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Cartoon Network's Adult Swim shows hooking ratings
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Cartoon Network's Adult Swim shows hooking ratings
Late-night television has long been dominated by guys in suits:
Jay Leno, David Letterman, Ted Koppel and, more recently, Jon Stewart
of "The Daily Show."
Now that dominance is being challenged by human-sized food
products, easily distracted workers in an underwater laboratory and
superheroes who moonlight as attorneys or talk-show hosts.
And they're cartoons.
Such is the odd success of Adult Swim, a programming blo...
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Cartoon Network's Adult Swim shows hooking ratings
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; Cartoon Network's Adult Swim shows hooking ratings Late-night television has long been dominated by guys in suits: Jay Leno, David Letterman, Ted Koppel and, more recently, Jon Stewart of "The Daily Show." Now that dominance is being challenged by human-sized food products, easily distracted
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ADULT SWIM MAKES A SPLASH CARTOON NETWORK LURES VIEWERS WITH AN EDGY LINEUP
The Boston Globe
; ... toys and a stop-motion animation format to parody everything from the Teletubbies (smoking marijuana) to the intelligence of TV news reporters (a panda bites the head off a reporter after he stands inside the bear's cage to report a story). "We're just a bunch ...
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Overmarketed to all their lives, Adult Swim fans know when to laugh.(People & Players)
Advertising Age
; Byline: DAN LIPPE It's midnight. You're a young adult insomniac looking for something to watch on TV. How about Pee-wee's Playhouse That's probably a no-brainer if you're 30-something Josh Feldman. Earlier this summer he was promoted to VP-ad sales and marketing at Adult Swim. The late-night
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Cartoon Network expands adult animation
Daily Breeze
; SCRIPPS HOWARD NEWS SERVICE In 2003 Cartoon Network is growing up and moving out. Its "Adult Swim" animation block _ the late-night weekend programming ...
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Cartoon dives into 5-night 'Swim'.(Cartoon Network's Adult Swim)
Multichannel News
; Cartoon Network's late-night adult franchise will dive into new nights next year, boosted by the cable syndication debut of Futurama. Beginning Jan. 12, Adult Swim will become a five-night block, up from its current Saturday and Sunday showings. The block will run Sunday through Thursdays, from 11
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Ha ha ha ha--huh?(Cartoon Network attracting a mature audience with its 'Adult Swim' programming)
U.S. News & World Report
; In the mid-1990s, a pair of restless 20-somethings working in the Cartoon Network's video library took to watching long-forgotten cartoons with the volume turned down. The challenge of thinking up new dialogue for the old animation helped pass the time. The fact that we couldn't change any of the
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Adult Swim adds Saturday block.(Upfronts)(22 new episodes of the once-cancelled series Family Guy)
Multichannel News
; NEW YORK -- Cartoon Network's Adult Swim block is expanding to Saturday nights, adding several new shows and commissioning at least 22 new episodes of the once-cancelled series Family Guy. Adult Swim, a late-night block that targets grown-ups, will run six nights a week when it expands to
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 "Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)")
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A SUBVERSIVE SPLASH CARTOON NETWORK'S `ADULT SWIM' HAS SUCCEEDED BY PUTTING NO LIMITS ON CREATIVE LICENSE.(U)
Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
; Byline: David Kronke TV Writer Consider any network or studio executive in Los Angeles receiving the pitch for an animated series called ``Aqua Teen Hunger Force The pitch: In suburban New Jersey, there lives a goateed package of french fries who dabbles in science, a sociopathic milkshake cup and
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 "Macon Telegraph (Macon, GA)")
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Adult Swim gets heavy with 'Metalocalypse'.
Macon Telegraph (Macon, GA)
; ... macontel.com [mailto:mlarge@macontel.com] Copyright (c) 2006, The Macon Telegraph, Ga. Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Business News. For reprints, email tmsreprints@permissionsgroup.com, call 800-374-7985 or 847-635-6550, send a fax to 847-635-6968, or write ...
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MAJOR TOON UP.(Adult Swim (Television Program) )(Television Program Review)
American Demographics
; Byline: Matthew Grimm The Aqua Teens discover a monster named Willie Nelson living in their attic. But it's kind of a lame, slacker monster, only slightly miffed that the Aqua Teens have been tossing his mail. It's Halloween so they try to help him be scarier, in vain. Dejected, Willie goes back
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