Off the Air (2011)
- Genre
- anthology series
- Country
- United States
- Length
- 5 seasons, 27 episodes
- Rated
- TV-14
- Rating
- 8.4 of 10 from 24 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This show is a collection of short, strange videos edited together around a single topic like animals or food. There is no host or explanation, just a nonstop flow of bizarre and often shocking images designed to get under your skin.
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What happens
Off the Air is an American psychedelic anthology television series created by Dave Hughes for Cartoon Network's nighttime programming block Adult Swim. The series is presented without explanation or narration as a showcase of surreal footage arranged around a single loose theme (expressed in the episode title) and blended without pause into a single continuous presentation. The series premiered on Adult Swim on January 1, 2011, 4:00 am New Year's Day. Hughes is a former employee of MTV Animation who first pitched it to Mike Lazzo at Adult Swim after producing a video mixtape for the network's 2010 Carnival Tour event. As a result of its 4 a.m. graveyard slot and small selection of episodes, the series remains relatively unknown on the network, but has been received positively and dubbed a cult phenomenon by critics and Adult Swim itself. The series has aired 54 episodes and 3 specials over the course of 15 seasons, including two episodes, "Technology" (by Wham City) and "Paradise" (by Ghosting.tv), that Adult Swim announced on October 13, 2017, would air in late 2017. On December 31, 2019, Dave Hughes tweeted that the episode "Patterns" was the "last [one] for now", indicating that the series had been put on hiatus until further notice. Following this, the show received six more seasons: season 10 on June 9, 2020; season 11 on October 12, 2021; season 12 on July 4, 2022; season 13 on December 19, 2023; season 14 on December 17, 2024; and season 15 on December 30, 2025. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Love, Death & Robots (2019)- More like this series, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.