Cartoon World Portugal may be on death row.
The main reason behind this is the fateful Canal Panda rebrand. I will stop covering news from this channel because it isn't worth watching anymore.
segunda-feira, 6 de julho de 2015
terça-feira, 12 de maio de 2015
Me, Myself and Phineas: a long essay on what was once the best animated series ever
Last Thursday, when I came home from school, I was confronted with news that shocked me: Phineas and Ferb was finally cancelled.
I received the news with mixed results, which will be explained later.
Anyway, Phineas and Ferb premiered on all Disney Channels in 2008. I didn't know about the show at the time, partly because I didn't have access to Disney Channel at the time.
I did not know what it was until, if memory serves, 2009.
I was channel surfing and landed on Disney Channel. Phineas and Ferb was on, but I catched a B-plot. Don't know what episode it was. It was in the middle of the summer.
I wanted to check more info on it on the internet, but it was still unconvincing to my person.
Then during fall, I catched some episodes by off-chance. It still did not convince me.
In late 2009, we had clocks to make as a project. My project was a musical clock that played a recording of the Portuguese version of Gitchee Gitchee Goo. It never went forward.
In 2010, I kept watching episodes as an off-chance. On Easter Sunday I watched the airplane episode, but that show did not convince me. By November, I caught a repeat of the second half of Summer Belongs to You!, and it was still background noise to me.
Anyway, April 2011 and my TV viewing was primarily Boomerang, CN HQ and Nickelodeon. All of a sudden, the Disney Kids block on SIC caught my attention. They were airing the season 2 episode "Let's Take a Quiz". What catched me up was the Devors jingle at the near end of the episode:
(Só os encontras na Devors, esta é a melhor loja de chinelos!)
I once tried to adopt the word "tralfazz" as my personal favorite, but it never catched on after a week. OK, está bem, tralfazz.
But back in the day, Phineas and Ferb became my favorite show. I don't know what exactly catapulted me into the world of a step-family, ethnically diverse characters and a platypus whose head and beak changed place as Perry put on his fedora and went to end up spoiling the plans of Dr. Doofenshmirtz which eventually spoiled the plans of the step-brothers.
I was 13 back then. I started to like the songs it had and watched every showing of it like if my life depended on it.
I started to know the Agent P song - in Portuguese and English - by heart. That expanded to the theme song, where I listened to various international versions of it - not just Portuguese - all the time.
There was a time where I could sing the Greek song without knowing the meanings of the words. Let's not forget Romanian (where the singer was depressed or something), Hungarian, Polish (but I did not like the voices), Hebrew (I liked their own adaptation of the intro), Bulgarian and Italian.
The multilanguage videos of the intro were the videos of it that I liked, plus I started to watch episodes in other languages (because DC PT did not have the English audio track back then).
I also showed it to my mother (and she liked it back then) and impressed my school friends, which then started to take this to the next level with stupid pranks (Phineas is at school! Come quick!).
By the middle of the year, I began noticing that the songs had educational content. Nevertheless, I was still a fan of it.
Another animated series that I started to like was Fish Hooks. Still one of my personal favorites but not successful in many countries that aired it. We haven't seen the third season yet, and that includes the Friend Hooks episode where they are humans (come on, why can't they be merpeople?) and the final episode where they leave Freshwater High.
Then season 3 came and with that, a huge delay. Having seen some of the episodes on the internet (that was shortly before PnF episodes had to be removed from YouTube due to copyright issues), it took me a long while before we could finally see those episodes on an actual television. To add insult to injury, a Portuguese magazine (TV7 Dias) once had a picture from the episode about Phineas's birthday - in May 2011, and Portuguese viewers got to see the episode five months later.
They initially changed the evil jingle to crap singers, but reverted back shortly afterwards, don't judge me.
But before that, there was the movie. I did not like it, in fact the idea was very painstainkingly bad.
It was also at this point of time where I started to look at fanart of this show on DeviantART (and picturing him as a merman was a first shock). And I once drew Perry without his beak.
I still liked the show here and there, but I slowly started to stop following the show as every new episode came out.
