Friday, 27 January 2012

Exclusive: Season Sixteen confirmed for Japan airing

The longly-awaited Sixteenth Series of Thomas & Friends has been confirmed for a start of broadcast, in Japan.

With no official dates given out for UK and US airings, the 2012 Season is expected to follow the British run in January 2013.

The NHK channel was contacted by PuffPuffThomasTV about the future for Japanese Thomas fans to see more series with the station giving out a brief statement.
About Thomas & Friends, we'll broadcast Series 14, Series 15, and Series 16. But we won't divide for each series.

However PuffPuffThomasTV has notified Roll Along Thomas that the Sixteenth run could well be the first to air in a non English speaking country.

The new seasons will be aired every Sunday at 7:00am to 7:20am and two episodes will be aired each time. Based on it, it is conceivable that Season 16 will be aired on next January in Japan if it follows original UK broadcast order.
But if all the series episodes are mixed, the Series 16's episodes will appear on April at the earliest.

Seasons Fourteen, Fifteen and Sixteen all make their debuts in Japan on NHK every Sunday starting from April 8th at 7:00am with the Sixteenth Series foreseeing a January 2013 transmission.

The 2012 Series is contemplating a UK broadcast on Channel 5's milkshake! slot sometime this Spring.
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6 comments:

  1. SteamTeam27 January 2012 at 21:01

    That was worth waiting for :)

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  2. Bram of BramGroatFilms on YouTube28 January 2012 at 02:55

    It's nice to have an update!

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    1. Chris28 January 2012 at 07:24

      It's not much of one, really. Sure, we know the Japanese air date, but there's still no word on an English speaking version (whether it be UK or US).

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  3. Anonymous29 January 2012 at 03:11

    why havent we seen the episode titles for that season 16 and what characters coming back, besides the narrow gauge engines.

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  4. Anonymous13 February 2012 at 17:24

    we know DUKE may be coming back but who else? (dukes reintroduced wooden railway had a cgi like face)

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