Board Thread:Young Justice News/@comment-47881-20130130004132/@comment-1895174-20130130045442

I'm going to say no to this, and yes to something similar.

Appealing to Cartoon Network is useless at this point. They've wanted to cancel Young Justice for a long time now, and a massive letter-writing campaign from the show's fanbase to get the show back isn't going to work. Especially after similar efforts didn't work when the network pulled DC Nation back in October. If you want to write Cartoon Network, by all means do so. But it's a fruitless endeavor.

What we should be doing is writing to the network Cartoon Network has to give up airtime to - [adult swim]. If there's two things [adult swim] should be known for, it's these : Concerning the former - When you talk about [adult swim], you have to bring up what they did for Family Guy and Futurama. The former, once a show discarded by FOX, found so much success on [adult swim] that the network that cancelled it renewed it years later, and is now one of the highest rated shows on the network. While it's easy to just think of their biggest successes, you also have to remember the number of shows they revived and kept in-house. Home Movies and The Big O were both completely abandoned before they found a new home on [adult swim].
 * 1) Picking up and reviving dead and discarded shows from other networks
 * 2) Getting incredible ratings during timeslots not known for doing that

Concerning the latter - Well, think about Family Guy again. [adult swim] 's Family Guy reruns that air at 11:00 and 11:30 PM get around 3+ Million viewers per night. That's not just good for a cable network, but those are numbers some of the major networks would like. Never mind that it's the best ratings outside the Primetime slots. Meanwhile, Children's Hospital premieres at midnight Thursday (technically Friday, but you get the point) are getting over 1 million views.

Those two reasons are exactly why [adult swim] needs to pick up Young Justice. Look at what they did to the Thundercats reboot. Cartoon Network cancelled it earlier last year for similar reasons they're cancelling Young Justice now, and...well, I'll let the numbers speak for themselves.

Seriously, look at those numbers.

Look at them again.

Do you realize what's so incredible about that? Those numbers are coming from Saturday night (well, technically Sunday morning, but you get the point) from 12 to 5AM. Thundercats is getting 1+ Million viewers at a time universally considered to be dead air.

If Family Guy reruns getting 3 Million at 11PM on a a weekday is good, if Childrens Hospital premieres getting 1 Million at midnight on a Thursday is incredible, Thundercats getting over 1 Million at that time is nothing short of a miracle. Heck, even the 5:30 AM InuYasha got over 600,000 viewers. And this is how it's been since [adult swim] rebranded its Saturday night Anime lineup as "Toonami". Prior to that, they were lucky to get over 500,000 for any broadcast.

With these numbers, expect Toonami to grow into the pre-midnight timeslots. And as they do, they're going to need more programming. Actually, they already need to be actively looking for that since they like to pull shows after they play them through once, and Samurai 7 only has two episodes left. [adult swim] is actively searching for new shows to put in their surprisingly successful Toonami block. And what better to plug in then two prematurely cancelled DC Nation shows?