Adult Swim Fix

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The Adult Swim Fix is a free Video on demand service on the Adult Swim website that operates every hour of every day, and shows premiere episodes on Fridays at 6pm Eastern Time, and last all week until the next Friday when more premieres come along (their anime premieres being exceptional, which only last till 6am EST on Saturday). It features full episodes that will and have been aired during Adult Swim and classic shows produced by Williams Street.

Adult Swim Fix plays streaming episodes using Windows Media Player. A fast Internet connection is required. The episodes are streamed over an AOL server (note that AOL, like Turner Broadcasting, which owns Cartoon Network/Adult Swim, is a unit of Time Warner). Adult Swim Fix is also available to UK viewers through adultswim.co.uk. This, however, is run by Turner Broadcasting, not by NTL/Flextech, who broadcasts the TV block.

1 History
2 Programs featured on Adult Swim Fix
3 Pilots and specials featured on Adult Swim Fix
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] History

On September 16, 2005, Adult Swim Fix was launched under the name Friday Night Fix. This served as a programming window to accommodate the viewers who wanted to see Adult Swim on Friday nights from 11PM-6AM. Currently, Cartoon Network's Fridays (formally Cartoon Cartoon Fridays) block runs all night on Fridays.

On October 14, 2005, Friday Night Fix started airing specials and pilots, the first sign that its lineup was beginning to evolve and expand. However, they were old pilots that aired on the block years ago. (The first new pilot for the Fix was Lucy: Daughter of the Devil, which would premiere two weeks later.)

On February 3, 2006, Friday Night Fix expanded beyond its all-comedy borders and started premiering their action lineup, beginning with new episodes of Samurai Champloo.

On March 27, 2006, Friday Night Fix is renamed Adult Swim Fix and lasts a 24/7 schedule. The lineup also abandons the seven shows tradition it had during its Friday-exclusive days and premieres with a whopping fourteen shows.

On April 14, 2006, coinciding with the premiere of Eureka 7, Adult Swim Fix expanded its premiere time by five hours, now lasting from 6PM-6AM.

On June 23, 2006, Adult Swim Fix expanded its premiere time to last all week. For the first week, only the second season premiere of The Venture Bros. was available for an all-week streaming. A week later, all of the Fix's premieres (save for their anime programming) would become included in the change.

On July 21, 2006, Adult Swim Fix begun airing complete seasons of its comedy shows (beginning with Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law, 12 Oz. Mouse, and Squidbillies), which would last for two weeks, while four episodes of Aqua Teen Hunger Force would rotate every week.

On September 13, 2006, Adult Swim Fix gave its action shows the biweekly season treatment (starting with Paranoia Agent) and begins airing live-action programming, with four episodes of Pee-Wee's Playhouse rotating every week.

On October 27, 2006, Adult Swim Fix broke up its season-long episode fix and fractions the offering into small parts of each season to allow more shows for streaming.

On November 6, 2006, Adult Swim Fix was updated to a new beta version, which is primarily designed using Flash. The new design requires users to have at least Adobe Flash 8, Windows Media Player 10, and ActiveX to be installed, meaning visitors using either Mac OS X or Linux are unable to use the site. All shows are now streamed in a flash-based player, and are divided into smaller clips.