But Summer Fridays was only a temporary block - in September, a new, completely different block took it's place.
But anyway...
September 5th, 2003. Out went Summer Fridays (and the CCF dynasty) and a new block, going under the name of Fridays was launched. Though this is not the Fridays I'm going to talk about.
This "Fridays" was known as "Cartoon Network's Fridays" and was a Summer Fridays without the word Summer. Have you a murky past?
Not much of this block is known to exist, The Fridays I'm going to talk about right now premiered on the 3rd of October and it was initially hosted by Tommy Snider and Nzinga Blake. The show commenced with a minute-long title sequence featuring tons of H-B and CN characters, most of them never got to see their own fifteen minutes of fame on the block itself:
Anyway...
This block was successful and was eventually exported to Australia in 2004, also introducing two local brands: the .com Pick from the CCF era and the Double Play. The Premiere Premiere brand was abolished.
Meanwhile in the USA, things were getting more and more nonsensical as the years progressed. It had tons of weird segments (like Whiskers, The Cast Who Can Name Fruit or Rev Chase). They made a contest in the show's dying month (January 2007) to see who could promote Re-Animated. No one knows who won.
And then Stuart Snyder came and decided to drop Fridays. The replacement only came around on August 31st. It was not the name of one block, but two blocks: one for Friday night comedy premieres and one for Saturday morning action shows. The names were Fried Dynamite (Fridays) and Dynamite Action Squad (Saturdays).
It did, however, run for a little over a full year (ending on September 26th, 2008). Into the Noods, and You Are Here is born. And, after nine years, it was a complete change of tack: action shows on Friday nights.
But You Are Here also marked another change of tack: comedy premieres on Thursdays (first as CN Thursday Nights, then as HAR HAR THARSDAYS) and later on Mondays and now on Thursdays again (I'm talking about AT, RS and TAWOGB as examples).
Fifteen years later and CN's Friday nights have had so many changes, currently they're not part of a block right now.
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