Can't believe I missed this! Apparently G4TechTV Canada has begun airing the much sought after second season of Black Lagoon tonight! This is very exciting news mainly because while the entire season has been dubbed, Geneon never got around to releasing it on DVD. Right now, G4TechTV is the only exhibition we're going to get for these dubbed episodes for the forseeable future. It's currently airing Friday nights at 8:30pm EST/5:30pm PST with repeats at 11:30pm EST/8:30pm PST.

However, as enthusiastic as they are towards anime, TechTV has unfortunately had to reduce their Anime Current block to one slot a week. This may be the last hurrah for anime on the station for the forseeable future, so be sure not to miss it!

Also of note, G4TechTV Canada will be airing series 2 of The IT Crowd starting this week! In case you haven't noticed yet, this station is very good! Now if only they had more original content.
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crap! I mised this eps! *sigh* oh well thank for the heads up. I'll have to watch this now.

I was surprised to see them air it. I didn't think they would air season 2. And when you consider the content of this episode, it's a little more surprising. Then again, this never was a show for YTV.

It's likely that someone will pick up the DVD rights for this show, including second season. It's simply a matter of repackaging.

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Damn I don't have my PVR anymore, but it was an awesome episode anyway!

The dub continues to impress me, those children are really freaky...and was casted very well! No censors or mutes in this episode thankfully XD

I think its kind of interesting that G4techtv moved Black Lagoon to 8:30pm ..the same time that Avatar airs on YTV, but interestingly enough YTV has restarted Avatar so if I've done my math correctly...when Black Lagoon ends, new Avatar episodes begin!!

If nobody had told me that this was Second Barrage, I wouldn't have noticed anything, especially since the OP and ED are the same, and they keep the episode numbers the same (ep. 13).

I'm sorry when I noticed it it was already 11:52pm, and shortly thereafter I posted here right away. Seems absolutely no one expected this. I wasn't expecting it, but I had my PVR previously set to record G4 from 6pm-9pm (I would regularly capture The Lab, Attack of the Show, and the Anime of the night plus whatever sometimes good show was on at 8:30pm, and I was shocked to see they were playing the new episode. Unfortunately I do not think I can post a capture online. However, anyone who missed it should consider catching the missing episode (elsewhere), and don't miss it next week!

It's most likely the Geneon problem. They must have liscened both seasons of Black Lagoon at the same time.

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Perhaps the ratings on new shows are higher than for reruns, even popular ones, and perhaps the plan was to show alot of shows before going into reruns to try and keep things 'fresh'.

However, whether G4 still has the rights to air said shows are the question. Unless they got rerun rights way back when licensed them from Geneon, they'd have to renegotiate to air them again, right?

I agree G4 "sucks" in comparison to the variety offered by many mainstream channels, but ... it's not a mainstream channel and what it does offer is exclusive to it (i.e. no redundant airing of what we can already see on other Canadian channels), so I find it relatively easy to justify subscribing as long as they have a few shows I'll watch.

That may change soon, of course, but for now I'll stick with it if only for 'Black Lagoon.'

Lab with Leo increases one's knowledge, not one's entertainment intake. Plenty of people want to know more about their computers, or just glean in general knowledge. That's one of the appeals behind channels like 'Discovery Channel'.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but Geneon is gone now, right (haven't been keeping up)? If so, what are the chances, if any, of TechTV getting in more anime?

G4 was alot better when it was TechTV. They still had shows like X-play, anime and Cheat but they also had those other shows like the Screen Savers (what AOTS was) which where entertaining and you could learn something at the same time.

Put it simply when it was TechTV it was like have reading MaximumPC every day (didn't have anime in Canada yet then) and now it's like a crappy version of FHM with some anime added in to make it worth watching.

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I hope that won't be the case either, but I wouldn't be surprised if we do have to wait that long. Avatar's last two seasons had YTV going into repeats after Episode 10 before continuing with Episodes 11-20. In fact, I was surprised that YTV even aired Episodes 11-13. =\

I forgot to mention this in my last post, but I'm glad that we're finally going to see Season 2 of The IT Crowd. I can't wait to see the Anti-Piracy Ad on my TV. XD

And speaking of Daphne, what the heck happened to that? I thought that G4TechTV was going to air it, seeing as it was listed in an ad for the channel in the Anime North '07 program/book. The same could also be said of Hellsing Ultimate as well. (If I remember correctly, Pepperidge mentioned in a post that they have it.)

Perhaps. I would think that Hellsing Ultimate would need a one-hour timeslot to air an episode. Conceivably, Daphne could air afterwards as well, assuming that they still have it.

And yes, each episode is around 40-48 minutes long.