And now here's the 2018 breakdown on how often each show aired. Half hours are the measurement for this, 0.5 being a 11-minute segment and 0.33 being a 7-minute segment.
Same sources as 2007-14 and 2017.
2018:
Originals by Cartoon Network:
This year was when AT&T officially merged with Time Warner after 2 years of trying. It didn’t impact the channel yet, but we’ll see later on the consequences.
For programming blocks, the Saturday Morning action block was pretty much dead at this point. Comedy shows would return to a revived Monday Nights in February 2018. Initially alternating with NEW NEW NEW NEW for premieres, Monday Nights eventually became the home for comedy premieres again for the first time since 2014.
Bomb format is still used, but now they would have a habit of airing several episodes in an hour long block such as with the final regular episodes of Adventure Time and the final episodes of Clarence.
Episodes still got released early on the app for their shows.
This was the first year where none of the classic cartoons were aired on the channel.
For acquired shows, it’s pretty much sinking at this point with all of them only airing when premiering new episodes. While Ninjago at least had a decent primetime slot and advertising with a marathon on August 25 (for the first time since 2015), Transformers Cybertron and Mega Man Fully Charged were dumped on early weekend mornings with no promotion. Total DramaRama on the other hand was promoted a lot and given a good Saturday morning time slot at 9 AM. I guess that the 11-minute comedy nature of that show made it more favorable for the network at this point compared to the half hour reality show format. Total Drama’s first season would make a return in November to tie in with DramaRama, airing for the first time since 2014. They would make one final try at anime with Bakugan Battle Planet and gave it some advertising for the premiere, but that got sent to weekdays at 7 AM for premieres after the first episode.
For Warner Bros original outside Teen Titans Go, Unikitty would be treated well and become the most aired outside the top 2. Teen Titans still continued until leaving in the summer. Justice League Action’s final episodes were burned off at 6:15 AM for a week-long bomb before leaving for good. Bunnicula returned briefly in October for the Halloween season. Wacky Races 2017 and Dorothy & the Wizard of Oz air briefly to promote the Boomerang app, which was trying to gain original content from Warner Bros at this time.
For the CN originals outside of Gumball, things are getting a bit better than 2017, but also two steps back.
Craig of the Creek premieres and ends up becoming a favorite, arguably being one of the last well-treated shows to premiere as of now.
Summer Camp Island also premiered. In an attempt to imitate Netflix, the first half of season 1 would premiere in one day on July 7. Initially having a good rerun schedule, it got removed after summer ended (guessing they wanted a summer camp show only airing in summer).
Apple & Onion premiered as well, initially as a 10 episode limited series and was treated well until being removed in summer.
We Bare Bears is still surprisingly persisting even with what’s been happening during its run.
Ben 10 2017 is a bit more downplayed, but still doing okay and still well advertised.
Steven Universe was well advertised and even returned to weekly premieres for the most part this year (though hiatuses were still a problem due to having to stretch out the final season). However, reruns dried up with the only ones usually being at 6 AM for 15-minute time slots. This did show it was losing steam near the end.
OK KO started off well this year, but began to take a hit after season 1 ended with reruns getting less. It got worse after summer when reruns were removed entirely. Premiere time slots were shuffled in season 2. It initially moved to Saturday mornings. After Monster Party, they pretty much stopped advertising the show and moved it to Sunday afternoons at 4:30 or 4:45 PM, proving they gave up on that show.
The Powerpuff Girls 2016 got zero advertisement this year, still burning off episodes on Sunday afternoons at 4 PM. Surprised it even got a third season at this point.
Mighty Magiswords also got zero advertisement for the episodes premiered this year. The final episodes of season 1 premiered on Sunday nights. It got even worse when season 2 began, premiering at 6:15 AM on weekdays. Reruns were also nonexistent too.
Clarence would air its final episodes this year. While initially starting off on the wrong foot with reruns being gone after January and the final episodes already airing in other countries before America, it made a surprising comeback in June where it did get a well promoted crossover marathon with Craig of the Creek (the newest slice of life show) every Sunday to give some actual hype for the series finale. While it left after the series finale aired, it was at least given good advertising.
Adventure Time would begin to see an interesting reversal of how it was treated the last 2 years. Reruns would briefly return on weekday afternoons in January. While initially removed and going back to only airing when premiering its last regular episodes on March 18, luck began to turn around. In summer, reruns returned on Saturday afternoons and later weekday afternoons. And they finally began advertising the show for the first time in two years with the Minecraft special and the series finale getting a lot of advertising. Labor Day would even give Adventure Time a marathon to hype up the series finale. While the show was removed by October, at least it managed to end off strong.
For reruns of ended shows, Regular Show briefly returned in October to air Halloween episodes.
2018 was a small improvement and did better at advertising and giving the shows proper send offs with Adventure Time and Clarence instead of drowning their finales out with Teen Titans Go marathons like 2017 did with Regular Show and Uncle Grandpa. However, it’s still the same old Teen Titans Go and Gumball spamming and other shows struggling to breathe that’s been happening since 2015.
Same sources as 2007-14 and 2017.