Then, in 2013, a magazine came. I did not take a peek of it because it was one of those magazines aimed at younger children that have toys next to them as an offer. I also started to watch PnF in English on an actual television. That was when DC PT added an English audio track.
But, at this time, my interest in Phineas and Ferb seemed to die out. Part of it is thanks to the "glorious" treatment Fish Hooks had over here, but it was also thanks to the Violetta virus. Nevertheless, I still watched the show every now and then.
But then...
I almost switched off completely.
Gravity Falls was uninteresting to me but I only have an interest on Mermando, Wander Over Yonder is unwatchable because I have issues watching the Portuguese dub due to the constant captions, and now Phineas and Ferb... one of the greatest masterpieces back in the day... has decreased the quality of the dub because they felt like it, kicked up such a storm and forced the remaining Disney dubs to become perfunctory as PnF had become by then.
I decided to leave the fandom like most ex-fans.
And the show eventually was dead for me.
Anyway, Act Your Age is yet to transmit in Portugal, we'll have to wait longer to see the remaining episodes and probably wait a few more years to get Mikey Murphy's Law.
Also, no promotional images of the new show have appeared so far. Not sure if I'll test it.
Anyway, it was once the best show ever, but now it's a mere shadow of what it was. I'm going to give the final episode a go.
I received the news with mixed results, which will be explained later.
Anyway, Phineas and Ferb premiered on all Disney Channels in 2008. I didn't know about the show at the time, partly because I didn't have access to Disney Channel at the time.
I did not know what it was until, if memory serves, 2009.
I was channel surfing and landed on Disney Channel. Phineas and Ferb was on, but I catched a B-plot. Don't know what episode it was. It was in the middle of the summer.
I wanted to check more info on it on the internet, but it was still unconvincing to my person.
Then during fall, I catched some episodes by off-chance. It still did not convince me.
In late 2009, we had clocks to make as a project. My project was a musical clock that played a recording of the Portuguese version of Gitchee Gitchee Goo. It never went forward.
In 2010, I kept watching episodes as an off-chance. On Easter Sunday I watched the airplane episode, but that show did not convince me. By November, I caught a repeat of the second half of Summer Belongs to You!, and it was still background noise to me.
Anyway, April 2011 and my TV viewing was primarily Boomerang, CN HQ and Nickelodeon. All of a sudden, the Disney Kids block on SIC caught my attention. They were airing the season 2 episode "Let's Take a Quiz". What catched me up was the Devors jingle at the near end of the episode:
(Só os encontras na Devors, esta é a melhor loja de chinelos!)
I once tried to adopt the word "tralfazz" as my personal favorite, but it never catched on after a week. OK, está bem, tralfazz.
But back in the day, Phineas and Ferb became my favorite show. I don't know what exactly catapulted me into the world of a step-family, ethnically diverse characters and a platypus whose head and beak changed place as Perry put on his fedora and went to end up spoiling the plans of Dr. Doofenshmirtz which eventually spoiled the plans of the step-brothers.
I was 13 back then. I started to like the songs it had and watched every showing of it like if my life depended on it.
I started to know the Agent P song - in Portuguese and English - by heart. That expanded to the theme song, where I listened to various international versions of it - not just Portuguese - all the time.
There was a time where I could sing the Greek song without knowing the meanings of the words. Let's not forget Romanian (where the singer was depressed or something), Hungarian, Polish (but I did not like the voices), Hebrew (I liked their own adaptation of the intro), Bulgarian and Italian.
I also showed it to my mother (and she liked it back then) and impressed my school friends, which then started to take this to the next level with stupid pranks (Phineas is at school! Come quick!).
By the middle of the year, I began noticing that the songs had educational content. Nevertheless, I was still a fan of it.
Another animated series that I started to like was Fish Hooks. Still one of my personal favorites but not successful in many countries that aired it. We haven't seen the third season yet, and that includes the Friend Hooks episode where they are humans (come on, why can't they be merpeople?) and the final episode where they leave Freshwater High.
