Geez, for a show that was recently canceled there is sure a lot of news about it. First, we heard that King of the Hill was being canceled by FOX at the end of this season (though it will probably remain on the schedule through 2010 because of long-term production of episodes). Then, the lovely and talented Bob Sassone reported that the show could be picked up by ABC, who seems to be in the market for other network programs as of late. Now comes word that repeats (is that term now taboo?) of the Mike Judge series will be heading to Adult Swim's lineup.
That's right. Cartoon Network's older brother will be picking up the 11-year-old program, making it the next-to-last FOX animated series to air on its program schedule (The Simpsons would be the last, and I have no idea if it will ever make it to Adult Swim).
Starting in January 2009 Hill will anchor the nightly programming schedule as it moves to a 10:00 p.m. start time seven days a week. It will join repeats of Family Guy, which has been a staple of Adult Swim for many years, as well as American Dad.
You do know what this means, don't you? Futurama came back after repeats of the series aired on Adult Swim. So did Family Guy. If the same luck shines on King of the Hill then you can look for it to have a very long first-run life on another network or in DVD's.
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11-05-2008 @ 1:41PM
Rocketboy said...
If this an exclusive deal, then Boo. If not, yippie!
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11-05-2008 @ 3:24PM
CRVBOY said...
Adult Swim is not a big brother of Cartoon Network. Adult Swim airs on Cartoon Network. It's one of their programming blocks. So if anything, Cartoon Network is the father of Adult Swim.
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11-05-2008 @ 4:08PM
RobynM said...
I think he meant "older brother" in the sense of the intended demographic as opposed to station age.
Yes, CN is the parent of AS. However, Adult Swim is its own channel and not a CN programming block. Turner split them back in '05 so they'd have separate ratings.
11-05-2008 @ 4:41PM
Ian said...
That boy ain't right. Woohoo!
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11-05-2008 @ 8:15PM
Jim said...
YAY!!!! Great show! While I would have understood if it had ended, after such a long run, there's a lot of life in the show and I'm definitely not over the Hills!
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11-06-2008 @ 9:25AM
jpier said...
this is awesome, i was hoping adult swim would pick it up. hopefully it gets saved like family guy and futurama. king of the hill is a very under rated show.
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