Zannen, Canada - Spirited Away to air on CBC on Sunday - Comments

It was done to fit in extra

Dayspring — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 09:02:14 -0700

It was done to fit in extra (coughTOO MANY) commercials, a practice CBC has been doing way too much lately. They shouldn't have played Million Dollar Baby on right after it if they wanted both movies to have short timeslots.

I'm surprised that out of all the scenes left in, they left each and every one of the puke scenes in (No-Face Puking up everything and everywhere, Dragon-Haku puking blood, etc). Not that I'm anti-vomit, but the movie WAS shown during dinner time. If you're going to remove scenes... :P

Well, hopefully when I call

Pep — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 17:50:19 -0700

Well, hopefully when I call their viewer relations about this tomorrow, I won't be the first person they've heard from about this.

Seriously, after this, they owe us every Ghibli movie uncut.

Can't say I'd disagree with

Kuri — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 17:19:18 -0700

Can't say I'd disagree with Ghibli if they did make such a decision, should this reach them. CBC's playing of Spirited Away was a horrible disrespect to the movie, its creators and its fans, not to mention all the new viewers on TV who were given such a shoddy version with no knowledge to the fact. Something like that shouldn't be allowed for any movie.

Not to mention they removed

Pep — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 16:09:34 -0700

Not to mention they removed the last three minutes of the movie. OUCH.

Do they even realize that Ghibli could slap them with a lawsuit for this?

They kept the violent

Kuri — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 15:42:22 -0700

They kept the violent scenes, such as the really bloody scene with Dragon Haku intact, but cut out entire scenes (and those referring to them) out completely in order to fit into their tiny time slot.

Yikes, really? I never watch

TheVok — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 15:27:10 -0700

Yikes, really?

I never watch movies on CBC. The network is generally lenient about content in its shows, but often runs heavily censored versions of R-rated movies in an inappropriate-to-begin-with 8pm timeslot.

Anyone else tune into CBC to

Kuri — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 15:23:35 -0700

Anyone else tune into CBC to support Spirited Away only to see this heavily edited version? How disappointing... almost 30 minutes of film cut out.

Pepperidge wrote:I know YTV

Dayspring — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:04:32 -0700

Pepperidge wrote:

I know YTV aired it. I was talking about CBC.

Oh, speaking of which, did YTV air it twice last time? I know it was supposed to air on the Saturday at 7pm, but I never knew about Friday at midnight.

Yes. That's why I didn't watch it on Saturday; I already saw it the night before.

2007/08/17---YTV's Friday

gameguySDJ — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 15:08:04 -0700

2007/08/17---YTV's Friday night line-up + ReBoot Reborn

Tonight YTV will be airing a Naruto marathon from 7:00pm-9:30pm. Following the Naruto-mania, YTV will air the fourth Inuyasha movie, Fire on the Mystic Island, at 9:30pm, and Princess Mononoke at midnight. ;3

ReBoot Reborn: I know it isn't anime news, but I know many fans of this site are also fans of the old CGI series ReBoot. For those of you out of the loop, ReBoot is being relaunched by Rainmaker Entertainment. They've come up with five concepts for a new series, which they posted on their website. Fans are encouraged to view the concepts and vote for the one they'd like to see produced. You can find the ReBoot Reborn website here and the concepts here. :3

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Till next time...

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gameguySDJ — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 15:02:10 -0700

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Are you guys sure they've done Mononoke? Is there any record of this? I'm pretty sure they haven't.

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What a coincidence I passed by this post, the previous Friday from this past weekend, at midnight the popular kids network YTV ended its anime friday night programming called Bionix with this very movie. It was a splendid movie, with near flawless animation and the action was fantastic, the way heads would fall off after being hit by an arrow was hilarious and yet cool.

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I know YTV aired it. I was

Pep — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:55:00 -0700

I know YTV aired it. I was talking about CBC.

Oh, speaking of which, did YTV air it twice last time? I know it was supposed to air on the Saturday at 7pm, but I never knew about Friday at midnight.

done and done. its easy,

Mandi — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 18:09:29 -0700

done and done. its easy, everybody give feedback! thanks for the link ;) I do recall CBC playing Princess Mononoke as well, a about 4 years ago or so.

I seem to remember them

logos — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 06:59:15 -0700

I seem to remember them airing AstroBoy on CBC in the eighties. Does anyone remember what channel they where airing Robotech on? It has to be CBC or CTV cause back then I am pretty sure those where the only channels that my parents had.

Pepperidge wrote:I was

EmperorFred — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 23:29:06 -0700

Pepperidge wrote:

I was talking about the 60s series.

Oh, okay. That was well before my time! :P

Dayspring wrote:I think

TheVok — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 19:43:51 -0700

Dayspring wrote:

I think they've done Mononoke once.

I don't think so ... it seemed to go from The Movie Network and MovieCentral to IFC Canada and YTV.

Spirited Away to air on CBC on Sunday

Pep — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:25:48 -0700

Looks like the CBC is finally making good use of their ties to Disney. According to TV listings, they will be airing the Academy Award-winning Studio Ghibli film Spirited Away on Sunday, September 30th at 5:00pm EST/PST. Because Turner Classic Movie's previous airings of the films did not include it on the Canadian feed, this will actually be the Canadian broadcast premiere for Spirited Away.

Spread the word, since it doesn't look like CBC will be running any promos for the movie. Let's hope the ratings are good enough for them to bring in the other Studio Ghibli films! Thanks to Kefka_Pallazo for pointing this out.

EDIT: I encourage you not only to tell as many people you can about this airing, but also to contact CBC's viewer relations either through phone or e-mail to express your interest in the movie. Also suggest the possibility of airing other films from Studio Ghibli!