If Teletoon is Canada's version of Cartoon Network and Teletoon Retro was the Canadian Boomerang, then this is the Great White North's answer to [adult swim].
Teletoon at Night was a programming block specializing in teen and adult-oriented cartoons. While Teletoon had aired animated shows for older audiences since its inception in 1997, they didn't launch a block specifically catering to them until 2000. In fact, they actually launched two blocks, The Detour on Teletoon in 2002 (which started earlier in the night and was aimed at teens) and Teletoon Unleashed in 2000 (which aired really late at night and skewed more towards adults). The latter block was merged into the former in September 2004 due to a lack of new programming, with its name being amended to Teletoon Detour in 2008. A year later, Teletoon Detour was changed to weekends-only, with a new block known as Teletoon at Night taking over its weeknight positions. Then in 2010, Teletoon at Night took over the weekends as well, fully phasing out the original Detour branding.
Shows from [adult swim] and Fox have long been among the chief staples of the block, but many Canadian-produced series originally created for the block have also been shown, with Canadian Content laws ensuring that even the shortest-lived ones are constantly rerun for years after cancellation. Due to minor Network Decay however, the block has also aired a few live-action movies, often straying away from adaptations of cartoons and comics in their later years to focus more on the kinds of movies that the block's core demographic enjoys.
Per usual, Teletoon at Night also has a French counterpart for Francophone Canada known as Télétoon la nuit (formerly Le Détour sur Télétoon, then Télétoon Détour). Like with the French versions of Teletoon and Teletoon Retro, it has much of the same programming as the English version, but also differs in key areas, notably airing series that are handled elsewhere in Anglophone Canada, like South Park.
In September 2015, much of Teletoon at Night's programming was moved over to the [adult swim] block on the Canadian Cartoon Network, with TaN getting pushed back from 9 PM to 10 PM and its Friday slots being taken over by Teletoon's superhero-focused "Superfan Friday" block. Around this time, many adult cartoons originally commissioned for Teletoon at Night, particularly the French version, began airing new episodes on the Canadian Adult Swim block instead. Eventually in March 2019, Corus Entertainment, the owners of Teletoon and its spinoffs, officially announced that both the Anglophone Teletoon at Night and the Adult Swim block on CN Canada would be shut down for good, with a new 24/7 Adult Swim network (the first one of its kind) to permanently replace them. The Canadian AS block aired for the last time on March 3, 2019, while the English version of Teletoon at Night aired for the last time on April 1, 2019. However, its French counterpart Télétoon la nuit still runs in French-speaking Canada and continues to fund new adult animated series.
Teletoon at Night and its variants have aired the following series (French-exclusive series are bolded, English-exclusive are marked with *):
Original Programming
- 2 Nuts and a Richard
- The Bizarre Stories of Professor Zarbi
- Bromwell High
- Clone High
- Crash Canyon
- Daft Planet
- The Dating Guy
- Delta State
- Doomsday Brothers
- Fugget About It
- John Callahan's Quads!
- Knuckleheads
- Life's a Zoo
- The Mike Ward Show
- Night Sweats*
- Punch!
- Sons of Butcher
- Station X
- The Télétoon Show
- Tripping the Rift
- Undergrads
- Vampire Steve* (YouTube exclusive)
- The Wrong Coast
Other Shows
- 12 oz. Mouse*
- American Dad!
- Angry Kid
- The Animatrix
- Apollos Pad*
- Aqua Teen Hunger Force*
- Archer
- Assy McGee*
- The Awesomes
- Axe Cop*
- The Batman
- Batman: The Animated Series
- Batman Beyond
- Beware the Batman
- Bob and Margaret
- Bob's Burgers
- The Boondocks
- The Brak Show*
- Bravest Warriors
- Captain Star
- The Cleveland Show*
- Code Monkeys*
- The Critic*
- Daria
- Evil Con Carne*
- Family Guy
- Father of the Pride
- The Flintstones
- Frisky Dingo*
- Futurama
- The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy*
- Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law*
- The Head*
- Hey Joel*
- Home Movies
- King of the Hill
- Lucas Bros Moving Co*
- Lucy, the Daughter of the Devil*
- Major Lazer*
- The Maxx*
- Metalocalypse*
- Minoriteam*
- Mission Hill*
- Moral Orel*
- Napoleon Dynamite*
- Naruto
- The Oblongs*
- Perfect Hair Forever*
- Pond Life
- The Ren & Stimpy Show
- Rick and Morty
- Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World
- The Ripping Friends
- Robot Chicken
- Saul of the Mole Men*
- Sealab 2021*
- The Simpsons
- South Park
- Space Ghost Coast to Coast*
- Spicy City
- Spider-Man (1967)
- Spy Groove*
- Squidbillies*
- Star Wars: Clone Wars
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars
- Stroker and Hoop*
- Super Milk Chan*
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012)
- Teen Titans (2003)
- The Tick
- Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!*note
- Time Squad
- Todd McFarlane's Spawn*
- Tom Goes to the Mayor*
- The Venture Bros.*
- Ultimate Spider-Man (2012)
- Xavier: Renegade Angel*
- X-Men: The Animated Series
- X-Men: Evolution
Associated tropes
- Adored by the Network: Justified. Archer was the one show on Teletoon at Night that received the most promotion because it was the only exclusive, first-run show on the block.
- Bad Export for You: Instead of Adult Swim Canada or Teletoon at Night, new original programming from Adult Swim in the U.S. (including new seasons of Robot Chicken and Rick and Morty) were once exclusive to the now-defunct Canadian "Adult Swim - Subscribe & Watch" SVOD mobile app, which was programmed by [as] Games. Unfortunately for cord-cutters, the app had been marred by various bugs and compatibility issues.
- Screwed by the Network: After Corus gained full ownership of Teletoon, incidents involving original and acquired programming have become very frequent.
- Similar to what happened in the U.S., the seventh season of Archer was originally planned to air on Adult Swim. But, as a result of the above, and because Archer was pretty much the only major show Teletoon at Night had left, it was decided at the last minute the show would remain as is.
- The French dub of Bob's Burgers on Télétoon la nuit only had new episodes for one single month, the same month it premiered.
- 2 Nuts And A Richard. Despite the show being adored by Télétoon la nuit, Adult Swim hasn't made a single promo (save for a promotional trailer) nor made any mention of the series on any of its 2015 and 2016 promo spots (unless you count the schedule image from the Fall 2015 promo). Since Fall 2016, the only time the show has been mentioned is at the end of promos for other shows.note It doesn't help that new English-dubbed episode premieres have been sporadic since the beginning of 2016.
- Made more perplexing by the fact that this show has never aired on Teletoon at Night despite being produced for its French-language counterpart. Like with Night Sweats, Knuckleheads (which was also produced for Télétoon la nuit), and season three of Fugget About It, the English dub premiered exclusively on Adult Swim in Fall 2015. However, whereas all three programs eventually aired on the former block, 2 Nuts And A Richard could still only be seen on the latter.
- Since the late 2010s, any acquisitions on Télétoon la nuit that aren't The Simpsons, Family Guy or American Dad! are bound to this. Even if the show is highly successful elsewhere, the block will either show the series twice a week or it will be pulled from the channel entirely. One example, South Park, an acquisition that's been on the network for over 19 years was pulled from the channel in 2018. Although, in this case, the show channel hopped to Z, a French network whose broadcast owner happens to own the English rights on another network.
