never touch again. That said, that doesn’t mean the block is giving up just yet. In a new fan Q&A, VP Jason DeMarco notes that while working with Sony’s Crunchyroll will probably continue to be an ugly divorce which has already seen the likes of Fena: Pirate Princess not get ordered for a second season, fans of Toonami can still look forward to two unannounced projects that are currently on the way for the late-night block.
In the meantime, Housing Complex C is slated for an October 1st start date on Toonami while Uzumaki is still in production for a 2023 bow.