Mintered in the UK

This is an overview of the Fox animated show Mintered in the United Kingdom. Channel 4 has first run rights and airs new episodes in October/November, similar to how Family Guy works in the UK (ITV2 then Fox), and then Sky One begins showing them in the March/April after Channel 4’s broadcast.

Channel 4
In the UK, Mintered was first aired on Channel 4 in September 1995 airing Fridays at 9:30pm, the first two episodes were also aired back-to-back. For the second season, it debuted in January 1997, it aired Fridays at 9pm, it later moved to a later slot of 10:30pm for the remainder of the series, Series 3 began airing on the channel on 3 October 1997 until 19 December 1997 on Fridays at 9:30pm, resuming from 9 January 1998 to 5 June 1998 at 8:30pm.

From Series 4 to Series 8, it was screened on Fridays at 10:00pm, and repeated at 5:30pm the following week. In January 2001, following the cancellation of TFI Friday, it moved to 6:30pm, moving to 6pm in November 2003 due to soap opera Hollyoaks extending to 5 nights a week, and was restored to 5:30pm in November 2004 when the 6pm slot was taken over by The Simpsons.

From Series 9, Mintered was shown at 8:30pm on Fridays, prior to Friends for the first 3 episodes, and The Simpsons for episode 4 onwards, in addition to airing at 5:30pm on weekdays, and being added to the T4 weekend programming block, until it’s demise in late December 2012. As of October 2019, new episodes air Fridays in a 5:30pm slot preceeding The Simpsons, with late night repeats. In April 2020, new episodes were moved to Wednesdays at 6:30pm (replacing Hollyoaks) with repeats on 4seven and E4.

S4C
In Wales, Mintered, along with many other Channel 4 shows at the time, was shown on the Welsh C4 substitute, S4C (Sianel Pedwar Cymru) on the same day as it began airing on C4. Due to the channel having to carry Welsh language programming in peak times, Mintered was aired on the channel at 10pm instead of 9:30pm.

Sky One
Mintered debuted on pay entertainment channel Sky One in May 1996 and moved to Sky 2 in August of the same year, after low ratings, it moved back to Sky1 in March 1997 where the rest of the first series would be burned off in double bills with the second series beginning in April, which had began on C4 in March. Nowadays, older episodes of Mintered (series 4 as of April 2020) airs at 5:30pm on weekdays and 7:30pm on weekends, while new episodes are broadcast Fridays at 8:30pm.