mickey mouse-related stories
Posted Aug 31st 2009 11:25AM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: Industry, OpEd, Reality-Free
While this news doesn't only affect television, it does affect the industry enough to warrant a mention since both companies have historically had a television presence. Disney has purchased Marvel Entertainment for about $4 billion.
So does this mean we'll be seeing Spider-Mickey cartoons in the near future? Beats me. There are certainly benefits to Disney's acquisition. Marvel is predominately known as a comic book company and that market has been shrinking. However, the visibility of its characters has been growing due to the myriad of Marvel movies out there.
I'm sure words like 'synergy' and 'downsizing' are going to be used when describing this situation in the future. Will there be layoffs at Marvel? Should editor-in-chief Joe Quesada fear for his job?
My biggest concern is content interference on the part of Disney and the "toning down" of the more adult storylines and characters at Marvel in an effort to maintain the corporate image of its new parent. One can only hope that Disney lets Marvel be Marvel.
Posted May 23rd 2009 7:15PM by John Scott Lewinski
Filed under: TV on DVD, Reality-Free, Saturday Morning
The same classic Disney cartoons that made up a television classic,
The Wonderful World of Disney, are heading to DVD in six separate editions.
Even before the days of cable,
Wonderful World ran on all three major networks at one time or another, racking up records as one of the longest running shows in TV history. While also featuring live action material, most episodes included short form animations that were once tacked onto Disney animated features in previous decades.
If not for that weekly television exposure, these older cartoons could have disappeared into vaults. Apart from Pixar, studios don't offer you animated short subjects before the opening credits roll.
Now, Disney made the smart move in using a comprehensive DVD line to keep these classic nursery rhymes and fables fresh in kids' minds.
Continue reading Disney cartoon classics return on DVD
Posted Jul 1st 2007 4:42PM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Industry, Children
Huh.
Farfour, the Mickey Mouse-looking host of a children's program that encouraged Palestinian children to rise up against Israel, is now dead. On the final episode of Tomorrow's Pioneers, Farfour was "killed" by an actor portraying an Israeli official after refusing to sell his land.
Continue reading Martyr the Mouse dies for his land
Posted Aug 14th 2006 9:03AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Industry, The Simpsons, Animation
In an effort to promote Chinese animators, the government has barred foreign animation from television between five and eight p.m. Shows that currently hold those time slots include
The Simpsons,
Mickey Mouse, and
Pokemon. Animation is very hot in China right now, especially Japanese animation. According to
this article, China has been trying to beef up its animation studios but so far they've produced bland storylines that hasn't matched the mass market appeal of characters like Bart Simpson and Mickey Mouse.
Other changes on Chinese-run television include requirements that hosts dress more conservatively and use English sparingly, limited foreign programming, and no scary movies during primetime.
Posted Apr 29th 2006 2:26PM by Annie Wu
Filed under: Cable, Talent, Programming, Children
The Disney Channel has picked up two new
pilots,
The Amazing Hannigans and
Housebroken.
Hannigans will be about wizarding family-run
magic shop (jumping on the Harry Potter bandwagon a little late there). Housebroken will be a spin-off of the hit show
The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, also known as one of the most irritating shows in Disney history (placing
somewhere near
Lizzie McGuire). It will be about the Tipton Hotel's handyman, Arwin, and his adventures in
helping his sister take care of her kids. So, I guess that means it'll be like
The Suite Life if Arwin was the
uncle of Zack and Cody... and didn't want to date their mom.
Posted Apr 21st 2006 11:40AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: NBC, Late Night, TV Royalty, Talent, Saturday Night Live, Animation, Celebrities
Robert Smigel
says that he meant
nothing nasty by lampooning Disney and the Disney Vault on last week's
Saturday Night Live. (
YouTube has it, for
now.)
"I didn't really look at it as mean-spirited...I know that some of these things that I talk
about in that cartoon aren't true. I don't really know that anything in there is true."And why
the dig at Mickey Mouse?
"I never found Mickey Mouse funny...I have to admit that."I can't wait for
The Best of Saturday TV Funhouse, on NBC, April 29, at 11:30.
[via
TV Tattle]
Posted Mar 28th 2006 11:01AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Industry, Site Announcements
Posted Jan 10th 2006 9:06PM by Annie Wu
Filed under: Talent, Industry, Programming
It was announced today that the former chief of Walt Disney Co., Michael Eisner,
is to have his
own CNBC talk show.
Aptly called
Conversations with Michael Eisner, the show will feature interviews
with "business, entertainment or political leaders, with a focus on creativity and innovation". CNBC president
Mark Hoffman approached Eisner about having his own show after he saw Eisner fill in for Charlie Rose on PBS in October.
Hm. I guess he did a pretty good job... I'm not quite sure how he'll do as a talk show host because I've never seen him
on TV except during The Wonderful World of Disney and during various news reports. Did anyone see his fill-in spot for
Charlie Rose?
I nominate Mickey Mouse for the first interview candidate. Let's start things out nice and
awkward.
Adam has quite possibly 
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