Dragon Ball Kai and Dragon Ball Super also aired on national TV through the channels Kix and Pop respectively. The latter is now airing on GREAT! Action.
Dragon Ball Super’s addition to Disney+ will no doubt bring the series to a much wider audience.
The 2015 TOEI TV anime will premier on the channel May 5th at 11pm.
GREAT! Action is owned by Narrative Entertainment, who also owned Pop, the channel that had been airing Dragon Ball Super in the UK and Ireland on and off since 2019.
After 6 and a half years with a few breaks in between Dragon Ball Super will cease to air on traditional TV in the UK.
According to today’s listings on tvguide.co.uk the channel Pop, which has aired Dragon Ball Super since 2019 will close down in the early hours of New Years Day.
The schedule for today (December 31, 2025) and early tomorrow (January 1, 2026) is as follows:
6:00AM – Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir
6:31AM – Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir
7:02AM – Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir
7:33AM – Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir
8:00AM – Totally Spies!
8:31AM – Totally Spies!
9:02AM – Totally Spies!
9:33AM – Totally Spies!
10:00AM – Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir
10:31AM – Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir
11:02AM – Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir
11:33AM – Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir
12:00PM – Totally Spies!
12:31PM – Totally Spies!
1:02PM – Totally Spies!
1:33PM – Totally Spies!
2:00PM – Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir
2:31PM – Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir
3:02PM – Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir
3:33PM – Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir
4:00PM – Totally Spies!
4:31PM – Totally Spies!
5:02PM – Totally Spies!
5:33PM – Totally Spies!
6:00PM – Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir
6:31PM – Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir
7:02PM – Dragon Ball Super
7:33PM – Dragon Ball Super
8:00PM – Dragon Ball Super
8:31PM – Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir
9:02PM – Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir
9:33PM – Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir
10:00PM – Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir
10:31PM – Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir
11:00PM – Grizzy and the Lemmings
11:10PM – Grizzy and the Lemmings
11:20PM – Grizzy and the Lemmings
11:30PM – Grizzy and the Lemmings
11:40PM – Grizzy and the Lemmings
11:50PM – Pokemon Ultimate Journeys: The Series
12:14AM – Pokemon Ultimate Journeys: The Series
12:38AM – Pokemon Ultimate Journeys: The Series
1:02AM – She-Ra: Princess of Power
1:26AM – She-Ra: Princess of Power
1:50AM – Dragon Ball Super
2:14AM – Dragon Ball Super
2:38AM – Monster High
2:53AM – Monster High
3:08AM – Monster High
3:23AM – Monster High
3:38AM – Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir
4:02AM – Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir
4:26AM – Power Players
4:41AM – Power Players
4:56AM – Hero Inside
5:16AM – Hero Inside
5:36AM – Hero Inside
The final episodes of Dragon Ball Super to be rerun on the channel will be:
Dragon Ball Super’s 6-year run on UK TV should be coming to an end soon, as it has been announced Narrative Entertainment will be shutting down their linear channels and app next month.
Narrative Entertainment MD Paul Dunthorne commented:
“With commercial value across the UK kids’ TV market now just 4% of what it was 10 years ago, we’ve taken the decision to close our linear Pop channel at the end of the year. We understand the importance of offering high-quality kids’ TV, and we’ve done everything that we can to maintain Pop. But free-to-air channels for this audience are simply not commercially viable without public service broadcaster-style funding.
“We will retain our Pop presence on FAST channels in the UK on Freeview, Samsung, LG and other platforms, and internationally, as these continue to offer commercial opportunities.”
Sister channel Pop Max (which also aired Dragon Ball Super) left Freeview and Sky in December of last year, and January this year respectively. Their content was moved to Pop and Pop Player.
As it stands Dragon Ball Super remains on Pop from 7pm-8pm and 1:50am-2:38am every night. Whether it will be run until Pop’s last day broadcasting remains to be seen.
As Dragon Ball Super has lasted 6 years on Pop (although the channel removed it from their schedule at times) it is the instalment of the franchise which has been on UK TV for the longest.
Dragon Ball Z aired between 2000 and 2002 on Cartoon Network, 2002-2003 on CNX and 2003-2005 on Toonami, Dragon Ball GT ran on CNX and Toonami for the same years while original Dragon Ball only aired on Toonami and Dragon Ball Kai was shown on Kix between 2012 and 2015.
While the future of Dragon Ball on linear TV remains uncertain, although the series is still available on Crunchyroll, BBC iPlayer and home video releases from Manga UKand Crunchyroll.
The former Sony Pictures Television broadcaster, which is now owned by Narrative Entertainment has responded to a fan enquiry about them airing Dragon Ball Kai.
Dragon Ball Kai previously aired in the UK and Ireland on the now defunct channel Kix (owned by another one of POP’s previous owners CSC Media), but despite a lot of rumours at the time the channel ended up airing the Funimation dub, allegedly because TOEI gave them no other option. This may have been because Manga UK’s season DVDs of Dragon Ball Z, which contained the Funimation dub were being released at the time as a means of avoiding marketing confusion, or Funimation might have pulled some strings, but unfortunately clarity was never given on this.
It would inevitably be a great opportunity for POP if they were to air Dragon Ball Kai with an English dub that is not widely available or seen, and has a built-in fanbase with actors like Brian Drummond and Scott McNeil, but until then the best that can be hoped for is enough fans reach out to them advising they seek out the Ocean dub.
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