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I just stumbled across The Mainstream Business of Adult Animation, which is an interesting article by Sean Maclennan Murch about the business of adult animation back in 1998.
In this article Sean Maclennan Murch says that in 1998 broadcasters were looking to replace their children's animated programming blocks with adult animation programming because their children's animation block's couldn't compete with the animation programming provided by specialty youth and children's channels.
So now it's thirteen years later and I'd have to say that while Sean was right that many networks experimented with adult animation programming, after his article, very few were actually successful in making the jump and many adult animation shows were cancelled.
The most notable exception to this rule is the Adult Swim programming block of the Comedy Network which is still the shining start of Adult Animation programming today.
Anyway, if you're interested in reading what the atmosphere for Adult Animation programming was like 1998 check out Sean Maclennan Murch's article.
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