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 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 it's 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.

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.