Annioka

Anioka is an adult animated television series for ETV2 in the Euro Republics and FOX (and later Showtime) in the USA. It first aired on December 28, 1991, coinciding with ETV2 rebranding the month after. During it’s time on FOX, it was the only show to consistently get the TV-MA rating on network television, despite being censored.

rendering the Fox episodes as uncensored. It has mixed to negative for it’s toilet humour, although others are good, as some episodes are more serious and deal with real topics.

Plot
The series centers around Anioka, a foul mouthed 13 year old girl with her family of 11 siblings and her pet dog, Doggin.

Devolopment
In 1990, American animated sitcom The Simpsons was broadcast in the Euro Republics on television channel TV3. Soon later, ERTV's head of comedy, Cameron Lee, became desperate to get into the adult animafion market and began to work out how to launch another cartoon sitcom that was not a copy of The Simpsons.

He then thought of a series about a large family of adopted foster children, brought together from bleak backgrounds, not realising they all were raised to be badly behaved. Annioka, their only non-adopted child, learns from the ways of her half siblings and becomes a foul-mouthed, bratty person.

Lee asked Network 2 bosses about the possibility to let the show push television boundaries, by showing bad language, bloody violence, heavy sex scenes, use of illegal drugs & discrimination. Having already shown some adult material before, the channel allowed the programme to test the waters with extremely mature content, on the condition a warning was screened before & after the programme, and after the ad break, though agreed that some content would be blacklisted.

The show was scheduled for launch in November 1991, but was delayed after an episode had to be heavily censored due to ridiculing victims of World War II, which Network 2 said was "an unacceptable breach of decency & respect".

The show proved controversial before broadcast, with many anti-hate groups boycotting ERTV for broadcasting it.

The first broadcast was seen on 28th December, 1991 and attracted 16 million viewers, and was very controversial, with 86 mentions of various swears, a sex scene & heavy violence. The following day, the show made front-page headlines filled with negative reception, with the Euro Independent calling it "A remarkably rude programme, which disobeyed virtually all of the broadcast standards." Despite this, ratings remained high due to the crass content.

Euro Republics

 * ETV Two

United States

 * FOX (1992-2015)
 * Showtime (2015-present)

United Kingdom

 * Channel 4 (1992-2014)
 * ITV2 (2016-present)
 * Sky One (1993-present)

Canada

 * Global

Australia

 * Network 10 (1992-2011)
 * Eleven (2011-2018)
 * Fox Showcase (2018-present)

Kuboia

 * Vision One (1994-present)

Sydnication
Annioka began sydnication in 1997 on Canada’s The Comedy Network where it was broadcast until 2019 when it moved to Crave, a Canadian version of Showtime. In the USA, it’s first taste of sydnication was on Comedy Central in 1997. In 2003, Turner Broadcasting won the rights to air Annioka on Adult Swim. It left the lineups in 2015 as they did not want to air a Showtime series due to being a sister network to it’s rival service HBO. Starting in 2018, Annioka began airing on Showtime 2 for one season before moving back to the main network.

Spin off
A spin off series focusing on the African-American character Rugger is set for a 2020 release on SHO*BET.