Even though traditional TV is a tough sell these days I am glad for the run Super had on the channel. 6 years is longer than the original 2000-2005 era of Dragon Ball on UK TV, so it's quite remarkable it lasted this long.
At least the show is still available on Crunchyroll, BBC iPlayer and home video.
UPDATE : According to a recent tweet on December 10, 2025:Karolina Kaminska wrote:
Narrative Entertainment in the UK will close its Pop and Tiny Pop kids’ linear channels, as well as the Pop Player app, in December, C21 has learned.
Free-to-air preschool channel Tiny Pop and older-skewing Pop were launched in the UK by CSC Media Group in 2003 before being acquired by Sony Pictures Television in 2014 and then by Narrative Entertainment in 2021. They are currently available on Freeview, Sky and Virgin Media.
Pop is the only dedicated free-to-air (FTA) commercial kids’ broadcaster in the UK, since the closure of ITV’s linear children’s channel CITV in 2023. Pop and Tiny Pop’s closure leaves public broadcaster the BBC’s CBBC and CBeebies brands and Paramount-owned 5’s Milkshake! preschool strand as the only remaining FTA linear channels for kids in the UK.
Tiny Pop was initially removed from linear TV in March 2024 but was reinstated five months later – a decision that Narrative MD Paul Dunthorne said at the time would allow it to better serve its audience.
The latest move comes after the closure of sister linear channel Pop Max, which left Freeview in December last year and Sky in January this year, with its content moving to Pop and Pop Player.
The Pop and Tiny Pop FAST channels will continue, however, as will sister FAST channel Pop Up.
Pop airs series including Pokemon, Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir and Alvin & the Chipmunks. Tiny Pop’s offering includes Masha & the Bear, Gabby’s Dollhouse, PJ Masks and Elmo’s World.
The channel closures come during a crisis in the kids’ TV industry, with children rapidly defecting from linear viewing to streaming and social video platforms like YouTube.
Four months ago, pay TV channel Sky Kids announced it will cease commissioning children’s programmes in favour of third-party acquisitions. The BBC, meanwhile, revealed plans in 2022 to close the CBBC linear channel and convert it to a digital-only brand. Those plans have been put on hold, however, so as not to disadvantage children who don’t have internet access at home.
Narrative said its decision to close the Pop and Tiny Pop linear channels, which only offer acquisitions, comes as a result of the drop in linear consumption among young viewers.
Dunthorne said: “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.”
- Freeview channel 205 Pop will close their linear channel
- Freeview channel 209 Pop Player will close
- Freeview channel 212 Pop Max is moving to freeview channel 205 and change their name to "Pop"
The final episodes that are broadcast will be:
- Episode 117 - Showdown of Love! Androids vs. Universe 2!! (December 31, 2025 @ 7:02-7:33PM)
- Episode 118 - Accelerated Tragedy - Vanishing Universes (December 31, 2025 @ 7:33-8:00PM)
- Episode 123 - Body, Soul and Power Unleashed! Goku and Vegeta!! (December 31, 2025 @ 8:00-8:31PM)
- Episode 80 - Awaken Your Dormant Fighting Spirit! Gohan's Fight!! (January 1, 2026 @ 1:50-2:14AM)
- Episode 81 - Bergamo The Crusher vs Goku! Whose Strength Reaches the Wild Blue Yonder? (January 1, 2026 @ 2:14-2:38AM)