2018:
Originals by Cartoon Network:
- The Amazing World of Gumball: 3071
- Craig of the Creek: 489
- We Bare Bears: 462.5
- Ben 10 2017: 299.5
- OK KO Let’s Be Heroes: 251.5
- Summer Camp Island: 146
- Adventure Time: 130.5
- Apple & Onion: 81.5
- Clarence: 78
- Steven Universe: 76.5
- The Powerpuff Girls 2016: 20
- Mighty Magiswords: 13
- Regular Show: 4
- Teen Titans Go: 3742
- Unikitty: 556
- Teen Titans: 150
- Bunnicula: 18
- Wacky Races 2017: 10
- Justice League Action: 3
- Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz: 1
- Total DramaRama: 308.5
- Ninjago Masters of Spinjitsu: 27
- Total Drama: 24
- Mega Man Fully Charged: 10
- Transformers Cyberverse: 9
- Bakugan Battle Planet: 8
- Teen Titans Go
- The Amazing World of Gumball
- Unikitty
- Craig of the Creek
- We Bare Bears
This year was when AT&T officially merged with Time Warner after 2 years of trying. It didn’t impact the channel yet, but we’ll see later on the consequences.
For programming blocks, the Saturday Morning action block was pretty much dead at this point. Comedy shows would return to a revived Monday Nights in February 2018. Initially alternating with NEW NEW NEW NEW for premieres, Monday Nights eventually became the home for comedy premieres again for the first time since 2014.
Bomb format is still used, but now they would have a habit of airing several episodes in an hour long block such as with the final regular episodes of Adventure Time and the final episodes of Clarence.
Episodes still got released early on the app for their shows.
This was the first year where none of the classic cartoons were aired on the channel.
For acquired shows, it’s pretty much sinking at this point with all of them only airing when premiering new episodes. While Ninjago at least had a decent primetime slot and advertising with a marathon on August 25 (for the first time since 2015), Transformers Cybertron and Mega Man Fully Charged were dumped on early weekend mornings with no promotion. Total DramaRama on the other hand was promoted a lot and given a good Saturday morning time slot at 9 AM. I guess that the 11-minute comedy nature of that show made it more favorable for the network at this point compared to the half hour reality show format. Total Drama’s first season would make a return in November to tie in with DramaRama, airing for the first time since 2014. They would make one final try at anime with Bakugan Battle Planet and gave it some advertising for the premiere, but that got sent to weekdays at 7 AM for premieres after the first episode.
For Warner Bros original outside Teen Titans Go, Unikitty would be treated well and become the most aired outside the top 2. Teen Titans still continued until leaving in the summer. Justice League Action’s final episodes were burned off at 6:15 AM for a week-long bomb before leaving for good. Bunnicula returned briefly in October for the Halloween season. Wacky Races 2017 and Dorothy & the Wizard of Oz air briefly to promote the Boomerang app, which was trying to gain original content from Warner Bros at this time.
For the CN originals outside of Gumball, things are getting a bit better than 2017, but also two steps back.
Craig of the Creek premieres and ends up becoming a favorite, arguably being one of the last well-treated shows to premiere as of now.
Summer Camp Island also premiered. In an attempt to imitate Netflix, the first half of season 1 would premiere in one day on July 7. Initially having a good rerun schedule, it got removed after summer ended (guessing they wanted a summer camp show only airing in summer).
Apple & Onion premiered as well, initially as a 10 episode limited series and was treated well until being removed in summer.
We Bare Bears is still surprisingly persisting even with what’s been happening during its run.
Ben 10 2017 is a bit more downplayed, but still doing okay and still well advertised.
Steven Universe was well advertised and even returned to weekly premieres for the most part this year (though hiatuses were still a problem due to having to stretch out the final season). However, reruns dried up with the only ones usually being at 6 AM for 15-minute time slots. This did show it was losing steam near the end.
OK KO started off well this year, but began to take a hit after season 1 ended with reruns getting less. It got worse after summer when reruns were removed entirely. Premiere time slots were shuffled in season 2. It initially moved to Saturday mornings. After Monster Party, they pretty much stopped advertising the show and moved it to Sunday afternoons at 4:30 or 4:45 PM, proving they gave up on that show.
The Powerpuff Girls 2016 got zero advertisement this year, still burning off episodes on Sunday afternoons at 4 PM. Surprised it even got a third season at this point.
Mighty Magiswords also got zero advertisement for the episodes premiered this year. The final episodes of season 1 premiered on Sunday nights. It got even worse when season 2 began, premiering at 6:15 AM on weekdays. Reruns were also nonexistent too.
Clarence would air its final episodes this year. While initially starting off on the wrong foot with reruns being gone after January and the final episodes already airing in other countries before America, it made a surprising comeback in June where it did get a well promoted crossover marathon with Craig of the Creek (the newest slice of life show) every Sunday to give some actual hype for the series finale. While it left after the series finale aired, it was at least given good advertising.
Adventure Time would begin to see an interesting reversal of how it was treated the last 2 years. Reruns would briefly return on weekday afternoons in January. While initially removed and going back to only airing when premiering its last regular episodes on March 18, luck began to turn around. In summer, reruns returned on Saturday afternoons and later weekday afternoons. And they finally began advertising the show for the first time in two years with the Minecraft special and the series finale getting a lot of advertising. Labor Day would even give Adventure Time a marathon to hype up the series finale. While the show was removed by October, at least it managed to end off strong.
For reruns of ended shows, Regular Show briefly returned in October to air Halloween episodes.
2018 was a small improvement and did better at advertising and giving the shows proper send offs with Adventure Time and Clarence instead of drowning their finales out with Teen Titans Go marathons like 2017 did with Regular Show and Uncle Grandpa. However, it’s still the same old Teen Titans Go and Gumball spamming and other shows struggling to breathe that’s been happening since 2015.