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Re: General Show Chat - Season 7 Conversation Station

Postby Rainbow Crash (?) » Sun Apr 30, 2017 3:38 am

Just out of curiosity, does anyone know what kind of restrictions television show producers put on the networks that air their shows? Like can a station broadcast shows any time they please or are there restrictions commonly put in place? Could a network run all of the episodes they have on hand in one day if they wanted to? I'm just curious why this happens so often.
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Sun Apr 30, 2017 4:21 am

I would imagine the stations submit a schedule to Hasbro to get their OK and they approve or disapprove.
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Sun Apr 30, 2017 12:45 pm

Got a little behind on these and can't remember exactly which episodes they all came from:

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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Sun Apr 30, 2017 3:47 pm

For those of you who avoid the spoiler forum and spoilers in general, beware. The Canadian network that airs FiM is doubling up on new episodes on the weekends, which they started with today. If you watch any of these early episodes, remember to only talk about them in their designated leak discussion threads in the spoiler forum.
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Postby Mechanical Ape (?) » Sun Apr 30, 2017 6:05 pm

We could maybe use a dedicated Starlight smilie, seeing as she's so central lately.
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Tue May 02, 2017 10:26 pm

:amazing: So....

:gotcha: Who wants to discuss how a potential WGA strike would impact Season 8.

:-I Apparently a deal was stuck late today.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Tue May 02, 2017 10:36 pm

Would it? The show is technically made in Canada, though I haven't looked through all of FiM's writers over the years to see how many of them are Americans and how many are Canadians.
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Tue May 02, 2017 10:38 pm

Fizzbuzz wrote:Would it? The show is technically made in Canada, though I haven't looked through all of FiM's writers over the years to see how many of them are Americans and how many are Canadians.


I am under the impression most the writers are American, and I would assume, part of the WGA.
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Postby DerFurShur (?) » Tue May 02, 2017 10:47 pm

All of the writers are union from what I've heard.
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Postby Mr. Big (?) » Tue May 02, 2017 11:06 pm

AFAIK, animation writers aren't covered by the WGA (with the exception of prime-time shows like "The Simpsons" and "Family Guy"). In the past WGA strikes it wasn't unusual for sitcom writers to work in animation temporarily because the union allowed it.

Animation writers are mostly covered under the Animation Guild.

So unless MLP writers are under the WGA, it wouldn't affect them.
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Postby Just Scuds (?) » Sat May 06, 2017 8:17 pm

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Postby Mechanical Ape (?) » Mon May 08, 2017 4:45 pm

I would like to see Starlight and her control issues in a Winter Wrap-Up setting.
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Postby Aramek (?) » Mon May 08, 2017 6:14 pm

Oh shit, I can't stop laughing. I'm suddenly hearing Twilight taking Starlight aside and asking

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Postby VGAddict (?) » Tue May 09, 2017 11:45 am

Which of the upcoming S7 episodes are you most worried about, if any?
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Tue May 09, 2017 11:52 am

VGAddict wrote:Which of the upcoming S7 episodes are you most worried about, if any?

Please discuss this in the spoiler forum, not here.
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Postby Aramek (?) » Tue May 09, 2017 5:06 pm

None, because I never worry.

Making me the victor.
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Postby PhoolCat (?) » Tue May 09, 2017 6:36 pm

Aramek wrote:None, because I never worry.

Making me the victor.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Wed May 10, 2017 10:16 pm

The Canadian schedule is really starting to bug me. I have to travel for a funeral this weekend (don't feel bad, it's for a distant relative that I barely knew) and thus won't be able to catch the episodes live. Normally that'd mean I would miss only one episode which would then be readily available on YouTube or Dailymotion afterwards, but now I will have to miss two episodes and the uploads of the Canadian airings have been somewhat spotty in terms of both quality and availablity.
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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Wed May 10, 2017 11:35 pm

Have you been on the Discord? There's been direct links to good 400 MB rips.

