Spark Animation

Spark Animation is a television channel in the Euro Republics which focuses on animated shows, usually broadcasting adult animation, anime, animated movies & world animation.

History
On December 31, 1999, Spark launched S200, a spinoff to Spark, launched in 1993, and Spark2, another offshoot channel started in 1996.

S2000 mainly focused on men with sports, documentaries, comedy and motoring in the evenings, while daytime offered shows for female audiences with lifestyle shows, reality, drama, shopping, nature, home renevation and wellbeing programmes among the lineup.

As 2001 dawned, the channel was rebranded as Spark 3, mirroring it’s other sister network Spark 2, the channel. Spark 3 originally took a catch-up focus, allowing viewers to see the best of Spark, Spark 2 & TV3 at different times. Later on in the channel's life, a greater emphasis was put on younger audiences, which led to a new look for the channel in 2005.

On 1st February, 2011, to coincide with ET1 reshuffling their channel lineup, Spark3, despite staying on 108 rebranded as TripleSpark. The channel would now skew older, with drama (mostly from the BBC/ITV archives), documentaries & classic comedy,

In 2018, it was announced TripleSpark would be replaced in December 2018 by Spark Animation, with 24/7 animated TV shows, including the arsenal of animated shows aired on other EuroMedia networks, in addition to new original series. The network would be based on Spark’s animated block, Animation Domination (not to be confused with the Fox block of the same name) which had ran since the start of 2018. All live-action programmes would be moved to the main channel and Spark 2.

Friday night 3C strand Toonattik would also air on weekday afternoons as 'Toonattik After School'.

The launch took full shape at 12am on 1st December, 2018. The final show on TripleSpark was Downton Abbey.

This gave them access to the vast variety of animated TV shows. Animation Domination Wednesday moved from Spark 2 to Spark Animation in January 2019, but went back to Spark2 in June of that year to make way for Globetoons. In March 2020, Spark Animation was rebranded with a new logo, mirroring that of it’s parent network, although the blue remained.