Then season 3 came and with that, a huge delay. Having seen some of the episodes on the internet (that was shortly before PnF episodes had to be removed from YouTube due to copyright issues), it took me a long while before we could finally see those episodes on an actual television. To add insult to injury, a Portuguese magazine (TV7 Dias) once had a picture from the episode about Phineas's birthday - in May 2011, and Portuguese viewers got to see the episode five months later.
They initially changed the evil jingle to crap singers, but reverted back shortly afterwards, don't judge me.
But before that, there was the movie. I did not like it, in fact the idea was very painstainkingly bad.
It was also at this point of time where I started to look at fanart of this show on DeviantART (and picturing him as a merman was a first shock). And I once drew Perry without his beak.
I still liked the show here and there, but I slowly started to stop following the show as every new episode came out.
Then, in 2013, a magazine came. I did not take a peek of it because it was one of those magazines aimed at younger children that have toys next to them as an offer. I also started to watch PnF in English on an actual television. That was when DC PT added an English audio track.
But, at this time, my interest in Phineas and Ferb seemed to die out. Part of it is thanks to the "glorious" treatment Fish Hooks had over here, but it was also thanks to the Violetta virus. Nevertheless, I still watched the show every now and then.
But then...
I almost switched off completely.
Gravity Falls was uninteresting to me but I only have an interest on Mermando, Wander Over Yonder is unwatchable because I have issues watching the Portuguese dub due to the constant captions, and now Phineas and Ferb... one of the greatest masterpieces back in the day... has decreased the quality of the dub because they felt like it, kicked up such a storm and forced the remaining Disney dubs to become perfunctory as PnF had become by then.
I decided to leave the fandom like most ex-fans.
And the show eventually was dead for me.
Anyway, Act Your Age is yet to transmit in Portugal, we'll have to wait longer to see the remaining episodes and probably wait a few more years to get Mikey Murphy's Law.
Also, no promotional images of the new show have appeared so far. Not sure if I'll test it.
Anyway, it was once the best show ever, but now it's a mere shadow of what it was. I'm going to give the final episode a go.
quinta-feira, 19 de março de 2015
quinta-feira, 22 de janeiro de 2015
Why we lost Doraemon
OK, so Tudo por Animes em PT-PT has found out the reason why they stopped airing Doraemon on Canal Panda: no more episodes are available. The show is unavailable to air on either Canal Panda and Biggs.
Shocking news for fans of this masterpiece of Japanese television, especially the 1979 show (the 2005 show ends up being an attempt to remake the previous one) that aired for nearly two decades on Japanese television.
Shocking news for fans of this masterpiece of Japanese television, especially the 1979 show (the 2005 show ends up being an attempt to remake the previous one) that aired for nearly two decades on Japanese television.
sexta-feira, 16 de janeiro de 2015
RTP 2 premiered Galician live-action puppet series today
Today RTP 2 premiered "Os Bochechas", a live-action, puppet television series from Galicia's autonomous public broadcaster, TVG, which has made a few co-produced specials with RTP 1's Aqui Portugal at the same time as Aqui Galicia.
The show appeared on a promo for the block, the dub is fairly typical for a Portuguese dub.
The show appeared on a promo for the block, the dub is fairly typical for a Portuguese dub.
segunda-feira, 12 de janeiro de 2015
Suggestion: Make Biggs and CN twins
Add Digimon Fusion to the channel
Switch the Titans (original on CN PT and GO! on Biggs)
Equalize bad dubs
You've done it!
Switch the Titans (original on CN PT and GO! on Biggs)
Equalize bad dubs
You've done it!
sábado, 10 de janeiro de 2015
Sailor Moon Crystal comng to Biggs in May!
Information from an anime topic on the A Televisão forums. It will most likely be dubbed, yet there is still no confirmation.
quarta-feira, 7 de janeiro de 2015
Otário
I can't believe it.
In the EU-PT of TT GO!, I've heard the word otário a few times.
The word is technically Brazilian.
Yet another sign about my hatred for it.
In the EU-PT of TT GO!, I've heard the word otário a few times.
The word is technically Brazilian.