Have you watched episode 7 yet?
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Thu May 11, 2017 2:17 am

Yes, I'm on the Discord server, but the links aren't exactly easy to find there. Discord's search function won't search for substrings (i.e. you can't search "dailymotion" to get Dailymotion URLs, just instances of people saying "dailymotion") and no one ever puts links to episodes in the pinned messages or channel topics, so if I want to find any links there, I would have to go through discussion of an episode I haven't watched yet just to find a link to an episode there. Thankfully there've been folks who have provided links when I've asked.
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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Thu May 11, 2017 3:00 am

I'll start pinning episode links for sure then, forgot I had permission to do that.
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Postby Soft Snow (?) » Fri May 12, 2017 4:11 pm

This confusing schedule means I'm stuck at work when I could be home enjoying pony. Now I'm all behind on everything. Not fair!
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Postby Octavia (?) » Fri May 12, 2017 5:11 pm

I'm watching with the US releases so I can stretch out my new pony enjoyment as long as possible. But now threads for episodes that haven't even aired yet in the US are being unstickied. :argh:
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Postby DerFurShur (?) » Fri May 12, 2017 5:12 pm

Y'all just need to get with the program

#TeamCanada

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Postby Soft Snow (?) » Fri May 12, 2017 5:20 pm

Is Discord more then just a game chat thingy? Is it a forum thingy too?
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Postby Soft Snow (?) » Fri May 12, 2017 10:57 pm

Octavia wrote:I'm watching with the US releases so I can stretch out my new pony enjoyment as long as possible. But now threads for episodes that haven't even aired yet in the US are being unstickied. :argh:

Yeah, I thought I was going crazy for a moment. I was thinking to myself how could I have missed that many weeks? What I think is going on is that Canada has switched to the metric system so their schedules are now 0.621371 of the size of a standard American schedule.
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Postby Highbrow Dash (?) » Sat May 13, 2017 1:59 am

Soft Snow wrote:Is Discord more then just a game chat thingy? Is it a forum thingy too?
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Yeah it basically replaced IRC, there's channels for a bunch of different topics and pony discussion too.
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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Sat May 13, 2017 3:00 am

Octavia wrote:I'm watching with the US releases so I can stretch out my new pony enjoyment as long as possible. But now threads for episodes that haven't even aired yet in the US are being unstickied. :argh:

drunkill can still sticky threads the day of airing, I guess. :pinkieshrug:
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Postby Soft Snow (?) » Sat May 13, 2017 4:20 am

Highbrow Dash wrote:
Yeah it basically replaced IRC, there's channels for a bunch of different topics and pony discussion too.

Is there a link to it that I may have, please?
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Sat May 13, 2017 5:12 am

Soft Snow wrote:Is there a link to it that I may have, please?
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The link is pinned in PPPP.
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Postby Just Scuds (?) » Sun May 14, 2017 4:04 pm

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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Mon May 15, 2017 12:15 pm

Meanwhile, Mother's Day is just another Sunday for Applejack.
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Postby Dal (?) » Tue May 16, 2017 3:54 am

Fizzbuzz wrote:Meanwhile, Mother's Day is just another Sunday for Applejack.



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Postby Soft Snow (?) » Thu May 25, 2017 2:48 am

I thought this was funny...
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Postby Captain Rufus (?) » Thu May 25, 2017 6:24 am

Soft Snow wrote:I thought this was funny...
:gotcha:



It's not bad but I prefer this one: https://youtu.be/NefqXlOmPPA :gotcha:
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Postby Applepie (?) » Thu May 25, 2017 8:20 am

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Postby Mr. Big (?) » Thu May 25, 2017 9:17 pm

So they just announced at the Licensing Expo that season 8 has been greenlit, with 26 episodes as usual.

This would bring the total to 195 episodes. Now they'll have to order season 9 so they can reach 200 episodes :twonk:
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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Fri May 26, 2017 1:44 am

For those avoiding Canadian spoilers, they may be abruptly stopping effective immediately: https://www.equestriadaily.com/2017/05/ ... son-7.html

I will delete the episode threads currently stickied if this is confirmed on Saturday.
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Postby Octavia (?) » Fri May 26, 2017 3:42 am

Wayoshi wrote:For those avoiding Canadian spoilers, they may be abruptly stopping effective immediately: https://www.equestriadaily.com/2017/05/ ... son-7.html

I will delete the episode threads currently stickied if this is confirmed on Saturday.


My plan of sticking with the USA schedule means I still have several more weeks of new ponies to look forward to! :plonk:
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Postby PaulloDEC (?) » Fri May 26, 2017 6:30 am

Mr. Big wrote:So they just announced at the Licensing Expo that season 8 has been greenlit, with 26 episodes as usual.

This would bring the total to 195 episodes. Now they'll have to order season 9 so they can reach 200 episodes :twonk:


Nice! This makes the existence of the movie a little more interesting, and also answers the question of whether the movie was going to be a grand finale for FiM. I guess there's no intention to stop making FiM in the near future, and the success or failure of the movie will determine whether the IP has a future on the big screen as well.
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