Can this show find a big enough audience on Nicktoons to be a significant success?

[Lazlo Panaflex]

The show is already airing in other countries, how the phuck did that happen? with the popularity the X-Men have had in animation you'd think a network would pick it up sooner.

I might want to watch it since the animation harkens back to traditional animation instead of the anime infested X-Men Evolution.

 

[TheVileOne]

I'd hardly call Evolution anime infested.

Also, this show has a lot of the same creative team as Evolution. Some of the designs are very similar.

It aired in other countries first because they made the broadcast deals first. And also WOLVERINE MOVIE comes out in May.

 

[StarkTheProdigy]

i can't wait till friday! im stoked, it starts in the u.s!

 

[TheVileOne]

I'll give credit where credit is due.

Regardless of the access of Nicktoons, the promotion Nicktoons and Nickelodeon have made for the series so far has been very strong and impressive. They've made a consistent and gradual push for the series over the last several months. They aired interview clips with the voice actors and writers. They've even aired clips of some of the episodes that won't come until much later in the show's run.

Marvel has also done a good job of promoting the series online. Not only that but we will be able to watch the free streaming episodes of the series on their website. Good way for Marvel to get on the TV online bandwagon.

So the promotion up to the debut of the show has been overall fantastic. I hope that Nicktoons continues to give strong promotion to the series after it airs and keep it on a consistent schedule.

With all the hype and promotion and the fanbase, I can't see why the show wouldn't do well.

I'm more excited about this show now than any of the live action Wolverine or future X-men movies.

 

[Zombie Superman]

I'd like to add my voice to the other folks who say Nicktoons is indeed a "privileged" channel.

I have seen ONE episode of this series because Nick replayed the pilot about a day or two after it premiered.

Clone Wars episodes are airing on TNT as well as CN...why can't Nick simply do the same with WaTXM?

I'm going to going the less legal route in finding these...

Z\S/

 

[joshthesmart]

i think it did
Thanks to the abundance of advertising for the series done by Nicktoons and Marvel, the Nicktoons Network premiere of Wolverine and the X-Men, garnered Nicktoons with their biggest ratings ever. Over 500,000 watched the premiere, which is the network's highest ratings ever. [32]

• Hindsight, Part One 436,000 viewers
• Hindsight, Part Two 589,000 viewers

 

[Dread]

Yeah. The show is a ratings hit on Nicktoons, and reruns on normal Nick also get strong ratings. It was a hit in Latin America and Canada, too.

Criticisms aside, the show is doing very well commercially.

 

[TheVileOne]

Every X-men show has.

X-men is a powerful, strong media brand.

No X-men show has ever been a failure, unlike Spider-man.

 

[Dread]

You have me there. Marvel tried and failed to get the X-Men into a TV show in the 80's when they were attached to NBC, but ever since the original hit FoxKids in 1992, every X-Men show has had at least 2 seasons, with no X-Men show yet ending before 4 seasons (or 52 episodes, whichever your pleasure). Even Spider-Man had two one-season flops within the last decade.

 

[TheVileOne]

The pilot isn't really a failure because it was a pilot that never aired.

X-men has a better track record as an animated series than Spider-man. That simple.

Spider-man had two shows in a row that were embarrassments and massive failures.

 

[Dread]

PRYDE OF THE X-MEN did technically air on NBC, they just never bit for a series like Marvel wanted. They just would occasionally run it as part of their Marvel Hour ("Marvel Action Universe") block in 1989 (a block that had DINO-RIDERS, ROBOCOP: THE ANIMATED SERIES as well as reruns of the 1981 SPIDER-MAN series as well as reruns of SPIDER-MAN AND HIS AMAZING FRIENDS from 1982-195). PRYDE was entirely financed by Marvel.

I was basically agreeing with you, dude. The X-Men have a better track record on TV than Spider-Man since the 90's. Hell, by the time FoxKids bit on a stab at their own Spider-Man show, X-MEN was already on Season 2 and helped pave the way for all the other Marvel cartoons in the 90's.

Still, I would like to see SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN get a third season, but that depends on how it does on Disney XD. Honestly WOLVERINE AND THE X-MEN has also gotten better promotion; in comics and to general X-Men fans; SS-M is simply being geared to kids, not all ages, and that is inferior promotion frankly. But, yeah, as a TV commodity, the X-Men across now three networks have proven to be a ratings hit (four if you count that EVOLUTION reruns on CARTOON NETWORK did do well for the short period they they were reaired there).

 

[rainingcrow]

I dont care what it takes to keep this show, move networks, make it primetime, implement an ad campaign like never seen before, just make this show last!!!! OMG I have been a huge x-men fan most of my life and this is the absolute best thing I have ever seen put to screen large or small concerning them. I dont care if they ever even try to make another live action x movie ever again, just keep this show for twenty seasons , keep it forever, make it the official televised version of the comic!

 

[TheVileOne]

Well it looks like we are getting another 26 episodes. So 52 episodes is a lot for this type of show.

 

[TheVileOne]

Thus far to assess how NickToons has been handling of the show.

I rate NickToons handling of the series at above average.

The promotion and advertising for the series has been very good. NickToons did a good job of promoting the show and getting the word out. The press releases were very well done, and were disseminated all over the place. My website even did a news story on the press release, which I don't even see very often on the site.

The best promotion was the In Scene segments showing quick little interview tidbits with the cast and crew on television.

NickToons would also even broadcast snippets of spoiler scenes. They would show clips from episodes that have still yet to air here.

The premiere of the show drew huge ratings, and they even reran the premiere on Nickelodeon.

So where does Nicktoons need to improve?

1. The constant hiatus. As of now, only 13 episodes of the first season have aired in the US. This is kind of ridiculous to me. The show has already aired pretty much everywhere else on the planet. England and Canada have already finished season 1. Latin America finished it before everyone else. NickToons is holding back way too much and they need to get with the program already. I think part of the problem was targeting a Spring 2009 airdate instead of the fall. Which was good because of all the hype surrounding the Wolverine movie when it was building to a fever pitch. But in the words of Avi Arad, Wolverine "came and went." At this point I don't see what the hold up is. Season 2 has been pretty much confirmed everywhere. We know they are working on it. It seems arbitrary more than anything not to show it right now.

2. Video on demand. Its very rare for me to see Wolverine and the X-men in my cable VOD selection. I don't understand this. Nickelodeon will put it up for VOD on Time Warner, and then it will be taken down pretty quickly. I see no reason they can't archive the entire run of the show thus far on VOD since this is a sensationally serialized show. I mean I can go into HBO and I can pretty much pick the entire last season of just about any show they have.

3. Reruns on regular Nickelodeon. I'm not saying it has to be a regular thing, but why can't we see some more reruns on regular Nickelodeon? There's already a precedent with the premiere. Why at some point cannot more episodes get a little Nick play?