Channel 4 has pulled forward the UK premiere of season four of Rick And Morty after fans voiced their displeasure at the original broadcast plans.
Channel 4 had planned to show Adult Swim’s animated series from January next year, but will now begin broadcasting the program from November 20 at 10PM on youth channel E4.
Director of programs Ian Katz tweeted: “You told us you were none too happy about having to wait till January to see Series 4 on Channel 4. We heard you! So we’re bringing forward its UK premiere.”
Created by Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon, the Emmy-winning animated comedy follows a sociopathic genius scientist who drags his timid grandson on dangerous adventures across the universe. Season four launched on Adult Swim in the U.S. on Sunday night.
AStrangeNorrell on November 11st, 2019 at 19:50 UTC »
I can't see why Channel 4 are even trying to compete with Netflix for shows when they're sticking with archaic scheduling. Are we supposed to be impressed that we're now getting it ten days after its US broadcast? I could've grabbed it in the time it took to type this and skipped the inevitable ads in the process.
It's not like e4's got a packed schedule either - they've got three hours of Big Bang Theory repeats from 6.00 pm tonight.
Bouncing_Cloud on November 11st, 2019 at 19:32 UTC »
At first, I read this as the date being moved from January 2020 to November 2020 because they were so annoyed with the fans.
rule2productions on November 11st, 2019 at 19:22 UTC »
The fact that it can be moved up from January to November this easily just further proves that these waits and restrictions from distributors are completely arbitrary. And as others have pointed out, not releasing movies and shows simultaneously around the world will only lead to piracy. There's still over a week before Nov. 20 and I guarantee that R&M fans from the UK are just going to watch a pirated version of it before then. Why wouldn't they?