- KidsWB start showing Astro (out of order, but thats nothing i wouldn't expect from them) then cancel it.
- Cartoon Network US now start showing Astro and do a much better job (as expected!
then cancel it.- Cartoon Network Australia start showing Astro, the show is set in the TV Guide for the whole month and they have a competition that seems thoroughly planned out and all set up on their website. The mini-site for Astro on their website lists the first 5 episodes to be shown this week.
Come today they skip the Robot Farm episode and go to the next, Atlas episode. At the end it says 'to be continued' before the credits (was this in the CN US and KidsWB dub anyway?) and then has an ad spot saying that next Friday some other show will be on. The competition data for today was not given at the end of the tv program and the link ad on the front page to the comp page was removed.
I gather from all that that CN Australia have postponed Astro too. In which case i understand why they skipped Robot Farm and went to Atlas. It has a better cliffhanger so if they need to have a break from Astro for awhile thats more likely to keep people hanging on.
Now the reason? KidsWB are pretty odd so lets just discount them for the moment. Cartoon Network Australia are very reliable so they would only have postponed it for a valid reason. This could be:
- Because if we keep showing episodes we'll get ahead of the US and people might have a row about that
- Because maybe they want free-to-air to catch up and get ahead of cable (unlikely because ABC are showing one ep a week)
- Because there was some order from higher up
Obviously it is point 1 or 3. Given the fact that Cartoon Network US were showing it pretty fine until a sudden stop i'm under the impression that it could be my third reason. Which makes me wonder about the thread saying KidsWB will be showing Astro again and exactly how far in the future that is.
Now the order from higher up could be:
- Problems with licencing and the showing of Atom was asked to stop
- It's not too much of a leap to say that Tezuka Productions aren't very happy about what Sony have done with the US dub, considering that when they looked at the script for the new Astro movie they found it to be full of errors and so told them to rewrite the whole thing (which is why its taking so long). Maybe it's too much wishful thinking but if it is a problem as such it may get re-dubbed ^^
Well these are just a few ideas i have thought of. Considering how important Astro is to Tezuka Productions i can see how they would be pissed off with the new dubb and maybe that might halt up some things and cause licensing issues. Howvere i am certain there is a bigger cause behind all these cancellations/postponings.
Is the English dubb currently showing anywhere now then?
See ... i told you about #5 Robot farm... Now why is it, do you think they pulled that? Well we have it here ,Fan/Sub... But we have it.... And we will show it again anyway. And if Anapan can come up with Neon Express fan/Sub or dub, we will show that too. Atlas is a two part episode.
.... Well we will see them!!!! 
