Fox Friday Animation Domination

**Fox Friday Animation Domination** is an American animated programming block featuring a lineup solely made up of prime-time animation and adult animation carried as a majority of, or the whole of, the network's Friday evening schedule. It originally ran from October 29, 1999 until May 30, 2003, before returning on April 29, 2005.

## History

### Original run

Fox Friday Animation Domination debuted on Fox on October 29, 1999, in time for the beginning of the 1999-00 television season. The Animation Domination lineup were *The Simpsons*, *King of the Hill,* *Futurama, South Park,* and *The PJ's.* In October 2000, *The PJ's* would be moved to the WB Network in it's final season and so Fox would replace that with *Aqua Teen Hunger Force* which would premiere in November 2001. In May 2003, Fox decided to cancel *Futurama* after four seasons due to low ratings. Rather than continuing the block with it's remaining four animated shows, Fox ended the block and all four shows would move back to Sunday nights for the 2003-04 season.

### Return

In early January 2005, Fox announced that *Family Guy* would officially air new episodes in May 2005. A year before, Fox already announced that *Family Guy* would return thanks to High DVD Sales and High ratings following syndication on Adult Swim. Meanwhile, between February and March 2005, Fox would premiere three new series. *American Dad!* which was co-created by Seth MacFarlane of *Family Guy* would air it's pilot episode on Super Bowl Sunday right after *The Simpsons* on February 6, 2005. *Robot Chicken*, a clay-mation series would air it's pilot on February 20, 2005 and *The Office* which is similar to the UK series would premiere on March 20, 2005. On April 15, 2005, Fox announced that at the end of April, Fox Friday would come back due to the Sunday night schedule changing right around the end of the 2004-05 season. On April 29, 2005, Fox Friday Animation Domination would officially return with episodes of South Park and Aqua Teen Hunger Force airing episodes at 10:00 and 10:30 PM ET respectively.

On October 21, 2005, the block would begin a new season with *King of the Hill*, *South Park, Aqua Teen Hunger Force,* and *Robot Chicken*. On November 4, 2005, *The Boondocks* would premiere and a month later, *Moral Orel* would premiere on December 2, 2005.

In the 2006-2007 season, Fox would move *King of the Hill* back to airing on Sunday nights and would move *The Cleveland Show* (which aired it's first season from September 25, 2005 to May 21, 2006) to air on Friday's. Meanwhile, in April 2007, Fox announced that *Futurama* (which was cancelled in 2003 after it's fourth season) was announced to return to Fox in October-November 2007. At the same time, a new animated series titled *Regular Show* was announced to premiere between 2007 or 2008.

The 2007-2008 schedule for Fox would begin on October 19, 2007 with premieres of *Aqua Teen Hunger Force* season 8, *Moral Orel* season 3, *South Park* season 11, *The Cleveland Show,* season 3, and would air a one-hour season premiere for *Futurama*'s fifth-season premiere. *The Boondocks* third season and *Robot Chicken*'s fourth season would premiere on October 26, 2007 respectively. On January 18, 2008, *Regular Show* would air it's pilot episode on Fox before officially premiering on April 11, 2008.