"Batman Beyond" is coming to Jetix in Sept. 2007
 

"In September 2007, Toon Disney's own Jetix will air Batman Beyond in the United States."

If Wikipedia is dependable for this article, I'm rather excited...

I dont believe this one bit.

I thought Cartoon Network had an exclusive on all DCAU productions in America... cable-wise, I mean.

Toon Disney... something they screwed up completely. Oh well, Darkwing, Tales Spin, and Ducktales are all on DVD, so I shouldn't care.

Though apparently they did air The Tick last year just before the DVD came out.

And they still are (airing The Tick); as well as alot of other good series.

Toon Disney still airs The Tick, or at least, they were a week ago. Though pretty late at night (during the Jetix block, no less).

They need to rerun X-Men and Spider-Man again. It's been a couple years since they last had those shows in rotation.

As for Batman Beyond, I own all the episodes on DVD, but I'll likely tune in if nothing else is on.

WANKERPEDIA?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

The whole series is on DVD what's the point? And only the first season was really GOOD all the way through.

Amen. Third season has it's highlights too, but the first is what Bruce and the team truley wanted for the series, and the rest is what the networks wanted

Well, "The Call" was pretty good. I also liked "Out of the Past" or whatever that ep was called where Bruce takes a dip in one of Ra's al Ghul's Lazarus pits.

But yeah, the first season OWNS. I especially liked the finale, "Ascension"



Pretty cool stuff. I own the first season on DVD and I want to eventually get the others...

Considering they had movies, Disney would be idiots not to, but then again, Disney feels that it should sink all it's money in a film exceedingly loosley based on a cartoon series no one under the age of 20 cares about.

The market for the 90's series are better suited for DVD. Jetix UK has reran Spidey to death here.

If the reran it here, it wouldn't be rerun enough. Their ratings would skyrocket.

They did rerun Spider-Man on Jettix awhile back. It was pretty short lived though.

Yes it was...I watched it at my grandmother's house every morning before I went to school...it was great!

I miss when they aired that an X-Men. that was so cool.

The only network I could see airing this is Boomerang and I would much rather see it there than toon disney. They actualy aired one of the movies...I wanna say it was last year. I was realy sad when they took Batman: TAS off boomerang. Im hoping that they will put both on hoping to gain ratings from the Hype surounding The Dark Knight.

Yeah, but will they finish putting them on DVD? Tale Spin Vol. 2 should have been out in August with Darkwing on Aug 7(unless they're going to release it with Ducktales in November.) I really don't want Disney to make the Gargolyes DVD mistake all over again and not release the complete series. That would really suck and make me hate Disney even more.

For people who enjoyed the series but didn't want to pay for full box sets of it.


Hey! I'm just glad they're releasing something besides The Sweet Life of That's So Hanna McGuire the High School Musical 2 Remix 3 over and over again. Besides, compaired to the crummy VHS releases, anything more than 8 episodes is an improvement.

Ha! Not even Jetix will air something as dark and DC as Batman Beyond.

Not to mention that Wikipedia reported that the Ninja Turtles would be airing on their station come July 4. It's August 6 and they haven't done a damn thing about it.

:lol: :lol:

I stand corrected. I just saw a commercial on toon disney for what apeared to be Batman:TAS and Superman:TAS. I guess they made a deal with DC. No news on beyond though.

Batman TAS AND Superman TAS?!

*head rolls off*

*picks it up*

*screws it back on*

Wow.

It might be those (as the ad is rather simple -- only having Superman breaking out of chains, and then Batman swishing his cape in a motion that has it end up looking like the picture in the Batman TAS logo).

I just saw the commercial too. I am looking forward to Superman. I dont remember much about the show.

I haven't watched JETIX in a while, I'm gonna have to look for the commercial.

Jetix? Don't believe I have that station, but I could be wrong...I have regular cable..and ya, i'm a little clueless, but I've been watching season one of Batman Beyond all week, and I also just went and bought the directors cut of return of the joker for ten bucks last week. If you can't tell, I'm going through a Batman Beyond streak:P Such a good show though.:)

Jetix is a block of action shows (mainly animated, with some live-action in the form of the various Power Rangers) that's on Toon Disney. Typically running from 7PM to 9AM weekdays, and 5PM to 9AM weekends [Eastern time].

In the UK, Jetix is an entire channel, right?

Dunno. I remember reading of CN having some Toonami station for a time over there, but hadn't read of there being a Disney's Jetix channel.

