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The Detour on TELETOON

Type	Cable television program block
Country	Canada
Availability	National
Owner	Astral Media (50%) Corus Entertainment (50%)
Launch date	2002
Website	Official Site

The Detour on TELETOON is the name for the animated programming block targeted towards teen and adult audiences. It was launched in fall 2002. Much of which is in the vein of Cartoon Network's Adult Swim; however, unlike Adult Swim, although there was a strong early commitment to air diverse and international programming, as well as the ability to air a great majority of material uncut, The Detour hasn't incorporate any anime series yet. This may be because Canada's other youth oriented channel, YTV, has licensed a large number of popular anime series for their Bionix block.

The Detour was an amalgamation of the old The Detour block, aimed at teenagers, and the former Teletoon Unleashed block, aimed at adults, which had been dropped due to lack of new content.

The "F-Night" line-up airs every Friday night starting at 9:00pm. It shows a different lineup. The "F" in the title stands for Friday but is likely also a reduced form of a well-known expletive, helping to reinforce that the programming block is intended for the watershed hours.