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 initally aired on Channel 4 in April 1996 airing on Fridays at 10pm, after the channel acquired the show in March of that year, for the second series, it aired Fridays at 9pm in a slot before South Park, it later moved to a later slot of 10:30pm for the remainder of the series, Series 3 aired on Saturday mornings, but after poor ratings, moved to a 10pm Friday slot, like series 1. It stayed like this until series 9, for said series, 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.

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.