The official Facebook page for Adult Swim’s Toonami programming block announced on Thursday that the lineup will get shorter on February 22 (airing 11:30 p.m. to 4:00 a.m.) and even shorter on February 29 (airing 11:30 p.m. to 3:00 a.m.).
DeMarco stated that Adult Swim’s programming department asked about how his team felt about shortening the Toonami broadcast, as the programming block at 5.5-6 hours in length was “getting too expensive and unwieldy to handle.”
The lineup currently airs from 11:00 p.m. to 4:00 a.m. Toonami will air the final episode of Dr. Stone on February 22.
Jason DeMarco, senior vice-president and creative director for Adult Swim, posted on Twitter on Friday that Toonami will be moving back to a three-hour block “for a while.”