Yet another sign about my hatred for it.
quarta-feira, 31 de dezembro de 2014
Doraemon recently left Canal Panda
I felt shocked. It was once the most popular show on the channel and it was removed once again from the schedule.
When will DC PT have a proper overnight schedule?
Answer: less likely. The feed is used to EU regulations and has to air cheap shows when very few people are watching the channel.
quarta-feira, 24 de dezembro de 2014
RTP 2's Zig Zag gone weird
This Christmas, RTP 2's Zig Zag has been showing 2009 Noddy and Connie the Cow Christmas shorts (about the length of bumpers), random shows and basically this will be a weird Christmas on RTP 2.
Merry Christmas
Technically it's been a slow month for this blog, but merry Christmas anyway.
This is not a vintage year, to say the least.
This is not a vintage year, to say the least.
quarta-feira, 10 de dezembro de 2014
What's wrong, Disney Portugal?
A Disney fan blog said that there are some issues that need to be solved but they can't. He talked to Disney Channel PT's marketing team and answered to the following questions:
Galaxy Wonder [Wander] (Wander Over Yonder) is set to premiere soon? Answer: early 2015.
Are they bringing back old shows? Answer: negotiating the return of Wizards of Waverly Place, but not for now.
What about other shows like That's so Raven? Answer: they don't want to do that because they don't want those shows all the time.
Why is Violetta taking a lot of time on Disney Channel? Answer: it's their most popular show and they can't take it off because they can't abdicate of something that makes them leaders.
Amongst other questions, one of the questions was related to Disney XD.
The answer is: at present Disney doesn't want to create the channel because there aren't sufficient targets and people or money to make it.
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At present Portugal is the only Western European nation not to get Disney XD. We only have two Disney channels: Disney Channel and Disney Junior.
Disney had an HD channel between 2009 and 2012: Disney Cinemagic HD. When Disney Cinemagic closed down (both the SD and HD variants), they disposed of Disney Cinemagic HD as if it was unwanted wastes. Disney Cinemagic's license was taken by Disney Junior and they did not launch Disney Channel HD in Portugal.
At present, there seems to be only one pair of "boy-girl" channels: Canal Panda, whose movie selection is repetitive and based on Barbie, and Biggs, the channel which added Braceface (a show for... girls?) to their schedule last year, but other than that it's mostly a male-based channel. (Let's not forget that one of the channel's launch shows was Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch!)
Disney Channel is progressively focusing more on girls than ever before: Violetta is the most popular show, to an extent that you can see most girls with at least one piece of Violetta merchandise!
Disney is aware of the existence of the only boyish kids channel: Biggs. There is a channel with Disney XD's main target audience over here, and it currently holds such a monopoly (Cartoon Network feeds around the world have shown female-oriented shows, like CN KR and their recent acquisition of Tori GO! GO!.), which hasn't been broken yet. A country like Japan seems to have more competition, that is Kids Station competes with Disney XD.
Also, Disney has no budget or people to launch the channel: something similar has happened to South Korea's Disney operations. Toonzone user ltw9719 has shown me a photo of Disney's Korean headquarters and there is a glass wall with Disney Channel, Disney Junior and Disney XD's logos. Is Disney Korea also suffering from that? Lack of budget, perhaps? Lack of target audience, despite the competition?
My TV provider has no room left for more than one kids channel, considering that, since 2007, all kids channels occupy channels 40-49. The market seems to be a bit saturated and a few brands don't operate to our country: Boomerang, Disney XD, NickToons and Nick Jr.
So what's the point in not launching DXD PT? There is a channel with DXD's target audience but there is no way to get an increase and launch it.
DXD PT won't launch in 2015, or it probably never will, unless there is a lookphole to this situation.
domingo, 30 de novembro de 2014
Your Shout: The Future of Biggs
I've heard on the A Televisão forums that Biggs was almost bankrupt and that only a few premieres would be held in December.
In my opinion, Biggs needs to continue, but what if it didn't?
Share us your opinions here.
In my opinion, Biggs needs to continue, but what if it didn't?
Share us your opinions here.
sábado, 29 de novembro de 2014
sexta-feira, 28 de novembro de 2014
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