Purple Queen

Purple Queen is an adult-oriented block that airs on free-to-air children's network Red Princess. It airs on Monday through Thursday at 10 PM to 6 AM and weekends from 11 PM to 5 AM and every Saturday from 10 PM to 2 AM on ION and Fridays from 8 PM to 12 AM on ION Plus. It launched on January 7, 2019 as a response to Qubo Night Owl closing down. It is aimed to adults from 18-49. It's very similar to other adult-oriented programming blocks in the minds of Fox Family's DarkFox, Gingo's Nighthouse and Cartoon Network's Adult Swim.

Origins
Prior to the launch of the block, Red Princess aired cartoons from WildBrain and Warner Bros. All of the shows (except for Madeline) seem to have a preteen/teenage demographic. Following the launch of the Boys and Girls night out weekend blocks (which the shows moved to except for Randy Rabbit and Inspector Gadget), the network launched a nighttime adult-oriented block. The "queen" part was chosen to signify its adult demographic. Compared to Red Princesses' demographic of children and teens. The ION block was formed after E.W. Scripps' merger with ION Media Networks. On March 1, 2021, the block also added a 90-minute Newsy block every Monday to Thursday. Nowadays, it is used as the Nighttime identity of Red Princess as well as ION Television.

On May 29, 2021, Purple Queen announced that they would become a syndication service on their Friday night lineup similar to MyNetworkTV, The CW, and ION Television. This means that the block's Friday night lineup would be entirely operated by the Station owner as opposed to Red Princess itself. During the process, NBCUniversal announced that they would air their NightHouse animated programming on the block via stations owned by NBC, Sinclair, and Nextar. Disney also made an announcement to air DarkFox on their ABC stations.

Programming
Purple Queen airs mostly a specific type of programming every day. Mondays are aimed to African-Americans, Tuesdays air westerns, Wednesdays air mysteries, Thursdays air comedy programming, Fridays air infomercials (as well as anime), Saturdays air anime and Sundays air animated shows.

However, starting on April 19, 2021, the channel is undergoing a schedule rebrand and will include various programming blocks too. Thus making the network more unique compared to its sister Katz networks (Grit, Laff, Bounce, and Court TV Mystery) and ION Television.

Upcoming

 * The Vortex - A 4.5-hour revival of the programming block of the same name on The CW. The block airs on Saturday night and mostly contains action-focused anime. It is planned to air from 12 AM to 4:30 AM.
 * Purple Queen Market Place - A programming block that airs every Friday after Royal Court until Red Princess signs on.
 * What The Toons? - What The Toons, or WTT for short, is a Sunday night cartoon-focused programming block that contains exclusively new episodes of both acquired and original animated shows. It airs from 11:30 PM to 4:30 AM.
 * Royal Court - A multicast of sister Katz channel, Court TV. It airs every Friday from 12 AM to 3:30 AM every Sunday.