Tag "Disney TV"

Disney Stars, BGCA Kick Off Marvel Literacy Campaign

January 9, 2013 by Mercedes Milligan No Comments divider image

On Saturday, January 12, young stars of hit Disney TV series will join local Boys & Girls Club kids—and everyone’s favorite web-slinger, Spider-Man—at the Burbank Public Library to kick off “Reading With: Marvel Comics Close-Up,” a new initiative to champion children’s literacy. In attendance will be Disney XD/Disney Channel stars [...]

Shut Up! Cartoons Debuts ‘Krogzilla’

June 4, 2012 by Mercedes Milligan No Comments divider image

Shut Up! Cartoons, the YouTube based original programming destination from Alloy Digital’s Smosh, former Disney TV Animation head Barry Blumberg and Smosh co-founders Anthony Padilla and Ian Hecox, has premiered its fourth new series: Krogzilla Gets a Job. Check it out at www.youtube.com/shutupcartoons. Created by Cory Edwards (Hoodwinked), Krogzilla follows [...]

Disney’s ‘Randy Cunningham’ Goes into Production

March 6, 2012 by Ramin Zahed 1 Comment divider image

Disney TV’s London-based studio has commissioned Ireland’s Boulder Media and L.A.’s Titmouse to produce a new animated comedy titled Randy Cunningham: Ninth Grade Ninja. Set to premiere on Disney XD in the fall of 2012 and to air in more than 129 countries worldwide, the 52 x 11-minute series follows the fast-paced [...]

‘Rango’ Rides Home with Top Annie Prize

February 5, 2012 by Ramin Zahed No Comments divider image

In what may be a bellwether for Oscar night, Paramount/Nickelodeon’s quirky CG-animated feature Rango won the prize for Best Picture at the Annie Awards this Saturday (Feb.4). The Gore Verbinski-directed pic, which centers on the adventures of a chameleon in the Wild West, also won the award for best writing [...]

‘Phineas & Ferb’ Duo Cements Big-Screen Plans

August 25, 2011 by Ramin Zahed No Comments divider image

After their project Phineas and Ferb: Across the 2nd Dimension delivered cable TV’s highest-rated movie of the year, Dan Povenmire and Jeff Marsh are on a roll. Hollywood Reporter revealed today that the dynamic duo have made a deal with Disney TV to produce another season of their blockbuster animated [...]

Watch Out, Captain Hook!

February 11, 2011 by Ramin Zahed No Comments divider image

Disney TV animation’s new preschool show Jake and the Never Land Pirates revisits Peter Pan’s old haunts. More than a century after the first stage performance of J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan, the property continues to inspire movies, plays, books and spin-offs. Taking their cue from Tinker Bell, who has [...]