Cool as it is that some channel may end up rerunning these WB series, it really is sad that TOON DISNEY is no longer a channel that features 1. Toons only (Power Rangers is NOT an animated show:x put it back on Fox Family where it did pretty well before that channel decided it didn't want to have anything to do with good kids show) 2. nor much Disney (can we have a refuge for the American cartoons please and stay the @$#% away from anime?:x ).

It's just so sad to see what was once a great channel suck and for the stuff that doesn't suck (like Tick, X-Men, Spider-Man and the WB stuff) veer away from the channel's original purpose.

TOON DISNEY SHOULD BE A REFUGE FOR DISNEY ANIMATED SHOWS ONLY! There are more than enough of them to create an entire network schedule around that alone, and since Disney owns the rights to all of them already they should be even cheaper to air than even cheap imported anime.

Sorry for the rant, but the current state of Toon Disney and the Disney Channel (since they dropped Vault Disney) have really become a sore point of mine. And where else can one vent if not a message board.;) So no offense is intended, I just needed to blow off some steam.

hmmm....uhhhh...:fshifty: F--- Disney....just felt like venting with you. I hate what disney has turned into...hate it.:flaming:

Toon Disney is still a billion times better than The Disney Channel.

Power Rangers is a live-action cartoon. Its classified as such, and such an art form DOES happen to exist.

Its not going anywhere. In fact, Disney are thinking of making PR animated anyway because the producers have blown the budget to sustain it.

And yes, we do have an individual Jetix channel

I stand corrected then. I guess there must be some CGI that makes it a live action/animated combo. I always thought it was just rubber suits and model shots for the Megazords and stuff. I never watched much PR, so you know more than I do. But PR is STILL not a Disney show.

How can they be out of money though? I thought part of the appeal of PR was that it used a lot of cheap Japanese footage to save on the budget. Heck, I thought the reason why the Fox went nuts for it back it the day and it produced all those bad clone shows was because it was a reletively cheap show to produce. Plus hiring a bunch of unknowns as your stars every year must help keep cast salaries down. It a shame to think that one of the longest running kids action shows may not be around anymore, at least in its current live action/animated combo format. How is making a fully animated version considered cheaper than using stock footage from Japan?!? You've got me curious now. So what's the scoop? You're obviously a big fan of PR, what do you think of the changes coming for the show?

Disney bought the rights to produce and distribute the series during Time Force, and every season straight to OO is theirs by right, they pay for the filming, they even set up "Ranger Productions" to take over from Village Roadshow in New Zeland. It's theirs.

PR has'nt always depended on Japanese footage, they started shooting original fight scenes in the States during the second season to give it its own identity (and to keep it consistent with the reusing of the Zyuranger uniforms whilst fighting Dairanger monsters), they kept the Zord fights of course (though they also began shooting original US produced fights for them also sometimes), this led to more original seasons such as the superb "Power Rangers In Space" and "Power Rangers Lost Galaxy" when the Sentai source material proved impossible to really make a good show out of (the shows they used the monster fights for IS and LG were based on video game and nature concepts)

All of this was done fairly cheap though, and PR never faced a fisical crisis until 2005, when Bruce Kalish and Koichi Sokamoto became the executive producers. The two began making the fight scenes impossibly overdramatic, adding far too much wire-fu stunts and explosions (oh GOD, those f*cking explosions) to as many episodes as they could throw them into. The result? PR's episode count was cut down to thirty two, and it forced Mystic Force to look a heck of a lot less expensive in contrast to SPD.

OO has seen an improvment in the budget, but due to the anniversary crossover signing up an S.A.G actor in Johhny Young Bosch, MORE explosions, original monster suits in Thrax's case, and other things, the season went over the budget AGAIN

Those of you who have seen the commercial--when did you see it? I haven't been able to find it yet. Was there a certain show that was on when you saw the advertisement?

The Superman/Batman ad, I take it you mean. I've seen it a few times in the 7:30AM half-hour (during Jackie Chan Adventures). But likely is on at other times, too.

So that explains it. The last season I really watched part of was Time Force, so I've been out of the loop lately on PR. I thought Disney had only gained distribution rights, I didn't know they paid for the filming too. Thanks for clearing that up.:)

It's too bad the show has been experiencing such budget problems. And while as you said things are a little better it doesn't sound like they will be imporving much. Such a shame to see such once strong franchise suffering. I've never really been a fan of PR per se, but I've always been able to apreciate it's legacy, I even got to audition for the show once. That was a fun experience.

As to get back on topic to Batman Beyond, I hope they do get to air it on Toon Disney for those who haven't seen it yet. I just wish Disney would show more of their older toons too.