Animation Domination (also calledAniDom,Fox AD, andAD) is an Americananimatedprogramming block that has aired in two iterations on theFox broadcast network, featuring a lineup solely made up of prime-time animated sitcoms andadult animation carried as a majority of, or the whole of, the network's Sunday evening schedule (outside ofsports pre-emptions and early hour programmingburn offs).[2] It originally ran from May 1, 2005, until September 21, 2014, before returning on September 29, 2019.[3]
Animation Domination debuted on Fox on May 1, 2005, in time for the lastsweeps period of the2004–05 television season. The first program to originate on the block wasAmerican Dad!, although itspilot aired as aSuper Bowllead-out program on February 6, 2005. Rounding out the Animation Domination lineup alongsideAmerican Dad! wereThe Simpsons (the longest-running cartoon on Fox and the network's first primetime animated series, which predated the lineup by 16 years),King of the Hill (which predated the lineup by eight years) andFamily Guy (which predated the lineup by six years, and was revived as a series three years after its 2002 cancellation as a result of newfound popularity through reruns onFox lineup and sales of the first, second, and third-season episodes on DVD).[4][5]
Untilspring 2010, when Animation Domination consisted only of animated series, live-action programming was also present within the block, including shows likeMalcolm in the Middle andThe War at Home.King of the Hill later ended on September 13, 2009, on Fox, and was replaced by theFamily Guy spin-offThe Cleveland Show for the2009–10 television season, with the former's time slot of 8:30 PM.[6] Four episodes of the series remained, but Fox opted not to air them, later being burn-offed in syndication from May 3–6, 2010. Fox would later premiereBob's Burgers on January 9, 2011.
From thefall of 2014 to thesummer of 2017, the Animation Domination block was replaced by theSunday Funday block, with the addition of live-action comediesBrooklyn Nine-Nine (which moved to Sunday night for its second season), freshman seriesMulaney (which was canceled in early 2015), and theWill Forte sitcom,The Last Man on Earth. This marked the first time that the network has regularly aired live-action comedies on Sundays (outside ofburn-offs of failed weeknight series) since 2005. Fromfall of 2017 to thesummer of 2019, the Sunday night lineup was simply referred to asFox Sunday Night, also with the addition of live-action comedies.
The block returned on September 29, 2019, with previousAD seriesThe Simpsons,Bob's Burgers,Family Guy and the new seriesBless the Harts.Duncanville debuted on February 16, 2020.
In April 2020,Fox Entertainment announced their partnership withCaffeine to produce theAniDom Beyond Show, a recap show hosted byAndy Richter.[8] The show aired its finale on May 18, 2020, and it is unknown whether it will return in the future.
On January 18, 2022, Fox announced they would be eyeing a two-hour Monday block in May 2023. In 2024, Family Guy was temporarily moved to Wednesdays, and in the summer of 2025, the three-hour Sunday lineup was temporarily changed to a two-hour Thursday lineup (while reairs of primetime programming normally aired on Thursdays during summer were moved to Sundays).[15]
Bless the Harts ended after two seasons on June 20, 2021. A year later, on June 30, 2022, Fox cancelled Duncanville after three seasons[16] and the series concluded on October 18, 2022, with its final six episodes on Hulu.[17]
The Simpsons,Family Guy andBob's Burgers were each renewed for two more seasons through 2025 on January 26, 2023.[18]
On March 1, 2023,Krapopolis was renewed for a third season ahead of its premiere on September 24.[19][20]Grimsburg premiered on January 7, 2024.[21]HouseBroken was canceled on May 10, 2024, after two seasons.[22] On May 13, 2024,Universal Basic Guys was renewed for a second season ahead of its debut on September 8.[23][24] On July 25, 2024,Krapopolis was renewed for a fourth season, ahead of the show's second-season premiere.[25]
On February 16, 2025, the whole lineup was delayed by two hours due to rain delays during the2025 Daytona 500 andThe Great North aired a repeat of its fifth-season premiere.
On March 21, 2025, it was announced that plans were being made to returnAmerican Dad!, which moved toTBS in 2014, back to Fox's Animation Domination lineup, where it would air alongsideThe Simpsons,Family Guy andBob's Burgers.[26] On April 2, 2025,The Simpsons,Family Guy andBob's Burgers were each renewed for four seasons andAmerican Dad! was confirmed to be returning to Fox, also for four seasons.[27]
On May 10, 2025, Fox renewedGrimsburg,Krapopolis andUniversal Basic Guys.[28]
On September 23, 2025, Aimee Steinberger, a director onThe Great North, posted onBluesky that the show had been cancelled after five seasons.[29] On October 3, 2025, Fox made the cancellation ofThe Great North official.[30]
The Simpsons andUniversal Basic Guys switched time slots on November 9, November 23 and December 14, 2025.
Bob's Burgers repeated its season 16 premiere on November 16, 2025.
Krapopolis andBob's Burgers aired repeats on November 30, 2025.
On December 21, 2025,The Simpsons was preempted byUniversal Basic Guys followed byThe 2025 Fox Winter Preview and repeats ofKrapopolis andBob's Burgers.
On December 28, 2025,Universal Basic Guys was preempted byThe Simpsons following the season 4 premiere ofAnimal Control.
On January 4, 2026,The Simpsons andUniversal Basic Guys were preempted by the series premiere ofBest Medicine and the former preemptedBob's Burgers.
The lineup aired repeats on February 8, 2026, withBob's Burgers preempted by a second episode ofUniversal Basic Guys.
On February 15, 2026,Universal Basic Guys aired at 9:00 pm between the one-hour season 37 finale ofThe Simpsons and the season 24 premiere ofFamily Guy.
On January 8, 2013, Fox announced that it would launch anadult animation spin-off to its Sunday evening block calledAnimation Domination High-Def (ADHD).[33] It originally broadcast on Saturday evenings for 90 minutes from 11:00 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. local time in most markets. It was later reduced to 11:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m. on September 7, 2013, with the 12:00 a.m. half-hour being given back to itsowned-and-operated stations andaffiliates to carry other programming. Some of its affiliates delayed the block by 30 minutes to an hour to run late evening newscasts (sports overruns occasionally caused further delays).
