*I had this idea several months after MeTV Toons launched on June 2024.
The Action Network (or short for/abbreviated as TAN) is an American cable television channel co-owned by Hasbro and The Walt Disney Company. Aimed at general audiences, it will launch sometime in 2025. Despite its programming consisting of programs owned by the two companies (let alone a collaboration of them), the channel also airs third-party content owned by The Pokemon Company International, Toei, NBCUniversal, Warner Bros. Discovery, Sony Pictures Television, and a few others. Virtually all of the shows aired here focus on the action-adventure genre.
Programming[]
Original Programming[]
- TBA
Continuations[]
- Yin Yang Yo! (Season 3) (TBA)
- Unnamed Power Rangers Season 31 (TBA)
Programming from Hasbro Entertainment[]
- G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero
- The Transformers
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
- Beyblade
- Transformers: Cyberverse
- Power Rangers Dino Fury
Programming from Disney Television Animation and Jetix Animation Concepts[]
- Gargoyles
- Kim Possible
- Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!
- Get Ed
- Yin Yang Yo!
- Star vs the Forces of Evil
- Amphibia
- The Owl House
Programming from Jetix Europe[]
- W.I.T.C.H.
- Oban Star-Racers
- Pucca
Programming from BVS Entertainment and Marvel Animation[]
- Dungeons and Dragons
- X-Men
- The Tick
- Spider-Man
Programming from Toei Company Ltd. and Toei Animation Inc.[]
- Kamen Rider
- Dragon Ball Z
- Digimon: Digital Monsters
Programming from Sony Pictures Television[]
- The Real Ghostbusters
- Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot
- Jackie Chan Adventures
Programming from NBCUniversal[]
- He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (1983)
- Voltron
Programming from Warner Bros. Discovery[]
- ThunderCats (1985)
- Batman: The Animated Series
- Superman: The Animated Series
Other programming[]
- Atomic Betty
- Chaotic
- Kong: The Animated Series
- Pokemon
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987)
Blocks[]
- Back to the 80s: A 4-hour block airing Mon.-Fri. mornings from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. ET and Sat.-Sun. nights from 12:00 a.m. to 4:00 a.m. ET, featuring cartoons from the 1980s decade. Initial programs include He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, Dungeons and Dragons, Voltron, The Transformers, ThunderCats, The Real Ghostbusters, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
- Mon to Mon: A 1-hour block airing every afternoon from 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. ET, featuring back-to-back episodes of Pokemon and Digimon: Digital Monsters.
- Jetix: A 3-hour block airing Sat.-Sun. mornings from 8:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. ET and Mon.-Fri. nights from 12:00 a.m. to 3:00 a.m. ET,, and is a relaunch of the 2004-09 Jetix block (that used to be on ABC Family and Toon Disney as a block in the 2000s) but not the brand as it only consists of reruns of original Jetix content. Initial programs consist of Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!, W.I.T.C.H., Get Ed, Oban Star-Racers, Yin Yang Yo!, and Pucca.
- The Action Cinema (TAC): A movie will air Sat. evenings from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. ET plus commercials. Encores are on Sun. evenings from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. ET.
Trivia[]
- I was hoping to add Transformers: EarthSpark to the channel, but it's fully owned by Paramount Global. So I added Cyberverse instead.
- 2025 marks the first time in history Kamen Rider airs in the U.S. And it has the same subtitles Shout! Studios uses.
- I was meaning to add Himitsu Sentai Goranger to the lineup, and having it air alongside Kamen Rider. But I ran out of scheduling room. Maybe, I can add it here when Kamen Rider Stronger starts airing. Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends had that same problem, and it's intended to be part of the Back to the 80s block.
- The Ocean dub of Dragon Ball Z airs on this network.