Viz Media obtained the foreign television, home video and merchandising rights to the "Bleach" anime from TV Tokyo Corporation, and Shueisha on March 15, 2006. Viz Media had later licensed its individual "Bleach" merchandising rights to several different companies. In North America, the series first premiered on Canada's YTV channel in the Bionix programming block on September 8, 2006. Cartoon Network's Adult Swim began airing "Bleach" in the United States on September 9, 2006. Adult Swim stopped broadcasting new episodes of the English adaptation on October 13, 2007 after airing the first 52 episodes of the series. It was replaced with another Viz Media series, "Death Note", to provide Studiopolis more time to dub additional episodes of "Bleach". The series began airing again on March 2, 2008, but went back on hiatus on November 21, 2009, after the airing of its 167th episode. The series returned to the block with new episodes on August 28, 2010, replacing "". The anime joined the relaunched Toonami anime block, when it returned to Adult Swim on May 27, 2012. The series ended on November 2, 2014, and continued airing reruns on Adult Swim until February 1, 2015.