Saban Returns to Saturday Mornings with THE VORTEXX!

We’ve finally learned the name of the new Saban block airing this fall and it is The Vortexx! The block will be replacing CW4Kids beginning August 25th at 7 AM.


The news comes after 4Kids filed for bankruptcy and had the five hour block of TV purchased by Saban last month. Yu-Gi-Oh will stick around thanks to an agreement made with Konami, who recently purchased the rights to that franchise from 4Kids (as well as their New York offices) and will have Power Rangers join as the two tent poles of the five hour Saturday morning block. New shows are being promised as well as reruns of a Power Rangers series that has not aired on TV in close to a decade. (so that smashes any hopes of a proper RPM airing) “This block will be targeting kids with an action-adventure-comedy slant,” said Mr. Dekel, adding that it will tend to skew toward boys. “We are going to be rebranding this block and reprogramming this block with new shows that super-serve that audience.” In addition to this, we’re hearing that Saban will eventually air new episodes of Power Rangers on The Vortexx. Power Rangers currently has a contract through 2014 for new episodes with Nickelodeon, but could this mean change is on the horizon? Stay tuned for news as it comes in!

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    • "I would rather watch it subbed online than butchered,dumbed down and americanized to suit the PC BSers that are modern parents." The elitest KR fandom's reaction to your statement.

      Jokes aside..

      I believe that if the series did get adapted and done well, one of two possible things could happen.

      1. It will lead to the usual mass marketing blitz with toys, video games etc. and be popular with the kiddies.

      2. It will tank in the ratings for being a "Power Rangers Clone" even though it's well written and get cancelled. Kids these days have a very narrow attention span and probably would rather watch the Annoying Orange on youtube for hours. (Why in gods name did he get a tv show?)

      I would hope for #1.. but I do have concerns about how they are going to do it...

      • its kind of hard to predict what would happen if they do it. especially due to the fact that saban owns the block. so i guess they will have a bit more freedom but you never know.

        hell even dragon knight got decent ratings and emmy. so we got toys and a video game that made me pretty happy and i still watch it from time to time. matt mullins is a great fighter so we got some good non suit martial arts action. something we rarely even see in the japanese kamen rider series

  • vortex will have WW Saturday morning slam, DBZ kai , PR Lost galaxy, yugioh/yugioh zexal, and from what I've heard Iron Man armored adventures and Justice League Unlimited. This is alot of good content, but my fear is that with marvel, DC, and power rangers all owned by separate stations for now, it will be hard to round up new stuff until at least 2014, which might lead to another dump and run for Saturday morning content on broadcast t.v.

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