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The English adaptation of the series was produced by 4Kids Entertainment (for eight seasons), with video distribution of the series was handled by Viz for the TV series for the younger generation as well as the eighth movie forward, Kids WB! and Nintendo for the first three movies and the first special, Miramax Films, and Buena Vista Home Entertainment for the fourth movie through the seventh. The series and all feature films are directed by Kunihiko Yuyama, with English adaptations originally written by Norman Grossfeld and Michael Haigney. However, starting with the ninth season, the American branch of The Pokémon Company, Pokémon USA, replaced 4Kids as the show producers and distributors outside of Japan, and the program has a new voice cast.
The show recently started its fourth season of Advanced Generation, titled Pokémon: Battle Frontier. Beginning on November 27, 2006, there will be a new episode Monday through Thursday for the time being. An English version of Housoukyoku has now been made, titled Pokémon Chronicles which premiered in the UK on Toonami on May 11, 2005 at 4:30 PM EST, and is currently airing on YTV in Canada. Each season also brings forth a Pokémon feature-length film, and each film up until the seventh is preceded by a Pokémon animated short.
In Japan, both series are shown on TV Tokyo, with Advanced Generation airing on Thursday nights (previously Monday) and Pokémon Sunday on Sunday mornings. In the United States, Advanced Generation could previously be seen on the air on the Kids’ WB! cartoon block on Saturdays, but in April 2006, Kids WB!, which continue on the newly-merged CW Network, announced the fall schedule and Pokémon was nowhere to be seen, replaced by the WB-created series Legion of Super-Heroes. The rights for Battle Frontier have been picked up by TimeWarner’s corporate sibling Cartoon Network instead, and have aired on CN since September 9, 2006 at 9 am US ET/PT, with a special prime-time episode having been aired the night before Friday, September 8 at 8:30 PM ET/PT, following the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon special. Recently the second and third Advance series, “Advanced Challenge” and “Advanced Battle” started airing as part of the Miguzi block on the US version of CN at 5:00 pm US ET/PT, and earlier editions of the series aired on CN’s American sibling service, Boomerang, from July 31, 2006 to October 20, 2006. Cartoon Network’s India service, along with their Toonami UK service, also carries Pokémon episodes. As of October 9, 2006, Cartoon Network’s online service, Toonami Jetstream, features Pokémon episodes starting at the Orange League episode “The Pokémon Water War”.
The newest series of Pokémon began airing in Japan on September 28, 2006 and is set in the Sinnoh region, based on the new Diamond and Pearl games. The games are currently released in Japan and to be released in 2007 in the USA, with the series liekly following. Ash, Pikachu, Brock and Team Rocket have all returned, while May and Max did not return as main characters. In their place is a new character, Hikari, based on the female playable character from the games. A new rival for Ash, Shinji, is also featured.
In the United States it is the fifth longest running animated TV show, only beaten by The Simpsons, King of the Hill, Arthur, and South Park. Pokémon has more episodes than any of these shows, with 452 episodes aired in the U.S. and over 470 episodes aired in Japan.
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